Shootout: Three 1080p Front Projectors

I wasn't sure we would see 1080p projectors drop in price so quickly, but now many of them can be had for under $5k. Certainly a great place to start when building your home theater. With 5k on a projector, 3k on speakers, 1k on a receiver and the rest on accessories etc, you can have yourself a pretty nice home theater setup. In the roundup is a projector from Sharp, Epson and Panasonic.

Sound And Vision

For this test, I placed each projector on a low table 13 feet from an 87-inch-wide Stewart FireHawk screen in a neutral gray room that has blackout drapes to seal out window light – a more typical home theater setting than a windowless room. With these conditions in mind, the FireHawk screen was chosen specifically for its ability to minimize the effects of reflected ambient light. Sources included an HD signal generator and DVDs, HD DVDs, and Blu-ray Discs. For full technical measurements, see the Test Bench.

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