Thanks for all the responses so far. Sorry for my absence, I've been very busy at work and been spending a good bit of my time at home working on the theater project.
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Originally Posted by Jason Turk /forum/post/15603245
Genereally I would not buy a C3XLite for slightly more than a D80E. Why? Because that is a bad price on a used one. I sold a C3XE (newest one before 1080) and it was $6500 10 months ago...prices have dropped since.
In truth, I doubt you would want to spend more than $3k or so on a used Lite (sorry but there are better out there if you spend more).
To clarify, my opportunity is for a -new- C3X Lite. I'm not really interested in going down the used path for a variety of reasons that don't need to be talked about here.
I was VERY much into this stuff a few years ago when the C3X first came out and remember how substantial an improvement the C3X was over the competition (this was the same time the Ruby was coming out as well). Because of how much better a picture I thought the C3X made than the Ruby, I became a bit tainted against 1080p. I realize things have changed a LOT in a few years, which is why I'm here asking the question.
Aren't the optics of the C3X going to be a good bit better than something like the D80? I was wondering if that would cause the overall resolution of the two systems to be closer than just 720 vs. 1080. Perhaps I'm totally wrong here...please help?
Also, the other thing I remember striking me about the C3X a few years ago was that it had color depth unlike anything I had ever seen on a single chip projector. My understanding was that this was a function of 3 DMD chips vs. 1 DMD using a color wheel. I don't see how that would have changed...
I did stop by the Sim2 room at CES and saw the HT5k, C3X1080, Lumus, and their new entry level D60. I have to say, I was pretty impressed by the D60 (And all the projectors in that price bracket that I saw at the show). What $5k gets you has come a long way in 2-3 years.
FYI, I stopped being able to notice rainbows with the single chip DLP generation from probably 4-5 years ago.
A little background about my project. It is a dedicated room...the wife has allowed me to do whatever I want. Thus, it will be totally light controlled, dark environment, etc. Room dimensions will be small (about 11x16), so I would expect to be sitting ?13? feet from the screen. I was planning on something like a 92" screen. Seriously doubting that I'm going to scope whatever I do...was not impressed by the scope stuff I saw at CES. Obviously, none of this is written in stone as I haven't even sheetrocked yet.
