Understanding Lumens: How Bright Should Your Projector Be?

In today's era of rapid development of science and technology, smart projection has become an essential part of people's lives. More and more young people want to have their own projectors, a glass of red wine with a movie, nestling comfortably on the sofa, when night falls, holding an outdoor party with family and friends and sharing the joy of the 100-inch large screen of movies.

So, how to choose the right home theater projector?

Focus on 2 key points: brightness and resolution.

At present, the most mainstream projection technologies for home projectors on the market are LCD and DLP. With the booming smart projector market, more and more cost-effective LCD projectors are launched, and single panel LCD projectors occupy half of the projection market sales with their cost advantages.

Will 1LCD projector technology develop more and more in the future?

My answer is YES!

Before 1LCD technology was applied to the projector industry, the DLP chip produced by Texas Instruments had always been the most core technology of projectors, and this technology was limited by production capacity, cost and other issues for new players. Back in 2019, it was still 480p native resolution and 50 ANSI lumens in the 1LCD industry, but in recent two years, 1080P 1LCD projectors shipments have made rapid progress, with the continuous breakthrough of 1LCD projector enterprises in the brightness and clarity of the picture quality, we already had Full HD 1LCD projector with 700 ANSI lumens, and the new product with 1000 Lumens 4K native resolution is coming out soon. It also represents the gradual formation of the ‘high-end quality’ 1LCD projection market.

After years of development and improvement, 1LCD has gradually become one of the mainstreams of modern projection technology, and its brightness has gradually increased with the continuous efforts of domestic companies on this track.

2015-2019  20 ANSI lumens - 150 ANSI lumens under or within 720p

2019 was a breakthrough year for the development of 1080P

2020  250 ANSI lumens and 1080p native resolution

2021   350 ANSI lumens and 1080p native resolution

2022   500 ANSI lumens and 1080p native resolution

2023   700 ANSI lumens and 1080p native resolution

2024  This industry will witness a new groundbreaking leap with 1000 ANSI lumens Native Resolution 4K projector. 

Stay tune for this exciting advancemen

Liquid Crystal Display as a common display technology, is widely used in fields such as televisions, monitors and projectors. Due to the increasing demand for brightness in the projector industry, the Liquid Crystal Display industry is also following its development. Therefore, manufacturers in the LCD screen industry are also actively improving LCD panel technology by enhancing light transmittance, increasing contrast ratio, and boosting display performance and brightness output through methods such as increasing backlight brightness.Therefore, manufacturers in the LCD screen industry are also actively improving LCD panel technology by enhancing light transmittance, increasing contrast ratio, and boosting display performance and brightness output through methods such as increasing backlight brightness. TheseinnovationsallowmodernLCDscreentomeetthedemandsofhigh-brightnessdisplaydevicessuchasprojectors.

The size of the LCD screen has a certain impact on the projector brightness and native resolution. For example, a larger LCD screen size usually provides a larger light output area, allowing the projector to project more light, thus making the image brighter and clearer. Currently, the LCD screen sizes of 1LCD projectors include 2 inch, 2.69 inch, 4 inch, 4.45 inch, 5 inch and 5.7 inch etc. Different sizes can achieve different brightness and native resolution requirements, please refer to the following table:

1LCD projectors are gaining market share due to its excellent cost-effectiveness. By comparing the prices of DLP and 3LCD projectors of some well-known brands (BenQ, Anker, XGIMI, Epson) on the market with the market price of 1LCD projectors, we can know that: usually, 1LCD projectors are more economical, more competitive in price and provide better cost performance.

When choosing a projector, in addition to the two important factors of brightness and resolution, you also need to consider the application scene, ambient light, projection distance, and screen size. aao projectors provide multiple levels of projectors to meet your private theater needs for different application scenarios.

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