How to Build a 4K Home Theatre That Will Make Your Neighbours Jealous

There are many components needed to build the ultimate home theatre experience, but just like you see the lightning before you hear the thunder, the visual must come first. Every race car needs a powerful engine and the engine of a home theatre system is a projector. 

For a picture like you see at the local megaplex cinema, you’ll need to get a projector that’s capable of 4K resolution. There are generally two specifications that are the most important for projectors: 3840x2160 or 4096x2160 pixels. The more pixels, the purer the picture. The technology inside your projector to produce the picture is critical to produce an image the Joneses won’t stop talking about. DLP, pioneered by Texas Instruments, is the leading projection display technology on the planet. The DLP chip inside the BenQ line of 4K projectors uses a technology called pixel-shifting, which can achieve true 4K resolution with 8.3 million distinct pixels. That is to say, a DLP 4K projector can bring you a cinema-quality experience with true and accurate colour and depth.  

Another key piece to your home theatre experience is the source, or what you’re watching. Today’s best picture comes from 4K Blu-ray discs using a 4K Blu-ray player. 4K Blu-ray discs are becoming more widespread, but you have to have the right system to take advantage of it.   Three must-haves are a 4K projector, a Blu-ray player capable of playing 4K, and a 4K Blu-ray disc.

Texas Instruments’ pixel-shifting technology that helps projectors achieve true 4K resolution with 8.3 million distinct pixels. This technology achieves true 4K by producing 8.3 million distinct pixels regardless of the Digital Micromirror Device (DMD) chip’s number of native pixels. The DMD is the heart of the DLP component. The technology perfectly quadruples the 0.47” DMD chip’s 1920x1080 pixels to generate a TRUE 4K 8.3 million pixels with lightning-fast pixel shifting speed.

There’s another technology out there called 4K-Enhancement which only produces 4.1 million pixels – half of the CTA required pixel density of TRUE 4K.