Getting on, but remains a fairly competitive buy

It's a shame this isn't cheaper: a fine projector if you're prepared to pay a premium for Full HD

Still a gorgeous-looking and highly capable HD projector. This fine unit receives six stars, especially at its competitive price.

Not as capable as we’d have expected. You can do better for this money

Optoma did this before, but the Toshiba is a better performer – it's a clever idea, and well-executed

A fine projector: well worth considering, especially if you hunt down a competitive price

The PLV-Z5 has its benefits, but can’t quite match the all-round ability of the best in its class

Who would have thought that this projector would be this cheap.

The pick of the two 1kg units, but still behind the Dell.

The poor remote and menus outweigh its other merits.

Interesting technology, but noisy and expensive to run.

Bright, well featured and cheap to run. But the Dell is better.

This brand-new projector is expensive and rather noisy, but image quality is excellent.

Small, light, quiet, cheap to run and with great image quality, the Dell retains its coveted A-List position.

Slightly over budget and over-specified to fit within last month’s budget projector roundup, the Casio XJ-360 is a very compact and very capable projector that may just be worth those extra dollars.

The Optoma H27 is one of the best home theatre projectors we looked at here.

Priced a little below the popular $2500 ceiling, the NEC HT410G is a very funky looking home theatre projector.

The brand new HC100 from Mitsubishi Electric is a more traditional looking home theatre projector with a centremounted lens, and curved lines.

The utilitarian looking InFocus ScreenPlay 4805 is a very capable home theatre projector, provided that you’re looking for a projector mainly for home theatre use.

The PE5120 from BenQ is a native widescreen projector, and while it’s happiest displaying DVDs and home theatre inputs it also performed well with desktop and text projection.