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Get a projector and a screen. They're all dumb.
Not always an option. You'd need to dim the lights every time and - most importantly - have a whole spare wall in your home.
Im sure you could mount a rollup projector screen anywhere you would put your TV, but your first point is huge. The light issue is a huge non starter
Two of our TVs hang from the arms in the corners and one occupies a bookshelf. I am not sure it would work that well with a screen that's less than a meter wide.
I've tried getting a way too cheap, really bad projector running Android to work once. From Wish or something, I guess. It was a truly unpleasant experience. Fortunately, it wasn't mine!
Also, I had a good ol' dumb Epson projector 10-15 years ago, but it had a very noisy fan, meaning you had to always turn up your HiFi to try and camouflage the fan noise in louder sound than you else would've had. Are low-end consumer projectors still that noisy?
I have a Ben-Q and sit under it without noticing fan noise at all. It's 1080p and the lights don't need to be dimmed. The projector screen is mounted to the ceiling so I just roll it up when I'm done.
That's good to know! Mine was only 720p "HD ready", though I remember the image quality as being decent. I just had a white wall, though it actually looked fine on e.g. a blue wall too. I still have it somewhere, but the lamp is broken. Thought of fixing it last time I found it, since a replacement lamp isn't too expensive, but decided it wasn't worth it because of the fan noise...