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Home Cinema

Enjoy a real cinema experience in the comfort of your own home. The latest home theatre projectors give excellent digital images and vivid colour reproduction - often exceeding the definition, sharpness and colour depth available at traditional cinemas. Top of the line projectors will come with Full 1080P High Definition image quality which will get the most out of your DVDs and Blu-Ray discs.

The main differences between Cinema and Data projectors is brightness. Data projectors are brighter (and as a consequence, will generate more fan noise) and produce a better image in bright rooms. However, colour reproduction in a dark room is well below the quality seen in Home Theatre Projectors.

 Multifunction Projectors

Multipurpose, or data, projectors are designed for office usage (PowerPoint, Word, Excel, etc.), but most do a good job with TV and DVD as well. Data projectors are often the better choice to present video in brighter environments. Watching football in the middle of the day, you're unlikely to notice the difference in colour reproduction and contrast ratio (which means almost nothing in a bright room) present in a data projector when compared to a home cinema projector and you'll make considerable price savings choosing a data model.

Data projectors typically use DVI (DVI-I/DVI-D) or 15-pin VGA inputs to get images from your computer - please ensure you get any appropriate monitor adapters, if required.

 Projector Screens

Projector Lamps

Projectors on Sale

Projectors on Sale
Epson TW3500 HD 1080P EH Home Theatre Projector Best Price$2,427.68
Z700Sanyo PLV Z700 Projector HD 1920x1080 1200ANSI 10,000:1 Contrast 2 x HDMI 3 Years Warranty Incl. Lamp$2,530.00
102-SA-PLV-Z3000.jpgSanyo PLV Z3000 HD 1920x1080 1200 ANSI 65,000:1 Contrast 2 x HDMI 3 Years Warranty Incl Lamp$3,244.36

Top Projectors

Best Selling Projectors

 
Projectors Update
March 2010 Technology Update

The two biggest sellers in 1080P projectors at the moment would be the Sanyo Z700 and Epson TW-4500. The Sanyo is currently the best value full HD projector on the market. It offers 12 bit processing, true to life colours with exceptional clarity. It's Japanese made and offers an industry leading 3 year warranty on the projector as well as the lamp. Other standard features include a great 2 x zoom, lens shift and Sanyo's famous auto dust door which opens and closes when the unit is switched on and off. All this for under $3,000 makes this the value for money king.

The Epson TW-4500 comes in as one of the highest spec 1080P projectors around. Offering a monstrous 200,000:1 contrast ratio, Wow! The black levels on this projector are brilliant, it has 120Hz processing which is perfect for those fast moving scenes, D7 inorganic panels and its also one of the brightest home theatre projectors available. Epson has continued to produce class leading home theatre projectors and the EH TW 4500 is no exception. In the premium end of the scale, the Epson TW4500 is pick of the crop.

As for our data projectors, which are brighter and better suited to presenting text in bright environments, we're selling quite a few of the well priced Sanyo WXU300 and the almost-home-cinema-but-still-with-the-amazing-brightness-you'd-expect-from-a-data-projector, the Epson W8! If you have any queries about which projector would be right for your situation, please don't hesitate to contact us. We're happy to give advice about screen sizing and other home cinema queries too!

Read the rest of the March 2010 technology update.

 

Projector, Plasma and LCD Guide

What you should know before you purchase your home cinema equipment - projectors, plasmas or LCDs!

 

Projector Tips

  • Use the remote
    Be sure to turn your projector off using the remote as switching off the mains power does NOT allow the lamp to cool down slowly and will shorten its life. Never move your projector while the bulb is on.
  • Be decisive
    Don't turn off your projector to save half an hour of lamp time, (e.g. the next show is 30 minutes away) it's better to leave running because cooling and heating the lamp shortens it's life more.
  • Cable it properly
    Where possible use new HDMI connections for the best quality sound and image. If you've got none spare - use DVI input rather than component input signals, component input signals rather than composite, and composite rather than RF connections.

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Including Epson Projectors, Sanyo Projectors, Sony Projectors and Panasonic Projectors.

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