'This projector begs, no, it cries out for a professional calibration, or at least a serious attempt by users, using one of the "user friendly" calibration discs'
'This projector begs, no, it cries out for a professional calibration, or at least a serious attempt by users, using one of the "user friendly" calibration discs'
'The contrast levels are high and there's a nice visible distinction between brighter and darker areas — blacks appear just that with no hint of greyness and low level detail is well resolved.'
'visible control panel'
'very sharp picture'
'The extra resolution of 1080p is especially evident when an image is blown up to projector size.'
'I did find some loss of detail in very dark areas,'
'low power mode allows the projector to generate a quality image with sufficient contrast.'
'design that makes replacement quick and easy.'
'As for color quality, the HC6000's gamut was good enough to cover 100% of the REC.709 color space, with additional luminance in green and yellow spectra.'
'Even in full wide angle zoom, the projector never got close to its claimed 1200 lumens.'
'Its shortcomings included a short 1.2x zoom lens, no lens shift, and a fixed throw angle offset that made it uniquely suitable for ceiling mount, but difficult to install on a rear shelf.'
'The Sanyo PLV-Z2000's outward appearance belies the fact that little or no effort or money was invested in its physical design to make it attractive in any way.'
'At this price, if a 12-volt trigger is the corner that was cut, I think Sanyo made a wise choice.'
'The image itself is very natural, a key strength,'
'Tilting the projector and using keystone adjustments to correct the trapezoid is not recommended under any circumstances, as it will force a rescaling of native 1920x1080 video'
'Less than perfect gamma, poor primary and secondary color accuracy.'
'The long-term running costs of the Pearl will thus be much less (new Xenon lamps cost £1,000), but you'll pay a price in performance terms as the UHP lamps can't deliver such a wide colour gamut, such natural colour tones (especially with skin) or so much 'real' contrast as a Xenon lamp.'
'The image itself is very natural, a key strength,'
'Tilting the projector and using keystone adjustments to correct the trapezoid is not recommended under any circumstances, as it will force a rescaling of native 1920x1080 video'
'Less than perfect gamma, poor primary and secondary color accuracy.'
'The long-term running costs of the Pearl will thus be much less (new Xenon lamps cost £1,000), but you'll pay a price in performance terms as the UHP lamps can't deliver such a wide colour gamut, such natural colour tones (especially with skin) or so much 'real' contrast as a Xenon lamp.'
