Sep 25, 2026 · 36 min · 9 segments
On this week’s episode of The Projector Podcast Jeremy Glowacki interviews Brian Nadel about his recent review of the Christie Korus 4K1400-KS. A powerhouse device that can not only fill large screens…
Well, looking ahead, you were kind enough to take on a project for us looking into the Golf Sim category.
big thing is I would never have thought that this was going to be a big business.
Two years ago, small to midsize commercial projectors, office projectors, started showing up with golf modes.
And at first, they were just blast as much green as you can because the laser phosphor light path gives you a lot of yellow light, which you can pull a green tone out of.
And the balance between yellow and green became really pushed towards the green.
Now it seems like everyone is coming out with purpose-built golf simulator projectors, 3,000 to 8,000 lumens.
It's the most kind of relevant, if you're outside of the commercial space that we're talking about today with the Christie, the most relevant to the consumer world that, you know, You know, some are interested in a lifestyle projector and some are still doing home theater and there's the high end home theater category.
But from a random person on the street who says, why would I want a projector? Like the golf sim, if they're a sports person is where they're going to look.
So this is a great way to inject a little current vibrancy to the category of projectors for sure.
So there are three big things going on that I figured out from this story that I had no idea about.
Then there are these commercial locations, whether they're in golf clubs or they are standalone places with 10 or 15 bays where you can go and rent it for half an hour, an hour during your lunch hour or something.
And the last one is these dedicated projectors that will make it just seem like you're walking along Pebble Beach.
Well, looking ahead, you were kind enough to take on a project for us looking into the Golf Sim category.
big thing is I would never have thought that this was going to be a big business.
Two years ago, small to midsize commercial projectors, office projectors, started showing up with golf modes.
And at first, they were just blast as much green as you can because the laser phosphor light path gives you a lot of yellow light, which you can pull a green tone out of.
And the balance between yellow and green became really pushed towards the green.
Now it seems like everyone is coming out with purpose-built golf simulator projectors, 3,000 to 8,000 lumens.
It's the most kind of relevant, if you're outside of the commercial space that we're talking about today with the Christie, the most relevant to the consumer world that, you know, You know, some are interested in a lifestyle projector and some are still doing home theater and there's the high end home theater category.
But from a random person on the street who says, why would I want a projector? Like the golf sim, if they're a sports person is where they're going to look.
So this is a great way to inject a little current vibrancy to the category of projectors for sure.
So there are three big things going on that I figured out from this story that I had no idea about.
Then there are these commercial locations, whether they're in golf clubs or they are standalone places with 10 or 15 bays where you can go and rent it for half an hour, an hour during your lunch hour or something.
And the last one is these dedicated projectors that will make it just seem like you're walking along Pebble Beach.
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