LCD Projector For Home Theater Illumination

The LCD projector was invented in 1984 by Gene Dolgoff, a New York inventor who wanted to create a projector that surpassed the 3-CRT projectors of the time. He believed improvements could be made in terms of brightness and smoothness.

Dolgoff was credited with starting the first company specializing in LCD projectors, creating the US HDTV standards using digital projection and co-developing the ANSI standard for measuring brightness, contrast and resolution of theater projectors.

In the $4,000 to $6,000 range, the $4,895 Sanyo PLC-XTC50L is a great choice. With an ANSI rating of 5,000 lumen, it's on the higher end of the brightness spectrum. While it may be a little heavier than comparable LCD projectors, this Sanyo LCD projector comes with maintenance-eliminating features like a dual lamp system, an active maintenance filter, lens shift and noiseless operation.

The color saturation is as impressive as the luminance. This unit is not generally used in home theaters, as it's better suited as a multimedia projector or data projector.

Compared to a DLP projector, the LCD projector specializes in home theater illumination with eight segment color wheels featuring two sets of red, green, dark green and blue filters, for color accuracy and saturation. LCD also delivers slightly sharper images and better resolution when placed side by side with DLP projectors.

Also, LCD projectors consistently produce brighter screens. All the projectors with the highest ANSI lumen ratings (3,000 - 6,000) are LCD, except for one DLP model by Optoma and one by ViewSonic.

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