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This measurement is of importance to gamers.

This handy device tests how long it takes for the projector to create an image, measured in milliseconds. This is an easy test thanks to the Leo Bodnar Video Signal Input Lag Tester.

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Depending on the projectors, this might be a full image, shrunk so each fits on one screen, or I might block off part of each projector's image so I can look at one 'sliver' of each projector's image adjacent to each other.

I then view the projectors side-by-side on my 12-foot-wide, 2.35:1, 1.0-gain screen. A splitter takes a single HDMI source, like a streaming device or Ultra HD Blu-ray player, and splits it into multiple, identical signals. To do this, I connect two or more projectors to an HDMI splitter. That's why I side-by-side compare every projector I review for CNET with other, similar projectors. This can be due to a variety of factors, including specific settings chosen by the manufacturer, their video processing choices and more. Many projectors use the same internal components and could measure similarly, yet look different from each other in person. Objective measurements go a long way to telling me about a projector, but they have limits. Read more: Ultra HD 4K TV Color, Part I: Red, Green, Blue and Beyond Comparison testsīlock opposite sides of each projector's lens and bam! Easy side-by-side comparison.

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Portable projectors tend to be more of a mixed bag, usually in an attempt to squeeze out as much light as possible.

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This is more accurate IMO than just saying 'well, the grass looks very grassy.'īeyond the red, green and blue primary colors - and the cyan, magenta and yellow secondary colors - the Portrait Displays Calman software also lets me test for a variety of in-between colors and shades, to get a broader idea how well the projector creates color.įor the most part, modern home theater projectors in their movie or cinema mode are able to produce fairly accurate colors. How red is the red, how green is the green, and so on. Using a Photo Research spectroradiometer I measure the exact colors produced by the projector. Screenshot: Geoffrey Morrison - Image: TouchstoneĬompared to brightness and contrast ratio, measuring color and color temperature is relatively easy. Note the color differences between the three images. The CA813, which measures the light directly from the lens, eliminates the room from the measurement, and acts as a sort of check against the luminance measurements from the LS-100. So for consistency I keep everything the same. What kind of small changes? Reflections in the room, for instance: light bouncing from the ceiling or furniture, back off the screen, and then into the light meter. For instance, if I measure 0.002 cd/m2 instead of 0.001, that changes the contrast ratio by half. The main issue with contrast ratio measurements is that small variations can drastically change the overall measurement. This method is a slightly modified version of the one I learned at the Display Metrology Course at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, one which is sadly no longer offered. I average all these measurements together for the overall contrast ratio.

Then, in whatever mode seems best, I measure again using an AEMC CA813 illuminance meter. I do this using whatever lamp and iris modes are available, though not with auto-iris or lamp-adjusting modes (more on those in a moment). Using the settings listed above and a Minolta LS-100 light meter, I measure a full black image and then a white window (100% white, but just in a small portion of the screen). I'll explain my methodology and then explain why I do it that way, as it seems convoluted at first. Contrast can be challenging to measure correctly. A projector with low contrast will look washed out, with grayish blacks and/or dimmer whites. Just like with TVs, contrast ratio is easily the most important aspect of a projector's overall image quality. On the right, an example of what a projector with a bad contrast ratio can look like.