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Optoma HD66 2500ANSI Lumens 4000:1 3D-Ready DLP Home Theater Projector - White Sale Price: Too low to display  |
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Optoma's HD66, 3D-Ready home theater projector delivers the future! Breathtaking and bold, the Optoma HD66 hometheater projector provides stunningly beautiful widescreen viewing. The 3D-Ready HD66 adds a whole new demension to the gaming and home theater experience-and delivers more dynamic learning in education and training applications... |
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Vivitek D950HD 3000 Lumen 1080p Data and Home Theater Projector Sale Price: $899.99 |
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The Vivitek D950HD is a native 1080p data projector that features impressive color reproduction, amazing performance and effortless integration. The ideal crossover projector, it blurs the barrier between the home and office... |
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ViewSonic PJD5123 SVGA DLP Projector 120Hz/3D Ready, 2700 Lumens, 3000:1 DCR Sale Price: Too low to display |
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ViewSonic's PJD5123 is a high-performance SVGA 800x600 DLP projector with 2,700 ANSI lumens and 3000:1 contrast. This projector supports PC and HD video signals and projects clear, bright images in most lighting conditions... |
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Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 3010e, Full HD 1080p, 2D and 3D Home Theater Projector with Integrated Speakers and Wireless HD (V11H450020) Sale Price: $1,549.00 |
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Epson PowerLite 3010e 3D Ready LCD Projector - 1080p - HDTV - 16:9 V11H450020 Projectors |
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Optoma HD20 High Definition 1080p DLP Home Theater Projector (Grey) Sale Price: Too low to display |
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The Optoma HD20 brings a new level of flexibility to your High-Definition home theater/multi-media experience. With true 1080p resolution, the HD20 delivers excellent color saturation and subtle details for superior image quality... |
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Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 3010, Full HD 1080p, 2D and 3D Home Theater Projector with Integrated Speakers (V11H421020) Sale Price: Too low to display |
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3D-ready, HD Home Theater Projectorwith Integrated Speakers.Bring the power of 3D right to your living room with thePowerLite Home Cinema 3010. Immerse yourself ineye-popping 3D adventures, 2200 lumens color and white light output, full HD, 1080p performance and a remarkable contrast ratio of up to 40,000:1... |
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Acer H7531D DLP Home Theater Projector (1080P) Sale Price: $869.98 |
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The Acer H7531D Full HD UXGA Projector gives you full-HD 1080p wide-screen cinematic enjoyment with images in true-to-life colors. The H7531D come complete with HDMI connectivity, ultra-high dynamic contrast ratio and enhanced color technologies that deliver brilliant games and entertainment in the comfort of your living room... |
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Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 8350 Sale Price: Too low to display |
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Projectors, Epson, POWERLITE PROJ HOME CINEMA 8350, V11H373120 |
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Optoma PT105 75 Lumen Playtime LED Gaming Projector with HDMI Sale Price: $199.99 |
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ViewSonic PRO8200 1080p DLP Home Theatre Projector Sale Price: $794.99 |
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The Pro8200 is an advanced high brightness DLP installation projector which includes BrilliantColor tech-nology to produce more vibrant colors. The Pro8200 delivers 2000 lumens with a 1920 x 1080 (1080p) native resolution, allowing it to shine in virtually any lighting situation... |
what is the best way to do a home theater?
I would like to set up a home theater and I dont know much about projectors so I was wondering would it be better to buy a 1080p 42 inch television for $800 or for about that I can get a 1080p Projector with 1500-2000 lumens for about that which would be about 80 inch for where i will put it. so my question i guess is is the quility of an HD projector as good as an LCD Television? and how mant lumens should a projector have? I dont know what a lumen is other than its the brightness)
Projectors need a light controlled room. That meaning lights that can dim and heavy curtains on windows that block out sunlight. If you don't have that then LCD or Plasma is the way to go. They are a lot more visible in a bright room and maintain their contrast and black levels. Projectors in a fully lit room don't look the greatest.
To gauge how bright you need your projector to be you first need to know how much ambient light you will have/want in the room. No matter what though, sunlight shining on the screen will make it unwatchable. Even moderate sunlight int he room has a tendency to wash out the screen.
1500-2000 lumens is pretty bright for a home theater projector. In actual fact though at the maximum brightness they don't look too good. The colors are not as accurate and the contrast ratio and black levels are very reduced. Most "theater light modes" on projectors (gives best quality) are between 300 and 400 lumens. So to get the best picture the lights need to be pretty dim and there can't be too much ambient light.
I have a 1400 lumen projector (the Epson 550) and a 92" white laminate screen. I can have my recessed lights at 25% in theater mode and still have an adequate image. It looks much better when it's totally dark or when lights are at 10% however.
The size of screen depends on how close you want to sit to the screen. They say that 1.5X the screen width is the ideal seat position. So a 42" screen (36" wide) you would sit about 4.5 feet back. On an 80" projection screen you would sit back about 9 feet. Any closer and it would feel like sitting in the front row of a theater (neck strain).
A quality projector in a good room is a very pleasing experience. If you like watching movies and love a big screen then nothing beats a projector for the look and feel of a real movie theater.
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