Barco’s 5K Bragi CS projector

Beware the artificial ceiling! — that was one of the take-outs from the Australian tour of the Barco Bragi CinemaScope projector, where staff from Barco Residential and its Australian distributor National AV Solutions were demonstrating the new projector’s considerable abilities to assembled integrators.

They were referring not to a physical artificial ceiling but to the potential of limited expectations in the home cinema projector market, something in which Sound+Image must admit to a role with our reviews of entry-level pixel-shifting 4K projectors in the sub-$5000 market, along with our recognition of the quality delivered by higher-level projectors using native 4K panels.

But as Barco Residential was demonstrating, there is a level beyond, and for those seeking the highest image quality,