Should You Buy a Projector for Gaming?

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While large format TVs are readily available, once you go north of 70 inches the price curve goes nearly vertical. In contrast, projectors seem like a good solution if you want to experience a wall-spanning movie picture, but what about big-screen gaming?

Like TVs, there are many different projectors of varying quality on the market. So asking if projection technology is a good technology for gaming as a whole may not make that much sense. It is an understandable question however, since most people have experience with outdated or low-end digital projectors—the sort of devices you’d use to project a barely legible PowerPoint presentation in a brightly-lit boardroom.

At the same time, many people have televisions that aren’t great for gaming, but it doesn’t seem to bother the majority of (for example) console gamers. So in that sense many projectors will be no worse for gaming than common low-end TVs people are happily gaming on already.

There are certainly projectors that can keep up with flat panel TVs that are genuinely good for gaming, but in general these projectors are quite expensive. If you’re happy to play on a 55-inch or 70-inch display, you can get a TV that will blow away the image quality of a projector at twice the price. However, if you’re looking for a huge image, then projectors can’t be beaten on a dollars-per-inch basis.

So the bottom line is:

That being said, some inherent aspects of projection technology can make it less appealing for gaming in particular.

Every display technology has some downsides, and projection is no different. The biggest issue is that you need a dark environment to get the most out of the projected image. Projectors that have a bright enough picture to be clearly visible with good