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What is the difference between a buisness projector and a home theater projector ?
By pfhometheater | January 7, 2010
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January 7th, 2010 at 3:13 pm
Business projector are more brighter with less contrast, cheaper too. 1080P home theater projector have more contras ratio, less lumen (usually around 800 to 16000 lumen), very nice picture quality but larger than business projector. At good exampla is optoma EP1691 vs Sanyo Z2000.
January 7th, 2010 at 3:47 pm
First, recognize that there is no formal distinction and in many cases an HT projector could be used for business use, or a business projector used for HT purposes.
It’s more a question of strengths and weaknesses. HT projectors put less emphasis on portability (most business projectors are well under 7-8 lbs (3 kg) while HT projectors are often over 10 and sometimes over 20 lbs (9kg)) and more on video processing (better scalers, etc).
Business projectors tend to be brighter (>1500 lumens vs <1500 lumens), more likely to be 4:3 aspect ratio rather than 16:9 (almost universal for HT projectors), have lower contrast ratios (<1000:1), may have noisier fans (>28dB vs <28dB for HT use). HT projectors put greater emphasis on contrast ratio, video processing, and colour accuracy, and connectivity (e.g. 2 HDMI, component, VGA, composite and S-video). In fact until recently many business projectors didn’t have digital inputs at all (emphasis was on computer connectivity).
I use a projector for HT use that is portable and intended mainly for business use but also has very good colour accuracy and video processing capability (Canon SX60) and is therefore really a multipurpose projector.
January 7th, 2010 at 4:37 pm
Home theater projectors often incorporate video processing hardware and software in order to smooth out the jaggies when viewing DVD’s, games and regular tv broadcast videos. As the resolution and processing of images by a home projector climb from 480 to 1080, for example, the usual fallout is the lowered overall brightness. On the other hand, most business projectors which merely deal with static slides, i.e., PowerPoint often produce the brightest image.
Good luck!