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As chance would have it, my wife (to be) walked in the room while I was checking out the new LT150.
"Wow, that looks pretty good for such a little thing", She immediately said as she sat down next to me.
I agreed.
"It's not nearly as bright as the other one, though." (The other one is a JVC G11). "Plus, you can see the lines"
"The lines? What lines", I asked, thinking that she was talking about the screen door effect, which I couldn't see at all from our seated position.
"The lines in the picture. Look at the top of the stick." (The stick is the walking stick from A Bug's Life, when he was flying through the air to Ant Island).
"See how the diagonal lines on the stick are in sections? They're not as smooth as the Dilla or something.". Ah. Not screen door. Jaggies. It's just a lower resolution, but she is quite the videophile. I could barely see it. Plus, we were still running the D-ILA resolution of 1360x768 instead of native resolution (1024x768), so some improvement could have been made there.
"What about the colors?", I asked, "How do you like the overall picture quality when you are not looking for artifacts?"
"The colors seem accurate, but just not as powerful. When the butterfly opens up her wings on the other projector, you just about have a heart attack. This one looks good, but it doesn't take your breath away with the vividness, especially on the butterfly."
That is true. That butterfly on A Bug's Life gets me everytime. When the old guy says, "My Ticker" and grabs his heart, I do, too! It's breathtaking. It was just part of the picture on the LT150. I don't know why this is, yet. Maybe brightness? Maybe contrast? Maybe saturation? Dunno yet.
"You know what's funny?", she continued, "If this was our first projector, I would absolutely love it and would be totally proud of it."
Again, I agreed.
Special thanks to my wife for doing this mini-review for me. She summed it up perfectly, and I have little to add until I get the objective specs measured.
The LT150 seems to be a fantastic little projector, and it is truly an unbeatable bargain for the price. To pit it against a calibrated D-ILA was a little unfair for my wife ( http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/biggrin.gif ), and as she said, if we didn't have anything to directly compare it to (using a title we are very familiar with), it would have knocked us out.
I have much more that I want to do with it, but wanted to share (our) first impressions.
"Wow, that looks pretty good for such a little thing", She immediately said as she sat down next to me.
I agreed.
"It's not nearly as bright as the other one, though." (The other one is a JVC G11). "Plus, you can see the lines"
"The lines? What lines", I asked, thinking that she was talking about the screen door effect, which I couldn't see at all from our seated position.
"The lines in the picture. Look at the top of the stick." (The stick is the walking stick from A Bug's Life, when he was flying through the air to Ant Island).
"See how the diagonal lines on the stick are in sections? They're not as smooth as the Dilla or something.". Ah. Not screen door. Jaggies. It's just a lower resolution, but she is quite the videophile. I could barely see it. Plus, we were still running the D-ILA resolution of 1360x768 instead of native resolution (1024x768), so some improvement could have been made there.
"What about the colors?", I asked, "How do you like the overall picture quality when you are not looking for artifacts?"
"The colors seem accurate, but just not as powerful. When the butterfly opens up her wings on the other projector, you just about have a heart attack. This one looks good, but it doesn't take your breath away with the vividness, especially on the butterfly."
That is true. That butterfly on A Bug's Life gets me everytime. When the old guy says, "My Ticker" and grabs his heart, I do, too! It's breathtaking. It was just part of the picture on the LT150. I don't know why this is, yet. Maybe brightness? Maybe contrast? Maybe saturation? Dunno yet.
"You know what's funny?", she continued, "If this was our first projector, I would absolutely love it and would be totally proud of it."
Again, I agreed.
Special thanks to my wife for doing this mini-review for me. She summed it up perfectly, and I have little to add until I get the objective specs measured.
The LT150 seems to be a fantastic little projector, and it is truly an unbeatable bargain for the price. To pit it against a calibrated D-ILA was a little unfair for my wife ( http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/biggrin.gif ), and as she said, if we didn't have anything to directly compare it to (using a title we are very familiar with), it would have knocked us out.
I have much more that I want to do with it, but wanted to share (our) first impressions.