High-end home cinema projectors

A high-end home cinema projector today differs from a normal home cinema projector due to its special features. In addition to improving the picture quality, they make installation of the projector much easier. Some of the image enhancing features you can expect to find are motion interpolation, which can be named differently from manufacturer to manufacturer. These include Epson's frame interpolation or Sony's Motionflow technology. Another feature that you often find in a high-end home cinema projectors will sharpen the image, again, this can have different names such as Super Resolution (Epson Full HD projector) or Reality Creation (Sony Full HD projector). This feature provides an upscaling of the image sharpness and can be found in both a Full HD projector and in a 4K projector. In this selection of high-end home cinema projectors you will find Full HD projector and 4K projector, but at this moment in time, the number of 3D Full HD projectors outweighs the 4K projectors. Some 1080p resolution projectors now have technology that shifts the Full HD panel and simulates a 4K resolution. This technology is called 4K Enhancement by Epson, while at JVC it's called 4K-eShift. There are, however, real 4K projectors too, from manufacturers such as Sony. These do it without a shift process, since the SXRD panel directly displays the 4K resolution. Within the 4K projector, there are now two different resolutions, the pure 4K resolution and the UHD resolution. While a projector like the Sony VPL-VW550ES works with 4096 x 2160 pixels, a 4K UHD projector like the Acer V9800 uses a resolution of 3840 x 2160 pixels. Another indication of a high-end home cinema projector is a high contrast. They allow the image representation in high quality and are capable of a colour space such as REC. 709, sRGB and beyond. To realise this, such projectors often have adaptive iris and special contrast filters. Since we are looking at high end home cinema projector in this category, you will also tend to find projectors with more flexible lenses, often a very expensive part of the projector. In the photography world, you will often find that a good lens is more expensive than the camera itself. That's why in this segment of high-end home cinema projectors you will find significantly more zoom, from 1.6x to 2.1x, making it much easier to install in the home cinema or living room. This is often underpinned by the Lens-Shift function, which is motorized or manually operated, depending on the projector's price. A high-end projector in home theatre is usually 3D as this feature has become standard on most projectors nowadays. The technology found in a high end home cinema projector will vary, with 3LCD technology, SXRD technology (also called LCOS), D-ILA technology or DLP technology all offered. These can also have an effect on the 3D projection. A DLP projector often uses DLP Link technology, while LCD, SXRD and D-ILA use more RF or Bluetooth glasses. In addition to imaging technology, high-end projectors use different light sources. As well as the classic UHP lamp, you can expect to find laser light sources as well as LED light sources. Likewise, laser LED hybrid projectors can be found among the high-end home cinema projectors. The Ansi Lumen, which references the light output, is usually between 1400 and 3000 lumens for a high-end home cinema projector. Since this type of projectors pays more attention to the contrast and the colour representation, the light output loses some importance. This can also be seen in a home cinema projector test, as the evaluation of this criteria has less relevance than other properties. This kind of home cinema projector review, can often be found in home theater magazines and their online sites. If you do not want to rely on the validity of such a test, we are of course happy to assist you with our home cinema projector purchase advice.