Why Buy
Front Projectors
Projectors provide the closest experience to having your own private cinema at home. They can provide the largest possible screen size at very affordable prices allowing you to watch movies, sport and even soaps as never before. Team a projector with a full home cinema sound system for the ultimate viewing experience.
If you don’t have room for a huge cinema style screen or plan to use your projector for everyday viewing then you can project a smaller image. This will increase the brightness of the picture projected so there will be less of a need to control the lighting in the room, and you can enjoy watching television but don’t need to use up any floor space when you switch it off.
Rear Projection TVs
Rear projections TVs use the same technology that front projectors use, in fact they are simply a small projector in a box with a TV tuner and speakers included. They provide very large screens up to 80 inches, and are extremely cost effective when compared to large screen plasma or LCD TVs. Old, rather boxy rear projection TVs are also coming down in size, and many new models are not significantly larger than Plasma or LCD TVs.
Things to Consider
Type of projection system
LCD
Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) projectors usually contain three separate LCD panels (one each for red, green and blue), as light passes through these panels individual pixels open or close to allow the light through, producing an image that is projected onto a screen.
DLP
Digital Light Processing (DPL) uses hundreds of microscopic mirrors that reflect light from a lamp out through a lens onto screen.
LCOS
Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCOS) projectors are almost a cross between DLP and LCD technologies. LCOS based projectors use three LCOS chips to control red, green and blue light in much the same way as LCD projectors, however this light is reflected, in a similar way to DLP projectors. LCOS projectors typically produce higher resolution than LCD or DLP but carry a higher price tag to match.
Which is Best?
All of the above technologies have been rapidly evolving over recent years meaning that the advantages of one technology over another have been reduced, all three can now produce fantastic quality pictures.
Traditionally the advantage of LCD projectors was the richness of the colours they show whereas DLP’s produced much better contrast and LCOS create outstanding picture resolution. To some extent these differences still exist but each technology can still provide you with the ultimate in home cinema viewing, at Laskys we provide the most detailed product specifications available online, enabling you to decide which projector will suit your needs the most.
Key Features
Brightness
A dark room will create the best possible picture for a front projector but this is not always possible, to maintain high picture quality in a lighter room look for a projector with a high brightness level (measured in Lumens).
Resolution
Measured in pixels (horizontal x vertical) simply put the greater the number of pixels the better the quality of picture will be.
Contrast
Is the measurement of the difference in light intensity between the brightest white and the darkest black. The higher the contrast ratio, the sharper the picture will be.
HD Ready
Look out for our range of HD ready projectors, a perfect match to get the most out of Sky HD or Blu-Ray or HD DVD’s.
