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In Reply to: In my household right now,..... posted by millen on August 8, 2007 at 17:05:06:
I'm in the process of upgrading from a 2 y/o Mitsubishi Colorview HC3 (1/4 HD) to a 720p (traditional HD) Panasonic PT AX100U. The latter is $1300, and there are less expensive 720p projectors (as low as $750), but there are some features of the Panasonic I like such as the high 2000 lumen brightness in my sunroom-located theater with ambient light as well as the 2.0 zoom (the HC3 was 1.2) which means that I will no longer have to have the projector out in the middle of the room. THe HC3 is quite bright too, but not the equal of the panasonic, and is fussy about where it lives relative to the screen.
To me the full 1080p projectors are still too expensive (>$2500) for whatever marginal improvement there might be beyond 720p. I have a large library of 480p DVDs (close to 200) and whatever I use needs to do first off a good job with those. But this opens the door for either an upconvert traditional player, or one of the HD or BD players. My hesitation on the latter stems from my belief that these two competing formats will not coexist forever, and its really the potential obsolesence of the movie library not the player in the "wrong" format that scares me the most about making a move. So that leads me back to the idea of an upconvert player except that I read that sometimes the scalers in the projerctors are already better at upconverting than anything that might be going on in a $50 DVD player labeled upconvert with HDMI connnections.
Has anyone else sorted this all out better than I have ?
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- Which projector do you use? I'm in the middle of an upgrade - DavidLD 04:44:07 08/09/07 (3)
- I’m using the older Sony VPL PX-20..... - millen 14:01:06 08/09/07 (0)
- What you need to ask yourself is... - 4season 12:13:22 08/09/07 (1)
- Good Post (nt) - Jack G 12:21:17 08/09/07 (0)
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