Ok, I am fortunate to demo a draper M2500 that a dealer loaned me for a couple of days. I am using this with an 800 lumen DLP (Davis DLS8) running HDTV from a Dish 6000 and DVD's through an HTPC. I currently use a painted wall (Sherman Williams Luminous White).
Upon initial setup I noticed that it was more vibrant than the painted wall and slightly more colorful. The image had punch closer to a CRT direct view system. However, after I sat down and watched a few minutes of a DVD, I instantly noticed the texture of the screen. I thought to myself that this must be what people are reporting as the verticle streaks, but I do not see how anyone equated this to a verticle streak. It looks more like dirt over the screen. It is very noticeable when the scene being watched is on the upper half of the brightness scale. I found it extremely annoying and concluded after just 20 minutes of demoing it that there is no way I would get past this issue. I can't see how anyone can watch a movie with this texture issue present.
This texture produces way more articfacts to the image than running it through a DLP or LCD system. The image just looked very dirty. That's too bad because the gain and punch that it provided was very good.
BTW, I sit about 14' back from a 88" wide screen. The pixel format of the DLP is barely noticeable at this distance, but the screen texture is clearly visible.
I'm finding it hard to jusify a screen purchase of any sort now. After removing the screen and viewing the wall, while the picture was more subdued, it was much more uniform and clean.
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-Peter
[This message has been edited by pcostanz (edited 09-12-2000).]
Upon initial setup I noticed that it was more vibrant than the painted wall and slightly more colorful. The image had punch closer to a CRT direct view system. However, after I sat down and watched a few minutes of a DVD, I instantly noticed the texture of the screen. I thought to myself that this must be what people are reporting as the verticle streaks, but I do not see how anyone equated this to a verticle streak. It looks more like dirt over the screen. It is very noticeable when the scene being watched is on the upper half of the brightness scale. I found it extremely annoying and concluded after just 20 minutes of demoing it that there is no way I would get past this issue. I can't see how anyone can watch a movie with this texture issue present.
This texture produces way more articfacts to the image than running it through a DLP or LCD system. The image just looked very dirty. That's too bad because the gain and punch that it provided was very good.
BTW, I sit about 14' back from a 88" wide screen. The pixel format of the DLP is barely noticeable at this distance, but the screen texture is clearly visible.
I'm finding it hard to jusify a screen purchase of any sort now. After removing the screen and viewing the wall, while the picture was more subdued, it was much more uniform and clean.
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-Peter
[This message has been edited by pcostanz (edited 09-12-2000).]
