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Bryan’s Guide to Building a 100” Projection TV 
Guide Revised: February 10, 2002 | Version 1.02
Background
The goal here is to build a projection attachment that projects a standard TV or computer monitor signalonto a wall or screen thereby giving you a huge picture without paying thousands of dollars for a regularone.
Do’s
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Do use mirrors to rotate the image so you don’t have to rotate your TV
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Do have fun with the process.
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Do try to use a DVD player with the setup for focus calibrations.
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Make sure your lens's SMOOTH side is facing towards the SCREEN, the BUMPY side should befacing the TV!
Don’ts
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Do not pay for a similar guide on this subject. The best things in life are free!
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Do not open your TV (TV’s can carry a charge, even after they are unplugged. Don’t be stupid)
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Do feel free to donate if you’ve found this useful! We appreciate it!
Why do it?
Because buying a projection screen TV is costly. This option offers a similar experience at a fraction of thecost. Why wouldn’t you want to try it? There’s a display technology called OLED that should revolutionizebig screen displays. Kodak is developing the technology. You can read more about it here.http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/display/overview.jhtml 
Don’t be THAT guy.
Until that comes a long, this is a fun way to learn about Frensel lenses, do a little cut and tape project,and enjoy a ghetto 100” TV in the process.
 
 
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How Projection TV’s Work
Projection TVs form a small image on a device inside the projector -- either a CRT or LCD -- and thenshine that image onto a large screen located elsewhere. In one type of projection TV, the screen is locatedwithin the TV box itself. This type of projection TV is called a rear or reflective projection; in this type,light reflects off the projection display panel and is then projected onto the screen.
Rear or reflective projection display system
 In another type of projection TV, the screen is located across the room. In this type of projection TV,called a
front or transmissive projection
, light passes through the image forming display panel and isthen projected onto a screen.
Front or transmissive projection display systems
 
 
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Light from any point on an object spreads out in all directions. When the spreading light hits the pagemagnifier lens, it is bent toward the axis of the lens. (The page magnifier is called a positive, orconverging, lens because it bends light rays together.)
Figure 1
Page magnifiers have a focal length of about 10 inches (25 cm). A focal length is the distance from thelens to an image the lens makes of a distant object. If an object is farther than one focal length (10 inches[25 cm]) from the lens, the lens can bend all the light that arrives from one point on the object until itcomes back to a point on the other side of the lens. This point is a point on the image of the object. If youput white paper at the place where the light rays meet, an image will appear on the paper. An image thatcan be focused on a piece of paper is called a real image. (See Figure 1.)
Figure 2
 If an object is closer to the lens than the focal point, the lens cannot bend the light spreading from theobject enough to return it to a point. To your eye-brain system, it looks like there is an image on the
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