lpd said:

And the size of the image was roughly 1.5 in width by 2 meters in height---If I sat too close then the VHS's video noise(or even film grain!) became too distracting----but sitting further back yielded excellent results----+ the nostalgic factor of actually playing a physical cassette from the era is something that not even holding a 2011 digitally restored high def Blu ray can replicate.

Danny what projector is it?

I've got an Optoma hd65 (720p) projector on a 2.5m wide screen in my living room and my VHS copies look awful on it! Its like watching them thru a pair of womens stockings over your head(which I usually only wear while watching the prequels) Give me a Blu Ray or DVD copy any day. One day GL will release the originals untouched on blu ray without a doubt. An Xmas coming soon I reckon there'll be a mega mega superdooper collectible box set which will have them in it and it'll cost an arm and a leg.

Although GL beter hurry up as I've heard he thinks the worlds gonna end in 2012!

Hi---yeah---it's an Optoma EW533st which scales up to 1080p(it's native resolution is 1280 x 800).

http://uk.buy.com/PR/Product.aspx?sku=217115923

I bought it for my Blu Ray----discs like Avatar do look amazing when you blow them up to 3 meters wide.

But I thought it would be an interesting experiment to pump the VHS through it.

Other factors to be wary of are the quality of the VHS player and of course the condition of the cassettes themselves.

But watching the unmastered and luminiscent 1982 transfer of Star Wars through this projector was amazing.