LCD Projectors Overview

Do you work at home and need to show visuals on a screen for an important client? Or are you a nostalgia buff who likes to view home movies? Or you have a very important presentation at the office today and need to show some important stuff? If your answer to these questions is yes, you need something that will project light on a screen or wall. You need a projector. But not just any type of projector. You need an LCD projector. What are the advantages and benefits of using an LCD projector? This article will guide you in that direction with tips and suggestions to hopefully will help you pick out the one you need.

 

·        Projector technology: Today’s projectors use two types of technology to direct light to the screen: DLP (Digital Light Processing) or LCD (Liquid Crystal Display).

o       DLP – More about this technology will be covered below. You may not know this but DLP is the world’s only all-digital display solution. DLP uses optical semiconductor, or what is known better as Digital Micromirror Device, to recreate the image.  

o       LCD – LCD (liquid crystal display) projectors have three LCD glass panels, one for red, green, and blue. As light passes through the LCD panels, the individual pixels open to allow light to pass through.

 

For the sake of this article, we will focus our discussion on LCD technology and how it works. Knowing and understanding this is vital to knowing how the projector works.