While Ultra-HD and 4K gets us all pretty excited, it probably also gets your head spinning with all the audio-visual lingo and new technology that goes with it.  You sure are not alone in this frustration. Who’s got the time to keep up with everything the audiovisual world comes up with? We know first hand that you have a lot of questions around the Ultra-HD changes that may or may not happen. As we talk to you on a daily basis, we know you are wondering about: How will HDMI 2.0a, HDCP 2.2 and Ultra HD Blu-ray change things? What bandwidth do I need? And how do you implement all this Ultra HD technology?

Projectors are awesome. Ultra-huge screen, reasonably low price. If we can get away with the other half’s approval for one, they are the bee’s knees for your home cinema.

A while back, Cnet published an excellent overview with the different projector technologies available.

In our experience the article covers one of the most often asked questions, when it comes to projector purchases. Since we honestly couldn’t say it any better ourselves, we used this article as a base and added some of our own remarks and experiences to it. Where we thought it needed an update, we added that as well.

 

To sum it up, there are three different technologies projectors used to create an image: DLP, LCD, and LCoS.

What’s the best? Let’s compare.