New to projectors

[Bflem55]

I’m new to projectors so I’ll make this easy

12 ft wide 10 feet tall screen. (4:3 ratio)

ceiling height is 10 feet 3”

hitting mat 9 feet 3 inches

wanting to ceiling mount I have looked at the Optoma 1090hdr.

any other brands I should look at ? My plan is to mount overtop of my mat or just behind it.

[vrpunk]

projectorcentral dot com is a great resource, it has a calculator so you can work out positioning.

[BullsEyeRick]

It depends on throw ratio. How far back you can go. If you need a short throw projector BenQ TK700Sti is a good projector and is 4k.
https://www.benq.com/en-us/projector.../tk700sti.html it’s around $1699 For a 12’ wide picture you would need to be around 10’ from screen

if you have the room and looking for a good projector under 1k that does 4k the Viewsonic PX701-4k it has horizontal and vertical shift along with 4 Corner adjust the throw ratio is 1.5 so for 12’ wide pic it would need to be 18’ from screen.

https://www.viewsonic.com/us/products/shop/projectors/px701-4k.html

[Bflem55]

Thanks the projector I have been looking at is the Optoma 1090 HDR.

is their any drawbacks to mounting the projector that far back ?

[3on3putt]

It depends on throw ratio. How far back you can go. If you need a short throw projector BenQ TK700Sti is a good projector and is 4k.
https://www.benq.com/en-us/projector.../tk700sti.html it’s around $1699 For a 12’ wide picture you would need to be around 10’ from screen

if you have the room and looking for a good projector under 1k that does 4k the Viewsonic PX701-4k it has horizontal and vertical shift along with 4 Corner adjust the throw ratio is 1.5 so for 12’ wide pic it would need to be 18’ from screen.
https://www.viewsonic.com/us/product.../px701-4k.html

No.

He is wanting to project in 4:3. In 4:3, the BenQ TK700STi would need to be 15'8'' from his screen in 4:3. The numbers you are giving are for 16:9. When the aspect ratio changes, so does the throw ratio/distance.

https://www.projectorcentral.com/BenQ-TK700STi-projection-calculator-pro.htm

Same goes for the Viewsonic. In 4:3 he would need it to be 25 feet from his screen. Again, throw ratio is not universal among aspect ratios. 4:3 forces it to move back.

https://www.projectorcentral.com/ViewSonic-PX701-4K-projection-calculator-pro.htm

It should also be noted that you need a graphics card that is capable of rendering 4k in order to get a 4k image out of the projector. Just a 4k projector in itself isn't going to project in 4k.

Bflem55 --- The Optoma 1090 is a good projector and would mount 8 feet away for your setup. However, it has a vertical offset of 16 inches at that distance. If you just used a 4:3 without customizing a resolution or manipulating the image size through zoom or anything, you would have an image height of 9 feet (4:3 = 12x9). If you started the image all the way at the bottom of the screen, you would have 15 inches between the top of the image (9 feet) and your ceiling (10'3'').

So the Optoma could probably work although you would have to tilt the lens upward and then use some keystone correction to square up the image on the screen. A little bit of keystone correction is okay. But you want to avoid using too much of it as it can begin to eat away at your image quality.

There is a BenQ671ST that is pretty widely used around here. It would mount 12 feet away for your setup and has a vertical offset of only 3 inches so it would be an easy fit. The drawback though is that it's not the brightest projector at only 3,000 lumens. Are you able to completely black out the room? If so, it will probably do just fine.

https://www.projectorcentral.com/BenQ-TH671ST-projection-calculator-pro.htm

[GungHoGolf]

No.

He is wanting to project in 4:3. In 4:3, the BenQ TK700STi would need to be 15'8'' from his screen in 4:3. The numbers you are giving are for 16:9. When the aspect ratio changes, so does the throw ratio/distance.

https://www.projectorcentral.com/BenQ-TK700STi-projection-calculator-pro.htm

Same goes for the Viewsonic. In 4:3 he would need it to be 25 feet from his screen. Again, throw ratio is not universal among aspect ratios. 4:3 forces it to move back.

https://www.projectorcentral.com/ViewSonic-PX701-4K-projection-calculator-pro.htm

It should also be noted that you need a graphics card that is capable of rendering 4k in order to get a 4k image out of the projector. Just a 4k projector in itself isn't going to project in 4k.

Bflem55 --- The Optoma 1090 is a good projector and would mount 8 feet away for your setup. However, it has a vertical offset of 16 inches at that distance. If you just used a 4:3 without customizing a resolution or manipulating the image size through zoom or anything, you would have an image height of 9 feet (4:3 = 12x9). If you started the image all the way at the bottom of the screen, you would have 15 inches between the top of the image (9 feet) and your ceiling (10'3'').

So the Optoma could probably work although you would have to tilt the lens upward and then use some keystone correction to square up the image on the screen. A little bit of keystone correction is okay. But you want to avoid using too much of it as it can begin to eat away at your image quality.

There is a BenQ671ST that is pretty widely used around here. It would mount 12 feet away for your setup and has a vertical offset of only 3 inches so it would be an easy fit. The drawback though is that it's not the brightest projector at only 3,000 lumens. Are you able to completely black out the room? If so, it will probably do just fine.

https://www.projectorcentral.com/BenQ-TH671ST-projection-calculator-pro.htm

Just to clarify: the throw distance doesn't change by aspect ratio if your goal is to fill your screen with image. The only important dimension in that case is the height of the projected image. For his 10' tall screen, the TK700STi would be between 16'0" and 19'3" away. His 12x10' screen isn't 4:3 as originally stated, but as long as he gets the height filled, he can fill the width by creating a custom resolution on the PC to perfectly fill the width of his 6x5 aspect ratio.

To the OP: make sure you consider the BenQ TH671ST, it's one of the most popular HD projectors for golf sim use. All the reasons it's great are listed at https://store.gunghogolf.com/BenQ-TH...NEW-p265749740. If you do go to a 4K projector, note that you're going to need a PC with a GTX 1080 or faster GPU to push 4K pixels, which will increase the cost of your PC by at least $1000 over an HD-capable PC.

[3on3putt]

You are correct in that the throw distance doesn't change by aspect ratio if you are trying to fill the screen. However, it still changes in the sense that you have to back up the projector more to fill it (in his case about 2 feet with the TK700).

More to my point though was that the numbers cited by BullsEyeRick were for a 16:9 aspect ratio and the OP stated his intention was to run a 4:3 ratio so I wanted to give the OP the correct distances for a 4:3 ratio for those projectors.