That projector just about sums up everything wrong with their feeble attempts to offer anything that comes close to resembling a credible technology product. If they actually prepared properly to show these products it might have been demonstrated in a manner that showed it in a better light, so to speak. I am sure they ‘meet’ these products for the first time about five minutes before they go to air, and last night was no different.
Who exactly do they think would want something like this? Anybody with a serious craving for a giant screen will have already gone down that road by having the appropriate TV at home. Watching nostalgic old footage from a VCR, a phone or a laptop etc., of drunken Dad smashing the flat up in an alcoholic rage say, can be sourced in exactly the same way this projector works by connecting to a modern day television. Rather than having some grainy and blurred image on a wall. All the fiddling about positioning it, focusing it, getting it out and putting it away again..When you can bluetooth from a phone or computer to your main telly and see it in much better quality- vision and sound. I wonder how many, or more tellingly how few they sold? And streaming from a TV to it? The quality is not there from what I saw to make it a worthwhile proposition.
Also, their draconian returns policy seems abjectly ridiculous if they want people to take a punt and try (yes,TRY) a product. It seems you can wear clothes ordered at home to try them, as long as the tags remain. Fair enough. But for a product like the projector (and many others) you can ‘try’ it by not opening the box if you subsequently want to return the thing successfully? Is that really their policy, or have I got that wrong? For most non-edible things they sell QVC allows you to actually road test goods and will usually honour returns if the goods are returned in an undamaged condition. Not that they would sell something pointless like that projector Ideal World had on last night, but would at least allow you to properly use it if they did.