When you’re enjoying a movie at home, it’s tough to beat the retro feel of a projector. Sure, a big screen TV is cool. But there’s something nostalgic about turning off the lights and firing up your projector. Get yourself a bag of microwave popcorn, and you’re all ready to enjoy your movie. It might …
If you look at the average living room, a lot has changed over the past few decades. When TVs first became widespread, they were big, bulky appliances. Forget about a slim, flat panel. These were full-sized cabinets, with wooden enclosures. With advances in technology, CRT TVs got smaller, and screens got bigger. By the 1990s, …
Projectors are one of those technologies that’s simultaneously vintage and popular. Like vinyl records, they almost went the way of Betamax and laserdiscs. And like vinyl records, projectors are now making a comeback. In both cases, this has been due to changes in technology. With vinyl, the format lost popularity with the advent of CDs, …
Remember standard definition televisions? Unless you’re very young, you probably do. Do you ever wish we could go back to the day when that was the best standard? Probably not. The change from standard definition to high definition was a game changer for all kinds of entertainment. For example, watching a hockey game in standard …
As technology advances, some things change while others remain the same. Take the humble video switch. Many of us grew up with switches for coaxial cable. TVs of the day used a single channel, either three or four, for all signals other than antenna or cable. If you had a VCR, an early game console, …