Cheap but good Projector ?

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Looking for a cheap but good Projector to watch films and gaming off laptop any models i should have a look at under £500 or just over ?

Need to get one as i am dog/cat sitting for 10 days soon at friends house and there TV is crap , not just saying it whites are a blue colour and picture is so dark
Yes i have looked at all the settings ever time i am round there and HDMI cable lol , but there saying TV looks fine lol

LG TVs can develop a blue tint within two or three years which only gets worse as time goes on.

Thank you ...
 
Blue image - colour tempeture is "cold". Change to warm 1/2
There's brightness - which is black level. Increase that so you can see detail, but blacks are black (not grey)

There's backlight level/oled white level, that's the general light output. Change that depending on ambiant light.
Contrast is the white level in the pixels, change that so you get enough peak light output but not so much it's dazzling.

Good idea to get a test disc.
 
hornetstinger said:
Blue image - colour tempeture is "cold". Change to warm 1/2
There's brightness - which is black level. Increase that so you can see detail, but blacks are black (not grey)

There's backlight level/oled white level, that's the general light output. Change that depending on ambiant light.
Contrast is the white level in the pixels, change that so you get enough peak light output but not so much it's dazzling.

Good idea to get a test disc.
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He says he has looked at the settings, and he knows about the backlight issue which is the cause of why the TV has such strong blue tint.

This isn't something that can be tweaked out with the settings. The backlights are borked. LG cut corners too far and didn't fit enough. Those that were left were overdriven, especially trying to do HDR. It's like trying to drive down the motorway at 70mph but in 2nd gear. A car might manage it for a short while, but sooner rather than later the gearbox and engine will be fragged.
 
Can you post photos of your TV? If everyone looks like the smurfs yeah it's knackered, but if there is slight blue tinge to snow then it's just colour temp (could also be gain/cut B values but generally people leave that alone)
 
Did You miss the bit in the first post where he says he's house sitting for 10 days at a friend's place to look after their animals?

It's probably going to be a bit tricky then to post images of a broken TV he doesn't own.
 
8myers8 said:
Looking for a cheap but good Projector to watch films and gaming off laptop any models i should have a look at under £500 or just over ?

Need to get one as i am dog/cat sitting for 10 days soon at friends house and there TV is crap , not just saying it whites are a blue colour and picture is so dark
Yes i have looked at all the settings ever time i am round there and HDMI cable lol , but there saying TV looks fine lol

LG TVs can develop a blue tint within two or three years which only gets worse as time goes on.

Thank you ...
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Have a look at the Richer Sounds Web site. Optoma is generally a safe bet. The HD145X is £499.

They have the Anker Nebular at £399. It looks like a smart speaker in size but is a short throw projector. There's also an LG LED projector (no lamp to replace) at under £500 too.
 
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lucid said:
Have a look at the Richer Sounds Web site. Optoma is generally a safe bet. The HD145X is £499.

They have the Anker Nebular at £399. It looks like a smart speaker in size but is a short throw projector. There's also an LG LED projector (no lamp to replace) at under £500 too.
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I had a 1080p Optoma back in the day and I thought it was great.
 
Ev0 said:
If just to really use whilst house sitting I’d be tempted to take a punt on one of the cheap things on Amazon like this for £100

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Honestly, unless your standards are really low, then just No. It's no at £200, and it's an especially big no at £100.

IDK if you've ever seen the insides of a decent projector, but the bit that makes the image is either a prism with 3 LCD imaging chips (R-G-B) or a single DLP chip with a device called a colour wheel which chops up and filters light into an R-G-B sequence.

These cheaper projectors don't have that. Instead, they take the LCD display from a sat-nav or phone, remove the backlight and replace that with a lamp, then have the image focused and zoomed through that big lens. It's the main reason why the lenses are so big compared to LCD or DLP projectors. The result lacks sharpness, colour saturation, black level, motion precision and detail

You'd be better off either looking for a used Optoma, or maybe one of these cheap projectors as a used buy at £50 max. Think of it like burning the cash with the Chinese jobs. They're not good.
 
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pick up second hand a epson cinema projector. I have a 9300 which might be little over your budget if one comes up but it will be much better. i am not a fan of dlp though with my eyes so cheap optoma gives me headaches.
 
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