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The Best Projectors for School Halls

Education Projector Buying Guide from Projectorpoint

Great things can happen when technology and education are combined effectively. Ever since the old days of school overhead projectors (OHPs) and their manual focus adjustments, the school hall projector has been an educational pillar for schools and teachers.

Today, as many different multimedia sources are shared with students, projectors play an increasingly important role at schools across the UK. Offering students a shared platform for viewing large-scale and captivating visuals, they are a great way to improve engagement and information absorption, as well as for communicating messages during school assemblies.

With so many different models on the market these days, however, it can be hard to choose the right projector for your school hall, classrooms or event spaces.

To help you out, we’ve outlined the most important factors you will need to think about when buying a school hall projector.

Remember we’re talking here about your school hall rather than a classroom, so think big!

What makes a great school hall projector?

There are a number of factors to take in to consider in order to select the right projector for your school hall. Below are the key factors you should be thinking about.

How big is your hall?

The first major factor to consider is that you will need to match the brightness output of your projector with your screen size, or to look at it differently, the capacity of your projector within the context of the size of your school hall.

It’s no use having a great screen or projection area that spans an entire assembly hall wall unless your projector has the ability to display quality images to this scale!

For this, you’ll need to pay attention to the lumens output of the projector and make sure it can display images to the size you need without comprising on the overall quality of the image.

We’ve written detailed technical guidance on how to select projector brightness and how screen size correlates, and also a bit more context on how ambient light affects the overall image quality here.

Flexible installation

Installation is also a major consideration for school hall projectors. Installations are almost never perfectly aligned to the desired image location due to roof height and construction or other school hall components (if it’s a multi-use space) getting in the way. So you must consider the need to shift the lens left and right (horizontal lens shift) or up and down (vertical lens shift), this greater flexibility means you can focus on spending on the projector spec itself rather than the installation. This will also save any costly or time-consuming repositioning if you re-purpose your space later.

It is possible to use digital manipulation of the lens through Keystone correction to achieve your desired results here, which will compress and convert the image. However, this process inevitably leads to deteriorated image-quality.

A projector that allows for a mechanical lens shift will produce the best images for a particular setting, so it’s worth finding a model that can support this.

The same can be said for lens ratio flexibility. Projectors that offer wider ratios will make the school hall projector installation more straightforward, as you can achieve the right image size from a larger variety of distances.

Ambient lighting

Schools halls are ideally bright and open spaces with tonnes of natural light. While this is great for a learning environment, it can be troublesome for image projection as excess light can cause the images to appear washed out.

Purchasing a projector with a high enough lumens output will save you from difficult-to-see images during those all-important school events. But you could also combine your efforts with some not-too-expensive blackout-curtains and a professional projector screen to remove the effects of ambient lighting altogether.

Most popular school hall projectors

Based on our most important considerations above, we’ve come up with some great school hall projectors that meet a number of budgets and requirements.

Final thoughts

Don’t be put off by the huge range of school hall projectors on the market today. As long as you keep the most important principles in mind, you should be able to find a fantastic unit  that will do a great job in your school for years to come.

If you’re looking for further advice on school projector products such as classroom projectors or projector screens, visit the Projectorpoint website or get in touch on 0800 073 0833.

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