Customers purchasing their first projector generally seek to acquire the brightest projector within their spending range. However, there are many more important factors to consider when purchasing a projector. Customer end up facing a much bigger puzzle: how to make sense of the various brightness specifications listed on the market.
This issue is a result of the fact that some brands on the market choose not to use the internationally-recognized brightness standard adopted by the majority of their peers, ANSI brightness, but instead advertise brightness specs different from others. Of these various brightness specs a consumer might encounter, the most common are: the aforementioned ANSI brightness, LED brightness, and light source brightness.