Please help solve this media problem

Post date: 2019-11-20 08:32:50

Spending a lot of time recuperating from chemo in bed and watching Netflix on the old iPad Air, which is balanced on our chests or propped up in other ways. Not particularly comfortable or long-term sustainable. Is a projector the answer?

The bed is in a nook with wall on three sides. Is there some way we could buy a small projector and perhaps mount it just above our heads on the wall we lean against, and throw the picture against the opposite wall at our feet? The space for the image could be about 2'h x 3'w ...ish (there's an odd high window on that wall that, I suppose, we could partially obscure sometimes if we wanted a bigger image). I imagine we'd tack up some kind of DIY screen material or a compact pull-down screen (or window shade) or something.
-AirPlay or adapter or?;
-Throw distance about 7';
-It's pretty dark in there with the lights out, even in daytime;
-We have no TV, only wifi;
-FWIW, we both also have iPhone 8s;
-The sound from the iPad is just fine, but once we send to a projector, do we lose it? Might we need a projector that would Bluetooth to our little Bose?
-a newer iPad isn't out of the question.

Is this doable, and if so what products, apps, parts, adapters do we need? Budget? Other considerations?

And sure, I suppose we could buy a skinny TV and mount it to the wall and then subscribe to a service to support it, but we do not want a TV looming over our bed (there's not a plug there anyway). Perfectly happy with streaming shows, just want it to be more comfortable.

What are our options? Thanks!

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