Now that we've had a forum split, it made me wonder if the differences between the price categories are larger or smaller today than say three-four years ago?
I'm leaning toward "yes the differences are larger" in as much as the there is more that a vendor can do to tailor a projector for the HT market. I think in part this is because the market for HT itself is now larger if still a tiny percentage of total digital projector sales. The market is large enough that boutique makers can interest large manufacturers into doing a production run of specialized machines whereas more projectors in the past were modified mainstream projectors (like for example the Runco VX1000C vs the VX-1c and 101c).
On the other hand, technology has improved to the point that many business or budget HT projectors perform fairly well compared to what was available a few years ago.
An associated question is whether or not the rate of change for digitial projectors has increased or decreased over time and whether the trend will continue into the future...though I think we had a thread on this not too long ago.
I'd have made this a poll but the reasons behind opinions seems more likely to be interesting than whatever the majority feels.
Nigel
I'm leaning toward "yes the differences are larger" in as much as the there is more that a vendor can do to tailor a projector for the HT market. I think in part this is because the market for HT itself is now larger if still a tiny percentage of total digital projector sales. The market is large enough that boutique makers can interest large manufacturers into doing a production run of specialized machines whereas more projectors in the past were modified mainstream projectors (like for example the Runco VX1000C vs the VX-1c and 101c).
On the other hand, technology has improved to the point that many business or budget HT projectors perform fairly well compared to what was available a few years ago.
An associated question is whether or not the rate of change for digitial projectors has increased or decreased over time and whether the trend will continue into the future...though I think we had a thread on this not too long ago.
I'd have made this a poll but the reasons behind opinions seems more likely to be interesting than whatever the majority feels.
Nigel