Stupidly big screen violence: InFocus Screenplay 7205

Some military mathematics for you, dear Crave readers. A Minigun dispenses bullets at 3000 rounds per minute, or 50 bullets per second. Each round costs £2, so each second of warfare unleashed from this machine costs around £100. As well as being preposterously expensive, it makes one hell of a racket. In the movie Black Hawk Down there are lots of Miniguns attached to Black Hawk helicopters, and almost continuous shooting. Watching this movie on the InFocus Screenplay 7205 is the most visceral simulation of war man has yet invented. It makes grown journalists cry into their Pret mozzarella and sun-dried tomato sandwich platters like maternity ward babies.

This is real. This is big. This is Ridley-Scott-branded war delivered at 1280x720 pixels and a 16:9 aspect ratio that makes every bit of American military hardware gleam like a glorious death machine. A lamp life of 3000 hours means that you could watch Black Hawk Down on endless repeat for 25 straight days before you'd need to consider swapping the bulb. The Screenplay's brightness rating of 1100 ANSI lumens makes every flare, every rocket and every explosion shine like justice. Add a surround sound system to the set-up and you'll be cowering behind the sofa, screaming for a medic.

We set the Screenplay up in a living room with a throw distance of around 3m. Our resultant screen size? About 3.5m. This thing can produce a seriously large picture with colour clarity to die for. And die they did -- Black Hawk Down isn't the cheeriest film in the world, but it's certainly one of the most dramatic and vivid demonstrations of what these newer DLP projectors are capable of. Plus, at around £3,000, the Screenplay's a bargain compared to financing your own Minigun. Expect a review soon. -CS

Update: this review is now live here.