The Dell 1100MP is a data projector for the most part, but was submitted by Dell for this review with the home theatre projectors.
We were a little skeptical about that as traditionally data projectors are great for displaying static screens and can usually stretch to cover the frenetic, crazy pace of PowerPoint slide-show animations, but when they come to video playback in general they can’t match a projector designed for strictly that. The 1100MP makes a good fist of things – even more surprising given the projector’s diminutive form-factor.
It even stacked up against the home theatre projectors when we compared it directly, even though it’s grouped here with its data buddies.
While the minutiae of the display under DisplayMate quality was bang-on average for all the projectors here (the very high colour scores were brought down a little by some contrasting and white-level saturation issues) the colours, real-world brightness and superb image quality in the 3D and DVD tests really showed what this projector could do.
Coupled with its lower data-projector pricing of $1399 we have no hesitation in recommending this projector for the home, but for the business – it is small, light, quiet competent, and will save you a bundle, and therefore easily wins this award for best data projector.