Hey Spizz,
They were showing it on a very high-gain 106" 16:9 DaLite screen (I think they said it was a 2.5 gain!) because the Greyhawk hadn't arrived yet. The room was totally dark when I arrived, but I asked them to bring the lights up as bright as possible (still far from daylight) to see how it looked, and it was still quite good.
DVD's were Fifth Element and Toy Story 2. Other source material included HDNet baseball, and an HD recording (on the much-lamented Panasonic HD deck) of the Superbowl.
At the request of one of the other viewers, they switched the Panasonic DVD player into 480i so we could see it with its internal scaler, and it still looked quite good.
We also tried some standard NTSC TV off of DirecTV. It looked pretty bad, but that's just because it was crappy NTSC to begin with, then MPEG'd within an inch of its life by DirecTV...
Fan noise was VERY quiet in my opinion. They had it mounted on a ceiling mount, and with the sound muted and standing right underneath it, I could hear it. Sitting nearby with the sound on, there was nothing to hear. My room isn't super-quiet, so this would be a total non-issue for me.
Black levels were suprisingly good for a DLP. We watched some 2.35:1 movie content (Fifth Element), so there were black bars above and below. They were visible (the Sharp rep held up his hand so you could see the shadow cast), but far from distracting. Having seen the Panasonic DLP RPTV using the older 720p element, I can say that this was was in a whole different ballpark.
In summary, let me put it this way: I've been spending a fair amount of time today in my viewing room with a tape measure.
http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/wink.gif (Amazingly, front wall is the perfect size to accommodate a 106" screen like the one they were using, with space to the sides for my mains and room underneath for the center. I don't think I can do a microperf at this time -- I might have to buy a second matching center and do an over/under thing). The only thing stopping me from going down and buying one today is the DVI/1394 issue.
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Mike Kobb
(Formerly "ReplayMike", but no longer affiliated with the company; these opinions are mine alone.)