The Projector Saga

The Process

Walk in to study. Despair at the state of it. Move the TV out, check connections round the back. Replace aerial cable with longer one. Plug in to back of nearby computer. Switch on computer. Wait what seems like half an hour for it to get to the login screen. Open up WinTV. Unplug monitor. Plug in projector.

Twist awkwardly round in seat to see TV being projected on to bookcase. Go round back of TV again. Unplug video recorder. Try to plug in aerial->computer cable instead to VCR->computer. Hit head hard on back of TV. Realise the cable is the wrong shape. Retrieve other cable. Not long enough. Get spare cable and plug it in to the end - still not long enough. Go upstairs and steal cable from brother's TV as well - now long enough. Plug in to computer.

Switch to video output on WinTV. Find it isn't tuned correctly. Try to find tuner option on screen. Can't. Decide to plug in monitor again so it's easier. Try to do so and can't. Discover that one of the pins has somehow been bent out of shape. Retrieve screwdriver. Stick in to plug. Electrocute myself and die.

Restart from last save point. Bend pin back in to shape, restoring monitor (and myself) from certain death. Plug it in. Try to find tuner option. Still can't. Eventually discover it under "Suite". Tune while using Star Wars: The Phantom Menace as a test signal. Go around the back of the TV again. Take cable from PS2->TV and change to PS2->VCR.

Put up screen on bookcase cobbled together from bits of wood, tacks and a sheet. Plug projector back in...

The Result

It took some doing, but the study now has a system capable of projecting TV, the computer and PS2 on to a very large screen. This evening we watched Die Harder and had a few games of Soul Calibur II and Mashed on it - the aceness of it is quite simply unparalleled.