Ask any bar owner, restaurateur or hospitality entrepreneur and he or she will tell you that there are three secrets to running a successful sports bar: serve good beer, good food, and keep the customer entertained. Sports Bar Projector Tips Tip One: Turn Off The Lights In a room with controlled lighting you can safely get away with a 2,000-lumen projector. Brighter spaces will need a projector with at least 3,500 lumens. Tip Two: Go For HD Projectors with the HD (1920 x 1080) resolution will give you the best image and the greatest connection flexibility. The XGA (1024 x 768) or Wide XGA…

The single, hands-down, most awesome quality of projectors is that they are essentially movie theaters with a handle. Think about it: home theater projectors provide images up to 300-inches diagonal yet typically weigh less than 25 pounds. You can tuck them under your arm and go anywhere. Try doing that with a flat screen! Perhaps that’s why we’re such goofballs when it comes to outdoor theater season. Setting up a movie theater in our backyards epitomizes everything we love about projectors: their portability and image quality and size. Reason #24,521 why we love projectors. They are essentially movie theaters with a…

It seems that more and more schools are being built with big windows and better lighting. This theoretically creates a better environment for increasing moods and productivity. Unfortunately, copious amounts of ambient light can be a projectors Achilles heel and a presenter’s nightmare. Many standard classrooms don’t come with a dimmer or the ability to control the amount of ambient light shining in the room. Because of this, the average projector with low lumen output can be easily outshined. Luckily, Hitachi has designed its Collegiate Series projectors with enough lumens to outshine most ambient light. The Hitachi CP-X5022WN, for example, is an LCD…

Projector People customer Brian Ten of Culver City, CA called me the other day. Back in 2011, the LA Times did a feature on his outdoor theater. Did I want to see it? Uhm, yeah. Of course! With the help of one of our projectors, Brian’s 2,240 square-foot front yard was transformed from a small ho-hum lot into an outdoor theater that is now the talk of his neighborhood. Brian and his family watching the projector in their front yard. Image from the LA Times. Brian and his wife, Rika Houston, wanted an outdoor space where they could spend time with their three…