How does the 500 lumens relate to the standard projectors that are 2000+ lumens? Will it be bright enough in a room with blinds but some sunlight?
2037433
In a room with some sunlight, the dark scenes in a movie will not be visible. I always use it in a dark room.
2037434
I'd be careful. We are returning ours to Amazon. In an office environment with the overhead flouro lights, no way. Just too dim.The picture is crisp, the colors not bad (not great either), but unusable lumens. Even if you turn off the lights, its still too dim to go through a half hour presentation without fatique on my eyes. I even changed the power savings to minimal, which helped, but still not good enough. Also tweaked contrast and brightness, to no avail.
2037435
Jeremy,I think that you will be more then happy with the LG PB63U with 500 lumens. I use mine down stairs in my family room with the lights on and the picture is still very good plus you have 30000 hours of lamp life. You can not have this many hours with a 2000 + lumens projector and the truth is I can not tell the difference between the two in regards to picture quality. I hope that this helps.
1891859
I think it primarily depends on your material. So long as it isn't opaque you should be good. I experimented with a few translucent materials such as plastic sheeting, a backyard awning and a bedsheet and it looked great from the other side. You are always going to lose some brightness but thankfully this projector has a higher lumen count. You might have to customize your settings and bump up the values of brightness and tweak some colors, but you should be good for rear projection.
171284
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.
582748
I have the Epson Home Cinema 2000, it's plenty bright enough for football in a normally dark room, (lights out, kitchen light on, blinds closed, no blackout cloth) even in eco mode; and I'm using a 135 inch screen. It doesn't have the black level of a higher contrast machine, but, at its price, you really won't find anything close to the quality. I am extremely happy with my choice.
171283
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. 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... » Read More 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. « Show Less
1880822
It provides an adequate amount of light, I do not have access to a light meter, however it was bright enough to see images clearly with good contrast etc in a room with lights on. The problem I have with it is that the projector does not recognize the lamp properly so it creates a constant repeating beep that has to do with a thermal sensor according to Epson. When it first turns on it actually creates a low beep that sounds kind of like an alarm, then it goes to a beep that is repeated every few seconds after that. It does not appear to make the beep when you have it in Normal mode and not in ECO mode. It provides an adequate amount of light, I do not have access to a light meter, however it was bright enough to see images clearly with good contrast etc in a room with lights on. The problem I have with it is that the projector does not recognize the lamp properly so it creates a constant repeating beep that has to do with a thermal sensor according to Epson. When it first turns on it actually creates a low beep that sounds kind of like an alarm, then it goes to a beep that is repeated every few seconds after that. It does not appear to make the beep when you have it in Normal mode and not... » Read More It provides an adequate amount of light, I do not have access to a light meter, however it was bright enough to see images clearly with good contrast etc in a room with lights on. The problem I have with it is that the projector does not recognize the lamp properly so it creates a constant repeating beep that has to do with a thermal sensor according to Epson. When it first turns on it actually creates a low beep that sounds kind of like an alarm, then it goes to a beep that is repeated every few seconds after that. It does not appear to make the beep when you have it in Normal mode and not in ECO mode. « Show Less
1464882
Short throw, of course, means you don't have to be far away. I have not tried this in brightly lighted rooms, but it has worked well in moderately (about the level of light at dusk) lit rooms. We have projected this through a muslin cloth screen in a moderately lighted room and the image was decent. I can't really answer the part about short/long throw, but I would image it would depend on the amount of light that would interfere with the "throw" of the projector...so across a longer throw there's more chance for light to interfere?
34806
We have used this projector in small and larger rooms and it works good to fair respectivly. The rooms are ususally not very dark.
265424
Honestly I would pick another projector. It works very well...the only reason why I would say pick another one is because the room has to be very dark in order to see the image projected. Any light makes it hard to see the image. If projected in daylight, don't even bother with this one because you will never see the image.
885800
It operates better than I expected during the day time. If it's direct sunlight, I think you're outta luck with most projectors, but this is used in our office and during the morning it's rather bright and it works fine, but is obviously better in low light situations.
336528
Yes/No. You need the lights fairly dim to get a good result from this thing, and if the projector is far from it's screen getting the sharpness narrowed in for text can be tricky. It'll work in a pinch, but a large well lit room would not be good.
522111
I found that this projector was very much brighter than others I have used. I didn't try it in a well lit classroom, so I can't say for sure about your situation but if you have a good reflective screen I think it should be good. At least it is the best I have seen.
720964
You need a dark room for the best picture. When I had this projector I tended to only use it at night.
1419564
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.
1023824
Hi there, sorry late response. This projector is very good, for presentations as well. However it's not strong enough to work with daylight, just closing curtains is not enough, it has to be really dark. In the evenings it works perfectly, even with lights on!!! I mainly use it to watch movies in the evenings, perfect! Especially the big screen, love it!
1920028
Lumens, I don't know. I have a hard time seeing in low light and never have any trouble with this one. We just played a concert where the stage was dark so that movie clips could play, and I had no trouble even in that darkness.
705436
It has plenty of lumens and works fine on semi-dark environments too, obviously it won't work in a very bright environment. The only thing I didn't liked about it is that if you connect via HDMI all the audio will go to the projector speaker (and is not loud enough), it could be better if it had an audio output port.