It's not too late to take the enjoyment factor up a level or two for your Super Bowl party, or just your everyday sports, HDTV and movie viewing. What you need is one of today's new
Bright Room projector models geared for your maximum home entertainment!
The $1499 Epson Home Cinema 1440 packs 4400 lumens of brightness, enough to tackle your fav sporting event with a fair amount of ambient light
Decisions used to be simple. A few years ago, 60 or 65 inch diagonal was about as big as LCDTVs came. Today, if you have close to $100K you can buy a 100 inch LCDTV, but we're now seeing "affordable" 70 and 75" LCD TVs. A quick look at the Costco website shows 75" TVs starting at
$2899, and a 78" for almost $6000. For those kinds of amounts you definitely can love a projector based system from 92" to 120" diagonal, or even larger. So while the largest LCD TVs are now approaching the smallest sized projection screens, you still have to spend a fortune (or two) for any LCD TV that approaches a 100" projector/screen combination.
With LCD TVs trying to encroach on projectors' strengths - large images, it sure looks like the projector manufacturers have their own agenda, which is to let people enjoy projectors in almost any room, instead of the proverbial "cave" / dedicated home theater.
If you think a 106" screen is big compared to a 50", now imagine a 120" screen - almost makes you think of a 50" as an iPad or other tablet, by comparison.
Scientifically, that enjoyment advantage which is brought about by a much larger image using a home theater projector is probably best described with one word: WOW! But consider that these other, highly scientific terms also apply to the experience of watching sports - and other content using projectors: OMG, Sick! Awesome! Major, Boss, Bad (in the good sense), etc.
OK, if you will concede that whether a Super Bowl party or just a Sunday afternoon of other sports, that bigger is better, let's try to figure out what's been stopping you! Perhaps we can help you realize that the barriers you thought were forcing you to watch "the big game" on that "little game" 50" TV, have been evaporating!
Let's get into it!
If you don't have a home projector yet, why?
- Is it because you don't have a wall big enough to project a large image or put up a large screen (OK, if you don't have the physical room for a large screen anywhere in your home, sorry - you're "stuck" with a small LCDTV.)
- Perhaps you thought you could afford that 65" or 71" LCDTV but not a 100" plus projector setup? (Hint: Wrong! - I'll discuss that below).
- You were thinking that you needed a special room - very dark? (Hint: Wrong again! how about all these photos and videos as proof?)
- Do you worry that getting a home theater or home entertainment projector is far more complicated than walking into Best Buy for that LCDTV (assuming you have a vehicle large enough to transport that 65")? Hint: for one thing, you could simply get a local company, or even your Geek Squad to install your new projector and screen if you aren't a DIY type. (Yes the Geek squad does do that!)
