In recent years, the projector world has found itself needing to innovate to keep up with fast-changing modern lifestyles and find ways of satisfying the exploding demand for cinema-sized experiences at home.
This has led to a renaissance in the fortunes of Ultra Short Throw (UST) projectors. Once found pretty much exclusively in classrooms and board rooms, UST projectors, with their ability to deliver large pictures even when sat right up close to a screen or wall, are now finding their way into more and more living rooms. And the more they are targeting living rooms, the better they are starting to get.
How do ultra short throw projectors work?
UST projectors look quite different from regular projectors, and produce their images in a quite different way. The vast majority essentially send their images through a series of internal lenses, before finally reflecting a super-sized image out through an aperture in their top edges. One or two models use an output ‘lens’ that protrudes up from the projector’s top edge, but this