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- Sony VPL-VW50
- Sony shook up the high-end front projection market last September when it introduced the VPL-VW50 SXRD front projector at a list price of $5,000. The unit, dubbed the "Pearl," is still among the least expensive 1080p front projectors available. It does some things really well, although it falls short in...
- Tags: TV & Home Theater, TVs, projector, VPL-VW50 SXRD, Advanced Iris, 1080p, Sony Corp.
- Product reviews 2007-02-26
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- Samsung HL61A750
- Rear-projection HDTVs, as a category, are on their way out, and DLP-based sets are the only microdisplay choice available, now that all manufacturers of LCD- and LCoS-based rear-projection displays have basically ceased production. Samsung and Mitsubishi are pretty much the only players left in this category--they're the only two...
- Tags: menu system, Samsung HL61A750, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Warm 2, color temperature
- Product reviews 2008-07-18
- Samsung SP-A800B
- Samsung's flagship one-chip DLP-based home theater projector, the SP-A800B, takes accuracy of signal reproduction to a new level. My previous reference projector, the Samsung SP-H710AE, was designed by Joe Kane, and that well-known video guru and author of Digital Video Essentials also designed the SP-A800B. While the 710E is spectacularly...
- Tags: Projectors, Home entertainment, TV & Home Theater, picture menu, Movie mode, Samsung SP-A800B, projector, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
- Product reviews 2008-06-10
- Mitsubishi HC6000
- Mitsubishi's HC6000 replaces last year's model, the HC5000, as the company's entry-level 1080p home theater projector. The main improvement is higher contrast ratio due mainly to improved black level performance. It also delivers on its 1080p resolution promise for the most part, with video processing courtesy of Silicon Optix and...
- Tags: Projectors, menu system, Auto Iris feature, color temperature, Mitsubishi HC6000, projector, Mitsubishi Corp.
- Product reviews 2008-04-15
- JVC DLA HD100 - D-ILA projector
- JVC's DLA-HD100 1080p resolution front projector is the company's new flagship model, while the DLA-HD1 from last year remains in the line at a lower price point. The HD100 adds some improvements that are certainly desirable--including improved black level performance and contrast ratio--but oddly the color accuracy and light output...
- Tags: DLA HD100, DLA-HD100, JVC, menu system, projector
- Product reviews 2008-03-11
- Sony VPL VW60 - SXRD projector
- Sony's entry-level SXRD-based front projector, the VPL-VW60, is the successor to last year's price-busting VPL-VW50. Also as a 1080p resolution projector with the same $4,999 list price, it faces stiffer competition these days with more 1080p projectors available for lower prices. Based on my findings with the company's flagship VPL-VW200,...
- Tags: menu system, Cinema Black Pro menu, Sony VPL-VW60, Sony Corp., projector
- Product reviews 2008-02-21
- On+the+show+floor+at+PMA+2008%3A+Sony+shows+off+high-end+DSLR+prototype
- On+the+show+floor+at+PMA+2008%3A+Sony+shows+off+high-end+DSLR+prototypeSony sucksI'll never buy Sony again. Period.RE: On+the+show+floor+at+PMA+2008%3A+Sony+shows+off+high-end+DSLR+prototypeI think these are great cameras. While I have the a100, I look forward to buying an a700. These cameras have great feel, functionality, and features. The only gripe about mine is the noise on 800 and 1600 ISO. But it has...
- Tags: Blu-ray, Blue-ray, A700, Sony Corp., camera
- Discussion threads 2008-02-01
- Lanier's attack on open source religion
- Jaron Lanier's broadside against "open source religion" in Discover Magazine was well-timed. The turn of the year, and the evident turning of an era, offers a great time to see the success, and possible excesses, of the open source ideal with fresh eyes. Lanier...
- Tags: Innovation, Library, Attack, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-12-31
- Sony to quit making rear-projection TVs
- Sony to quit making rear-projection TVsLCD/Plasma is great for those who don't care for deepest blacks.Me? DLP and LCoS only!!!Even though I don't have one, Sony SXRD KDS-xxA3000 series of TVs (50, 55, and 60) has the best quality picture, when caliborated correctly!!LCDs and Plasma, even though it had been...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Monitors & displays, LCD/Plasma, plasma, HDTV, TV, Sony Corp., RPTV, Circuit City Stores Inc., LCD
- Discussion threads 2007-12-27
- Panasonic PT-AE2000U
- Panasonic has been in the front-projection business for a long time, and has been aggressively pricing its home-theater projectors for just as long, which has effectively driven prices down in the category as a whole. As a result it's now more affordable than ever to get a really big screen...
