NEC NP100

This projector costs less than $500 yet offers plenty of brightness and portability.

While it’s not the first sub-$500 projector on the market—a distinction that belongs to the Sanyo PDG-DSU20N Design Like the slightly older Sanyo PDG-DSU20N, the NEC NP100 has a slick white design. According to the company, it weighs 5.3 pounds, easily making it the lightest budget model. On our scale, however, it was even lighter, at just 5.1 pounds—a very rare case of a projector weighing less than claimed. The top panel is unique: It’s a recessed cavity just deep enough to accommodate the projector’s credit card–size remote control. But be careful not to lose the remote, as no menu control buttons are on the projector itself.

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