
First projector, throw ratio problems
I'm planning to buy my first budget projector (EU, Hungary, budget <500 EUR, pref. used), and after spending many hours reading about different products, I realized that NONE of them would actually work because they would all project too big images. My room is 3.7m across, and due to furniture the screen can only be 80" (180 cm wide).
Anyway, this requires a throw ratio of about 1.85, and in the sub 1000 EUR category I mostly find business class Epsons like the EB-FH52 or EH-TW6250. These can be bought for 250-400 EUR used.
Now, I could mount a regular 1.2 throw ratio projector to the center of the ceiling next to the lamp, but that would look horrible in my opinion, especially since I'd have to drop it down significantly because of the 3 meter interior height (or get a model with good vertical lens shift but that's a whole other Pandora's box). Also the cabling.
Back to the longer throw ones... these business oriented models offer worse picture quality than cinema oriented ones, but because of the smaller image, longer throw maybe it wouldn't be so bad? EB-FH52 has 4000 ANSI lumens so at worst I could get a grey screen to improve contrast at the cost of brightness?
I wouldn't use it too much, so I'd prefer a seamless, least visible (but fixed!) setup, like a wall mount in front of the acoustic wall panels or just placing it at the further end of the sofa. I know the latter would require some horizontal keystone correction, I don't know how severe the quality drop would be though.
Any tips, thoughts? Am I missing anything? I'm aware I could just buy a TV if I don't want a gigantic screen, and I know it would even be more practical in some ways, but ehh, I don't want to buy a TV, I want a projector (or at least I think I do).