In what is perhaps a sign of what's to come, three of our winning projectors can be categorized as products that are more about making projection fit our day to day desire for the bigscreen experience without the need for a permanent installation. And I'll put to you that if you really love movies, you should aspire to that. With proper calibration and set-up-not as easy an accomplishment as you might think-each is capable of images that are simply breathtaking. Wherever they've ranked in these competitions, by whatever rules were put forth by their hosts, I'm here to tell you that there's not one of these projectors that doesn't in some way advance the state of the art for home theater projection. These products traditionally have several years of lifespan, and if you're an engaged enthusiast, you know the emergence of the latest crop has resulted in some good fodder for shootouts and face-offs or whatever you'd like to call them. Remarkably, mainly because of their compression into a single year, four of this year's Best of the Year are traditional long-throw high end home theater projectors costing $5,000 and above (though it's notable that at least two of our UST winners also eclipse that lofty pricetag). That aside, the number of new brands and products that have come into this space in the last year to 18 months is nothing short of astonishing, and the fact that two of the eight brands honored in the UST space were utterly unknown to us and our readers before the year began should tell you something about the fierceness of the competition. Yes, I know this nomenclature has a very specific meaning in the Asian markets as a subset of the segment as a whole, but I feel confident in adopting it now as a generic term.at least until we start seeing LED versions successfully compete on brightness. The most telling stat is that nine of our 20 award recipients are living room UST projectors, which for the moment we're embracing as representative of the emergent "laser TV" category. If you just do the quick scan or our 2022 Best of the Year honorees, culled from all the products reviewed in the last 12 months, you'll know it was truly a banner year for home theater projection.
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