2% Brightness?!? Most other projectors have a ~2500 Lumen rating, how does this product display anything except in absolute darkness with 2% of the light output of it's competition?
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This is a LED product and not Lamp based. At 50 L, you have to be in a fairly dark room for a 60" screen. It can do up to 120" in a really dark H/T room. The advantage to a LED is that it`s small enough to fit in a suit pocket and the LED lasts up to 20,000 hours. 2,500 lamp lasts upt to 3,000 to 4,000 hours plus the size is too large for your pocket.
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Dear HL S. It is difficult to provide an accurate and scientific answer based on the given input. Give it a try, buy the product, check it out and see if it meets your quality standards. If yes--Great!. Otherwise return to supplier for full refund and learn from the experience when specifying another projector. Regards. Mr. North East.
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Thanks for the info. I hope to goodness that the lamp life is not 3,000hrs! I've been waiting years to buy a projector that doesn't require rip-off bulb replacements. My own HS201 is on a UPS truck at this very moment, waiting to be delivered to my house...
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I am using the projector in a room that seats 150 people with large windows and moderate amounts of sunlight. We do not use shades in our room and this projector is working great for us. Typically used in the mid morning time frame and colors/images show up great on a pull down projection screen. I've tried it on the wall too and it has great image their as well
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Your blacks are only as good as the lack of ambient light in the room, and that holds true for any projector regardless of whether it's 60 lumens or 6000 lumens. The 3M is really a $200 projector, the Roku stick makes up the other $100. If you draw the shades during your office presentation and hit a normal projection screen then this little projector does a respectable job. If you're in a normally lit room and not hitting the screen with any direct light you can hit your screen with 40 or 50" image that's also quite respectable. If you're in a darkened room then it looks quite good even out to 6 feet. It runs equally bright on battery power or when it's plugged in and there is a power saver mode that reduced the brightness by about 25% to increase battery life. The batteries will easily take you through a 1.5 to 2 hour presentation in full on mode and probably 3 or 4 hours in power saver mode. There is also a function that turns just the bulb off and on instantly so you don't have to go through a boot up sequence (especially handy if you use the Roku stick) I have used for 5 different presentations myself, and my little 3M projector is currently in China being used for several presentations to show high quality stock footage. I also use it when I travel so I can watch Amazon or Netflix or Hulu Plus in my hotel room on a 5 or 6 foot projection Obviously a white wall is best but it's not too shabby on an off white wall if the room is dark. Bottom line, it's a nice little projector, very portable, very high quality product and nice image quality at 720p. Based on my personal experience with this projector I would recommend it for home entertainment and for smaller office presentations.
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This isn't an LED Light Source machine.... it is Single 0.65" DC3 DMD DLP Technology by Texas Instruments system. I just bought this unit as it is 1080p vs my Optoma HD66 which was 720p. You would have to watch a lot of TV 2 put 6000 hrs on one of these. I plan on replacing mine around 4000 hrs. if I ever needed to. I would recommend this to all my friends, it is a great projector for the money.
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Depending on the screen information, the lighting itself depends on the lumen value being used. Typically, because it's a short throw projector, it will be bright. But, if you have a bunch of natural sun light coming in on top of florescent lights, it is difficult to see.
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Nope. This projector uses a relatively low lumen LED lamp. I use this in a pitch black room on a 100" screen - but even this setup produces a picture that is a little too dim to render a picture with an acceptable contrast ratio. If you want a projector that has an LED lamp bright enough for a relatively large screen (with some ambient light), consider something in Casio's "Green Slim" line.
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The pocket projector has two models the newer slim 25 lumen and the lumen 85. I have the 85 lumen one and it works good for me on in a dim not necessarily dark room. If you have multiple lights or bright daytime use you will not be satisfied. The 25 lumen, I would think it would need a near dark room.
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This is a very bright projector. I used it in a brightly lit African classroom where sunshine is often an issue. This one holds its own. The image is larger than most projectors, so I've never had it more than 20 feet from the projector, even in a large sanctuary.
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Hi, it's a great, small, portable projector. The only negative thing is that the room has to be fairly dark.
808170
This is one of the brightest projectors available. My screen is 110" and could be much larger with excellent brightness, even with 3D, the ultimate brightness killer. Projector is 16' from screen, with room to move it forward or backward (see on-line manual for size vs. distance.)
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No projector is going to work in that kind of setting. YOu really need a darkened room. Even in a room with natural light coming in multiple windows I had to wait for the sun to set to see the images. It's not a function of this projector. It's a function of projection in general.
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I believe with the 3500 lumens you could push a 50' screen and it would still look sharp. I do a 40' screen with a 2000 lumens projector and it looks great, but it has to be dark. I am not an expert, but I have been doing outside movies for the neighborhood for over 10 years for fun.
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It does have a pretty high lumens for a projector. In my installation it is visible with the lights turned on. However, it does look much better with the lights dimmed or some of them turned off in the room. Depending on how bright you lighting is, you might have different results.
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Based on the projectors you stated, All three have a high amount of lumens and with the other information given, I highly recommend the gray screen because of the high contrast and better depth that Joseph talked about. Make sure your screen is not touching the wall and there is a small space in between or you will have too much contrast. We game on both the xbox and ps3 and there is a big difference when using gray screen. I have experimented with both and gray is way better.
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The projector at 10 ft would throw a very large display probably 110" the problem these projectors have with text is that they use a diamond pixel instead of a square pixel so the edges of text can be fuzzy. If you are using this in a presentation or business environment it will not be bright enough with any light of any magnitude. An open window will wash out colors and contrast. Go with the ml500 (same diamond pixel problem but brighter) or choose a laser / led hybrid with a different dlp chip. I'm not saying this isn't a good projector for its purpose (portability) but if text is your first consideration and portability comes in at a five or six in the list then this isn't the right one for you.