Best Projector Deals Black Friday 2024: What to Expect

Are you looking for a new projector to breathe new life into your home entertainment setup? Then you probably have considered taking advantage of this year's Black Friday Projector deals! With the right projector, you'll be able to experience cinema-like quality in your living room - or even in your garden - and immersive yourself in an adventurous gaming experience. 

On the other hand, if you do not have a dedicated space, you probably would not want to mount your projector. But it can become quite exhausting if you have to find a perfect place for a projector every time you want to watch a movie. Instead, make sure your new projector has an automatic image adjustment and auto-keystone to avoid a time-consuming setup process. This way, your projector will fit perfectly into any room with varied projection distances and heights. And you can lay back and enjoy the movie instead of tweaking the focus and alignment settings.

While true 4K projectors offer 8.3 million distinct pixels per frame, many projectors on the market provide what is known as 4K enhancement. However, due to technical limitations, those projectors only double a 1920x1080 image resulting in 4.1 million actual projected pixels, or less than half the resolution of true 4K. DLP/DMD technology, as used by BenQ, offers a true 4K picture for home projectors. Thus when choosing a projector for immersive gaming or home cinema experience, avoid falling for a marketing trick to get the most quality out of your new setup.

Read more detailed explanations about true 4K.

High dynamic range, or HDR, stands together with 4K resolution as the most important development for home projectors during the past few years. With HDR, you get deeper darks, brighter whites, stronger contrast, more realistic colours, and greater overall image detail. In other words, you experience content with vibrant colours without missing crucial details. Several HDR standards have been created in the industry. The most notable are HDR10 by the UHD Alliance, Dolby's Dolby Vision, and HLG. However, HDR10/HDR10+ are by far the most common.

All high-quality projectors have onboard computing elements, just like smart TVs, that handle what is known as metadata or added information. The metadata requires transforming raw images into refined output using, for instance, HDR.

Currently, all major streaming platforms (Netflix, Prime Video, Apple TV+, and Hulu) have 4K HDR content, and gaming is likewise increasingly dominated by 4K HDR graphics. So naturally, you want to take advantage of that! Thus, you have to look for a projector compatible with your needs.

Projectors work best in rooms with dimmed lights or even complete darkness. Naturally, that is often challenging to achieve in the real world. Modern quality projectors have custom modes and technologies designed to maintain good image quality in diverse light conditions. Unfortunately, cheap projectors often overpromise and underdeliver when it comes to performance in the daylight. Thus if you do not have a designated cinema room where you can completely eliminate every light source, you should pay closer attention to this specific criteria. You can ensure a good viewing experience in daylight by focusing on lumen output. Lumens measure the brightness of the image, helping to combat ambient light. Generally, the higher the lumen rating, the better the visiblity of the image in well-lit environments.

Projectors can only perform as well as their optics allow them to, just as TVs depend on their panel quality. That's why you should research the optical design of any projector you're thinking of buying. What you're looking for are multi-lens arrays that use coated, heat-resistant, all-glass components. Ultimately, the use of glass or the absence of such affects more than just image quality. Mixed materials and plastic lenses result in a blurry image and lost of the details. Meanwhile, high-standard glass lenses that pass strenuous testing guarantee long-lasting image quality.

Lenses are the most critical part of a projector, determining the quality and accuracy of what you see. A projector may have excellent image processing, but if its lenses aren't up to the task, you will not benefit from any of its advertised features, including 4K and HDR. That's why you need top-notch optics to support and enable everything else.

When looking for a new projector, make sure to tick the following criteria:

1. Installation – be on the lookout for the projectors with automatic image adjustment and auto keystone for the cheapest and easiest installation. This way, your projector will fit perfectly into any room with varied projection distances and heights.
2. Powerful lamps – guarantee the best performance in rooms where it is impossible to fully eliminate the light that lasts longer than a few years.
3. Colour accuracy – you want to buy a high-quality projector capable of meeting your needs and the industry standards. Meaning it will produce deep colours, saturated images and have high contrasts. 
4. Advanced processing – to experience true 4K, you need to have a projector that can transform metadata into refined output (HDR), as well as the ability to produce 8.3 million pixels (4K). 
5. Premium quality lenses – avoid projectors with lenses made of cheap materials. If the lens is made of mixed materials or plastics, it will negatively affect the quality of the image. Get yourself a projector with high-standard glass lenses.
   

The size of a projection can greatly impact the viewing experience and the projection quality. For example, a projector can appear brighter when an image is too small or vice versa. To eliminate such troubles, BenQ projectors are equipped with a zoomable lens, which makes them ideal for use in various spaces.

Use our projection calculator, a measuring tool that will help you find the best placement for your projector!