ElpiumForzi
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I work for an organization with a significant inventory of older AV equipment. We hang onto as much as we can, because this stuff is expensive, it comes in handy, and maybe we're all packrats at heart.
However, there comes a time when we have to make the hard decisions, and right now I'm eyeballing a stack of older video projectors (think 15-20 years old, XGA resolution, maybe 5000 lumens).
Even if I had a situation where a 1024 x 768 image would be acceptable, I don't think I'd use one of these, because they're much larger than their modern equivalents would be, they're noisy, the lamps are hard to find... lots of reasons.
Are they garbage, though? Is there some application for these out in the world? We are a nonprofit, so finding another nonprofit that had a real need for this type of equipment would be ideal. I don't want to simply pass a problem on to somebody else, but maybe there's a use case I'm not imagining.
However, there comes a time when we have to make the hard decisions, and right now I'm eyeballing a stack of older video projectors (think 15-20 years old, XGA resolution, maybe 5000 lumens).
Even if I had a situation where a 1024 x 768 image would be acceptable, I don't think I'd use one of these, because they're much larger than their modern equivalents would be, they're noisy, the lamps are hard to find... lots of reasons.
Are they garbage, though? Is there some application for these out in the world? We are a nonprofit, so finding another nonprofit that had a real need for this type of equipment would be ideal. I don't want to simply pass a problem on to somebody else, but maybe there's a use case I'm not imagining.