Panasonic has been a long-standing champion of LCD technology for home video, even while it sold DLP projectors into the professional market. Its current model is the PT-AE900.

It's the joint cheapest projector in this grouptest, it claims a remarkable contrast ratio of 7000:1, and it's beautifully designed to boot. But is the award-winning Hitachi's LCD-based PJTX200 still a top performer?

With some HD Ready DLP projectors now breaking the £2,000 barrier, the key question for Sharp's XV-Z3000 is simple: can it deliver enough of a performance step-up to justify its extra cost, or is it just overpriced?

First the obvious: this PJ is ruddy massive. It completely fills my test room's projector mount, and probably occupies three to four times the volume of, say, the £3,500 ProjectionDesign Action Model 2

The word 'Sharp' and the letters 'D, L and P' have never looked like they belong in the same sentence. The Japanese giant has nailed its fl atscreen colours so explicitly to LCD's mast that it would seem logical for it to have done the same with projectors

For a company probably best known for its LCD TVs, it's surprising that Sharp favours DLP over LCD for its projectors. But that's certainly not to say that Sharp doesn't know what makes a DLP projector tick...

Last year we reviewed another BenQ projector, the PE5120, which was a decent DLP model at a previously unprecedented £500. Now it has done it again. The W100 is the replacement for the PE5120

Sony's new VPL-VW100 projector has caught us rather on the hop. For while we have come across its ground-breaking new 'SXRD' technology before, it was on a crazily high-end machine costing upwards of £20k

I still don't quite understand exactly how French company Sagem went from making faxes and phones to delivering a string of best-buy DLP TVs. But the fact remains that it did.

The arrival of high-definition in the UK has seemingly caught DLP technology on the hop - and in doing so opened a window of opportunity for its LCD rival. The problem for DLP is that Texas Instruments has only relatively recently developed...

Sanyo has a proud history of punching above its perceived weight in the projector department. Its latest LCD effort,the PLV-Z4, is at the vanguard of a new wave of affordable HD Ready models and boasts an HDMI input,1,000 ANSI Lumens brightness

Regular readers of Home Cinema Choice will already know that LCD - so often the poor relation to DLP in the home cinema world - is currently enjoying a new lease of life.

Projector performance dips rapidly at lower prices,and worthwhile designs are few and far between.One way through this is to look at data projectors,which are designed primarily for office use, as many also aim to accommodate home cinema requirements

Almost exactly two years ago during a trip to Japan I had my world rocked by a Sony variation of LCOS (liquid crystal on silicon). Dubbed SXRD, the system - built into the Qualia 004 projector - delivered simply astonishing results.