Priced a little below the popular $2500 ceiling, the NEC HT410G is a very funky looking home theatre projector.
It has a lengthened body that points the lens at your wall/screen, instead of a squat shape with a lens poking out. It’s curved all over too, but a swivel stand at the rear helps to angle and keep the unit sturdy.

While it aesthetically looks the goods there were a few areas where its projection didn’t live up to expectations.
Notably this was a failing with greyscaling and below average white-level saturation (a problem that was not uncommon across the reviewed projectors) but in this particular case hard to correct.

A positive was that this was one of the quietest projectors reviewed by a long way, but we also noted that it also pumped out a fair bit of heat. You don’t want to be positioned directly behind this one if it’s on the coffee table.

For just DVD or console gaming the HT410G supplies the goods (and was very capable with fast-action display), but forget about data projection including media PCs – the display quality just wasn’t up to scratch and you’ll find yourself squinting at blurred text and icons.

Although restricted to the basic input ports (RGB D-Sub, Component and S-Video only) the HT410G throws a decent image for distance, and while it did not score highly in comparison here it is still quite a good unit.