While at its best in a dedicated, low light home theater environment with a proper projection screen, the ceiling or coffee-table mounted Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 400 also sports the luxury of quasi-portability. Thus, it's not only the best home theater projector you're likely to find in its class, with output resolution of 720p at up to 1500 ANSI lumens and a 5000:1 Contrast ratio projecting a picture sized anywhere from 40 inches to a ridiculous 300 inches, it's also travel friendly and ready to throw high definition video onto whatever you have handy, be it double-car garage door, tautly hung drop cloth or broad-side-of-a-barn (done it -- literally larger-than-life Neil Young in Heart of Gold, anyone?), drive-in movie style. It's compatible with most any video source, from a lowly DVD player to a high-def Xbox 360 or PlayStation3 as well as a PC or laptop computer. Think gargantuan gaming, mega-sized movies and holodeck-like slide shows to go.

Outside, projectors are only truly effective after sunset (still work in daylight, though the picture is washed out), but your cocktail receptions, pool parties and camping trips will never be the same. And you'll be king of the neighborhood when the playoffs start, proudly playing on the side of your house.

Of course, there's the indoor environment too, where it rocks. Geekgasam features include HDMI input (and all other conventional inputs, too), 5th Generation 3LCD Panels (aperture ratio that eliminates the "screen door" effect), 10 bit Color Processing (accurate color sourcing of 1.07 billion colors), and more.

If you're looking for an alternative to high-def plasma or LCD widescreen TV purchase -- and you've got the space (one lacking excessive daylight) --, Epson's PowerLite Home Cinema 400 is all that and a Kong-sized bag of popcorn.