The Vava is much larger and heavier than traditional projectors, mostly due to the full 60W Harman Kardon soundbar built into it. It provides much louder, fuller sound than the built-in speakers on all of the other projectors. It has an app store, but there are barely any useful apps. Also, the image bends a little on the sides. Lastly, the Vava gets a lot hotter than other projectors, enough to feel a difference in the room. The brightness is rated at lumens, which is just over half of what Vava claims.
The color made it feel like watching film: everything has a golden, s-style vibe to it, which I think is partly because of its color space. The projector uses Rec. So from about 11 feet away, it can get an image as small as 80 inches diagonally, all the way up to inches.
It has lumens of brightness but with a screen you can watch in daylight. If you want a really big image or if your space is a lot smaller, then you should get a short-throw projector. The audio is surprisingly loud for only having one 5W speaker.
If you have a small, dark room, this projector is great for it. Correction: An earlier version of this article referred to the Vava projector as a fully laser-based system — it is not. It is a DLP projector that uses a laser light source instead of bulb. We regret the error. Cookie banner We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from.
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The best projectors for your home or apartment The Epson Home Cinema is the best overall projector. The Epson Home Cinema provides the best blend of image quality, ease of use, and price. The Optoma HDX is the best budget projector. Check out this amazing Samsung The Premiere deal.
After more than a decade since its last home cinema projector, Samsung has exploded back on the scene with The Premiere LSP9T projector. This ultra short-throw beamer makes use of 4K HDR laser projection, with a three-color laser removing the need for a color filter and therefore allowing The Premiere's 2, lumens brightness to really shine across a max inch image.
This projector also benefits from full implementation of Samsung's smart TV operating system, which — if a bit sluggish at times — is incredible to have on a projector over the basic and poorly-organized interfaces we're used to.
For everyone else, there's plenty of other great models in the guide below. Read our full review: Samsung The Premiere projector.
We gave this beamer five stars for its impressive color reproduction, HDR support, and 2, lumens brightness, making for bright and impactful images. While this isn't a native 4K projector something you just don't get at this price , even upscaled images are detailed and come across well, with highly natural skin stones and an impressive amount of shadow detail.
Blacks could be deeper, and motion could be smoother, but there's really little to complain about here. The EH-TW boasts advanced capability all around, from its 3D compatibility to motorized lens controls — the latter point allowing for real precision and an easy setup. There's even a lens cover to prevent dust from creeping in! Just keep in mind that it doesn't come with built-in speakers, meaning you are reliant on connected audio equipment.
The XGIMI Halo is a great shout for anyone after a portable projector that doesn't give up on quality pictures entirely. You're getting lumens max brightness while plugged in, though this does drop to lumens when running on battery — fine for dark, outdoor settings, though you'll undoubtedly fare better with the former setting. Regardless, the battery life is long enough to watch an average-length movie. It's worth noting that theater enthusiasts may not be satisfied with the brightness and picture of the Halo, especially because of somewhat distracting video noise in dark scenes — but for anyone who needs flexibility and wants the best projector that can fit that need, the XGIMI Halo will prove a worthy choice.
This unit supports 4K at 60Hz with an unsurpassed 16ms response time at that resolution, which is as low as response times get in a native 4K projector.
If you want up to inches of bright, crystal-clear game on your wall or screen, this sets a new benchmark. You can also push to Hz if you're happy settling for HD output. About the size and shape of a can of Coca Cola, the tiny projector looks more like a battery pack for a piece of AV equipment than an all-out projector, but those looks are deceiving.
Really need a projector that can sit right up to the wall? This ultra short-throw CineBeam projector from LG is able to project a massive display from only inches away.
The projector itself is also brilliantly sharp in its construction, with a sleek rectangular profile that can hub your living room carpet or coffee table without obstructing any of the image it's throwing up on the wall — and you can install it from the ceiling as well if preferred.
The sound quality maybe isn't as impressive as the projection, though, with a lack of detail in high frequencies, and not much power on the low end either. The Vava 4K projector is something of a marvel, with a sharp 4K picture and impactful HDR despite its 8-bit color limitations. The 2, lumens brightness is more than enough to make its images look vibrant, too — while a sleek design and soft fabric covering ensure the projector is aesthetically satisfying even when it's turned off.
The smart platform is somewhat secondary here, with an old iteration of Android TV and a couple of big-name apps Netflix, Hulu nowhere to be seen. Read more: Vava 4K projector review. The Anker Nebula Solar Portable is a compact and stylish mini-projector that delivers in almost every area.
However, its USB-C power port means you should also be able to link up a portable power bank for multiple uses. While the picture quality is pretty adequate for the price and form factor, the projector is let down on the brightness front. Read more: Anker Nebula Solar Portable review. Stylishly finished in matte white, with complementary grey fabric grille and peekaboo lens up top, it looks suitably trendy. It's built around a single chip DLP 4K device allied to a laser light engine, which translates to pin-sharp pictures no chance of any panel alignment issues here and excellent color vibrancy — though it is a bit less vibrant than its predecessor.
Read the full review: Optoma CinemaX P2. Ultimately, while the Alexa features are fun if a little perfunctory everything about this the Optoma UHD51A performs exceptionally. Laser TVs are a tricky one — they technically use the same ultra short throw projection of other high-end laser projectors in this guide, though with a specifically designed ALR Ambient Light Rejection screen to ensure crisp and colorful images.
Call us at For the latest updates in home theater technology, sign up for our newsletter or check out our projector blog. Home theater projectors generally start out at about lumens and range upwards to lumens and more. Your viewing environment is the deciding factor on how many lumens your projector needs. Dedicated home theaters rooms with controlled lighting and no ambient light will not require as much brightness as a space with ambient light from windows or other household lighting.
Check out the video below to see a , and lumen projector in a side-by-side comparison. Tip : In many cases, manufacturers rate projector lumen values based on data output, not video. Lumen output for video is typically not as high as data.
For help determining which projector is right for your viewing environment, contact one of our Projector Experts. They have personally seen most units perform in video mode. A lumen is equivalent to the amount of light a birthday cake candle puts out in a square foot-sized area. Now you know! The three most important factors affecting image quality are native resolution, your source material, and the projector's contrast ratio.
More pixels mean a sharper looking image and better compatibility with high-definition sources. What you are watching will make a big difference in the quality of your image. A low-quality signal fed to your projector will most likely look like a low-quality image when projected.
This is even more noticeable on a larger screen. For best results, you should try to match the projector with the native resolution of your source material. Your Blu-ray player, PlayStation 3 and Xbox typically put out a p signal. HDTV signals are still not totally standardized, although p and i seem to be the most common. So what does that mean for your projector purchase? HD x projectors are designed to deliver all the rich details carried in a p signal.
Wide XGA projectors will deliver great results when fed a p signal, just not as great as their HD counterparts. That said, you'd be hard-pressed to tell the difference between the two unless you were projecting a very large image, say eight feet diagonal or more.
The final factor to consider is a projector's contrast ratio. Contrast ratio literally refers to the difference between the blackest black and the whitest white in an image. A projector with a contrast ratio of 10, isn't necessarily five times better than one with a 2, ratio.
The contrast ratio does not account for how the projector displays all the shades of grey in between the blackest black and whitest white. If the projector can't display those shades of gray, portions of the image will "blow-out" and appear pixilated when displayed on the big screen.
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