You're going to get as many answers as there are participants in this forum.
The tradeoffs between brightness, resolution, color saturation/accuracy and contrast/black keep shifting and improving. Personally speaking, I have never been impressed with relatively dim projectors (300-500 lumens) that boast astronomical contrast/black numbers but sacrifice image "punch" to get them. Similarly, your 6000 lumen Barco with only 800CR is not suitable for HT use IMO.
Then, of course, you introduce the question of single chip vs. three-chip (I prefer the latter strongly) and the question of 720P vs. 1080P, and then on-board processing vs. separate video processor, etc. etc.
Finally, there's the question of price. Are $30K projectors 10x better than $3K ones? Looking at the current crop of new projectors, that would be a hard case to make IMO.
My ideal projector is about 1500 lumens, at least 6000 real CR, very closely converged three chip, long throw capability. I am not convinced that, for my seating distance and viewing habits, that 1080P would be mandatory if I were buying today but I expect it to become the standard in relatively short order so if I trade up next year, that will probably be what I end up with.
Who'd a thunk we'd have projectors like this new Pearl and the Panny 100 for prices that are 25% or less of what we were paying for similar performance three years ago?
The tradeoffs between brightness, resolution, color saturation/accuracy and contrast/black keep shifting and improving. Personally speaking, I have never been impressed with relatively dim projectors (300-500 lumens) that boast astronomical contrast/black numbers but sacrifice image "punch" to get them. Similarly, your 6000 lumen Barco with only 800CR is not suitable for HT use IMO.
Then, of course, you introduce the question of single chip vs. three-chip (I prefer the latter strongly) and the question of 720P vs. 1080P, and then on-board processing vs. separate video processor, etc. etc.
Finally, there's the question of price. Are $30K projectors 10x better than $3K ones? Looking at the current crop of new projectors, that would be a hard case to make IMO.
My ideal projector is about 1500 lumens, at least 6000 real CR, very closely converged three chip, long throw capability. I am not convinced that, for my seating distance and viewing habits, that 1080P would be mandatory if I were buying today but I expect it to become the standard in relatively short order so if I trade up next year, that will probably be what I end up with.
Who'd a thunk we'd have projectors like this new Pearl and the Panny 100 for prices that are 25% or less of what we were paying for similar performance three years ago?
