Colour Brightness

Look for two brightness specifications. Colour Brightness, different from White Brightness, indicates how bright projected colours are. All Epson projectors use 3-chip 3LCD technology for high Color Brightness.

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Colour Brightness Explained
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Colour Brightness Explained
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Colour Brightness Explained

Vibrant colour is important, since 91% of content projected includes colour2. If Colour Brightness is low, colours can look dull or dark, skin tones can be reproduced poorly and important details can be lost.

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Colour Brightness Challenge: Florida Education Technology Conference

Colour Brightness matters to educators who attended FETC 2014, in a side-by-side challenge.

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Colour Brightness Challenge: National Association of Broadcasters

Colour Brightness matters to attendees of the 2014 NAB Show, the world's largest electronic media show. See reactions to the Colour Brightness Challenge from NAB broadcast professional attendees who are looking for high production colour quality.

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Colour Brightness Challenge: International Society for Technology in Education

Educators at ISTE 2014 took the Colour Brightness Challenge, and chose 3LCD projectors over 1-Chip DLP—citing bright, vibrant, true-to-life images as key to student engagement and learning in the classroom.

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Colour Brightness Explained

Vibrant colour is important, since 91% of content projected includes colour2. If Colour Brightness is low, colours can look dull or dark, skin tones can be reproduced poorly and important details can be lost.

WATCH VIDEO

Colour Brightness Challenge: Florida Education Technology Conference

Colour Brightness matters to educators who attended FETC 2014, in a side-by-side challenge.

WATCH VIDEO

Colour Brightness Challenge: National Association of Broadcasters

Colour Brightness matters to attendees of the 2014 NAB Show, the world's largest electronic media show. See reactions to the Colour Brightness Challenge from NAB broadcast professional attendees who are looking for high production colour quality.

WATCH VIDEO

Colour Brightness Challenge: International Society for Technology in Education

Educators at ISTE 2014 took the Colour Brightness Challenge, and chose 3LCD projectors over 1-Chip DLP—citing bright, vibrant, true-to-life images as key to student engagement and learning in the classroom.

WATCH VIDEO
Colour Brightness Explained

Colour Brightness Explained

Vibrant colour is important, since 91% of content projected includes colour2. If Colour Brightness is low, colours can look dull or dark, skin tones can be reproduced poorly and important details can be lost.

WATCH VIDEO
FETC

Colour Brightness Challenge: Florida Education Technology Conference

Colour Brightness matters to educators who attended FETC 2014, in a side-by-side challenge.

WATCH VIDEO
NAB

Colour Brightness Challenge: National Association of Broadcasters

Colour Brightness matters to attendees of the 2014 NAB Show, the world's largest electronic media show. See reactions to the Colour Brightness Challenge from NAB broadcast professional attendees who are looking for high production colour quality.

WATCH VIDEO
ISTE

Colour Brightness Challenge: International Society for Technology in Education

Educators at ISTE 2014 took the Colour Brightness Challenge, and chose 3LCD projectors over 1-Chip DLP—citing bright, vibrant, true-to-life images as key to student engagement and learning in the classroom.

WATCH VIDEO

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Epson's Advantages over 1-chip DLP Projectors

The Colour Brightness Specification

The New Standard

The Colour Brightness specification is an authoritative standard recently developed by the International Committee for Display Metrology (ICDM).  This widely accepted standard measures the projected brightness of red, green and blue light.

 

Colour Brightness Comparisons

Independent test results for Colour Brightness can be found at www.colorlightoutput.com

Hundreds of different projector brands and models have been tested, and the Colour Brightness ratings are listed.

COLOR BRIGHTNESS RATINGS

What the Experts Say about Color Brightness

Examining colour performance between 3-Chip LCD and 1-Chip DLP projection technologies – Dr. Abhay Sharma

Dr. Sharma explains two different technologies found in the majority of projectors in the marketplace: 3-Chip LCD (or 3LCD) and 1-Chip DLP. There is considerable confusion and marketing misinformation related to color capability and measurement of these different projector systems.

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Colour in communication: Colour Light Output white paper – Michael Goldstein

Goldstein writes an informative paper about the Colour Light Output specification and how it offers users the ability to quickly, easily and accurately evaluate color performance between competing projector models.

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Colour Light Output in projectors and the new ICDM Colour Brightness standard — Peter H. Putman

This in-depth look at the public's growing awareness of colour quality in technology explores how projector technology has matured - moving away from the emphasis on White Brightness and toward including Colour Brightness.

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*Colour Brightness (Colour Light Output) in brightest mode, measured by a third-party lab in accordance with IDMS 15.4. Colour Brightness will vary depending on usage conditions. Top-selling Epson 3LCD projectors versus top-selling 1-chip DLP projectors based on PMA Research sales data for Dec. 2015 through Nov. 2016.

1 Specifications for Colour Brightness and White Brightness are provided by many manufacturers and published by ProjectorCentral.com. These manufacturers do not provide a Colour Brightness specification for these models. This data was obtained from independent third party laboratory testing of a unit according to the international standard for measuring Colour Brightness, IDMS 15.4.

2 Source: TFCinfo, The Projector Purchase Criteria and Image Quality Study, Total Summary. (Research conducted among business and education, retail, online, distribution, and large corporate purchasers.)

3 Leading Epson business and education projectors vs. leading 1-chip DLP projectors, selected according to NPD data as of July 2015. Based on U.S. research conducted by Radius Research.

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