My Boxlight 38T (Sanyo XP21N clone) came two days early and I got home from a camping trip in enough time to do a ROUGH (and I do mean ROUGH) setup on it. How rough? How about running a Toshiba 2109 into the 38T using component cables and let it do the scaling. Now that's rough!
Talk about edge artifacts and stairstepping, particularly on the DVDs menu screens. OK, I ran it through Video Essentials and told my wife not to expect much. After all, the Grayhawk isn't here yet and we're shining it on a semi-gloss light pink painted wall.
HOLY SMOKES!! This thing is awesome even with a crappy feed. Interestingly, the artifacts weren't nearly as noticeable in a movie as they were during setup. Oh most definitely there, but not so bad we couldn't REALLY enjoy the movie. For sure, the internal de-interlacer is pretty weak.
Contrast? Very decent, considering the wall. I felt the contrast was similar to what an actual movie looks like in a theater. I've seen what the Grayhawk can do in this area so I'm positive it will be more than acceptable.
Color? Simply fantastic--took our breath away. Deep, vivid and accurate!
Brightness? Yep, brighter is better! Really gave the picture punch and depth.
Noise/heat? Didn't even notice it with the projector sitting right behind us and slightly above. But it was a little warm in the back of the room after 2 hours.
Pixels: We're sitting 15.5' back from a 100" diagonal picture. Pixels are simply not an issue! And we didn't de-focus either! And I have better than 20:20 vision at that distance. The MLA obviously makes a difference and the trick with this projector is to observe the rule of viewing distance being at least 2 times screen width.
We sat there for two hours with silly grins on our face and a periodic "gees this is fantastic". I never thought I'd see the day I could have something like this in my house.
Dan
Talk about edge artifacts and stairstepping, particularly on the DVDs menu screens. OK, I ran it through Video Essentials and told my wife not to expect much. After all, the Grayhawk isn't here yet and we're shining it on a semi-gloss light pink painted wall.
HOLY SMOKES!! This thing is awesome even with a crappy feed. Interestingly, the artifacts weren't nearly as noticeable in a movie as they were during setup. Oh most definitely there, but not so bad we couldn't REALLY enjoy the movie. For sure, the internal de-interlacer is pretty weak.
Contrast? Very decent, considering the wall. I felt the contrast was similar to what an actual movie looks like in a theater. I've seen what the Grayhawk can do in this area so I'm positive it will be more than acceptable.
Color? Simply fantastic--took our breath away. Deep, vivid and accurate!
Brightness? Yep, brighter is better! Really gave the picture punch and depth.
Noise/heat? Didn't even notice it with the projector sitting right behind us and slightly above. But it was a little warm in the back of the room after 2 hours.
Pixels: We're sitting 15.5' back from a 100" diagonal picture. Pixels are simply not an issue! And we didn't de-focus either! And I have better than 20:20 vision at that distance. The MLA obviously makes a difference and the trick with this projector is to observe the rule of viewing distance being at least 2 times screen width.
We sat there for two hours with silly grins on our face and a periodic "gees this is fantastic". I never thought I'd see the day I could have something like this in my house.
Dan
