Anyone sensible into hi-fi soon comes to the conclusion that a mid priced component actually sounds better than a high end component. This is not surprising since mid end components use the best electronics available on the planet, where as high end uses obscure electronics in order to differentiate themselves. The magazines perpetuate the myth that high end sounds better in order to sell copies.
I am getting the impression from reading between the lines of peoples posts that HT projectors run the same way. If you are running non high def material in a light controlled room then the AE100 gives a picture about as good as it gets with todays technology.
DLP projectors suffer many problems like rainbows, temporal dithering, the inability to show smooth fast action, high video noise and filtering - not surprising when you understand how the technology works. BTW. I've seen a film in a DLP cinema and it was crap compared with standard film.
LCOS is the direct equivalent to high end hi-fi. Every normal person who sees them in action think they stink, where as every person stupid enough to believe the myth and buys one, then has to defend their purchase to death with comments like 'yeah well, you never saw it set up properly'
CRT I can believe give the best image quality all things considered (after all, I would not give up my CRT monitor). But why is it that every CRT owner I read is itching to swap across to a digital technology?
Bottom line is this. There is no magical technology out there. The bulb in the AE100 is no different to one in a $4000 pj. The panel, prisms and lens are state of the art manufacturing (resolution excluded). The pj can be fed from a HTPC so the scaler is irrelevant. And there ain't a whole lot more to a PJ.
El
I am getting the impression from reading between the lines of peoples posts that HT projectors run the same way. If you are running non high def material in a light controlled room then the AE100 gives a picture about as good as it gets with todays technology.
DLP projectors suffer many problems like rainbows, temporal dithering, the inability to show smooth fast action, high video noise and filtering - not surprising when you understand how the technology works. BTW. I've seen a film in a DLP cinema and it was crap compared with standard film.
LCOS is the direct equivalent to high end hi-fi. Every normal person who sees them in action think they stink, where as every person stupid enough to believe the myth and buys one, then has to defend their purchase to death with comments like 'yeah well, you never saw it set up properly'
CRT I can believe give the best image quality all things considered (after all, I would not give up my CRT monitor). But why is it that every CRT owner I read is itching to swap across to a digital technology?
Bottom line is this. There is no magical technology out there. The bulb in the AE100 is no different to one in a $4000 pj. The panel, prisms and lens are state of the art manufacturing (resolution excluded). The pj can be fed from a HTPC so the scaler is irrelevant. And there ain't a whole lot more to a PJ.
El