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Warren Chang - Jan 28, 2002
| Application: |
Home Theater |
| What I Like: |
brightness, quiet fan, good picture even at 480i |
| Suggestions: |
no PS mode as advertised, auto-detection of 16:9 vs. 4:3 mode does not work |
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It's bright and as quiet as advertised. At first I thought the colors seemed kind of faded, as compared to my tube TV, but after a while I realized that it was the TV that was oversaturated, not the projector image which was dull. I confirmed this by comparing the screenshots on the back cover of various DVDs: for example, the shirt of the woman paleontologist from Jurassic Park came out a bright salmon pink on my TV but a light pink on my projector image, and according to the screenshot, it is indeed supposed to be light pink.
Two complaints would be what amounts to false advertising: the on-line ad mentioned a "Power Saving" mode which reduces power consumption and further quiets the fan noise, and even shows it in a picture of the control panel on their website at
http://www.optomausa.com/public/ezpro_753.asp
But on my unit, the "PS Mode" button is instead a "Zoom" button.
The other complaint is that the "auto-detection" of 16:9 versus 4:3 input is nonexistent. I have my DVD player set to 16:9 and my cable box of course outputs 4:3... But I have to manually flip the mode myself on the projector. I almost always use it for viewing DVD's in 16:9 so it's not that big of a hassle, but it is again misrepresentation.
All in all, though, I'm quite happy with it. Watching "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" in widescreen blew me away. Not to mention anime movies like "Akira" or "Princess Mononoke".
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