The walls are painted a burgundy red and looks great together. We used flat white paint for the viewing screen. I cut the wood and used fancy corner blocks. We shut all light off and with a level marked the wall. We measured the specs for our recently purchased projector attached to ceiling and turned it on.

We purchased fancy wood trim, stained and hand painted the leaves on the wood. My wife and I recently put our ideas into action. you can get much better performance from the cheap business projectors made by BenQ, Epson, Optoma, and others, than you can from these products. Are there better options? Yes, without question. Is the picture watchable? In some cases yes, if you use it in a dark room and the projected image is not too big. These three projectors have given us a good idea of what to expect when spending a minimal amount of cash on a home theater projector. 'BEST NEW LED HD Home Theater Multimedia LCD Projector 1080P AV VGA HDMI SD USB TV S-Video PS3 WII Lamp 20,000 hours' $205 'Advanced Fugetek HD Port Ready LCD Projector with 1080i/P Compatible Resolution, HDMI Input, Playstation, Xbox, Wii and DVD Projector 1500 lumens Lamp 20,000 hours.' $179 'LED 1080P Full HD Video Projector 720p 1280x768 with Build-in Tuner 1080i Support Home Theater Game TV LCD LED. The models are as follows, including the current Amazon price and the promotional language the vendors use to describe them:ĭigital Galaxy DG-757 Review. You can read through them to get an idea of the flaws we found. The HTP-LED33 claims 2000 lumens we measured 190.īill has written up three individual reviews of the projectors we looked at.

The Fugetek FG-637 touts 1500 lumens the turkey we received put out 87 lumens. The Digital Galaxy DG-757 claims a whopping 2800 lumens in their Amazon ad the unit we got from Amazon measured 137 lumens. We only measured three of them, but none of the three were remotely in the ballpark of their specs. The cheap projector vendors publish false brightness specs. For many buyers, just to power one on and get a big picture on the wall for the first time is worth a 5-star rating.ģ. To be fair, people who buy very cheap projectors are generally not familiar with higher performance models and don't have anything to compare them to. The 4 and 5 star ratings on Amazon are written by folks who are not picky about image quality. Many who buy these projectors have never seen a good projector. None of them are high performance projectors in any sense, but some of them can produce a decently watchable picture as long as your expectations are not too high. From what we've seen in our test sample of three models, they cannot all be written off as total junk. So we ordered three of them on Amazon from three different brands and put them through our normal testing procedures. They are made by vendors who would never send them out for professional review. To be honest, we'd never looked at them until now.

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