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Projectors

Projectors

- I love this old projector. I've been using this thing now for about seven years and I love it to death. We've done hundreds of presentations together. Getting a little old, but still love it. In this episode, I want to talk about projectors. Projectors are basically just monitors. They've got regular graphics connectors in the back. I see an HDMI, even got an old VGA on the back of this one. And we plug them into our graphics cards and they project out onto screens. So that's really all they are to it. Most projectors today are going to use two different technologies. We're going to see DLP and we're also going to be seeing LCD. Those are the big dominant ones. There've been a few others, but either they're a little weird or they're a little dated. When it comes to light sources though, that's a really big deal when it comes to projectors. A lot of times, you're going to have some kind of big light bulb in there, although we do see them with LEDs now. The important thing is that…

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