Home Theater Projectors are projectors designed for use in Home Theaters. When referring to home theater projectors, the phrase typically refers to front projectors. Such projectors are normally ceiling mounted, placed on a shelf in the back of the room, or sitting on a table, but in almost all cases shining their images on a screen on the other side of the room. Most home theater projectors can also be used in a "rear screen" setup, but few homes have the space for a "rear screen" setup. Almost all home theater projectors are "widescreen" producing images with an aspect ratio of 16:9 (the same as HDTV standards), compared to most business projectors which support the traditional 4:3 aspect ratio of most older computers, and TV sets.
Home theater projectors are designed to operate in fully darkened rooms, or rooms with very little ambient light. For this reason, some people, who cannot darken their rooms, instead may choose to put a more powerful (but less suitable in other ways) business projector in their home. 720p DLP front projector far outperforms its price and is the best in its class. The Optoma HD7100 projector uses the Texas Instruments DarkChip3 DLP chip to produce some of the most dramatic blacks available, and colors are said to be very accurate right out of the box. |
