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Thanks to Chris Dallas, I headed over to Brack electronincs to get a look at the sony 11HT, which I had yet to have the opportunity to see.
I saw it on what must've been 7-8ft wide 16x9 screen, matte white. The movie playing was Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, on a progressive scan DVD player, which I believe was a denon, but have forgotten at the moment. My friend and I were on a couch about 10ft or more back. The room was moderatly dark, with only a small amount of ambient light.
It is bright! Even with the lights fully on, most of the scenes in the movie were well lit and easily visible. It is also very sharp running in its full panel mode, as that is the only way I saw it. The colour was fantastic, as per most LCD projectors. All the colours were rich, vibrant and saturated. I liked how this unit produced red, line on Darth Mauls face. I have heard that this is a problem for some DLPs (but thisis not a comparison, so I will stop there).
From my distance, the screen door was neglible, exept on large patches of the same colour..but even then, it wasn't so bad. However, this may be because of my background with VGA projectors.
The only thing that I found was a problem, and the reason why I will not by this projector, is the contrast and the black level.
In bright to not so bright scenes, this projector is amazing. However, once the lights start to dim, the image doesn't. It remains a greyish tinge that I am so familiar with my VGA Sharp XV-s55u. In fact, I came home to watch the same movie on mine, and the contrast appeared to be nearly the same.
For instance, on Darth Maul, it was difficult to differentiate the layers of his cloak, which could be easily scene on the rear projection CRT they had in the next room.
The movie was 2.35, and so there were very small bars on the top an bottom. Those bars were grey, and easily distinguished from the rest of the screen. I turned the brightness and contrast down to 0 for both, and yet the grey illumination remained.
I cannot imagine what the 10HT must be like.
It also had 1 dead pixel, on the lower right of the screen. It was blue. In most scenes, not a problem. On any bright scenes, it would make me wonder why I put 11K dollars into it. Lucky for me, my VGA has such little pixels that none have blown yet.
If you don't own a projector, this could be a great starting unit. But if you are "black a holic", wanting contrast and low absolute black level, this isn't the place to spend your $11,000 CDN. The resolution and colours are inticing, but for me, not worth the upgrade.
Even though I am extremely sensitive to the rainbow effect, I would love to see the new sharp unit, the Z9000, as a comparsion.
Well, any questions, feel free to ask.
I saw it on what must've been 7-8ft wide 16x9 screen, matte white. The movie playing was Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, on a progressive scan DVD player, which I believe was a denon, but have forgotten at the moment. My friend and I were on a couch about 10ft or more back. The room was moderatly dark, with only a small amount of ambient light.
It is bright! Even with the lights fully on, most of the scenes in the movie were well lit and easily visible. It is also very sharp running in its full panel mode, as that is the only way I saw it. The colour was fantastic, as per most LCD projectors. All the colours were rich, vibrant and saturated. I liked how this unit produced red, line on Darth Mauls face. I have heard that this is a problem for some DLPs (but thisis not a comparison, so I will stop there).
From my distance, the screen door was neglible, exept on large patches of the same colour..but even then, it wasn't so bad. However, this may be because of my background with VGA projectors.
The only thing that I found was a problem, and the reason why I will not by this projector, is the contrast and the black level.
In bright to not so bright scenes, this projector is amazing. However, once the lights start to dim, the image doesn't. It remains a greyish tinge that I am so familiar with my VGA Sharp XV-s55u. In fact, I came home to watch the same movie on mine, and the contrast appeared to be nearly the same.
For instance, on Darth Maul, it was difficult to differentiate the layers of his cloak, which could be easily scene on the rear projection CRT they had in the next room.
The movie was 2.35, and so there were very small bars on the top an bottom. Those bars were grey, and easily distinguished from the rest of the screen. I turned the brightness and contrast down to 0 for both, and yet the grey illumination remained.
I cannot imagine what the 10HT must be like.
It also had 1 dead pixel, on the lower right of the screen. It was blue. In most scenes, not a problem. On any bright scenes, it would make me wonder why I put 11K dollars into it. Lucky for me, my VGA has such little pixels that none have blown yet.
If you don't own a projector, this could be a great starting unit. But if you are "black a holic", wanting contrast and low absolute black level, this isn't the place to spend your $11,000 CDN. The resolution and colours are inticing, but for me, not worth the upgrade.
Even though I am extremely sensitive to the rainbow effect, I would love to see the new sharp unit, the Z9000, as a comparsion.
Well, any questions, feel free to ask.
