Ask any bar owner, restaurateur or hospitality entrepreneur and he or she will tell you that there are three secrets to running a successful sports bar: serve good beer, good food, and keep the customer entertained. Sports Bar Projector Tips Tip One: Turn Off The Lights In a room with controlled lighting you can safely get away with a 2,000-lumen projector. Brighter spaces will need a projector with at least 3,500 lumens. Tip Two: Go For HD Projectors with the HD (1920 x 1080) resolution will give you the best image and the greatest connection flexibility. The XGA (1024 x 768) or Wide XGA…
The single, hands-down, most awesome quality of projectors is that they are essentially movie theaters with a handle. Think about it: home theater projectors provide images up to 300-inches diagonal yet typically weigh less than 25 pounds. You can tuck them under your arm and go anywhere. Try doing that with a flat screen! Perhaps that’s why we’re such goofballs when it comes to outdoor theater season. Setting up a movie theater in our backyards epitomizes everything we love about projectors: their portability and image quality and size. Reason #24,521 why we love projectors. They are essentially movie theaters with a…
It seems that more and more schools are being built with big windows and better lighting. This theoretically creates a better environment for increasing moods and productivity. Unfortunately, copious amounts of ambient light can be a projectors Achilles heel and a presenter’s nightmare. Many standard classrooms don’t come with a dimmer or the ability to control the amount of ambient light shining in the room. Because of this, the average projector with low lumen output can be easily outshined. Luckily, Hitachi has designed its Collegiate Series projectors with enough lumens to outshine most ambient light. The Hitachi CP-X5022WN, for example, is an LCD…
Projector People customer Brian Ten of Culver City, CA called me the other day. Back in 2011, the LA Times did a feature on his outdoor theater. Did I want to see it? Uhm, yeah. Of course! With the help of one of our projectors, Brian’s 2,240 square-foot front yard was transformed from a small ho-hum lot into an outdoor theater that is now the talk of his neighborhood. Brian and his family watching the projector in their front yard. Image from the LA Times. Brian and his wife, Rika Houston, wanted an outdoor space where they could spend time with their three…
Easter is just around the corner. Time to update your church’s AV setup! Need a little inspiration, check out our church projector Pinterest board » We highlighted some of our favorites below. Which one do you like the best? Projectors set up behind the screen provide the audience with lyrics. Don’t have a big budget? Keep it simple with clean lines and a ceiling-mounted projector. We dig this futuristic church setup. Pallets provide an eco-friendly backdrop for this church’s stage.All images care of Pinterest.
Ever been in the middle of a presentation when someone accidentally moves in front of the projector or has to walk right in the middle to get to the bathroom? It seems destined to happen every time. This is where short throw projectors can be very useful. The NEC NP-M352WS, for example, is a portable projector that can delive r an ideal short throw distance mere inches away from the screen but still pr oject a large image. This can be useful for many reaso n. The first is avoiding the awkward moments when people walk in between the projector and…
In the days before remote controls were commonplace, circa 1980, children sat within arms length of the TV so that they could quickly change the channel by hand upon the command of their caregivers and older siblings. During this time, a generation of American’s learned that being 6-inches away from the TV was an appropriate viewing distance. After the remote became ubiquitous, however, parents began telling their children they were sitting too close to the TV – and thusly – the concept of viewing distance was invented. Ok, that’s not exactly true. But back when a “big screen TV” was…
Barco ClickShare We have all experienced those meetings where half the presentation time is spent trying to share the content from computer to screen. Luckily, there is finally a solution. The Barco ClickShare is a one-click wonder that makes connecting to a video system easy. It not only gets the presentation on-screen in a second, but works with both Mac and PC. With wireless content sharing from one screen to another through the touch of a button or the click of an app, this technology results in attendees being more engaged and meetings become more efficient.There are 2 Simple Ways of Sharing…
Hey. Do you love football? I mean really love football? If you’re anything like me you live for Sundays. You get pumped up to go to the game. You love the roar of the crowd. The bone crushing hits of the defense. The precision of a quarter back’s game winning pass. You love football. Down to your core. It’s in your soul. But do you also suffer from the game day blues? Does your enthusiasm wane as you battle through traffic and spend an eternity trying to find stadium parking? Does your frustration overtake you as you wait in line for overpriced, mediocre beer…
We know how it goes. Your church’s pastor or committee has tasked you with buying a projector for the sanctuary and you don’t know where to even begin. Don’t worry. We’re here to help. There are four important stats for you to know before calling one of our experts to help you find the perfect projector for your house of worship. First, the width of your screen or the desired width of your projected image. No guessing. Go get the measuring tape. We can wait.Second, we need to know the distance your projector will be from the screen. Generally the ideal distance is double the…