Epson EpiqVision Flex CO-FH02
1080p3,000 ISOHome Theater1.19–1.19 throw
Best for: Home Theater + Living Room
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Projectors under $500
This page is short and that is the point. Below $500 the market is full of projectors quoting brightness figures that cannot be compared to anything, with no published throw ratio and no manufacturer page to check them against. We will not list those, so what is here is the part of the budget market where a real specification exists. If the list looks thin next to what a marketplace search returns, that gap is the answer to the question you were about to ask. Expect 1080p rather than 4K at this price, and expect to need a room you can darken.
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We only list projectors whose specs we have checked against the manufacturer's own pages, and this corner of the market is thin. Rather than pad it out, we show what we have and keep looking.
Projectors under $500
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Before you buy
Why are there so few projectors here?
Because we only list a projector once we have found its specification on the maker's own site and checked it. Most projectors in this price band have no such page, only a marketplace listing with numbers that cannot be verified. Rather than repeat those numbers we leave the projector out.
Can I get 4K under $500?
Not a genuine 4K chip, no. You will find plenty of projectors in this band advertised as 4K because they accept a 4K signal and show it at 1080p. A good 1080p projector at this price is a far better buy than a poor projector with 4K on the box.
What should I expect for the money?
A 1080p picture, somewhere between 500 and 2,000 honest lumens, and a room that needs to be dark. That is a genuinely good experience on a 100 inch screen at night. What you will not get is a picture that survives daylight or a lens that holds sharpness to the corners.