The “Break it Down” Blog

Chris Hunkele sent in this pretty incredible story of do-it-yourselfing from a guy that took his busted down old 50″ rear-projection-television (RPTV), took the front screen off of it, mounted it behind a rear-projection screen that was much bigger (pictured above) and turned it into a huge-screen projector for his home theater.

The magic all started to come together when he took the screen off of his Sony RPTV and ended up with basically a rear-projector:

Give it a read if you are a DIY-er type and have an old RPTV laying around that you want to have some fun with (assuming it hasn’t crapped out yet).