Home Theater Front Projectors

Home Theater Front Projectors
By Jason Gluckman

The supreme home theater experience has been made possible with the help of home theater front projectors. Front projectors reproduce the experience that one undergoes while watching a movie in a theater. However, the viewing experience is more intense and personal. Front-projection home theaters offer images that are full of cinematic details and color on a larger-than-life screen that transforms viewing into a rare and novel experience.

A front-projection home theater is a system that basically consists of the projector and the screen. In the past home theater front projectors were costly and could be installed only with the help of professionals. There were heavy CRT-based units that were difficult to handle and maintain. But modern projectors incorporate LCD or DLP technology, making the projectors compressed and not too heavy to carry. Front projectors are more reasonably priced than the CRT projectors of yesteryears.

The latest types of front projectors are known for their ability to create big, beautiful images, which is their primary function. As the image is projected onto a discrete screen, the entire system within a projector's compact case is devoted to producing the picture. A projector has fewer parts than a TV, and all parts are of premier quality. A high-resolution imager (DLP chip or LCD panels), an ultra-high-intensity lamp, superb scaling and de-interlacing circuitry, superior-grade optics, and an extensive variety of video inputs can generally be found in a projector, but a projector is devoid of a built-in screen, or an awkward cabinet, or stereo speakers. No built-in TV tuner of any sort is present in a front projector, but it still exhibits signals from an HDTV tuner, satellite receiver, cable box, or the VCR's TV tuner.

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LCD Projectors

LCD Projectors
By Ken Marlborough

A LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) Projector is the modern version of the slide projector and overhead projector. Unlike CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) projectors, the LCD projector does not function according to the traditional projection-tube system.

The LCD Projector usually contains three separate LCD glass panels - one each for the red, green, and blue components of the video signal. The LCD chip is transparent, and when a powerful light source is passed through it, each individual pixel transforms the light and projects the image or data through a lens onto the screen.

The LCD Projector technological revolution started around the mid-1990s, when manufacturers began to use microdisplays and merge illumination and imaging in one device. Following this development, Compaq introduced one of the first ultra-lightweight data projectors in 2000 - the MP1400 using the DLP (Digital Light Processing) technology from Texas Instruments. Most LCD Projectors today support VGA output at resolutions ranging up to 800x600 and 1024x768. They are also usually capable of projecting standard video from a VCRs, DVDs, and cable boxes; and many of them are specialized for use at home, known as Front-Projection TVs.

The main advantage of the LCD projector is that since the LCD chip is miniature in size, the whole unit is quite compact, which is very practical, especially for mobile professionals. Most LCD projectors are also typically capable of producing 2,000 to 2,500 ANSI lumens brightness with 1024 x 768 VGA resolution, resulting in better image quality. Power consumption is also relatively low. And, in comparison to CRT Projectors (which are still manufactured), LCD versions are quite inexpensive. For example, the Sony VPL-CX1 Superlite LCD Video Projector only costs around $2,000, but is still capable of producing super image quality.

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Digital LCD Projectors

Digital LCD Projectors
By Ken Marlborough

Digital projectors are the modern replacements for the rather traditional transparency projectors. Transparency projectors worked by shining light through a semi-transparent material. Digital projectors, by contrast, project a digital image directly from a computer through a lens on to a screen.

LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) digital projectors are much lighter and more portable than their CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) versions, making them widely popular. With the advent of new LCD technologies, digital projectors have been developed which have very clear and crisp fidelity even at large projection sizes. The LCDs used in digital projectors are approximately the size of a small color slide, and in fact the projectors operate very much like a traditional slide projector. The main difference is that the slide is constantly changing.

A Digital LCD projector has its light source contained within its base. It projects light upwards through the transparent image (which sits on a glass stage) to a lens on the top (head) of the unit and out onto the projection screen. In other words, the light shines through the image to project it. These projectors work well with printed film transparencies or an LCD panel computer display and provide bright, sharp images.

Slightly higher end Digital LCD Projectors can be used for Cinema/exhibition, Post-production, On-screen advertising, Digital film mastering, Multi-media theatrical productions or other large entertainment venues. Most of the recent Digital LCD projectors can be installed with existing film projectors and also provide an interface for theatre automation equipment.

The future of digital projectors is exciting, with new technologies constantly being developed. As more and more theatres switch to digital projection, consumers cannot help but reap the benefits. As these technologies become more affordable they will inevitably find their way into home systems and allow each of us to experience the joy of a full theatre projection in our own home.

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