Room fit
What size screen fits from 16 ft?
You know your room — here is the largest 16:9 screen each projector can fill when placed 16 ft from the wall, at its widest zoom.
Room fit
From 16 ft, a typical standard-throw projector fills up to about 147 inches and a short-throw up to about 300 inches. Each model is listed below.
Biggest screen from 16 ft, by projector
Ultra-short-throw projectors are excluded — they sit inches from the wall, not at room distance. Very large sizes are geometry only; brightness becomes the real limit.
Frequently asked questions
From 16 ft a standard projector fills up to about 147 inches; divide your distance by the throw ratio, then by 0.87, to get the diagonal.
From 16 ft the BenQ X500i reaches the largest screen here, about 300 inches.
No — a UST projector sits just inches from the wall on a cabinet, so the "from N feet" question does not apply; use a per-model UST page instead.
A common guide is to sit about 1.2 to 2 times the screen width away — so the bigger the screen you fit from 16 ft, the further back your seating should be.
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