Vivitek D537W

Throw (2.89)

The Vivitek D537W has a 1.15x zoom ratio. That’s not much, but it gives you a small amount of flexibility in terms of placement. At minimum, the projector requires about 7 feet for a 64-inch screen. After that, it depends on your screen size, but you’ll only have to move further back. It’s definitely not a “short-throw” projector.

	Vivitek D537W Required Distance for Screen Size
	64-inch screen	80-inch screen	100-inch screen	120-inch screen	140-inch screen
Wide Angle	7ft 0in	8ft 9in	10ft 11in	13ft 1in	15ft 4in
Telephoto	8ft 0in	10ft 0in	12ft 6in	15ft 0in	17ft 6in

Screen Brightness

Projectors lose brightness as they move further from the screen, and as we discussed above the larger the screen the further away you’ll have to place the projector. The table below has all the details.

	Vivitek D537W Projector brightness
64-inch screen	2523 lux
80-inch screen	1615 lux
100-inch screen	1033 lux
120-inch screen	718 lux
140-inch screen	527 lux

As with any projector, the outputted light is in competition with ambient room light. We have created the table below that gives a simple pass/fail for various screen sizes and levels of ambient light. Overall, the Vivitek D537W did pretty well.

	Vivitek D537W Screen Visibility for Screen Size and Room Brightness
	64-inch screen	80-inch screen	100-inch screen	120-inch screen	140-inch screen
Darkened Room	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Dimly Lit Room	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Moderate Lighting	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Bright Lighting	Yes	Yes	No	No	No

Below are some photographs we took of the Vivitek D537W’s actual performance in varying ambient light levels.

	Ambient Light Performance Comparisons
	Vivitek D537W	ViewSonic PJD6531w	Canon LV-8310	Optoma HD66
Darkened Room (10 lux)
Dimly Lit Room (15 lux)
Moderate Lighting (500 lux)
Bright Lighting (1500 lux)

Screen Materials

The Vivitek D537W offers a number of settings that correct color for various wall colors. Options include: Light Yellow, Pink, Light Green, Blue, and Blackboard. We’re not saying that it will correct the colors perfectly, but at least they’re trying.

Optical Issues (4.00)

The Vivitek D537W did not do the best job with certain types of patterns. We’ve included some photos below to illustrate our findings, but they only tell a portion of the story. Each of those little dots should be a single pixel, but sometimes they smeared over 2-4 pixels, especially as you get further from the center of the image. Thin, solid lines also showed some ghosting.

Image Sharpness

Video Processing (1.50)

The Vivitek D537W has a small number of video processing features, but they don’t seem to be available if you have an HDMI or VGA cable running the feed.

Formats (6.00)

The Vivitek D537W has a native resolution of 1280 × 800, also known as WXGA. This is close, by not identical to the HD resolution of 1280 × 720, also known as 720p. Like most projectors, it can handle a large variety of formats (UXGA, WXGA+, WXGA, SXGA+, SXGA, XGA, SVGA, VGA Resized; VESA Standards in the computer formats, along with standard NTSC, PAL, and SECAM formats).

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