What’s a good video projector for a movie theater venue?
Whats one on a good budget, one that is ideal, and also what I should be looking for in a projector that would be used a theater venue with descent to good quality.
It’s for a 4 minute video but is being show to a large crowd.
How big is this theater venue?
Most likely a cheap home theater projector is not going to work very well for you if it’s a commercially sized room.
You should be looking at 2K and 4K projectors if the theater is movie cinema sized. The K does not indicate price, it indicates resolution, both 2K and 4K resolutions are massively better than ‘High Definition’ and may be needed if the screen is to be larger than say 20 ft diagonally in order to maintain sharp picture quality without showing a grid of individual pixels.
For comparison, a typical home theater projector can be projected on a screen up to say about 12 ft in diagonal length. In contrast, a 2K Cinema projector could project on up to a 100 ft screen in some cases and still look good.
Runco, Christie and Barco are popular brands for cinema projectors.
On average you should be prepared to spend anywhere between $5,000 and $50,000 depending on whether the projector is 2K or 4K, whether it supports 3D Projection, and various other important factors (e.g. lamp brightness, contrast etc.)
http://www.runco.com/projectors.html
http://www.barco.com/
http://www.christiedigital.com/AMEN/