The Best Video Projectors Are Already Available
But finding the one that's best for you will take some research.
Crank up the popcorn machine, take the phone off the hook and set the house on lockdown. Your home theater is ready for action and no interruptions are welcome!
Remember the days when your analog TV started to feel rather obsolete, and you sifted through dozens of home audiovisual magazines, drooling of the best video projectors, wondering if you could sell the kids in order to afford your own? And now it's here, in full living color, ready to turn your spare room into a marvel of wondrous new technology. No more lining up for tickets at the cinema, no more overpriced popcorn and sodas, no parking hassles, crinkling chip packets or noisy patrons. At this rate you'll never have to leave the house again to view your favorite movie presentation.
Arguably, the best video projectors are the ones you win in contests … great value there! But let's be sensible. You'll need to shop around, and understand the business of home audiovisual equipment, so that you know what you're getting, and it's important not to pay too high (or too low) a price for your purchase.
The best video projectors are those that provide a total interactive experience, projecting a larger than life image onto your bare wall (which you may or may not have dolled up with velvet curtains!). With the surround sound system turned up and the air-conditioning on cool, you're in for a great ride. Try renting a blockbuster movie DVD such as "Batman Begins" or "The Matrix" and you'll be right there in the thick of the action.
One great thing about the best video projectors is that they can convert an analog or digital signal into high resolution images that work beautifully in a large screen format.
On the market today are three basic types of video projector technology commonly in use today: CRT, LCD, and DLP.
CRT Projector (Cathode Ray Tube)
Three small CRTs (one for each primary color), in conjunction with a light magnifying lens, project a color image onto a large screen in a darkened room. Excellent high resolution images result.
LCD Projector (Liquid Crystal Display)
The way an LCD projector works is by passing a powerful light source through a transparent LCD chip compiled of individual pixels and projecting the image through a lens to a large screen.
DLP Projector (Digital Light Processing)
This could be considered one of the best video projectors because, in terms of sales and availability, it's the fastest growing system. As with LCD, the actual image is displayed on a chip, but the chip used in a DLP projector is known as a DMD (Digital Micromirror Device). That is, every pixel on a DMD chip is a reflective mirror.
And you thought buying a plasma TV was complicated!
It's easy to be blinded with science when considering which kind to purchase. Suffice it to say that the DLP system is the most popular, but you're best advised to ask your retailer as many questions as possible to make sure you understand the technology.
Tell the retailer you want one of the best video projectors to suit your needs. Explain your requirements and ask whatever you can think of:
- Do you want to play video games?
- What kind of accessories can be hooked into the system?
- Can you adjust the brightness and size of the projected image with ease?
- What other applications are compatible?
- Do you need a PhD in science to operate it?
Ok, never mind the last one.
Arm yourself with knowledge, research the options and walk into a home entertainment products store confident that you will buy one of the best video projectors on the market, in your price range.