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“business” projector versus home theater DLP projector for movies, games and an htpc?
By pfhometheater | December 21, 2009
I am going to get a front end projector. I am nearly decided that I need a “home theater” projector as opposed to a standard “business” projector.
At first, I dismissed the home theater ones because of their much lower lumens compared to their business counterparts. Of course, the business ones tend to be much cheaper though.
These are the drawbacks of a business projector from what I have research
o white spaces in color wheel to increase lumens makes it too bright
o poor handling of motion in video
o less inputs for multiple devices
o generally not 16:9 native so you have to deal with gray bars
o poor handling of black levels
I wonder how real these issues or concerns are and if anyone uses a business one for their home theater.
I will be using it with our dvd player, home theater pc and an nintendo Wii.
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Topics: Projectors For Home Theater | 2 Comments »
December 21st, 2009 at 3:41 pm
I saw your previous questions and saw the poster commenting on the Epson not being any good because it’s a “business” projector. I can tell you from experience that there is absolutely nothing wrong with the S4 as a movie pj since it was the first one I owned and looked spectacular. I even used it outside on my outdoor 24′ theater and it was plenty bright enough to throw the 45′ required to get the larger image.
In my opinion as long as you get a good brand pj with decent lumens, contrast ratio and resolution you won’t be disappointed and forget all this business vs movie pj nonsense. I’ve never found a “business” pj that did not perform as well as a “movie” pj assuming the specs are good.
weeder
December 21st, 2009 at 4:15 pm
I agree with Weeder. I also have a business DLP pj, the picture quality is almost the same with my LCD HDTV . At first I bought mine for watching movie only. But when i noticed that its almost the same with my HDTV, im using it now for regular tv viewing because it is also HDTV comptatible.
I also had those same concerned as yours when i was researching. But after reading and comparing customer review for the business and home theater DLP pj, i decided to get the business pj. But still it’s your decision.
Goodluck!!