Besides historic exhibits like the courtroom, this is a modern-day museum and the 17, 000 square feet of exhibition space spans three floors (plus a specialty retail store) and includes highly experiential and interactive experiences and high-tech theater presentations.
Mitsubishi also made a go of it in flat-panels, but ditched those efforts last year and will now focus on the professional market and home-theater projectors here in the US. In recent years the tech has improved with thinner models, integrated soundbars and even larger screens available.
It is my hope that the resilience and communal strength displayed by the Hokie Nation in the days, months and years after the Virginia Tech shooting will serve as a model for everyone affected in that Aurora movie theater.