Features of the Best home theater projectors

Features of the Best home theater projectors:

A home media room may have a big TV and a sound bar, but a home theater, a real home theater, has a projector and projection screen. Home theater projectors can be based on one of several Different technologies (DLP, LCOS, SXRD, and LCD) and used different light technologies or lamps.

When selecting the best home theater projector for your room, you also must take into consideration what screen type you plan to use. Read this article to help with home theater screen selection. You should also read this article to learn how light, and even room color, impacts both a projector and screen’s performance.

Hera are eight features and spaces to look for to help you get the best home theater projector for your need and budget.

Contrast:

Contrast in video displays is expressed in a ratio, as in 1,000,000:1 or 1,000:1. It refers to the

difference between the darkest black and the whitest white. You want your projector to be

capable of beaming a bright pure field of snow as well as the deep black of the night sky above

it.

 Color accuracy and adjustments:

You want you projector to display accurate colors, of course. You want reds to look red and

greens to look green, but the key to getting accurate colors (again, some of this will depend

on your screen selection and how the image interacts with room color, or lack of it) is often in

the projector’s settings and adjustments.

 Lens zoom:

All projectors except possibly desktop models used for business presentations (and those

pocket-sized Pico projectors) include a zoom lens. The zoom allows you some leeway forward

and backward when positioning your projector in front of the home theater screen. A large

zoom ratio gives you a little more wiggle room, but using too much zoom can enhance

chromatic errors into the picture. A good.

 Lens shift:

Because sometimes we can’t get the perfect mounting position for both projector and screen,

better projectors often feature lens shift, both vertical and horizontal lens shift are available.

This feature allows you to slightly move the lens up/down, left/right after it’s been mounted to

help you perfectly align the projector’s image on the screen. Some projector mounts also have

similar adjustments built in.

 Light output:

Brightness is probably the first thing a lot of people look for when home theater projector

shopping, and indeed it is important, but not always as important as people believe. Bright

pictures are good, but a picture that’s too bright for the room or screen size will end up fatiguing

the viewers. Many affordable projectors sport brightness in the 1,000 to 2,500 lumen range,

and that’s enough for most modest sized media rooms with 100 to 140 or so inch screens.

 Low Noise:

Home theater projectors are stuffed with moving parts—cooling fans, color wheels, motorized

iris controls and more. All those moving parts can make some noise, and when your movie is

in a quiet and suspenseful moment, you don’t want the experience ruined by a loud cooling.

 Resolution:

The last of the big three specs is resolution. The first thing you’ll notice when shopping is that

99 percent of all home theater projectors are 1080p resolution (1920 x 1080 pixels). Only very

inexpensive projectors are offered in 720p, anymore. This means that, for the most part, you

don’t need to worry about resolution since most projectors output the same number of pixels.

However, a slowly growing trend in projectors is for 4K resolution (4096 x 2160 or 3840 x

2160), which is four times the number of pixels of a 1080p projector.