# Would You Like a McMovie With That? And The Ultimate Movie Projector

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**Created:** [December 12, 2005, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-a-mcmovie-with-that-and-the-ultimate-movie-projector/335225 "2005-12-12T06:07:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-a-mcmovie-with-that-and-the-ultimate-movie-projector/335225/1 "2005-12-12T06:07:26Z")

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[Both stories are on the same page.](http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8424&feedId=online-news_rss20)

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> Movie, music or game with your Big Mac, sir? That’s what The Walt Disney Company in Hollywood has in mind. Patents filed by Disney reveal plans to drip-feed entertainment into a portable player while the owner eats in a restaurant.
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> You only get the full programme by coming back to the restaurant a number of times to collect all the instalments. McDonalds could use the system instead of giving out toys with Happy Meals, suggests Disney’s patent.

Why do I get the idea that this is going to turn out to be every parent’s nightmare?

The video projector looks way cooler, IMHO.

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> Video projectors are designed to work by illuminating flat screens or walls, but home and office walls seldom have large, flat areas free. A new system claims to solve the problem by projecting distortion-free images onto areas including corners, ceilings, doors and other irregularities.

Probably the most interesting possibility is this part

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> The settings can then be fine-tuned on the fly, for instance to compensate for distortion caused when a lecturer stands in front of the screen.

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**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-a-mcmovie-with-that-and-the-ultimate-movie-projector/335225/2 "2005-12-12T16:49:52Z")

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I can’t remember who makes it, but there’s a conference room projector that does a sort of reverse “green screen” bit - it senses when a person is standing in front of it and blacks out a person-shaped chunk of the image on the fly so your presenter doesn’t have words or graphs on their face.