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2. Rear-projection television - Wikipedia

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   Rear-projection television (RPTV) is a type of large-screen television display technology. Until approximately 2006, most of the relatively affordable consumer large screen TVs up to 100 in (250 cm) used rear-projection technology. A variation is a video projector, using similar technology, which projects onto a screen.

3. Liquid light show - Wikipedia

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   Liquid light show. Layers of colored mineral oil and alcohol move over the projector lens and produce changing color patterns. Liquid light shows (or psychedelic light shows) [not verified in body] are a form of light art that surfaced in the early 1960s as accompaniment to electronic music and avant-garde theatre performances. They were later ...

4. Magic lantern - Wikipedia

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   Magic lantern. The magic lantern, also known by its Latin name lanterna magica, was an early type of image projector that used pictures—paintings, prints, or photographs —on transparent plates (usually made of glass), one or more lenses, and a light source.

5. Cinerama - Wikipedia

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   Original Cinerama screen in the Bellevue Cinerama, Amsterdam (1965—2005) 17-meter curved screen removed in 1978 for 15-meter normal screen. [1]Cinerama is a widescreen process that originally projected images simultaneously from three synchronized 35mm projectors onto a huge, deeply curved screen, subtending 146-degrees of arc.

6. Projector - Wikipedia

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   A projector or image projector is an optical device that projects an image (or moving images) onto a surface, commonly a projection screen. Most projectors create an image by shining a light through a small transparent lens, but some newer types of projectors can project the image directly, by using lasers. A virtual retinal display, or retinal ...

7. Large-screen television technology - Wikipedia

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   A 140 cm (56 in) DLP rear-projection TV. Large-screen television technology (colloquially big-screen TV) developed rapidly in the late 1990s and 2000s. Prior to the development of thin-screen technologies, rear-projection television was standard for larger displays, and jumbotron, a non-projection video display technology, was used at stadiums ...