is the Sanyo P21N such a threat ?

I am confused about this statement:

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This can't be an optical stretch. Do you mean it zooms out the picture so the 16:9 area covers the entire screen and the remaining top/bottom areas fall off the screen? How can a 4:3 panel projector "stretch" to a 16:9 image?


Basically, I am wondering how I can do this:

1. 4:3 image shown on a 16:9 screen
2. 16:9 image shown on a 16:9 screen[/list=a]
   
   
   Can you do this with different modes in the projector?
   
   
   Thanks
   
   Robert
   
   

wow!! is this so then ????


anyone dares to do some screenshots ? that would be lovely.

try difficult movies such as UNBREKABLE, DARK CITY for instance but also great stuff such as GLADIATOR or RULES OF ENGAGEMENT


thanks

best

David

JHouse, What screen are you using (gain etc) and how much are bulbs for this unit? How long do they last?


How is the contrast ratio on this? Do you think it looks as it is rated?


How much ambiantlight can be in the room? Dunno how much the black out curtains I will make will block out. Thanks.


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Search me on this site for some background. But it's a 1.3 gain Da-lite Da-snap fixed. I haven't checked bulb price, but I read somewhere that they were about $400, But I would expect you might pay about 75% of that. They're supposed to last 2000 hours.


Contrast is much better than an LP350. Looks just like a direct view CRT to me. It's all that I have been secretly desiring, but thinking couldn't be had. I used to rate movie production based upon how contrasty it looked on my projector. Now, I've discovered all those "dark" and "low contrast" DVD's have much greater contrast than my local state of the art stadium cinema.


My 12 year old says this projector is as bright in the daytime as the LP350 was at night. My wife's reading lamp used to seriously compromise the picture, and now it's irrelavent. It lights the room up so much you might not even need a reading lamp! We just watched Jurassic Park and That Thing You Do tonight. Just plain stunning. My son keeps pointing out details that he had never noticed before in movies he's seen numerous times on several displays(I'm doing the same thing, but without verbalizing every time). I'm totally thrilled. It's like upgrading all your DVD's at once.


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Joe