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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 5120077" data-attributes="member: 20741">First off, I have a Toshiba T90U. It's a serviceable projector and that's a decent price for it. I've never had any problems with mine, FWIW.  You've linked to the right site for each of those units. The thing you need to look at is:1 - Is the resolution Native at 1024x768? In the case of the projectors you have shown, the answer is "yes". Are they all at least 1800 ANSI or higher? Yes they are. Brightness is good enough on all of them (more than 3000 is too bright, imo).2 - Click on the projection calculator link for each of those projectors. Below, change the measurement to english to give your self a foot and inches scale.Play with the throw length on each unit and look at the diagonal result for each at a particular focal length. Assuming....A - Your celing height is 8'; andB - Your table height is 30"-32"; and,C-  Your projector is about 6"-8" deep when mountedthen you want to look at the diagonal image size from a range of about 57"-60". If your ceiling height is ten feet - awesome - you got a lot more to play with.  (You ususally can get a few more diagonal inches using the Zoom factor on the lens, btw.)As long as you diagonal image is 38"-42" across, you are in the acceptable range. If not, you will want to increase that focal length by using a mirror, angled projection with keystone correction, etc..A larger image is good - but only to a point. As you increase image size, your pixel density drops correspondingly. It's a geometric drop, so be mindful.I don't think any of those units are poor choices. A newer unit with a new lamp is going to last longer.  Other than that, it's a matter of money.If you get the T90U and the lamp lasts long, you'll be relatively pleased. If not, you'll be unhappy. There really is no way to guage it. (I would never trust the internal read out on a used unit in terms of how many hours are on the bulb, either. They can easily be reset and you'll never know.) If you can afford the brand new BenQ - you might look at that one.  But I think a <a href="http://www.visualapex.com/Samsung/Projector-Specifications.asp?For-The=L220" target="_blank">Samsung L220 </a>is a much better deal though, as it has a much shorter throw length (and is cheapr, too).There are other cheap short throw projectors out there - that just happens to be one that I have a handy link to. I urge you to poke around more on your own.<a href="http://www.projectorcentral.com/Samsung-L220-projection-calculator-pro.htm" target="_blank">Play with the image size on the L220</a> at 5' or so on the projection calculator, and you'll see that you can push the image size to about the max you'll ever want to get it to for gaming purposes when positioned directly over your table -- with a diagonal of about 48" (30"x40"). Past that size, pixel density will become problematic as 25x25 pixels per sq. inch is about as low as you want to go. (You can push it to 20x20 if you feel the need).Enjoy -- and post pics of your set up!!</blockquote>

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