Best current projector for a £1400 budget

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Any recommendations?

In an ideal world I'd love it to be wireless, but from what I can gather my budget would have to be upped for that. Does anybody have any experience of using wireless HDMI and what its quality is like in comparison to cables solutions?
 
I believe the Sony ES40 (IIRC) is available from the right places at around that price and it's recognised as a very good projector.
 
As a question rather than making a point - is it worth spending that amount on a 1080p projector? (unless you need to to get wireless HDMI) - I've seen a fair few in the £700-£1000 region where I couldn't personally fault the image quality or feature set and would personally spend some of the extra on a decent screen to go with it rather than a higher priced projector.
 
Rroff said:
As a question rather than making a point - is it worth spending that amount on a 1080p projector? (unless you need to to get wireless HDMI) - I've seen a fair few in the £700-£1000 region where I couldn't personally fault the image quality or feature set and would personally spend some of the extra on a decent screen to go with it rather than a higher priced projector.
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Go compare picture quality of a DILA (or Sony equivalent) projector against an LCD/DLP. That will hopefully answer your question.
 
Look to see if you can get a Sony HW40 for that price (or HW45 may have replaced it). RRP is about £1800 but should be able to get a HW40 for around your budget from a dealer. Nothing else really compares for the money you have to spend.
 
Mr_Sukebe said:
Go compare picture quality of a DILA (or Sony equivalent) projector against an LCD/DLP. That will hopefully answer your question.
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Not really - I've seen a spread of projectors including LCD and LCoS based tech in the £700-1500ish price range (albeit many DarkChip 3/4 based) and the good ones have been much of a muchness to my eyes and not necessarily the upper end of the price range. So I wonder if you really need to spend the top end of that budget unless to get specific features or brand preference - but I'm far from an expert on the subject hence opening the question to the room so to speak.

Also OP doesn't mention what they have in the way of screen and/or what they are budgeting for that as you'd get much better results spending some of it on a good screen than most of it on a top end projector and using a poor surface to project onto.
 
People should only ever spend what the need. Hence why it's relevant to go try one out, preferably against different technologies, i.e. "prove to me why I should spend more". If he's happy with a DLP, great, spend the money on more music or beer. However....
 
When I bought my projector I couldn't really tell the difference between a £700 and a £1500 projector. Definitely go somewhere and trial a few.

I've used wireless HDMI at work presentations and we once hooked up an xbox. Quality was pretty good. Some people said they could notice a bit of lag. I certainly couldn't.
 
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