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Originally Posted by jayswin
Are they actually good now? I have PTSD from all my friends in the 2000's claiming they had 70-100" screens in their basements that was better quality than most TV's because they bought a projector.
Every single one of them was severely underwhelming, and not even close to touching medium to high end TV's at the time.
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Picture has been pretty good for a while, but they've been unusable for gaming due to the lag. Now they're finally pretty decent in that regard... the Optoma UHD50X seems to be the standard now, but there are competitors. You can get a whole setup, including sound, for about $3K, though obviously if you want really good sound it gets more expensive.
I still wouldn't necessarily recommend going the projector route except in the narrow use case where you have a basement with lots of real estate for a big screen, or a house you don't want to have a TV in because it'll break up the view (like a waterfront cabin or something).
But, for example, my dad has a dedicated theatre room in his house that's perfectly set up for a projector, with the only source of light being a sliding door covered with a very effective blackout shade that is then doubly covered when the projector screen comes down. That's something not a lot of people have, but if you have a basement and you can black out the windows with good blinds, you could potentially get pretty close. And in that circumstance, a gigantic screen to play games on is pretty epic. I played through all of TLOU2 and FF7 Remake on my dad's theatre screen and it was quite an experience, even though the games themselves were both a bit disappointing.