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But there’s a reason that dedicated sports bars really sprung up as soon as afordable front projectors began seeping into the market, and why the trend in cathode-ray-tube and now lat-panel televisions has always been toward larger and larger screens. If I had more time, I’d try digging into the science of how our brains engage with cinematic images; how our emotional response to the program changes as the percentage of our peripheral vision is increasingly illed, as surely it must. But I don’t need the primer update (page 36) and in our review of the Hisense Laser science to prove what I know anecdotally to be true: Bigger TV (page 58), is the recent concerted push by manufacturers is always better. to promote ultra-short-throw projectors for home use. For Some of the technology to achieve a truly huge image at those unaware, these are modestly sized components typically home remains expensive and elusive for the mass market. suitable for tabletop mounting that throw a projected image of We’ve frequently mentioned in these pages the exorbitant cost 100 inches from only 6 inches away from the screen. Mated of lat-panel televisions above 75 inches, though we know from with an ambient light rejecting (ALR) screen mounted on the experience that, as time marches on, manufacturers will build wall behind them, they’re a suitable substitute for a day-to-day facilities capable of creating larger and larger substrate panels. lat-panel TV and considerably less costly than any modern- hese are the ginormous master panels from which smaller day LCD or OLED TV of that size. But the key beneit is not screens are cut. he bigger the substrate, the greater eiciency so much their ability to function in ambient light, which in punching out bigger individual screens. hat ability to drive traditional projectors do as well. It’s the hugely simpliied volume in these larger sizes with each new generation factory installation. All that’s required is a traditional TV credenza to eventually leads to cheaper prices, even more volume, and... support the projector and house the usual source and audio How big will be big enough? At CES this year, Samsung components—no mounting, no snaking long signal wires showed its cutting-edge miniLED display—dubbed “he through ceilings and walls, no need for running electricity Wall”—at 146 inches diagonal. he technology relies on small to some remote location. he Hisense marks the second 4K modules that can be conigured for any size they wanted, but UST model to come through our shop, and we’ve tested a more company reps said they arrived at this dimension because the afordable 1080p option as well. I don’t doubt well see more. average U.S. home has at least one wall that is 8 to 9 feet wide Another fascinating big-screen alternative is the Royole and therefore large enough to accommodate a 16:9 screen Moon virtual home theater headset tested on page 50. of that size. Perhaps the sweet spot is really somewhere in Technically, this is a portable, wearable display device, but between there and today’s 75- and 85-inchers. But the trend is its intent to reproduce a genuinely cinematic experience clear, and for now it’s still toward bigger and bigger images. and utilize the entirety of your peripheral vision really makes Samsung’s Wall will launch later this year, at a inal size and it more like a projector than a classic TV display. It wasn’t price that remained unannounced at press time. I’ll be without its caveats, not least of which are its nearly pound-and- surprised if it doesn’t cost multiple times my annual salary. But a-half weight and its $800 price tag. But it got the job done and this relentless drive to expand image size has also resulted in le me wondering if future generations of products like this the emergence of more afordable new technologies intended won’t also make the big, big, big-screen experience accessible to to bring the big picture to a wider audience. 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