Pat, Anandtech is a tech website that does alot of hardware reviews on just about everything you can think of. I don't know what your budget is or what resolution it is you're looking to project but you can get a 1920x1080 projector anywhere from $9000.00 and up. They may be somewhat pricey, but i guarantee none of your speakers will complain about bad image quality again. I have several suggestions: Samsung SP-A800 and the Marantz VP-15S1. These are just a few out of many many many projectors.
Cheers, Jim On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Patrick Loll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is way off-topic, but that's never stopped me before. And what group > is better qualified to pontificate about matters lying at the intersection > of computers and optics than this one? > The LCD projector in our departmental seminar room was stolen over the > weekend (!), and I have been asked to look into what we should buy to > replace it. The missing projector was a Dell 3300MP, and IMHO it sucked. If > I had a nickel for every seminar speaker who said, "Well, you can't see > this, but on my laptop it's very clear that...," I'd never need to write > another grant. > > Alas, I know very little about what's available and what performs well. > Perhaps you can save me hours of careening around the internet researching > this question. Do any of you good folks have experience with particular > projectors that you like/don't like? Or perhaps have a reasoned opinion (or > even a wild irrational idée fixe) about the sorts of specifications a good > projector should exhibit? The room in question is not large (about 8 x 10 m, > seating a max of ca. 40 people for a talk). > > I should mention that we're NOT looking for any kind of stereographic > projection here (cool as that would be); just plain, vanilla, projection of > the image shown on the laptop's screen. > > Many thanks for any info you can contribute. > > Pat > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Patrick J. Loll, Ph. D. > > Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology > > Director, Biochemistry Graduate Program > > Drexel University College of Medicine > > Room 10-102 New College Building > > 245 N. 15th St., Mailstop 497 > > Philadelphia, PA 19102-1192 USA > > > (215) 762-7706 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Jim Fairman Graduate Research Assistant Department of Biochemistry, Cellular, and Molecular Biology (BCMB) University of Tennessee -- Knoxville 216-368-3337 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]