Hi - I'm new to the forum. I have owned an inflatable rental company for the past 10 years (moonwalks/bouncy castles/slides etc) and just recently purchased my first inflatable movie screen. It's a Sima 144" 16:9 widescreen and it came with two 80 watt powered speakers but I need to purchase a projector. My plan is to rent this out as a complete backyard movie night package as this seems to be a growing market in my area. I've been reasearching projectors and was hoping that someone may have some good advise to offer me regarding making a wise business decision. The projector will most likely be showing DVD movies, games or perhaps an occasional sporting event. I was thinking that I would go with a good WXGA 1280 x 720 resoultion projector so the picture quality would be very good. Problem is some people are telling me that I will need at least 4000 lumens. The 1280 x 720 DLP or LCD projectors seem to max out at about 1500-2000 lumes. Will this be too dim or dark on this 12 foot screen? If I go with a high lumen XGA projector will I suffer in picture quality and woun't the image be scaled and not fill up my entire screen (since it's 4:3 ratio)? Please correct me if I'm wrong but isn't a a native WXGA 1280 x 720 projector going to give me a better image that an XGA 1024 x 768. I'd like it to fill the widescreen and rather not have to deal with any bars on the top or sides of the sceeen. This all seems very confusing and I'm not sure what I should be focusing on, lumens, contrast, resolution .... ??? It's backyard theater but I would like to still be able to offer a high quality picture to my customers. Anyone have any thoughts, experience or words of wisdom here ???
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