Official TW4000 Owners Thread! - Page 5

Originally Posted by Ron Jones

I doubt you will lose anything in video quality for BD and DVD playback by going thru the Denon 3806. Only games and other graphics/media on the PS3 are actually generating the true deep color video (BDs are essentially upscaled from 8-bit to 12-bit per color, but not native deep color). Another alternative might be to buy one of the new HDMI Pro Splitters (currently not in stock) from Monoprice that are HDMI 1.3b capable. With that you could connect the output of the PS3 to into the splitter and then one of the splitter outputs to your AVR and the other splitter output to the new projector. If everything works the way it is supposed to you should (but with HDMI nothing if for certain) get both the best audio from the AVR and the best video from the projector.

Originally Posted by nysoundman

Huh...so...... should i even be doing this? Am i going to notice any difference in video quality...really? The downside to doing the switch is that i was going to lose the 7.1 discrete feed audio to my AVR as the PS3 only gives that option on the HDMI out...not the optical i was going to have to use.

Originally Posted by rwestley

NY Soundman, The switch you have ordered is not a splitter. The switch can be used to increase you HDMI inputs but it will not split the signal.

Originally Posted by peteer01

As for DLP Vs. LCD, I haven't watched enough DLP to make an informed comment on that, but I would say that the only projector that I've seen that really looked markedly better than this in my search for my next projector was the JVC HD750 (RS20). I have not seen the newest Sonys, nor have I seen a lot of DLP models, as the vast majority of home theater projectors sold here in Japan tend to be Japanese makers (JVC, Sony, Epson, Sanyo, Panasonic and Mitsubishi are the main projectors on display at most places) using either LCD or LCoS.

As for surprises or new comments...I'm still very happy with the TW4000, and don't expect any big negative or positive surprises. I'll be very happy if it just keeps working as well as it's working now. One small thing I've noticed is that the focus seems to move ever so slightly (like lens creep), which is probably because I usually turn on my projector, receiver and Xbox manually (rather than via remote) and the vibrations of the projector and shelf may be causing the focus to slip slightly. Nothing major, and as I already have to tweak focus when zooming from 2.35:1 material to 16x9 material, I don't really care, but it is something that I noticed.

No new info, other than that the second box is working as expected day in and day out, and I'm very satisfied with it.

Anything in particular you were hoping I'd have more info on or otherwise hoping to hear about?

Originally Posted by bbar

Does anyone know if the unit supports horizontal and/or vertical stretch for use with an anamorphic lens as the TW2000 did not?

Thanks,

Bryan

Originally Posted by Ron Jones

In the USA the 7500UB supports vertical stretch so you can use it with an external anamorphic lens to fill a 2.35:1 screen, but the 6500UB does not have this feature. In Europe the TW5000 is the version without the stretch feature and the TW5800 is the model that will do the stretch for use with an external lens. In Japan the TW4000 doesn't have this feature.

Originally Posted by bbar

Thanks,

Bryan