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As with all things portable, portable projection involves tradeoffs. Whether those trades are advantageous depends on what you’re after. There’s a pretty big difference between the kind of projector you’d take for a business presentation, and one you’d hand over for your kids to have fun for the evening. Those differences can have a huge impact on entertainment value, which is why it’s important to …

Nearly every part of the home theatre experience can easily be made portable. You can carry around an entire library of films inside your smartphone. But display screens have largely remained somewhat non-portable, especially if you’re looking for something that’s substantially larger than your phone’s screen. Essentially your only option is a projector. If you’re really interested in portability, you want a mini projector specifically, …

Cables can ruin everything. You want to make the most of your PC monitor or TV, but that can be tough with so many conflicting and outdated formats. People who aren’t intimately familiar with the various types of common cables are now entering a world where only having to deal with color-composite cables may seem simple by comparison. It’s a world of HDMI, DP, DP++, …

Differences between decent cables and great cables aren’t always obvious. But those differences do exist, and they can manifest in the quality of your audio and video. Everyone wishes this kind of thing was as simple as choosing a cable and plugging it in. The good news it doesn’t have to be much more difficult than that to find cabling that’s great at maintaining the …

Nobody likes running wires through their home. And when the most elegant solution to a problem involves you tearing down or drilling through a wall, it’s reasonable to start looking for alternatives. That’s where HDMI transmitters come in. Being able to transmit high resolution video signals isn’t rocket science, but there is room for error. If you don’t know a few things about HDMI transmitters …