As of February 13th, 2024, you can now finally visit us as your first stop on your projector buying process after years of asking us for it. After ten years of testing displays, we know that brightness is one of the cornerstones of the overall viewing experience. As is contrast. Both metrics help you understand the basics of the display: how bright it gets and how dark it gets in relation to that brightness. Marketing claims ended up being what we found to be most contentious during our testing. Simply put, outside of very specific use conditions, you cannot expect most projectors to deliver the level of performance their advertising states they do. The list of examples is long. Why does a projector like the Epson Home Cinema 3800, one of the best we've tested so far, advertise a brightness of 3000 lumens with a 100 000:1 contrast ratio while we only measure ~2300 lumens in our test setup and a contrast ratio of 190:1?

0:00 Intro
0:52 Brightness & Contrast Overview
1:33 Brightness Methodology
4:56 A Few Observations On Brightness
8:36 Contrast
13:08 Conclusion

For more details about our testing process, check out our article:
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