Why did projectors fail to take up any meaningful amount of the market share?

Why did projectors fail to take up any meaningful amount of the market share?

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Who would use them? They're expensive and heat better than a stove.

I use it because it doubles as a heater during cold months.

>have to turn off lights to see with any meaningful color
>have to replace expensive bulb every year if you use it almost everyday
>literal housefires
>have to have a large white screen or empty wall to display it on
>have to mount it to the ceiling and run wire to it
yeah, who knows why they never hit the consumer market well

I'm saving up for one. $3-4k for a 150 inch display is nice.

last time I checked too many drawbacks.

Cost plus they had (have?) comparatively limited service life.

And unimpressive resolutions / frame rates for the price.

only schools use them

>have to mount it to the ceiling and run wire to it

Well they fixed that with short-throw projectors at least

And movie theaters..

...

The industry needs to have set standards for things like lumens, every brand has their own testing specifications and there's no real way to know what your buying unless you put the projectors side by side.

>fifty foot screen
>ten thousand lumens

I don't think this is a home theater projector at all

going to the movies is cheaper than to build your own home theater

>1400 x 1050

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Shame it costs $50k

Unless you are willing to shell out a lot of money for the device and surroundings (mount, screen), you will have an awfully unpredictable result. Bad (like really fucking bad) colors, low contrast and brightness, flickering, distortions, slurs, stuff like that. It's just too inconsistent.

>have to turn off lights to see with any meaningful color
wrong
>have to replace expensive bulb every year if you use it almost everyday
bulb is rated at 6,000 hours typically and costs $100

Thats 16 hours a day to expire it in a year
>literal housefires
no
>have to have a large white screen or empty wall to display it on
That's the point, mount a cheap projector screen and you have a giant display for cheap with great color
>have to mount it to the ceiling and run wire to it
wrong

You can't project black, everything is varying shades of the white wall light is being reflected off of.

>wrong
Have you ever seen how washed out the picture of a projector looks like in daylight? He's right.

>no
Well, yes. Those things usually have active cooling for a reason. A thing not mentioned yet I think: The annoying fan sound.

>That's the point, mount a cheap projector screen and you have a giant display for cheap with great color
You still have to have a large white screen or empty wall.

>wrong
In a realistic room setup that is clearly the only reasonable way to do it.

What's the cheapest projector worth considering?

>About six months ago
>want some way to watch youtube and porn at the end of my bed.
>Convenient white wall
>lights are almost always off anyway because of years of staring at over-bright screens in dark rooms making my eyes sensitive
>Decide to get a projector
>all listings that aren't way out of my price range look super sketchy
>barely any have reviews
>"Supports 1080p" until you find out, buried under all the other specs it's only somethingx600
>Give up.
>spend £80 on a second hand 27" monitor and £16 on an overkill but nice looking wall mount.

You, a lowly plebian
>"You can't project black, everything is varying shades of the white wall light is being reflected off of."
Me, an intelectual
>projects onto black wall instead of white

they dont last too long for my knowledge and too expensive

I've only seen schools and move theatres use them. Any other use is niche at best.

Bright projectors exist.
They're just expensive,
starting at around $3000

When you think all TVs are ugly and prefer to have a retractable projection screen, projectors are for you

>not even 8K at that ridiculous price
Trashman

Canon XEED 4K600STZ
is decent
>inb4 buttpained poorfags

>buy something expensive
>shitpost about it on Sup Forums
>someone replies that it doesn't fit their usecase, or that they don't think it's a good product
>a single tear rolls down my cheek
>"I..I bet they're just saying that because they're poor"
>finish sniffling
>"Admit it Sup Forums, you'd get one if you could afford it"

What market share you dumbass?

How can you compare a projector to a TV? The real advantage of a projector is its portability, even if someone uses them as a stationery device, it wouldn't make sense to put it in the same category as TVs.

Market share on Sup Forums means 20-something video gamers by default

They both allow you to view media in some visual way.
>How can you compare paper and stone tablets
>how can you compare pens and pencils

There's some way small projectors that are decent for what they are, really big screen. Picture quality not so good though.

TVs and monitors are more similar yet they don't compete on the exact same way. Market share makes sense when comparing F-250 vs RAM. Or Galaxy vs iPhone.

Projectors and TVs are more like trucks vs. hatches, similar, but NOT replaceable/interchangeable.

This is just like the "PC is dead and will be completely overtaken by tablets" predictions by "analysts" in 2012.

>The real advantage of a projector is its portability

Man what
How is an eight foot projection screen and dedicated home-theatre room with sound treatment and 11.2 Dolby Atmos Surround Sound portable?

>Why did projectors fail to take up any meaningful amount of the market share

Basically user you have dive into visual perception. There are lots of factors to our sight eg: resolution, colour, dynamic range and the most important to our visual acuity... ie the thing we percieve as important is contrast

projectors have always sucked at contrast, and they were were expensive and lagged behind in resolution and thin film flat tech tech took over... i spent $3k 10 years ago for a 1080p 52" 120hz LCD and im not buying another one...

My next purchase will be a laser projector. Mark my words these will be the next big thing... LASERS BABY... im not shitting you some user on /csg/ bought a xaiomi laser projector for $2k... trust me i researched the teach... its going to scale up and costs will come down fast...

I mean when you're comparing common cheaper projectors as they are commonly used. But in a home theater like that, then it's another level entirely, the competition from TVs doesn't even exist at that point (xbox hueg screens and all that).

I have an Epson HC 2045 as my main screen,
I think it's unbeatable for the price I got it. ($450) last year.
Everyone who has seen it in person is amazed by how good it is.
I honestly do not know how these are not more popular. They are the best option for netflix and couch gaming.

Because most people live in cuckpartments where buying projector is retarded, if you live in a house and can dedicate some space for it they are crazy expensive like, find this kind of projector with 4k and we are moving from middle range car to even my house isn't worth that much territory.

Try to buy one at Goodwill or used online, businesses and churches dump their old stuff all the time. Usually they're old 720p ones but occasionally you can get lucky and find a 1080p one.

Shitty picture quality and they cast a shadow if you walk in front of them

The real question is why we don't have monitors the size of televisions

A monitor these days is just a TV without a tuner. So the real question is why aren't you using a quality TV as a monitor?

I woul call skinny girl a fatass if she happened to get in front of projector lens.

>expensive
>needs new lamps, also expenssive

They're cheaper than the TV alternative if you need a bigger screen. The 4k projectors aren't a good buy yet, but a quality 1080p projector can be had for $700-1000.

Because there's no quality TVs