Acer's Predator Gaming Projector Can Be Yours For $5,000

[MagusALL]

Well if there is no other gaming projector on the market, especially utilizing lazer tech than they can set the MSRP whatever they want. When, honestly, has any of us gamers paid the price set by the manufacturer at the date it comes out? I would say like probably less than 10% of us and only if its a new Intel i7 and chipset motherboard or a next generation GPU. I currently own a projector that is 720p DLP 3D and project it onto a wall and at the throw distance its putting up over a 100" image and you can hardly tell it isn't 1080p. Mine runs on a bulb and cost me $550. I also have a gaming monitor, or should I say a monitor I game on that is 1200p 26" @ 60 hz and have no problem gaming on that either. When it originally came out "Samsung SyncMaster it was MSRP ~$1,000 but a year later it was half that price as competition drives prices down. But being the first company to market on a product segment does carry some weight. That's why people love SONY and Samsung, Intel and Corsair. I'm sure in a year they will have a model cheaper, putting out 4k2k like resolution for less money and I am also sure some company will say "hey we can make a similar product to compete with that" and the price will come down even more. Look at 4K UHD TV's for example. When they first came out they were $20,000. Now Samsung is putting out a Curved 88" SUHD TV which kills the competition and it isn't even $9k. Look at iPads or any other tech. When it first comes out it gets a premium price. Then when they improve and come out with a better model or a competitor enters the ring they start to change things and prices usually drop. So take the specs, the cost and the resolution and ultrawide image features with a grain of salt. What they are saying with this product is "not only do we make this and that but we are the only company that makes a gaming specific projector at a resolution and aspect ration you can't get anywhere else and we have huge ranges of inputs and use the new lazer technology". The price, they don't expect gamers to jump out and buy this one. But what they do expect is for the next time you see a Link to a Acer Predator Gaming Projector you WILL be looking for a cheaper version, one with higher resolution, one that might have G-Sync/Free-Sync and it will still be using its "tried and tested, first to market lazer gaming projector". I guarantee they aren't rushing to produce hundreds of thousands of these but don't be surprised to see one running at a gaming competition really soon. And that's the point. Projectors give a better image than a TV because unlike a TV, as with a vinyl record over a mp3, its a beam of light, something using wavelengths not simple pixel filling. Sometimes stepping out of the box away from digital everything makes you realize what you lost when you gave up those perfectly toned records in place of fitting 1,000 mp3's in your pocket. Just my $0.02.