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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 2060651" data-attributes="member: 20741">Yeah, we turn down the lights a little, especially in the afternoon.  There are two halogen torch lamps and two more endtables in the living room where we game plus a ceiling lamp in the adjoining dining room.  When we have the projector on, we reduce that to one Torch and one end table lamp and leave the dining room light on.It is still very comfortable to read in, but it's a tad dimmer than you would probably choose to game in normally.That is all a function of the projector you are using of course.  If you had a truly kick-ass projector like the Dell 2300MP ($1349, new) which pumps out 2400 ANSI lumens in XVGA with a contrast ratio which leaves your jaw hanging open, your projector would be bright enough that you could turn all the lights on in the room and add a few candles besides. Just to clarify though, we don't play in light as dim as the pics hint at.  We dimmed the lights deliberately to make sure we got a clear picture.  The image is *very* bright to the human eye but that is not properly conveyed in pictures. Also - the image is projected from the top down and is so bright that "arm shadows" hinted at by some posters simply aren't noticeable during actual use.  It's like saying a paper map is obscured by an arm shadow.  What you really mean to say is that it's obscured by the arm you can't see through. I know that intuitively you would expect these shadows to interfere - but I am telling you - it simply is not something which we notice at all during play. We sit around on couches about the table which is at coffee table height. When we look down at the map image,  the fact you can't see through someone's arm is not at all startling <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />. If you got your eye level down parallel to the table I suppose you could see the shadow then - but it's just not something you notice normally.</blockquote>

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