Although extremely affordable, who would confuse a $500 car with being a good value?
And yet this mistake occurs all the time, and sometimes in the planetarium world, where affordability is confused with value. You can get the cheapest system on the market, but it almost certainly is not the best value for your money. Conversely, you also don’t need a $200,000 Ferrari to commute to work. Value, of course, depends on your specific needs and uses. Figure out which characteristics are most important to you, then do your homework. See a few competing systems, try operating them, and speak to other customers before you decide if each system fits your needs. Comparing systems based on things like the cost per pixel is as ridiculous as using price per pound when shopping for a car. Just as the quality and engineering of the components that make up the mass of a vehicle are what matter, it is the quality of the projected pixels and the features and support behind the system that matter, not how many total pixels there are per dollar. This is counter-intuitive for most people,
