New Projector and Screen

[jimnoble]

For the past several weeks, our Treasurer John Beard has been running a project to acquire funds for a modern wide screen projector and a motorised wall mounted 3m wide screen to go with it.
He was successful!

Sussex Community Foundation, a local charity, has granted us around £3000 to fully fund their purchase. We've already received the money and the projector was used last night. The screen should be installed within a few weeks.

John well deserves our hearty congratulations and thanks .

The projector is about 4 times as bright as the old one and we were comfortably able to use it with the lights on. It has a myriad other capabilities too, such as image zoom in order to show detail and picture in picture. We're still exploring. Benq SP831 details

[scrump]

That's excellent news.. we'll done John.

I was hoping to make the meeting but with being stuck in the A27M27 fuss Tuesday night and not getting home until 2am after 7.5hrs of 1st gear driving and a stranded car I was going nowhere.

See you all soon.

Stu

[Pat Beard]

Thanks.  Very well done John.

Pat

[deangsmith]

Three cheers from me too 

I witnessed the projector and it works with the lights on - woohoo, no more presentations in the dark (tho' some may say that the presenters look better that way)

Many thanks John and I hope you got away in time ........

[jimnoble]

The screen was installed yesterday afternoon. I'm going to need to take a new photo for the website's front page  .

[jimnoble]

The new projector failed last night. Lucky that I'd decided not to put my old one on eBay .

Benq have been pretty good so far. When John contacted them this morning they said that they'd arrange for a courier to pick it up under warranty and that they'd lend us another in the interim .

[John Beard]

BenQ seem to suffer from a left hand and right hand problem and the collection has been delayed
However they assure me that this will take place tomorrow (Thursday)
Will keep you posted