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I'm curious - why not get a video projector and throw the image on a wall? I understand this is not a portable solution, but for at-home, this might be just the ticket.

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My eyes aren't quite that bad (no albinism, just crappy eyes--worse than 20/40 corrected), but, having tried a projector, it wasn't until I was out of school and had an apartment of my own--no roommates--that I had enough space to make it big enough to be more clear than monitors given the bigger distance between my eyes and the monitors, and now that I have the room I already have the monitors so it's not really useful. I have to think it'd get worse with worse eyesight.

Echoing what itsboring said; it's hard to describe but sometimes we just have to... be closer. For example, I can sometimes read incredibly small writing if I can just get it right up to my eyes and really squint but I physically can't read a number plate more than a few meters away no matter how much I squint even if, relatively, the size in my vision is the same if not bigger.

The problem with huge displays is that the ratio doesn't work out in our favor. Great for movies, not for text. It's counter-intuitive, but with low vision, you still have to sit close enough that a wall-sized display is a ticket to neck problems.

I actually prefer monitors on the smaller side so I don't have to move my head so much.

projectors are very very expensive; £2,000-ish per year for a bulb, if you have them on continuously like a monitor. You also need (as mentioned by sibling comment) a big, dark room to make the image bigger & better than a monitor.

Laser video projectors are dropping fast in price now. Some vendors claims at least Laser video projector a lamp lifetime of 20 000 hours, 4X longer than a conventional mercury lamp projectors.

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