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I want to buy a projector.
Hi I am currently looking around for a projector just to watch my DVDs on really how much do they start off at I have a budget of about £500 which is probably not alot really any help
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Punctuation matters.
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Hi I am currently looking around for a projector just to watch my DVDs on really how much do they start off at I have a budget of about £500 which is probably not alot really any help
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Avoid those Ebay all-in-ones that have a tuner/DVD player and what have you.
Stick with a projector brand such as: Optoma Nec Benq Acer Infocus and there are some others of course. Optoma seem to do some good projectors for the price. £500 is plenty enough for most people. |
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Remember you will need to buy a screen as well.
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I don't see a projector on the Lidl site, the link above is from last year.
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That's a good price for that NEC projector, but maybe the OP would be better off getting a more dedicated "Home Cinema" style projector rather than a business/education projector like the NEC.
Although nowadays even business projectors are pretty good for video, not as good as a dedicated projector though. |
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Hmm yeah preferably a home cinema projector. Just something which will give a cinemaesque feel.
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This ACER V700 HD projector looks like a good buy to me, and it can do 3D (with appropriate extra hardware)
http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/...482872&CatId=0 £432 +P&P from Misco HD is not full HD, it's 1280 x 720, but's that still very good. Also a bright projector, always a good thing. Quiet too. HDMI / component / VGA / S-Video inputs. I'm sure purists would say spend £2000, but most people don't have that sort of money to spend on a mere projector. |
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That looks like a great buy tassium might have to use a White sheet to watch the Films on though because the screens seem a bit expensive aswell
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Yes, I'm tempted myself. These HD projectors have really come down in price recently.
Any old white/light grey wall will do as a screen. Light grey is actually a good choice for a projector screen for complicated reasons I won't go into. |
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Avoid those Ebay all-in-ones that have a tuner/DVD player and what have you.
Stick with a projector brand such as: Optoma Nec Benq Acer Infocus and there are some others of course. Optoma seem to do some good projectors for the price. £500 is plenty enough for most people. |
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Remember you will need to buy a screen as well.
And the lamps need replaced every 2000/3000 hours...and they are not cheap! |
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And the lamps need replaced every 2000/3000 hours...and they are not cheap!
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Had an Infocus, saw rainbows
You either want a DLP with a 6 segment colour wheel rather than 3, or a (much more expensive) projector with 1 DLP chip for each of the 3 colours, negating the requirement for a colour wheel. |
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PJ's are not normally viewed constantly like a TV, they are generally used for special occasions, clocking up 2000/3000 hrs could take many years, you'll probably find the user upgrading before the lamp needed replacing. Watch a movie every day and it would take about 4yrs before the lamp needed replacing - if they chose wisely and purchased one of Optoma's DLP models it would cost them £99 to replace the lamp.
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I bought an Optoma full HD DLP projector last year, played lots of PS3 games and watched movies on it. Still going strong.
The rainbow effect I have only seen when looking away quickly, never whilst watching. Me and my business partner each bought the same model from OYYY.com and it came with a free 84" screen. |
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Hi I am currently looking around for a projector just to watch my DVDs on really how much do they start off at I have a budget of about £500 which is probably not alot really any help
![]() The speed of the rotating color wheel determines how often rainbows are experienced, and by how many people. When people started using commercial DLP projectors for video and home theater, their 2x speed wheels caused many people to see rainbows. Business DLP projectors today still use 2x speed wheels, but due to their intended use (static content on a smaller screen versus full motion video on a larger one) rainbows are not often a problem. Meanwhile, the bare minimum color wheel speed for single-chip DLP home theater projectors today is 4x. This speed eliminates the rainbow effect for most people, but not nearly all of them. Many home theater projectors now use 5x or 6x speed color wheels, which further reduces the percentage of the population sensitive to color separation artifacts to just a handful of folks. Just be careful, my partner couldn't see "rainbows" but I and others could. and it was very distracting and gave us headaches, in the end we changed to a different system. |
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