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Wow! That thing projected a WIDE image! It was somewhere near 10 feet - 120 inches wide! Hmm... i think the only thing it had going for itself was the width/brightness.
Scenes with even a small amount of black in them looked so washed out that i was amazed - the contrast had to be absolutely the worst i've seen. Even though mine loses out a bit in some scenes because i've set the brightness way down, mine still takes the cake in contrast! And its a measly 1030Q1!!
Screen-door effect - i have to admit, i had to look just a little closely to find that effect - but once i saw it, it drove me nuts. That, combined with the chroma bug, and i was seeing things the rest of the audience wasn't!
Last but not the least - in fact the greatest annoyance - they were using it to project a letterbox image inside a 4:3 screen, and the grey bars were so bright they distracted from the picture! Even my little old 1030Q1, set as it is to display a 4:3 image, doesn't have those annoying bars - widescreen is widescreen, not something else.
Granted, the image was HUGE - and it was a presentation projector (Optima something), but it had too many issues. The contrast was the major one - all scenes looked washed out - only the ones shot at the beach (American Pie 2) looked ok. I shudder to think of watching POTA on that one!
Scenes with even a small amount of black in them looked so washed out that i was amazed - the contrast had to be absolutely the worst i've seen. Even though mine loses out a bit in some scenes because i've set the brightness way down, mine still takes the cake in contrast! And its a measly 1030Q1!!
Screen-door effect - i have to admit, i had to look just a little closely to find that effect - but once i saw it, it drove me nuts. That, combined with the chroma bug, and i was seeing things the rest of the audience wasn't!
Last but not the least - in fact the greatest annoyance - they were using it to project a letterbox image inside a 4:3 screen, and the grey bars were so bright they distracted from the picture! Even my little old 1030Q1, set as it is to display a 4:3 image, doesn't have those annoying bars - widescreen is widescreen, not something else.
Granted, the image was HUGE - and it was a presentation projector (Optima something), but it had too many issues. The contrast was the major one - all scenes looked washed out - only the ones shot at the beach (American Pie 2) looked ok. I shudder to think of watching POTA on that one!