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(49,968 posts) Thu Apr 3, 2025, 10:36 AM Apr 3

Tech question regarding projecting an image from a laptop directly onto a screen. [View all]

Is there any technology out there that can, with good quality, project a background directly from a laptop file to a screen without using a projector. I am trying to visualize how it would work in theater production to have a moving background. What I anticipate is that it can't be done unless the screen is special made with pixulation technology.

I understand that this may be in the sci-fi hemisphere, so points for quess work and creativity.

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Tech question regarding projecting an image from a laptop directly onto a screen. [View all] Baitball Blogger Apr 3 OP

For an ordinary screen you need a projector nuxvomica Apr 3 #1

Projecting from the back? Baitball Blogger Apr 3 #2

Yes nuxvomica Apr 3 #3

Excellent! thank you! Baitball Blogger Apr 3 #4

Your local library... TommyT139 Apr 3 #5

Thank you! Baitball Blogger Apr 3 #6

if your laptop has an HDMI port keroro gunsou Apr 3 #7

Let me see if I have what you want to do down jmowreader Apr 3 #8

I'm going full sci-fi with this idea. Baitball Blogger Apr 4 #9

Do these screens come in, say, two-foot widths? jmowreader Apr 4 #10

You read my mind. Baitball Blogger Apr 4 #12

These exist and are used in the movie industry, but they are beastly expensive. hunter Apr 4 #11

I knew there would be! But I couldn't find a link. Baitball Blogger Apr 4 #13