Well, got this puppy 2 days ago and am temporarily throwing about a 62" wide picture on a matte white wall fed by a Panny RP91.
Colors are outstanding--even better than the HT200. Reds are gorgeous, and the best I have scene. Contrast is very good....blacks appear black to me. Admittedly, I am not a crt owner, so I am probably not the best person to talk about black level, but they look black to me.
16:9 mode is really cool, and there is practically no light spill on the sides this way. There still is spill on top and below of the picture.
Pixelization is pretty minimal from my viewpoint--12' back. I am trying to find the dlp panning problem that people are speaking of and will report back. Overall the picture is very sharp, but obviously digital. I don't mind, because I like that sharpness. I am getting a scan line flicker somehow on dvd menus, and every once in a while during the movie....Seleco told me to play with the freq./phase controls which may fix this.
Concerning lamp output---the 650 lumens here is perfect in a darkened room. Still a very bright picture to me. I don't think there was much difference in brightness compared to the HT200. Maybe it is because the HT200 is 800 lumens 4:3, so 16:9 images sacrafice some lumens....I don't know. I can turn on a small lamp, and the picture is still decent. Obviously, if you have a lot of ambient light, look elsewhere. Lamp life is excellent....6000 hrs.
And the biggie--what most of you have been waiting for as this projector supposedly kills the rainbow effect. Well, it doesn't guys....it does make it much better though. I would say 75% of the rainbows are gone which leaves me very disappointed. I watched MI2 last night, and still saw rainbows every few minutes. They are definitely rainbows too, as I see RGBRGB ones. They seem to be a little smaller however. Any scene with candles, and you still have them, although reduced. 2 other people were in the room and still saw them. If you take your eyes away for the screen, you definitely see them. Maybe I have a defective unit? Who knows....if what I am seeing is right, the Sharp unit would make me weary as well.
Overall it is a great picture...but the rainbows leave me in a real state to ponder, as the whole point of this DLP is get rid of them. LCD is sounding real good right now....but I just don't know what to do.
Colors are outstanding--even better than the HT200. Reds are gorgeous, and the best I have scene. Contrast is very good....blacks appear black to me. Admittedly, I am not a crt owner, so I am probably not the best person to talk about black level, but they look black to me.
16:9 mode is really cool, and there is practically no light spill on the sides this way. There still is spill on top and below of the picture.
Pixelization is pretty minimal from my viewpoint--12' back. I am trying to find the dlp panning problem that people are speaking of and will report back. Overall the picture is very sharp, but obviously digital. I don't mind, because I like that sharpness. I am getting a scan line flicker somehow on dvd menus, and every once in a while during the movie....Seleco told me to play with the freq./phase controls which may fix this.
Concerning lamp output---the 650 lumens here is perfect in a darkened room. Still a very bright picture to me. I don't think there was much difference in brightness compared to the HT200. Maybe it is because the HT200 is 800 lumens 4:3, so 16:9 images sacrafice some lumens....I don't know. I can turn on a small lamp, and the picture is still decent. Obviously, if you have a lot of ambient light, look elsewhere. Lamp life is excellent....6000 hrs.
And the biggie--what most of you have been waiting for as this projector supposedly kills the rainbow effect. Well, it doesn't guys....it does make it much better though. I would say 75% of the rainbows are gone which leaves me very disappointed. I watched MI2 last night, and still saw rainbows every few minutes. They are definitely rainbows too, as I see RGBRGB ones. They seem to be a little smaller however. Any scene with candles, and you still have them, although reduced. 2 other people were in the room and still saw them. If you take your eyes away for the screen, you definitely see them. Maybe I have a defective unit? Who knows....if what I am seeing is right, the Sharp unit would make me weary as well.
Overall it is a great picture...but the rainbows leave me in a real state to ponder, as the whole point of this DLP is get rid of them. LCD is sounding real good right now....but I just don't know what to do.
