I was at Infocomm on Wednesday with some other AVS'ers. I also spent a lot of time in the Infocus booth talking with the product manager for the LP530.
The LP530 was not in the shootout so I only saw it in the booth with limited materials. It is however impressive. Very much better colors than (yellows greens and reds) than most projectors in the shootout on the same shots.
Some details:
1) it has 2000 lumens with a clear section. The clear section turns off on video material including HD.
2) it has gamma and RGB color controls, unlike the 350.
3) it will take 480p 720p and 1080i through the RGB input. It does not take 480p through component input.
4) Sage/Faroudja is on board. This effectively means that you can feed 480i from a DVD player and expect to get really excellent results. (The Faroudja guys were also at the Infocus booth when I was thereand talked about their chip in the Infocus.)
I thought that the 530 will be a very strong HT competitor. (Bear in mind that I am somewhat biased toward Infocus on the grounds that their machines provide excellent value and that is my perspective.)
We also discussed the new HT machine. This machine will be very similar to the 530. It will however have the 480X848 DLP chip and will support a native 16X9 aspect ratio. It will support 480P component input however. It will be at a good price point. He says that we can expect an announcement "very soon". I suspect they would want it before CEDIA.
For me I would almost prefer the 530 since it is XGA but time will tell.
On other points:
1. Faroudja had very effective demos of their Sage chip (the flag demo), the NR (Gladiator into two Sony plasmas with and without the NR. (The Sony has really wretched deinterlace BTW.) They also had the 5000 doing 1080i->1080p conversion on scenes from Dinosaur, fed into a G90. Very impressive.
2. I now have a new benchmark for what video can look like: the JVC D-ILA QXGA. This is it folks! Several of us sat in the front row, as milori reports, trying to find something wrong with the picture. A very few places where scaling could have improved, but the basic picture was bright, clear, colorful, filled with subtlety etc etc. THIS WILL CHANGE YOUR IDEAS ABOUT VIDEO forever. After seeing it, I walked through all of the high-end systems (Barco, Sony, Christie, Imax), and nothing they had even began to compare.
The LP530 was not in the shootout so I only saw it in the booth with limited materials. It is however impressive. Very much better colors than (yellows greens and reds) than most projectors in the shootout on the same shots.
Some details:
1) it has 2000 lumens with a clear section. The clear section turns off on video material including HD.
2) it has gamma and RGB color controls, unlike the 350.
3) it will take 480p 720p and 1080i through the RGB input. It does not take 480p through component input.
4) Sage/Faroudja is on board. This effectively means that you can feed 480i from a DVD player and expect to get really excellent results. (The Faroudja guys were also at the Infocus booth when I was thereand talked about their chip in the Infocus.)
I thought that the 530 will be a very strong HT competitor. (Bear in mind that I am somewhat biased toward Infocus on the grounds that their machines provide excellent value and that is my perspective.)
We also discussed the new HT machine. This machine will be very similar to the 530. It will however have the 480X848 DLP chip and will support a native 16X9 aspect ratio. It will support 480P component input however. It will be at a good price point. He says that we can expect an announcement "very soon". I suspect they would want it before CEDIA.
For me I would almost prefer the 530 since it is XGA but time will tell.
On other points:
1. Faroudja had very effective demos of their Sage chip (the flag demo), the NR (Gladiator into two Sony plasmas with and without the NR. (The Sony has really wretched deinterlace BTW.) They also had the 5000 doing 1080i->1080p conversion on scenes from Dinosaur, fed into a G90. Very impressive.
2. I now have a new benchmark for what video can look like: the JVC D-ILA QXGA. This is it folks! Several of us sat in the front row, as milori reports, trying to find something wrong with the picture. A very few places where scaling could have improved, but the basic picture was bright, clear, colorful, filled with subtlety etc etc. THIS WILL CHANGE YOUR IDEAS ABOUT VIDEO forever. After seeing it, I walked through all of the high-end systems (Barco, Sony, Christie, Imax), and nothing they had even began to compare.
