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1.5 stars
"Buy a projection TV"
Pros: resolution/contrast/inputs
Cons: Brightness-Price
Summary: I work in the commercial AV industry. I do a lot of reading on CNET for fun, and I usually do not comment on technology, however I had to for this product. The main reason I am giving this projector a negative score is because of the lumen output. A 600-700 lumen projector was state of the art in 1995. If you want a truely awesome 1080p projector and are willing to pay this much money, then get a professional projector from Digital Projection Inc. Here is a model that I would suggest: DPI Titan 1080P-500. Yeah, it is a little big and more expensive, but hey, you already would be considering a $20,000+ investment. It is 6000 lumens, and will blow any conusmer projector away. Here is a link to their site. You can read all about this line of projectors. See for yourself. http://www.digitalprojection.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=54&Itemid=57.
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I too am in the biz and have digital projections DV 4, 3 dlp projector also Mits 60 in 16-9 CRT rear projection and a Optoma HD70 . at under 2k you can get a stunning HD 100 in. picture from the newest crop of DLP LCD projectors .spending 5k on projector is not going get you 5 times the picture quality of a $1100 Panasonic AE900 .people love the picture on my DV5 but I refuse to fork over $1400 for a replacement Xenon lamp . projectors have hit the main stream.givin the choice most people will choose home theater viewing at 100 inches rather than a 52 in rear projection when you show them side by side. my friends and family ignore the CRT projection tv that has perfect HD picture and head for the projector . the newest crop of 1080p projectors and dark chip 3 models will come down in price over the next year or so and become main stream. even old school die hard AV guys see the future with projecters taking more of AV market every year .I Do see lots people with money to burn buying 20K Runcos and not getting the bang for there buck but who needs a 6K lumen light cannon when 1000 video lumens is perfect for 90% of home theaters. sounds like you have a bias with regards to front projection and thats cool, but the Marantz picture is fantastic just way over priced!
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WRONG!
All it takes to make a bright projector is a big bulb.
Do the math. To achieve SMPTE Guidelines for screening room environments (or are you saying that the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, of which I am one, don't know what they are talking about?) for, well let's start with a 100" diagonal screen with a gain of 1.3 requires 350 lumens. Wimpy screen? Ok then, let's get BIG. To do a screen that is 10 feet wide which if centered on a wall with an 8' ceiling would give you a little over a foot left over top and bottom, would require 525.
I'm not saying that brightness isn't a good thing.
Before I continue I should say that I work for Marantz on the team that developed this projector.
High End Enthusiasts have long worshipped the 9" CRT projector as the holy grail of video performance. Now, the absolute best ANSI lumen number that you are going to get from one of those 250 lb monsters is around 250. Hmmmm. But the colors. And the blacks. Oh, yeah...
We have more than twice that brightness, with blacks that rival CRT and one thing that CRTs can't even come close to: ANSI contrast (mixed content on the screen).
Let's take your 6000 lumen projector, and assume that it can yield an honest 3000:1 contrast ratio (I doubt it, but just for argument's sake). That's 2 lumens of black, which would yield roughly 1/10 of a FtL at full black. In a dark room, that's not black, that's gray. But I guess that wouldn't matter, because you'd be wearing sunglasses, because the white measurement would be 263 FtL, which would sear your eyeballs.
This projector is based on a platform that is in its 5th generation and was designed from day one to be the absolute best product on the market. But don't take my word for it. Go see it somewhere.
Just PLEASE don't buy it based on a SPEC. They are for the most part meaningless.
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