Hello,

I am looking for a DLP projector that uses the DarkChip 4, and that has very little image and/or projector noise, and that has a high quality image, good black levels, good contrast, and no motion blur, screendoor effect, or rainbow effect. Also, the more segments on the color wheel, the better. But even if it just has 4 that's fine. Does anyone know of such a projector?

Oh, HDMI 1.3 with deep color would also be a plus.

Another thing. Does anyone know if BenQ is coming out with a new DLP projector anytime soon? As in an upgrade/follow up to the BenQ w5000? Or a cheaper version of the BenQ w20000? Speaking of, if anyone knows where I can buy the BenQ w20000 for close to $3,000 online, please let me know. The same goes for the Infocus IN83 (obviously that one can't be gotten online, but if anyone knows a trusted seller who sells it for around $3,000, please let me know. Thank you very much)

THE $3,000 price mark for DC4 DLP beamers remains a long way off. For now the most "affordable" but still highly forbidding price point is around $4,000+ for the Infocus IN83. The other DC4 models are Marantz, Planar & SIM2 - two brands who persists in defining themselves for the elitist, boutique market. Although Infocus is touted very highly and DLP believers like me would consider it as DLP's present "holy grail" - its frustrating that I could not own it due to the uncompetitive price and its being exclusively sold by shops or people who could imposed high mark-ups.

Marantz, Planar, Sim2 and Infocus to a lesser extent - continues to take false comfort in sustaining their sales through their niche, elitist market - but needs to look over the lessons that could be learned from Yamaha and Sharp who refuses to read the writing on the wall for the projector market, until they got shipwrecked financially. These two might introduced fresh models in the coming days but they could not elicit anymore serious attention because of their high-price, absolutely non-populist policy.

The only hope, I could foresee, for folk like me to owned a DC4 is to await two years, at the very least, for Infocus, Optoma or BenQ to released populist-oriented models at a time when TI has unloosened its "stranglehold" in keeping the DC4 chip very expensive. I see this scheme which is a guess at best - being like that of the Infocus IN78, which was released when the DC3 has already been widely used in consumer-friendly competitors like the Mitsubishi. IN78 came at a time when 720p is being bade goodbye, figuratively, by videophiles - thus Infocus could not give it an elitist price even though it outperforms almost all other DC3's on the market at the time.

If I had to choosed and could afford it, I wanted most of all the IN83, the Planar 7560 (DC3 at around 8K contrast) or the 720p Yamaha DPX-1300 with Realta.

I am not as greedy as you guys are. If they can give me a 1920x1080 DC3 projector for under $3000, it will the best gift for me this coming X'mas.

I am not as greedy as you guys are. If they can give me a 1920x1080 DC3 projector for under $3000, it will the best gift for me this coming X'mas.

Benq W5000 is 1080p and DC3. It is also way under $3,000 right now.

Added: Sorry I just looked and saw where you are located. Here in the U.S. it is way under $3,000.

THATS why I can't abide having the Benq 5000 even though its a certified 1080p DLP bestseller because its merely a DC2. Some may argue that this model is just brilliant though "only" a DC2 - but its hard to weaned myself to owning it when I've seen & owned competently-implemented DC3 FPs. No, you don't retrograde, its DC4 or nothing. Or a $2,000+ Infocus Screenplay 777 3-chip DLP (sold at a ghastly losing margin!).

The BenQ 20000 is the one with a certified DC3.

I am already using a Mit. HC3100, which is an 1280x768 DC3 unit. So, the W5000 will be a wash on Full HD but downgrade on DC2.

Benq W5000 is 1080p and DC3
the w5k is DC1 kthx

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=w5000+DC1+site%3Awww.avsforum.com&btnG=Search&lr=
I am already using a Mit. HC3100, which is an 1280x768 DC3 unit. So, the W5000 will be a wash on Full HD but downgrade on DC2.
I also have a HC3100, and I was considering the w20k(DC3)...but BenQ simply sucks at firmwares.

they constantly release new ones that fix bugs, but you have to pay to get them :eek:

besides they have noise/posterization problems on most of their models(see the PE8720 threads, where you have to mess with the CW settings in the factory menu every once in a while).

our only hope is that Mitsu releases a 1080p DC4....but I don't see it happening anytime soon.

anyway, several ppl have compared the HC3100 against the HC5000, then against the HC6500....and they said that they had remained unimpressed ;)

all the pj were D65 calibrated, in the same dark room.

THATS why I can't abide having the Benq 5000 even though its a certified 1080p DLP bestseller because its merely a DC2. Some may argue that this model is just brilliant though "only" a DC2 - but its hard to weaned myself to owning it when I've seen & owned competently-implemented DC3 FPs. No, you don't retrograde, its DC4 or nothing. Or a $2,000+ Infocus Screenplay 777 3-chip DLP (sold at a ghastly losing margin!).

The BenQ 20000 is the one with a certified DC3.

Sorry my mistake. I should have looked it up. I read a review awhile back and I thought I remembered it being DC3.