Best 5 Projectors For Home Theater Systems

Want to hold a movie marathon for the whole family? Planning a surprise slideshow of your loved one's favorite pictures and memories this coming Christmas? Yeah? Here’s something to make it a little more spectacular: if you have a home theater, I’m sure you will love this.

The top 5 projectors of home theater systems for 2010 – I’m sure these projectors will keep you and your family’s eyes glued!

#1: ViewSonic PJD5122 SVGA DLP Projector -120Hz/3D Ready, 2500 Lumens, 3000:1 DCR

If you are looking for a home theater projector that gives you the best bang for your buck with its outstanding performance, then the ViewSonic PJD5122 is yours for the taking! You see, this SVGA resolution projector comes with support for high definition signals and it projects 2500 lumens – guaranteeing that you get clear and bright images in most lighting conditions.

Weighting only 5.1 pounds, this projector is light and compact. If you want something that’s portable…something that you can take with you no matter where you go, then the ViewSonic PJD5122 very well fits the bill.

The Texas Instruments Brilliant Color technology that this unit comes with guarantees you get brilliant, true color, and high contrast images, which is perfect for your presentations, charts, video, or simply watching fast paced and action packed movies.

The Eco mode, on the other hand, reduces fan noise and causes less distraction. This is especially crucial when you are conducting important presentations. Not to mention it extends your lamp life up to 6000 hours! And to make it even more secure, it comes with a PIN lock feature that allows you to setup a password for preventing unauthorized use.

#2: Optoma PK301 Pico Pocket Projector

Portable, powerful, and creates HUGE impact – that’s the Optoma PK301 Pocket Projector. Don’t let the word “pocket” deceive you fellas. When it comes to making powerful presentations, this one can rival full sized home theater projectors.

This showcases up to 50 ANSI lumens as well as native widescreen WVGA resolution. Aside from that, it allows you to share videos, photos, and graphics at home or while on the road VERY easily! You can also enjoy non-stop content playback at your fingertips thanks to the Micro SD card slot, HDMI, as well as VGA connectivity.

- REALLY portable! It’s palm sized, lightweight, and rechargeable
- Thanks to the Micro SD card slot, you can have memory expansion up to 32 GB.
- Project large and widescreen images – those that are up to 120 inches diagonal.
- The LED light source can last well over 20,000 hours – and you can count on it to deliver excellent color whenever you use it.
- Beefed up with a wide array of input and output ports: USB, VGA, HDMI, video, etc. allowing easy connection to almost any analog and digital device.

#3: Optoma HD20 High Definition 1080p DLP Home Theater Projector

The Optoma HD20 home theater projector – this unit shows what is flexibility all about when it comes to high definition home theater and multi-media experience! Coming with its guns blazing and boasting true 1080 pixel resolution, you can count on HD20 to give you excellent color saturation, subtle details, and more – and it all boils down to give you superior image quality!

Thanks to the compact design as well as ultra light weight of6.4 pounds, this home theater projector from Optoma is the ideal for sharing big screen movies, watching sporting events and concerts, or, if you are like me, you can go ahead and take your video gaming to the next level. Just connect the HD20 to your favorite gaming console and you are good to go!

Let’s take a look at the feature highlights again one more time:
- Boast true high definition resolution of 1080 pixels.
- Comes with its guns blazing – 1700 lumens brightness!
- Comes with a contrast ratio of 4000 is to 1.
- Can have up to a whopping 400 inch screen size.
- Has a lot of connectivity to offer: 2 HDMI, VGA-in, component video, composite vide, PLUS 12V+ trigger.

#4: Optoma HD66 3D Projector, Great for Wii, PlayStation, and Xbox

With the Optoma's HD66, 3D-Ready home theater projector, it’s like the future is in your hands! It’s breathtaking, it’s bold – it’s everything you wanted in a home theater projector. It provides you NOT just beautiful, BUT stunningly beautiful widescreen viewing. Along with that, this projector from Optoma also takes video gaming and home theater to a whole new level!

It delivers more dynamic learning in education as well as training applications. It’s all thanks to the 2500 ANSI Lumens, 4000 is to 1 contrast, a native 720 pixel widescreen resolution. You will surely get subtle details, striking clarity…everything you want when it comes to viewing and entertainment.

- Showcases the DLP Technology by Texas Instruments beefed up Brilliant Color Technology.
- With the 2500 Lumens, you are guaranteed to get bright and crisp images ALL the time.
- Creates jaw dropping 3D images. Perfect for action packed and intense gaming.
- Comes complete with on screen menu adjustments…and you get that in 23 languages.
- And let me remind you, the resolution of this projector is a force to be reckoned with – 720 pixel wide screen resolution.

#5: Optoma PK201 Pico Pocket Projector

The palm sized and versatile Optoma’s PK201 Pico Pocket Projector – YES, you have heard that right – PALM SIZED!

This is NO ordinary projector – it’s palm sized and it packs a lot of power! This is ideal for mobile businesses, presentations, home theater viewing, sharing entertainment with friends, and those are just to name a few!

The power of the palm sized PK201 is owed to its 20 ANSI Lumens as well as the WVGA Widescreen resolution. No matter where you take this – at home, on the go, on your office, this projector will surely impress!

- The built in Micro SD card slot gives you ample memory expansion of up to 16 GB.
- Small in size BUT you can project large widescreen images. How large? 66 inches in diagonal!
- The LED light source can continuously deliver jaw dropping display up to 20,000 hours.
- Comes with all sorts of input and output ports - USB, VGA, HDMI and video. This allows for easy linking and connection to almost all kinds of analog or digital devices.

When it comes to connectivity department, this projector is also on top of the game:

- You can connect your iPod, iPhone & iTouch thanks to the bundled connection kit included in the package.
- Camcorders, DV-Cams and Digital Cameras: these are all enabled with standard composite AV Out together with composite cable.
- DVD Players and other video players can easily be enabled with standard composite AV Out that also has a composite cable included.for