For a home theater projector that you will use mostly in a dark room, we recommend at least 1,000 ANSI lumens for a 100-inch screen. If you plan to...

This depends on how much you want the projected image to fill your field of view. Some people like to sit closer in the movie theater so it feels m...

If you watch a lot of 4K content and want the most detailed image you can get, a 4K projector is the way to go. The step up in resolution from 1080...

Consider how portable the projector needs to be. You can find projectors with sizes and weights ranging from small and light enough to fit in a shi...

Projectors can scale images up or down, but that's usually best avoided, since it can distort the image. For any projector resolution up to and inc...

Most projectors today offer native resolutions that qualify as widescreen formats. You'll generally want to match the aspect ratio (ratio of image...

There is no single best level for projector brightness, and brighter isn't always better. For a home theater projector you plan to use in a dark ro...

Contrast ratio—the ratio between the brightness of the brightest white a projector can produce and the brightness of the darkest black—always matte...

To connect a projector to a video source, you obviously need to match the projector’s inputs with the source’s outputs. But given a choice, a digit...

Today's projectors are based on one of four imaging technologies: digital light processing (DLP), liquid-crystal display (LCD), liquid crystal on s...

There's a growing trend in projectors of moving from using lamps as light sources to using LEDs or lasers. For the moment, at least, there are adva...

If you want to cast a large image at a short distance from the screen, either because the room itself is a little small or to minimize the bother o...

Not all projectors have onboard audio, and for those that do, the audio is sometimes all but useless—particularly with highly portable models. If y...