- Tags: grayscale, HDMI, menu system, Panasonic, Panasonic PT-AE2000U, projector
- Product reviews 2007-12-19
- Sony VPL VW200
- Sony's 2007 flagship front projector, the VPL-VW200, uses the company's variant of LCoS, called SXRD, and like most high-end projectors, it features a native resolution of 1080p. Those specs and jargon may well impress your buddies, but the real story is in the picture. The VPL-VW200 is the most color-accurate...
- Tags: menu system, projector, Sony Corp., VPL-VW200
- Product reviews 2007-12-12
- Sony KDS-55A3000
- Sony has a real winner with the new KDS-A3000 series, represented here by the 55-inch KDS-55A3000, the middle of three sizes. We liked Sony's LCoS-based SXRD technology when it was first introduced a couple of years ago, and the company has followed up by significantly improving performance. While not perfect,...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, picture menu, Sony Corp., Sony KDS-55A3000
- Product reviews 2007-11-28
- JVC DLA-HD1
- JVC's first relatively affordable 1080p DILA aka LCoS projector has garnered a lot of praise on Internet forums recently. The DLA-HD1's coveted 1080p resolution, at a price somewhere between the Sony VPL-VW50 aka the Pearl and its big brother, the VPL-VW100 aka the Ruby, may have something to do with...
- Tags: JVC, JVC DLA-HD1, projector, 1080p
- Product reviews 2007-08-07
- JVC Projector DLA-RS1U
- JVC's first relatively affordable 1080p DILA aka LCoS projector has garnered a lot of praise on Internet forums recently. The DLA-RS1U's coveted 1080p resolution, at a price somewhere between the Sony VPL-VW50 aka the Pearl and its big brother, the VPL-VW100 aka the Ruby, may have something to do with...
- Tags: JVC, projector, 1080p, DLA-RS1U
- Product reviews 2007-07-27
- BenQ W10000
- BenQ has been a major player in DLP front projection display technology for years, and the company's latest flagship projector, the W10000, is a one-chip design with Texas Instruments' new 1080p resolution chip. A good-size lamp means the 10000W will drive large screen sizes, which is an important consideration...
- Tags: projector, BenQ W10000, BenQ Corp.
- Product reviews 2007-04-10
- Sony KDS-60A2020
- Editors' Note:: According to Sony, the 2007 KDS-60A2020 is exactly the same as the 2006 KDS-60A2000 except for color; the new model's cabinet is black instead of silver. For that reason, we will not review the KDS-60A2020 or any of Sony's other A2020 series SXRD HDTVs. Below we present a...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Sony KDS-60A2020, Sony Corp.
- Product reviews 2007-03-07
- Sony KDS-R60XBR2
- The pricy but feature-packed KDS-R60XBR2, Sony's step-up to the KDS-60A2000, has some big shoes to fill as the company's flagship rear-projection HDTV for 2006. This 60-inch big screen costs substantially more than its non-XBR brother, yet a thorough read of the spec sheet reveals very few differences. The televisions...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Sony KDS-R60XBR2, XBR, A2000, Sony Corp.
- Product reviews 2006-11-13
- Sony KDS-60A2000
- Sony has enjoyed a lofty place on our top HDTV products lists for a long time, first with the KD-34XBR960 CRT television, then with the KDL-V40XBR1 LCD, and most recently with the KDS-R60XBR1 rear-projection, our highest-rated HDTV for 2005. So it stands to reason that we'd expect big things from...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Sony KDS-60A2000, Sony Corp., HDTV
- Product reviews 2006-08-03
- Sony VPL-VW100
- Projectors can produce comparatively enormous pictures, so a high native resolution is even more important in a projector than in a standard HDTV. After all, if the picture measures 100 inches diagonally as opposed to 50 or 42, you'll have a lot more opportunity to discern individual pixels and notice...
- Tags: TV & Home Theater, projector, Sony VPL-VW100, Sony Corp., 1080p
- Product reviews 2006-05-18
- Dell 2400MP
- The Dell 2400MP resets the bar for what you can expect from a mainstream budget projector, combining class-leading brightness with sharpness and value. This projector is capable of delivering more than 3,000 lumens, which tops every projector in the budget category and equals Dell's own much more expensive 5100MP. The...
- Tags: Dell 2400MP, projector, Dell Computer Corp.
- Product reviews 2006-05-12
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