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Saw this at a video company today
Specs:
3000/1900 lumens (not lamp modes, no increase in lamp life, strictly a brightness vs. contrast trade)
800:1/1000:1 CR
Single chip DLP
Sealed optics
2 lens options 1:1 and 1.8-2.4 zoom
SXGA resolution (1280x1024)
$14,995 list
This thing is tiny tiny tiny. It is about 12" wide x 9" deep x 5" tall, with the lens at one side (no lens offset capability though).
And it is quiet quiet quiet. You can hear it in a still room, but with any noise at all (like even 2 people talking) it is inaudible. 28 dB is alleged.
Christie is badging this as an installation projector, not a portable presentation unit, and says it is built to be long lived. Has a spiffy dark grey magnesium case, connectors are at the rear, has composite, Svideo, component, 15 pin RGB, and DVI. It is actually a Norwegian unit, the ProjectionDesign F1 SXGA, but only Christie is selling it in the U.S. at this time.
Was being shown in an office conference room under fluorescent lighting with a composite feed, so I can't even guess at image quality but at SXGA, it will compare favorably with WXGA when showing wide material (J Lo?).
We are set to borrow it for a demo period of a few days at work, I will try and squeeze a bit of HT oriented analysis into that.
Pricey, but the cool factor is definitely there.
Intersting on the variable brightness and contrast, the Christie products guy said it has a 7 segment color wheel spinning at 2X. At 3000 lumens, it makes more use of the white segment which (obviously) lowers onctrast to 800. At 1900 lumens, contrast goes to 1000. Done through the flipping cycles of the mirrors only. No change to lamp brightness, life or fan speed is involved.
Sp sounds like there WILL be rainbows, at least in high brightness mode. I'll see them if they are, it's why I don't have a DLP.
I want one just because of tis size and looks.
More after demo.
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Specs:
3000/1900 lumens (not lamp modes, no increase in lamp life, strictly a brightness vs. contrast trade)
800:1/1000:1 CR
Single chip DLP
Sealed optics
2 lens options 1:1 and 1.8-2.4 zoom
SXGA resolution (1280x1024)
$14,995 list
This thing is tiny tiny tiny. It is about 12" wide x 9" deep x 5" tall, with the lens at one side (no lens offset capability though).
And it is quiet quiet quiet. You can hear it in a still room, but with any noise at all (like even 2 people talking) it is inaudible. 28 dB is alleged.
Christie is badging this as an installation projector, not a portable presentation unit, and says it is built to be long lived. Has a spiffy dark grey magnesium case, connectors are at the rear, has composite, Svideo, component, 15 pin RGB, and DVI. It is actually a Norwegian unit, the ProjectionDesign F1 SXGA, but only Christie is selling it in the U.S. at this time.
Was being shown in an office conference room under fluorescent lighting with a composite feed, so I can't even guess at image quality but at SXGA, it will compare favorably with WXGA when showing wide material (J Lo?).
We are set to borrow it for a demo period of a few days at work, I will try and squeeze a bit of HT oriented analysis into that.
Pricey, but the cool factor is definitely there.
Intersting on the variable brightness and contrast, the Christie products guy said it has a 7 segment color wheel spinning at 2X. At 3000 lumens, it makes more use of the white segment which (obviously) lowers onctrast to 800. At 1900 lumens, contrast goes to 1000. Done through the flipping cycles of the mirrors only. No change to lamp brightness, life or fan speed is involved.
Sp sounds like there WILL be rainbows, at least in high brightness mode. I'll see them if they are, it's why I don't have a DLP.
I want one just because of tis size and looks.
More after demo.
BB
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