NRR - Video Projectors - Recommendations

bassie

hello - can you please recommend one/some that is/are not too expensive - this is not for home use but for public screenings. audio outs are not essential, but are ideal - i think it makes more sense to run sound out of a good quality projector that a dvd or vhs player - yes? no?thanks a lot.

manchild

if price is of concern i recommend going through P**wla in Melb.

I have used the a lower range Sony and a BenQ PB2140 and they both did the job nice and can be picked up cheap but what the hell do i know about this?

DOR

Price range???

We should talk... I work with a few different types of them here at ma jobbie job!

Ask Serious also... He knows all...

DOR

There's one Hitachi model we use. We just got them about 3-4 months ago.. They are really great. Small and compact. Pretty damn good sound for a small projector. And it's got some great bells n whistles on it!. I'll find out some info when I get free of my emergency calls.

PS - You could always pass by my work to test some out toooooooooooooo


HA!

bassie

about $500 - $700 - is that realistic or am i looking at $1000 to start?

DOR - can you please PM me *a**'s email? all i have is is home #.

DOR

I think the cheapest you'll find is about $799. I'm not sure how reliable those may be. I would look more towards 1000 and up for quality.

Is this ur thing? Or for work???

PMing you his number now.

bassie

it's something i'd like to have for gigs (think how much better the art bar thing would have been with something projected on the walls) and maybe even show movies in the backyard in the summer and BF would use it for skate vid premieres at the store and what not...got the PM - thanks a lot.

Swayze

Sanyo plv-z1

I paid about 1050 2.5 years ago, they are on like models z3 and z4 now so the z1's may be around 700 now, cheaper if used.

With any projector, bulbs will be expensive, around 300.00 so consider that when debating over the new or used thing.

bassie

thanks a lot for all the tips - there are plenty of leads in here.


-mb

mrmatthew

The guys in my IT department all keep saying they are gonna build one of these:

http://www.denguru.com/2004/11/13/supersize_your_tv_for_/



http://www.denguru.com/2004/12/01/build_your_own_xga_projector_ii/index.html



http://inventgeek.com/Projects/HomeTheater/HomeTheater.aspx



http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/13/1313232&from=rss


None of them actually have though. If you have a laptop, the time and a little bit of $, these might be the way to go. You can find old overhead projectors on the cheap in Thrifts.