Temporary solution:
Paul, with regard to part of your original post
"Do we need two categories, perhaps - one for prints and one for digitally projected images? "
Prints, slides and digital projected images, three categories, done over a couple of competitions, that way the whole membership gets to see and vote.
There's lots of discussion on Digital projectors in various forums and the following link from the Technical Committee of the PAGB gives their views:
http://www.lcpu.org/docs/PAGB%20PROJECT ... 20Full.pdf
Though done in 2006 and published this year it makes no reference that I could see about using an LCD TV screen to view the images? Maybe they hadn't thought about it? Digital projectors do have problems with large resolution so in the PAGB report they talk about 1024x768 (XGA) as a standard but do mention 1400x1050(SXGA).
The report to its credit goes on in some length about projection software, acdsee, pictures2exe, jpegs, sRGB, calibration etc.
A decent digital projector would be over £1000 (ouch)
Well i tried the 32" Samsung LCD yesterday connected to my old laptop as a trial. First this laptop is only a Pentium 111 1Ghz processor with 384Mb ram dvd/cd rom and some abysmal graphics card and is around 6yrs old or more.
The photos looked good, far easier to see than the prints we display in the club, so the laptop at the club would be well up to displaying the images.
Now the sad (lol) part, placing a 20"x16" mounting board against the tv, it fits with loads to spare in landscape mode, but not portrait.
Placing an A3 print against it in portrait mode and approx 2cm is lost.
So a 32" tv will display our images with only a very slight loss of height in portrait mode, however software would reduce the ratio of the image so it fitted the screen. (Unfortunately they would all have a black background as thats the border colour of most LCD's, by that I mean the plastic bits round the screen)
Cost of LCD TV's are well under £500 now for 32" depending on specification. This one of mine has a 170 degree viewing angle, so Paul you will be okay in your seat in the front corner.