Which HD Projector

My HD projector is great. They are the newest thing on the block when it comes to picking the latest projector for you home cinema or office.  This site has been set up specifically to keep you abreast of the developments within the field of the HD projector and to review new HD projector models that come onto the market from time to time.  Indeed, the intention is that this site becomes the site of choice should you wish to know anything about or within the field of the HD projector.  So read on.

The vast majority of HD projector purchases will be for use in the home with the objective of establishing a home cinema for the living room, or if there is greater space within your home, that specially designated area that is just perfect for the creation of your home cinema project.

When selecting your particular HD projector you need to consider a number of factors.  I will list these factors in no particular order before addressing them in more detail further on within this article.  The factors to which I am referring are the size of the projector, its weight, the fitting options you are provided with, the resolution of the projector, whether it has something called keystone correction (don’t worry I will give you a definition of what keystone correction is later on in the article), the lens shift, whether the projector is LCD or DLP (again I will give you a good idea of what DLP is later in the article), the lamp hours and of course, perhaps most importantly the price of your HD projector.

When setting up your particular cinema project the space and location available to position your HD projector is of course particularly important.  You may only have a small nook in which to place your projector, or you may wish to place it on a table, or furniture unit in the room, or indeed you may wish to suspend it from the ceiling.  One really neat idea I saw once was someone who had built a platform down from the ceiling so the HD projector could be position high up and generally not in the way.  It was also in a perfect position so that it did not get in the way of the use of the room.  This would be particularly helpful if the room you were setting up as you home cinema was not going to be a dedicated space left for no other purpose other than the cinema.  Examples of this might include, most obviously, a living room, but might also encompass a spare bedroom, the dining room, a study, you name it.  These days almost any room in the house can be converted into a home cinema space simply by the judicious placement of an HD projector and HD projector screen.

Of course if you do position the HD projector on some form of ceiling platform or alternatively suspended from a fitting attached to the ceiling you do have to make sure that you have sensible electrical installations in order to provide power to your HD projector.  It would be most unsafe if you were to have cables hanging down from the ceiling, especially since most ceiling fitted HD projectors would be permanent installations and the alternative would be to continually plug and unplug the hd projector every time you used and finished using it.  My guess is this would become tiresome very quickly.  In order to get some sensible ceiling fittings, unless you are a qualified electrician it would be sensible to call in professional help.  This would not be a signficant task for an electrician but they would almost certainly need access to the roof cavity or floorboards above as the alternative is to have wires running across the ceiling to the HD projector which in my opinion would be unnecessarily unsightly.

So we’ve established that the size of the HD projector is critical, especially when considering its placement in your particular location.  Of course as a corollary to this one must also consider what the weight of your particular HD projector should be.  Clearly the weight is important.  If you or someone in your family intends to move the HD projector on a regular basis then the weight becomes very important.  HD projectors are expensive pieces of equipment and you would not want to drop the unit because it was of excessive weight.  So before purchasing your particular HD projector I recommend you check its weight and whether you are comfortable with the weight of it when considering how you will use it and where it will be positioned in you particular home cinema project.

This article has turned into a longer article than I had considered so I will address the other major factors you should consider in the selection of you HD projector model in subsequent posts.