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etatoby
Feb 12, 2003

China makes me cry
Sup forums! Either I'm blind, or there's no projector thread. This must be rectified! The beauty of watching a movie on a 200" screen (or more) in the comfort of your own home, is a remarkable thing.

I'll start with a not-so obvious question. I'm setting up a small home theater and I've narrowed it down to these two models, with a similar price tag (€710 and €860, this side of the globe, if you're wondering):

Epson EH-TW570
3,000 lumen
720p
100 Hz refresh rate

Epson EH-TW5200
2,000 lumen
1080p
200 Hz refresh rate

Both have Epson's triple LCD technology, 15,000:1 contrast ratio, and support 3D (not that I plan on watching 3D movies, but you never know.)

I'm quite puzzled. I'll use it in a small room, as theaters go (5x5m / 16x16') mostly at night, so it will be reasonably dark, but in the past I've always felt brightness and contrast to be the defining factors for a projector's image quality, not resolution. I'd also like to project on a white wall, unless it comes out so ugly that I absolutely have to buy a screen, and I know that walls reflect less.

I'm planning on watching movies, not much else.

Which would you buy?

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etatoby
Feb 12, 2003

China makes me cry

1gnoirents posted:

minimum 18k or bust. The only thing I've seen that is better than any monitor anywhere are large venue projectors on a small screen (small being like 8x5 foot). Its like a portal into something realer than real life
That just reinforces my idea that a 3k lumen is better than 2k, whatever the resolution.

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