Cheap mini projectors (yes, I know, buy cheap, bye bye money!)

[Andrew_McP]

As my bedbound mother fades away she often stares at the ceiling and I've wondered about wasting a smallish amount of money on a little projector so I could maybe put a seaside or countryside view up there for her. Might backfire and confuse her, but she's very far gone on the dementia path so... so she'll probably just not register it at all!

But I can't do much for her now, so I fancy trying. Has anyone had any recent experience of mini projectors? Might be useful to have one for later use projecting song lyrics at low res, so I could be persuaded to spend £100+, but I've looked at enough reviews to know not to expect too much. As ever though, some cheap junk is better than other cheap junk, so if anyone's dabbled recently, let me know. Cheers.

 

[Andrew_McP]

Sorry to hear about your mother

Thanks, it's an emotionally complicated time, but I'm "happy" to see her suffering coming to an end... sooner rather than later based on what she hasn't drunk today. So I've hit buy on that (fully aware that I shouldn't expect miracles!) while I've an excuse to do it. Promised myself I'd take Mum to the seaside again before she shuffled off, but it was too long a round trip with too many complications, so... So the seaside will come to a ceiling near her!

Probably wasting £85 but I think I'm allowed to do one or two stupid things at a time like this.

 

[Andrew_McP]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08613LPND/ref=cm_sw_r_api_i_R4N2FEHJJYR3Z1GQQCJS_0 and is very happy with it.

It's fairly noisy until you turn the sound up loud-ish, but that's not a fair criticism of a projector. And of course it's not particularly bright, but it's doing exactly what I wanted this evening, and will be perfectly up to the later task of projecting chorus lyrics for a sing-song.

Mum is currently being exposed to birdsong and woodland scenes via Youtube. She's not looking at it, but she might, and even if she does for a few moments, they're going to be among the last few experiences she has before going back to the billions of years of oblivion thing. I consider it money well spent, so thanks for saving me from choice paralysis.

Link may work. No loss if it doesn't. [Phone was right next to the projector, but I've plugged decent speakers into it so the sound in the room is better than it seems].

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[Andrew_McP]

I really hope it's of comfort to her.

Thanks. It's been several years since anything on a screen meant anything to her, and I don't think much of anything reaches her now, in these final few days. But the "colour ambience" may register through her mostly closed eyelids, and her room does feel very restful with a bluebell wood & birdsong projected this evening. I guess if I feel that benefit, that helps me and if I'm relaxed it's better for her. So even if it's all going completely over her head (literally!) there's an indirect effect, of sorts.

 

[Andrew_McP]

I feel for you as the mother in law had vascular dementia

Miserable disease, isn't it. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

having a cheap projector around for the odd occasion isn’t usually a bad thing to have.

It's "nice" to have an excuse, because I've been curious for a while. I also had a sliver of hope it would solve my video out problem on my PS4. It died about four years ago... I can hear everything working ok, but the video out stopped working after an update so I hoped it was an incompatibility with my TV. Nope, it's a dead video out.

The projector will, just about, be useful for projecting song lyrics, but it's right on the edge of being useless in normal light, so it might be asking a bit much of it. I do enjoy sitting in Mum's room "in a wood" with blackbirds singing though, so at least I'm getting a bit of use out of it even if she continues to ignore it.