[mythtv-users] Projector and Frontend upgrade advice

Karl Newman newmank1 at asme.org
Wed Feb 25 00:42:33 UTC 2015


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
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