Traditional PC brand turned home cinema gatecrasher NEC scored a major home run not long ago with its well received HT1100. So hopes are high for the more affordable HT510...

NEC has clearly thought about what people want from a living-room product. You get a slim unit that'll easily slot between two armchairs or look inconspicuous mounted on the ceiling, along with an easy one-handed up/down tilting mechanism

DLP projectors now range from £1,000 entry level types to ultra high-end £25,000 pro-quality models. At the luxury end the price goes towards three-chip versions for an image quality to rival or even beat cinema projectors

NEC's VT470 harks back to a time when the only way you could get a truly affordable projector was to get a multimedia model designed more with the boardroom in mind than the latest Hollywood blockbuster.

Single-chip DLP technology has fallen dramatically in price of late and experienced data projector manufacturers like NEC have picked up the technology and run with it - straight into your living room