Fitting the picture

[Guy Grotke]

I would be wary about spending the money to build a projector and trying to save a tiny bit of the cost by using a 14" LCD monitor. Their technology is obsolete, so you would end up with a low contrast ratio and most critically a slower response time. I don't know of any 14" monitors that have under 40 msec response time. This interferes with watching movies and games by showing "ghost" artifacts following fast moving objects.

Right now almost all 15" LCD monitors have response times fast enough to eliminate these ghosts, and they only cost about $20-40 more than a 14" close-out model. They are also the commodity level of the art, so their prices are subject to a lot of competitive pressure. That means you can find great deals.