[mythtv-users] Projector and Frontend upgrade advice

Hika van den Hoven hikavdh at gmail.com
Wed Feb 25 01:28:07 UTC 2015


Hoi Karl,

Wednesday, February 25, 2015, 1:42:33 AM, you wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
> wrote:

>> Hoi Phil,
>>
>> Tuesday, February 24, 2015, 11:49:35 PM, you wrote:
>>
>> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Damian <myth at surr.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> >> On 24/02/2015 22:36, Peter Jacobs wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> To paraphrase Lady Violet:
>> >>>
>> >>>     "What's a projector?"
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> I assume that this is some sort of in-joke that I don't understand.
>> Have I
>> >> asked a stupid question?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> > It must be very "in" - I don't get it either.  Not a stupid question.
>> How
>> > "budget" is your budget?
>>
>> I had to look twice too, before I understood. I guess you mean beamer.
>> A projector to me is for celluloid!
>>

> In the U.S., a "beamer" (or "beemer") is a nickname for a BMW car.
> "Projector" is used for all devices which are basically a light in a box
> for throwing (projecting) an image on a remote screen, regardless of the
> media in the box (celluloid/film, photo slides, DLP, LCD, etc.).

> Karl

You Americans with your car fetish ;)

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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