Sorry for the delay of info. This picture was taken from this forum conversation. Here's the details as posted by AzrealJG:
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Our DM has a Media Center PC in his living room which runs his TV. We got a 720P Projector and mounted it on the ceiling (We're lucky in that he has 13 foot ceilings in his condo). We just ran a long HDMI Cable from the Media Center PC to the projector and set it up as a second monitor. Because of the way we mounted the projector, and the way we sit at the table, we have the second monitor set to 720x1280 resolution. That gives us a DPI at table level of 20 dots per inch, which is perfect for using the WOTC miniatures with a 20 pixels to a square.
We use MapTool to drive the whole thing. We have a MapTool server running on the Media Center PC, and the DM and I connect with our laptops. He runs the DM Client and controls all the monsters, vis blocking, etc, and I run as a player client and move all of our tokens, apply status effects from our attacks (on monsters and on our own tokens), and generally help him with all the book keeping of using Maptool. For those of us at the table, we use real miniatures, the Remote player, and the laptops see token models for everything.
Our remote player uses Maptool from home to see everything we see. He also uses Video Chat with another PC in the room, so that he can see and talk to us, and we to him. It's almost like he's sitting at the table, except that we can't bum snacks off of him.
The Projector (BENQ W500) cost aproximately $850, everything else we already had available. We chose the BENQ because of it's throw distance (rather poor actually, but a different projecter would have resulted in an image far too large for the table because of the 10 foot distance from the table), and the fact that it has an easily adjustable key-stoning feature, which meant that we could be fairly loose with where we actually mounted the projector or put the table, and still get everything squared up correctly on the table.
