#A PROJECTOR TV MOVIE#
Many (including me) still prefer serious movie watching on a flat screen set in total darkness. Try that with an 85-inch TV!Ī flat screen set of any size can also be enjoyed with modest room lighting. If it needs more, a trip to the service facility is relatively easy. The most common problem with a projector is a simple lamp failure and DIY replacement.
#A PROJECTOR TV TV#
A jumbo TV won't have this concern, but if it develops a serious problem a trip to the trash is the likely outcome. (The video perfectionist will likely replace the lamp at no more than 1500 hours, as a lamp dims progressively with age and a manufacturer's lamp life is typically rated at half brightness unless noted otherwise). Replace it every 3000 hours or so and this adds up over time. Unless, as above, the projector uses a long-life laser (rare for home projectors) a replacement projection lamp is rarely less than $300 and often more.
#A PROJECTOR TV FULL#
A good (expensive) laser-lit projector can shut down instantaneously to produce a full black screen, but cannot do so for an image mixing dark and light elements. The features in a flat screen TV that enable great blacks (pixel level brightness control in an OLED and local dimming in an LCD design) are not yet possible with a projector. The better flat screen models also offer deeper blacks than even the best projectors. They can offer enhanced dynamic range, but only a taste of what even a modest UltraHD TV offers. What advantages can a big flat screen TV offer? The most obvious is that no projector, even of theatrical quality and cost, can provide the full high dynamic range experience. And on a screen with modest gain, off center viewing is also better on a projected image than with most (but not all) flat screen TVs. A projection setup also offers the theatrical experience that no flat screen can as yet fully duplicate. It's also possible to hide a retractable projection screen when it's not in use, particularly if your screening room is an all-purpose space and not dedicated to home theater. We're still a long way from a flat screen TV big enough to satisfy videophiles who want the most imposing screen they can fit into the house (and afford!). The advantages of a projector and screen are easy to summarize.
But still, about $17 per diagonal inch for the Samsung and $34 per inch for the Vizio? I still remember a press junket back in the early aughts to a Japanese flat panel TV maker where they announced they were trying hard to bring the price down to $100/diagonal inch! The Vizio was that company's best, or next to best, model for 2020, but the Samsung was in a 2020 budget range. Granted, both sets were 2020 models on closeout and not the latest 2021s. If an 85-inch Vizio P-Series Quantum X at $2,900 isn't surprising enough, how about an 82-inch Samsung Crystal UHD 7-Series TU700D for $1,396? I was browsing in Sam's Club the other day where rows of TVs in that size were on sale. And by big screen, I mean BIG, as in over 80-inches diagonal. In case you haven't noticed, big screen TVs are becoming almost affordable.
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