The relentless march of progress crushes many hearts beneath its plated boot. Time and again, perfectly good technologies are body-slammed onto the garbage heap in the name of novelty and market expediency, to the anguished cries of loyalists. Some people thought Betamax video offered superior picture and sound to the triumphant VHS format. Some people preferred the sound of analog vinyl records to digital CDs. Are these poor souls not our brothers and sisters? Who cries for them? Everybody’s entitled to their own opinion, it seems, unless that opinion is in favor of unpopular media formats.

Like, say, LCD video projectors. The tide of the projector-format wars appear to have turned decisively against them in favor of their color-wheelin’ DLP rivals, and all the “rainbow effect” complaints in the world cannot halt the DLP horde. The InFocus ScreenPlay 5000 LCD Home Theater Projector is among the last of its kind, valiantly keeping the flag flying for the final futile fusillades. It’s not “old technology,” just the unfortunate victim of the inscrutably shifting momentum of the marketplace. It’s still got so much love to give.

Long after the smoke clears, we’ll remember its ample 11’-wide image and its native 16:9 picture ratio. Its 1200:1 contrast ratio and 720p native resolution will forever be projected on our memories. And with a design this lightweight and setup this easy, you can spread the LCD gospel to your skeptical associates, even when they can’t buy a new one anymore. Some day, our descendants will look back in bewilderment and curse our folly for letting the noble LCD projector fall into disuse.

So hurry, LCD true-believers, while there’s still time! Like a battlefield scavenger picking the pockets of the fallen, you can parlay the chaos into an incredible bargain on a perfectly good home theater projector. In lieu of flowers, we’ll even throw in a 76”, 16:9 projector screen, to complete your museum exhibit – er, home theater system. And perhaps, someday, the market will respond to these specialist niches and revive all of the casualties of progress, restoring our freedom to choose the video or audio formats we prefer.

Except for 8-track tapes. Objectively speaking, they really did suck.

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