You may be asking: why don't you just buy a traditional front video projector and screen? For many consumers and especially home theater enthusiasts, there is no beating the quality, size, and value of today's 4K front video projectors beaming onto the right video screen. These small box systems basically package a small projector that needs a foot or two of space to shoot back up to what can be a pretty large screen. Roll the tape forward a generation or so to today, and video manufacturers are getting excited all over again by the concept of short throw projectors. Front projection packed a lot more screen and wow factor for the day. In its time, it was a pretty trick AV rig, packing every cool source a kid could want.įront-folding video projectors like the one we had brought big video home in ways that weren't physically possible then with traditional tube CRT television sets, which at the time were considered "large" at 26 inches of diagonal screen real estate. The real gem of this system hid behind the TV in the form of an Intellvision video game console. It was about as cool a TV system as one could buy back then, and it was perfect for this new concept in the neighborhood called "cable TV," which my house wouldn't have until much later thanks to fights over how to actually run said cable to houses. It was pretty cool acquisition, especially considering we also got an $1,800 VHS machine and a few movies such as South Pacific, Caddyshack, and Airplane, which were super expensive in and of themselves at the time. Do you remember those front folding "big screen" TVs from the early 1980s, such as the Kloss NovaBeam? I will never forget my Dad buying such a set circa 1983 from Video Concepts in the Echelon Mall in Voorhees, New Jersey.
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