[PLUG] Projector for advanced topics

[Ron Braithwaite]

On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 06:20 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> 
> > I will be there with little tiny projector, and recently acquired Big
> > Mother Screen.
> 
>    This brings up a question that's been on my mind for a while. Why hasn't
> the price of LCD projectors dropped tremendously? Computers, hard drives,
> RAM, digital cameras, printers and all sorts of computing hardware have
> decreased by orders of magnitude over the past few years. Why not the LCD
> projectors?

They have dropped - except for the price of the bulb, which often is
$400 or more. Until a new lighting source is perfected (perhaps
lithographed displays on cloth?), the price isn't going to drop much
more.

-Ron