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Your TV Projector Checklist

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If you’ve decided to try out a TV projector in your media room, you’ve made a good choice: projectors gives you a lot of options with placement, size, and picture quality. But figuring out which projector is a good fit for your home is a bit tricky, especially if you’re used to looking at flat screens and traditional televisions. Here are some features and numbers to check potential projectors against when you’re browsing.

Your TV Projector Checklist

Brightness: If you have a dedicated home theater room with blocked off windows or no windows at all, brightness is less of a factor than if you’re using a room with windows and ambient light or your central living room. The three general tiers of brightness for your projector are:

1000 Lumens: Darkened home theater with no ambient light

1500 Lumens: Rooms with shaded windows and some lighting

3000 Lumens: Rooms with a high light level such as living rooms

Image: One of the best things about projectors is the image quality. Higher pixels make for a better picture, so aim for 1920 x 1080, the general resolution for HD projectors, instead of 1280 x 800. Your image quality will be even better if the projector and media’s source material, such as HDTV or Xbox 360, have matching resolution values. Aspect ratio is another important set of numbers, and 16:9 is the most common aspect ratio because its proportions match most DVDs and television signals.

A good projector will make your home theater one of your favorite places in the house. Make it even better by looking for the right projector for your media room and image quality preferences, and contact Audio Video Solutions here to get it installed and ready for watching movies.

Projector vs. Flat Screen: Which Screen Gives You More Options?

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The best part about modern films and television shows is their high-definition and production quality. The camera catches everything from fast action to infinitesimal details, and the right projector or television can bring them back to life. If you’re thinking about upgrading your current television for a new home theater, you might be debating between a projector and a flat screen. Here are a few factors to keep in mind:

Projector vs. Flat Screen: Which Screen Gives You More Options?

  • How large do you want the screen size to be? Flat screens and projectors with the same specifications give the same crisp quality so you can choose what class of screen you’re interested in based on your preferences, audience, and budget. But one key difference is in the size of the screen: projectors can blow up the image even larger without taking away from the details or giving you blurry or pixelated images. You can even change the size of the image for when you’re watching a movie with just your family or you’re watching a game with lots of moving guests.
  • Do you want to experiment with different rooms for your home theater? While flat screens can be installed quickly by any professional, it can be tedious to reposition and move them around whether you’re making minute adjustments or shifting to a new media room. But projectors can easily be moved across the house, into your backyard, or even over to a friend’s house for any occasion.

As every sort of television, whether on a flat screen, monitor, or projector, increases in clarity and definition every year, it’s important to consider all the factors behind your media equipment. If you’re looking for a larger screen and even a mobile home theater, projectors are an excellent choice. Contact Audio Video Solutions today!

Watch Crystal Clear Video with a TV Projector

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No home theater is complete without a giant screen. It used to be that if you wanted a real theater experience at home you had to buy a monitor to ensure a crystal clear image. However, projectors are becoming increasingly popular not only as replacements for regular-sized televisions but also as an essential part of a home theater system.

Watch Crystal Clear Video with a TV Projector

What are the benefits of having a video projector instead of a traditional television in your home theater system?

  • The technology behind projected images is advancing faster and faster: LCD used to be the technology that you would think of when you picture a typical blurry projection. However, LCD projectors are not only the most budget-friendly systems in stores; because they’re a huge part of the consumer market they have improved steadily throughout the years and some models have become the best in their class. Projections can also be Digital Light Processing (DLP) with millions of tiny mirrors for excellent motion resolution, or Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCOS), which is a hybrid of DLP and LCD has created contrast ratios and motion quality.
  • Your screen can be much bigger: Most movies have a higher resolution than TVs can fully capture. But the size a projector can offer takes full advantage of the high filming resolution and gets rid of the restriction that old projectors faced due to pixel limitations.

Projectors are a great option for home theater systems because they take full advantage of video quality in a way that smaller televisions and monitors cannot. If you’d like to learn more about the different TV projectors and home theater options, Audio Video Solutions has, please contact us here.