CapitanCiccio
Novice Member
Hello, I decided to buy a projector for domestic use. I'm not going to play with it, just watch movies. It has been a few months since I began to understand projector characteristics, and eventually I thought I succeded in narrowing down to a few models, but I realized I missed something very important about the set up of the projector itself: I was considering the projection throw and the image size to obtain a throw ratio to stick to, but I ignored the height from the ground, which, in my case is not a choice, since I have to put it on a library shelf. I will recap the characteristics I'm looking for here below, hoping that whoever wants to help me, makes the least effort possible. I won't include considerations about image construction technology or lamps or lumens, but only what is really mandatory. Anyway, any insight on any aspect is welcome. Here I go:
- Budget: up to some 1500€
- Resolution: 1080p native (less is ugly, more is expensive).
- Distance lens-wall: some 3.7 m
- Height from ground: some 1.8 m (this is what worries me most).
- width of wall/image: max 2.1 m
- From the last 3 values, the Throw Ratio should be not less than some 1.8
- the shelf is 25cm deep, the projector shouldn't exceed that measure by more than, say, 5 cm.
For calculation I used mainly this one:
Projection Calculator Pro - Projector to Screen Distance and the calculators from specific brands (Optoma, Epson, Benq)
And then I found this one, that include height from ground, but has too few models:
JACK LIU Projection Calculator, world's most intuitive projection calculator
If I forgot to mention something important, please feel free to ask.
I thank you for any ideas you'll be sharing!
Simone.
- Budget: up to some 1500€
- Resolution: 1080p native (less is ugly, more is expensive).
- Distance lens-wall: some 3.7 m
- Height from ground: some 1.8 m (this is what worries me most).
- width of wall/image: max 2.1 m
- From the last 3 values, the Throw Ratio should be not less than some 1.8
- the shelf is 25cm deep, the projector shouldn't exceed that measure by more than, say, 5 cm.
For calculation I used mainly this one:
Projection Calculator Pro - Projector to Screen Distance and the calculators from specific brands (Optoma, Epson, Benq)
And then I found this one, that include height from ground, but has too few models:
JACK LIU Projection Calculator, world's most intuitive projection calculator
If I forgot to mention something important, please feel free to ask.
I thank you for any ideas you'll be sharing!
Simone.
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