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> Nearly all projectors, even new and expensive ones I've used, do not have HDMI I can’t remember the time I saw a projector that didn’t have an HDMI port. Are

> Nearly all projectors, even new and expensive ones I've used, do not have HDMI I can’t remember the time I saw a projector that didn’t have an HDMI port. Are these in a niche you frequent? The consumer and semi-professional ones I run into at libraries, Meetup spaces, and offices all have HDMI and sometimes DisplayPort. They sometimes have VGA or one of the ones that look like VGA but have more pins.

owenversteeg 7y ago
I've had to plug in to quite a number of projectors; I've owned ~5 myself in the last few years. I've used projectors in conference centers, at YCombinator events, startup spaces, universities... Maybe 5% (and that is generous) had HDMI. Almost all of these were high end projectors, in pretty nice spots (in the US/Europe.) Furthermore, as someone else noted, if it's a mounted TV or projector, even if it does have HDMI I've never seen it be accessible. I think new consumer projectors are far more likely to have HDMI than professional projectors though. A quick look at Amazon confirmed my suspicion that HDMI is a heavily advertised feature for consumer projectors and is almost always important enough to be in the title. Companies, meeting centers and universities are all likely to order from a non-Amazon source. Which is good, because on Amazon I just had to scroll my way through weird advertisements for "VANKYO", "GUDEE", "Dr. J", "DHAWS" and "OKCOO" (adorned with ugly "2019" badges like terrible spam Android apps) before making my way to a single legitimate projector brand. Even for consumer projectors, though, I think HDMI is fairly recent and will take some time to get out there. When I was shopping for a new consumer projector two years ago, there weren't any with HDMI that fit my modest demands for brightness and quality, but that seems to have changed.

owenversteeg 7y ago

I've had to plug in to quite a number of projectors; I've owned ~5 myself in the last few years. I've used projectors in conference centers, at YCombinator events, startup spaces, universities... Maybe 5% (and that is generous) had HDMI. Almost all of these were high end projectors, in pretty nice spots (in the US/Europe.) Furthermore, as someone else noted, if it's a mounted TV or projector, even if it does have HDMI I've never seen it be accessible. I think new consumer projectors are far more likely to have HDMI than professional projectors though. A quick look at Amazon confirmed my suspicion that HDMI is a heavily advertised feature for consumer projectors and is almost always important enough to be in the title. Companies, meeting centers and universities are all likely to order from a non-Amazon source. Which is good, because on Amazon I just had to scroll my way through weird advertisements for "VANKYO", "GUDEE", "Dr. J", "DHAWS" and "OKCOO" (adorned with ugly "2019" badges like terrible spam Android apps) before making my way to a single legitimate projector brand. Even for consumer projectors, though, I think HDMI is fairly recent and will take some time to get out there. When I was shopping for a new consumer projector two years ago, there weren't any with HDMI that fit my modest demands for brightness and quality, but that seems to have changed.