There was a thread that existed for some time, discussing how many video people wont do gigs that have lasers used due to the dangers of lasers and CCDs and DLPs...
Well I learned my lesson. Today I fired up my BenQ projector for the first time since a few days ago that I was testing my 800mw 532nm laser. I didn't recall hitting the projector ever. But apparently I did. Now I've got a vertical line and horizontal line burned in nicely into the projection.
It looks like it hit and really burned one spot. Because I have one big white dot at the point that the two lines cross. Also the two lines are perfectly straight with the pixels.
It really sucks.... I'll post a picture of the damage soon.
In the mean time, here's a cool picture from the night that the damage happened...