Guess who bought 2 Barco DP-2000 for his homes?

Can't say, but it is the really really huge Hollywood name. Yep the man himself ,his partner went with the meridian but he did not fall for the numbers game.

Congrats to him for taking the high MTF road.

And incidentally I had a chance to play with a Titan Reference projector and as good as this projector is (better color than the ht5000 IMO), these consumer sets are far from approaching the image portrayed by the Superkontrast.

There is simply no contest the Superkontrast conveys the 70mm look, these uhp 1080p 3 chippers ....no way.

Hi Lon,

Thanks , no I am not doing his systems but some good friends are. I am doing another big sports name but I can't say that name either, and it will be in a year...

September but in late October they will be much quieter due to a fan speed software rev.

Needless to say that now been intimately familiar with the consumer and the d-cinema side of things, that little Barco is the unit to get for any serious HT. For a media room where you cannot have a separate booth the Titan, The Christie hd6km, the sim2's ae all fine since there are compromises involved, but for an all out home theater why would anyone in the right mind opt out of the last 35% in image quality. Because that large the delta is.

Another thing I want to mention (to steal Wolfgang's thunder for when he reviews the Christie HD6k) is that the motoriosed color correction filter invented in the Titan and now incorporated in the H6km does in fact work, the image looks closest to the dcinema projector at d65 on rec 709, but it comes at a cost of 25-30% ansi cr reduction.

The Barco on CinemaScope zoomed, due to the much better optics has significantly higher ansi cr. related mtf than the Titan Reference on CinemaScope zoomed let's say about a 20% difference, if you engage the color correction filter YOU WILL NOTICE a flattening of the image, the color gets better (for those used to the dci colorimetry which is subdued).

Also pixel resolvability is an issue with the home theater projectors at around 1 sw whereas it's not even an issue in the DCI brethren.

The one thing that is great about the Titan despite not having the servo zoom memory is that when if you position the projetor for dual aspect ratios at both ends of the lens range, that the sharpness is not affected anywhere the lens is. Another great thing is that if you change the zoom and tilt, there is no need to change focus, so it is relatively simple to change aspect ratio in a CIH screen by zooming and tilting, on the Titan and believe the HT5000.

Anotyher advantage of the Supercontrast is that when you open up the zoom, the lit areas above and beyllow the screen are barely noticeable due to the 14 bit balcker than black blanking, on tyhe consumer units it is 10 bit, severely more noticeable.

I like the idea of THE HD 10K mounted on the ceiling in a media room without air handling equipment, for a theater I'd rather get a cp2000m modded from christie, or a SuperKontrast.

Art it is obvious that Christie borrowed a lot from dpi Titan Reference dual 300 watt lamps in line, color correction filter, they have made two improvements on it the servo auto-iris and the intelligent lens. I am sure it is a great projector for a media room, but no way it will approximate the MTF and 70mm visual signature on Blue Ray.

The Titan 1080p reference calibration report had 3010 ansi lumens.

6,210 center brightness 1.0 center black level = full field cr. 6,260.

Pretty nice numbers, still I am and forever will be spoiled by the SK there is something about it that numbers ain't saying. That dp-1200 shure holds a lot of promise for High end HT.

They have gotten these things working better now, closer calibration. Wether one like it or not it is personal preference but indeed it is closer to TIP7 autocalibrated DCI d65 rec 709 colors, which are not punchy and colorful but more or less subdued.

I forund the ansi cr. hit the same as that with the Isco. Not the brightness though and actually the isco could be beneficial to reduce pixel resolvability in a consumer 3 dlp.

That would depend on the lamp wattage, you may need air handling if not a separate room.

Hi Adiodadi, No I did not see the Meridian version but the JVC on which it is based and it was setup with all the shading and color uniformity tweaks for a special demo of the Trident in 4k.

It looked like a g-90 on steroids to me, very nice but the ansi cr. suffered. I know the meridian processor has a pixel sharpener but I still can't imagine that would save the resultant MTF from putting an Isco in front of a 4k projector playing 2k. It should yield a third of the MTF of the Barco, and to someone that is used to the Barco it is the difference between looking like 70 mm to a giant g-90, it is a huge difference.

That blanking is blacker in a DCI projector than it is on the Titan Reference. What does my calibrating have to do with that? They are both set where they need to be yet the blanking is much darker on the DCI, I really believe that is a bit depth advantage.

The yellow filter is after the light sensor for CLO and Dynamic iris, I doubt this suite is attached to the lamp. The manufacturer claims a light reduction as the side effect of engaging this filter.

Yeah like described above.

Congrats Ciputra, you are sending everyone back to the drawing boards with this Whopper!