on the latest issue of SOUND & VISION MAGAZINE they reviewed the SIM SELECO HT300, the SHARP XV-Z9000U and the brand new RUNCO VX-1000C, all of which employ the HD-1 DLP chip with 1280 x 720 resolution.
i must point out that overall i was disappointed with the article as the reviewer did not post any figures for contrast, and hardly mentioned the "rainbow issue" at all...i guess he must be one of the lucky ones who aren't bothered at all by it !
as for onscreen lumens (or, as they called it "brightness") as projected onto a 80-inch wide Stewart GrayHawk, the figures for the three projectors are so similar to each other, as well as testing lower than i have ever seen on other reviews, that one begins to wonder if the reviewer got his figures somehow mixed up :
SELECO > 6.0 fL ---- SHARP > 6.4 fL ---- RUNCO > 5.6 fL
all figures achieved after units had been calibrated, with the uncalibrated figures about 1 fL higher !!!
i wonder how come these results are so low, especially when SGHT found that both the SHARP and the SELECO tested on average about 10 fL higher than reported here....
i must point out that overall i was disappointed with the article as the reviewer did not post any figures for contrast, and hardly mentioned the "rainbow issue" at all...i guess he must be one of the lucky ones who aren't bothered at all by it !
as for onscreen lumens (or, as they called it "brightness") as projected onto a 80-inch wide Stewart GrayHawk, the figures for the three projectors are so similar to each other, as well as testing lower than i have ever seen on other reviews, that one begins to wonder if the reviewer got his figures somehow mixed up :
SELECO > 6.0 fL ---- SHARP > 6.4 fL ---- RUNCO > 5.6 fL
all figures achieved after units had been calibrated, with the uncalibrated figures about 1 fL higher !!!
i wonder how come these results are so low, especially when SGHT found that both the SHARP and the SELECO tested on average about 10 fL higher than reported here....