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glynor:
My CIO wants to buy a projector for his house, and I'm hoping for a good recommendation.  He's got a non-ideal setup, of course...

Here's the requirements...

1. Around or less than $3k
2. 1080p (he doesn't care about 4k, I asked)
3. Brightness.  His room is NOT darkened, so the usual aca forum HT projector recommends probably won't work.

Number 3 is of course the rub.  Any real world suggestions?

Sparks67:

--- Quote from: glynor on November 15, 2013, 10:30:42 am ---My CIO wants to buy a projector for his house, and I'm hoping for a good recommendation.  He's got a non-ideal setup, of course...

Here's the requirements...

1. Around or less than $3k
2. 1080p (he doesn't care about 4k, I asked)
3. Brightness.  His room is NOT darkened, so the usual aca forum HT projector recommends probably won't work.

Number 3 is of course the rub.  Any real world suggestions?

--- End quote ---

The best way is to visit a home theater store and test out the projectors. 

Matt:
I'm slow on this one, but projectorcentral.com and projectorreviews.com are both good resources.

If you don't need lens shift (ie. you can mount it perfectly), I'd take a look at an Epson 2030.  You can spend a lot more but it's diminishing returns with regards to picture quality.  Especially when you're not light controlled, meaning UB / a fancy iris isn't as important.

6233638:
Is he aware that watching a projector in anything other than a dark room is going to give you a very washed-out image?
You will probably have to spend most of that budget on a Black Diamond projection screen (or similar) just to get a reasonable image with video.

JimH:
Uh oh.

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