I'm real happy with my new screen. And these shots are down resed from 1984X1488 to 640X480. You should see them in full res or forget that, the H1000 & HP in person.

Look at the nice detail in blacks on the Steve Tyler's daughter shot (elf). The HT is one beautiful projector. Not to mention the babe!

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Randall Morton

· #4 · Apr 8, 2003

I think I would like the HT1000 but with the throw distance I would have to use a table. The offset is where the problem comes in. When you table mount this projector at the 12 to 14 ft range isn't there like about an 18" offset on a 4x3 screen? This would only work for me with the projector on the floor. Right now I have a 92"wide 4x3 screen.

Your screen shots are really nice.

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guitarman

Discussion Starter · #5 · Apr 8, 2003

I have your same screen size. My screen viewing area starts at 8" from the ceiling. The projectors lens center is just 6" down from the ceiling. With a very slight tilt up and using 3D reform I get a perfectly square and centered picture. They do say in the manual the lens s/b 12" from the start of the viewing are, but you can get around this.

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Randall Morton

· #6 · Apr 8, 2003

Doesn't the 3D reform rescale your picture? If Dwin doesn't hurry up I may buy an HT1000 now and wait for SXRD. Even though I haven't seen an HT I've read enough here to feel comfortable buying one before seeing. The offset was my main concern with the HT1000.

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guitarman

Discussion Starter · #7 · Apr 8, 2003

It has no ill effects to be seen. It's a great way to square up the screen, works better than the keystone. Plus with the stats I mentioned in my setup there really isn't much fixing to do. Just a couple of slight adjustments.

Also these new shots are all with a $100 JVC XV-S500 progressive player set to interlaced.

In the PJ's Picture settings I'm using -

user 1 in Movie

gamma - Natural

color temp - 6500K

Picture settings -

Sweetvision - low

Black expansion 3

Contrast ** minus 2

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David600

· #8 · Apr 8, 2003

hi Tom

what angle of vision do you get ?

have you notice any reduction in the nr of possible seating positions due to the 2.8 gain or is it negligeable ?

no hotspotting (though digital pjs fare much better than crt here) ?

any effects on the black level ? I imagine you can now reduce the brighthness on the PJ and improve the black level even more.

thanks

nice shots, you can feel the gain in contrast and punch, indeed.

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Kevin L.

· #9 · Apr 8, 2003

My god!!! Do that look awesome. Say goodbye to my lt150. Just one question. Is your projector ceiling mounted??

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guitarman

Discussion Starter · #10 · Apr 8, 2003

The screen just about fills the wall so it's hard to get a distant angle when veiwing. You know I ran Avia and could maybe back off the Bright two clicks, when I set the Hue with avia I didn't like the added red so I just set the basic perameters to factory. No use messing with it when it's perfect!

Oh yeah the black expansion feature darkens up the image nicely.

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Paul_Saul

· #11 · Apr 8, 2003

Those of you who are using your HT1000 with a high power screen could you please comment on the effect that it has on black level and the visibility of screen wrinkles. Are you looking on the screen axis?

I am using a matte white screen and I am not happy with the waves in the screen.

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KeithR

· #12 · Apr 8, 2003

How bad did this exacerbate the rainbow issue with this pj?

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Mr. Biggles

· #13 · Apr 8, 2003

Paul

Don't know if I got lucky or what, but my Model C is free of waves completely. I have had the screen going on two weeks and it's retracted every day. It's not the CSR model.

I really have not seen any apparent degradation of blacks and am pleased as a pickle at the 'punchiness' of colors. My HT1000 is ceiling mounted so I'm obviously not taking full advantage of the gain, but compared to my old HCMW it's been quite a satisfactory experience so far.

Bill

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guitarman

Discussion Starter · #14 · Apr 8, 2003

Kevin, the projector is ceiling mounted.

http://www.cigarbest.com/sales/ht1000.jpg

Blacks are still very black with the HP screen. Wrinkles are absolutely gone. You will not see a shadow wave when an image is projected.

No change in the rainbows with the HP. I'm not affected and hardly ever see them.

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mark_1080p

· #15 · Apr 9, 2003

From another HT1000/Hi-Power owner:

It is an 87" diagonal 16x9 plasma TV.

Hi-Power did enhance rainbows with lamps off.

It did however allow lamps on which reduced the rainbows.

Net: more but manageable rainbows.

Daylight viewing with miniblinds closed curtains partially drawn.

No wrinkles, stretched and stapled onto wall, moulded in.

Keystone on 2 works great, PJ tilted down on 3' table at 12' from screen.

My search began at PJCentral, ended here and I have praise and thanks to Evan Powell, Tom, Darin, JMike, Wildfire, Jimmy, Tryg, and so many others who took the time to educate and respond.

Mark

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