When watching films gets scary: How big is too big?

This is the Dell 2300MP projector, which this Crave reporter stuffed into his knapsack and took home for research. It was a dark, terrible mistake. You haven't known fear until you've watched the chest-burster scene from Alien fill your living-room wall. When three square-metres of air-borne flesh, blood and creature fly at your sofa, your first thought is: this beats the hell out of any plasma. Your second thought is: I will never sleep again.

As an antidote to Alien, the Dell was given About Schmidt to chew on. A much subtler movie, the colours looked great, and close-up shots were hard to distinguish from a bona-fide cinema screen. All that was missing was two kids in hoodies throwing popcorn at a bald man.

Long-shots seemed to suffer from a slight moiré (see a demo here) around the finer detail, but we stopped noticing this when Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban came on. You know something has snapped deep inside you when you leap up and thrash at the wall, screaming "Arrrghhhhhhh! Dementors! Watch out, Harry!" As usual, full review to follow soon. -CS