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After watching the convergence on my ancient 48" Toshiba go South, I finally decided to run up a little debt and blow bucks on a decent DLP Front Projector (okay not-SOTA but something I can afford (maybe?)) and big screen (Sharp10000/Stewart Firehawk combo).We got the screen installed and the FP "temporarily" installed with appropriate electrical connections/calibration (e.g. keystone adjustments, test DVD-Vs, lose the cabling stretched out across the middle of the floor, etc...) to follow.
Right out the box, the picture was very good (to my untrained eyes); even with a non-progressive, fairly mediocre DVD-V source (SACD1000). I can only wonder what will happen when I properly tweak the video, get a good (progressive scan ??), perhaps DVI-capable source, power conditioning, etc....
Now need to work on HD source, DVI and/or Progressive Scan source, DVI cables, DVI/component switchers....
More later...
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...and I absolutely love it (sharp 10000 and firehawk). In many ways, I prefer it to my sony g70 crt (8" tubes) -- no, it doesn't do the blacks as well but it is so easy to use.About the dvi -- be careful...sght had a review of the Bravo using a dvi output and there was a problem with the sharp. As for me, I'm using a pioneer progressive into the sharp via component and love it. Oh, I'd highly recommend a powerplant to feed ac to the sharp (I'm using a ps300) -- it really cleaned up noise in the picture for me.
I've seen huge differences in PQ between non-progressive Cambridge Audio and Arcam DVD players and EAD DVDmaster w/ Sil504 de-interlacer displayed on a Sharp9000. Kind of defeats the idea that the Sharp FPs have excellent de-interlacers built-in. Nevertheless, huge video improvement over what I had before.I'm currently running component and I'm anxiously waiting to read about successful implementations with DVI and the Sharp. I'm holding off until I get a good warm and fuzzy a DVI-capable player can talk to the 10000 using a 15-16m DVI cable. Not that there are a lot of DVI-capable players to choose from at the moment. A couple of low-budget players with known issues and the Denon-5900.
Ever play with S-video to the Sharp ? Re: (non-HD) Cable box does not have component out. Not that I expect much from non-upsampled cable broadcasts on a 110" screen.
I'm actually using my sharp here in London (I commute between US and UK so the Sony projector is in the US and the sharp is here in the UK). The advantage here is that we use a PAL tv system which has much better resolution than the US NTSC system. The result is that svideo (from a svhs recorder) to the sharp on a 96" screen (what I use here) is fairly reasonable and not all that worse than dvd's. What I've never seen is true HD on the sharp since we don't have that here in the UK. I'd like to hook it up one of these days and compare it with my sony back in the US.
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