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About Our Projector Demo Room

Thank you for visiting our Projector Demo Room, powered by ProjectorPeople.com. This is your very own online demonstration studio featuring the biggest stars in home theater projectors today. We designed our video sample to offer you a wide span of images from deep black colors, colorful scenes, high detail, and fast moving images so that you can compare the projectors performance in varied conditions.

Projector Videos in our Home Theater Showroom

What's the Catch?

Before you base your final buying decision on what you see here, there are a few things to consider. Color, brightness, artifacts, clarity, and other indicators will have been impacted by the process taken to create the videos in this format. Compression into the smaller size causes additional 'artifacts' in the image which may not be related to the projector's on-site performance. Your computer monitor will also be a variable in the image you see.

That said, we hope this is a useful tool in your buying process. Call a Projector Expert for a first hand account of the performance of any of the projectors you see here. Our experts view and interact with nearly all of the projectors we sell, and their expertise and experience has been invaluable to many of our customers.

For the Best Comparison

In our efforts to produce the most accurate possible representation of our top home theater projectors in action, we followed a few simple rules to help provide 'apples-to-apples' comparison video. Here are a few we followed in each projector we demoed :

  • Out of the box settings - no tweaking
  • Projector located a similar distance from screen, within two feet
  • Exact same HD footage and delivery method (Sony BluRay Player)
  • HDMI input whenever possible (2nd alternative component video)
Panasonic HVX200 camera

Video Recording Equipment for Demo

Camera : Panasonic HVX200

[ Record Settings : Scene File 1 - Factory Setting. Operation Type - Film Cam. Recording Setup - 1080i/30p ]

Camera Settings by Projector

In order to determine the proper F-stop for each projector we used color bars before recorded images and projected first. Using the white box in the projected color bars and the zebra function turned on the camera, the exact moment the zebra pattern disappeared became the consistent f-stop, which will be listed in the projector settings below.


Example of the zebra pattern for determining F-stop


Projector Fstop Hi-res video
Epson Home Cinema 6500UB Fstop - OPEN Hi-res video
Epson Home Cinema 6100 Fstop - OPEN Hi-res video
NEC NP901W Fstop - 2.4 Hi-res video
Optoma TX1080 Fstop - OPEN (Shutter 1/60) Hi-res video
Panasonic PT-AX200U Fstop - 3.4 Hi-res video
Panasonic PT-AE3000U Fstop - OPEN Hi-res video
Mitsubishi HC1600 Fstop - 2.8 Hi-res video
Epson Home Cinema 1080 UB Fstop - 4.0 Hi-res video
Epson Home Cinema 720 Fstop - 2.8 Hi-res video
Sanyo PLV-Z60 Fstop - OPEN Hi-res video
Mitsubishi HC5500 Fstop - OPEN Hi-res video
Panasonic PT-AE2000U Fstop - OPEN Hi-res video
Benq W5000 Fstop - 2.8 Hi-res video
Optoma HD71 Fstop - 2.8 Hi-res video
Sanyo PLV-Z700** Fstop - OPEN Hi-res video
Optoma HD806** Fstop - 3.4 (Shutter 1/60) Hi-res video
InFocus X10 Fstop - 3.4 Hi-res video
Benq W20000 Fstop - 2.8 Hi-res video
Epson Home Cinema 1080 Fstop - OPEN Hi-res video
Sanyo PLV-2000 Fstop - 2.4 Hi-res video
*White balance preset p56k, shutter speed is 1/100 unless otherwise indicated.
** Pre-production model.

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