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anthony - Apr 4, 2002
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Home Theatre |
| What I Like: |
excellent contrast ration. no funny screen artifacts on high moving action. Beautiful color reds, greens etc. Excellent black levels. Will be combining it with an Viewsonic rp50 to further enhance resolution and tweaks you get from running your video through the vga port. |
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I wish they were available in the united states for the same price! |
| Comments: |
This is a great projector to start with and you won't regret the purchase. People talk about screen door effects but with a little soft focus you can handle that. It seems to be most noticable with movies like bugs life and the sort with very bright consistant colors. It is not as noticable with movies like star wars or others. This issue is by no means a reason not to consider purchasing this machine. You can by external hardware Transcoder, line doubler, progressive scan dvd player and take care of this tiny issues if you want.
Have fun with your family and kids and bring back the big movies in the family room with this projector. 700 lumens is plenty to have a light on in the room even running the projector at the low power setting so you get 4,000+ hours out of the one bulb! |
Randy Coghill - Mar 24, 2002
| Application: |
Home Theater |
| What I Like: |
16:9 widescreen for my DVD's
Low Noise (I can barely here it if I try to)
Long life Bulb (5000 hours in Economy Mode)
Low Cost/High Value |
| Comments: |
If you are new to HT or if you just want a reasonably priced HT projector this one can't be beat. I bought the TH-AE100 (Japanese model to the PT-AE100), and setup was a breeze and picture quality beyond my expectations. I can not see spending more for some of these other projectors when the AE100 will suit most need for the forseeable future. |
kt - Mar 6, 2002
| Application: |
Home Theatre |
| What I Like: |
Small and light. Vivid colors and quite contrasty. Grey-black gradations not bad. Fairly quiet.
700 lumens sounds low now-a-days but quite adequate if using moderate gain screen even in
low ambient light. |
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Using low end Draper screen. Stewart Firehawk though designed for DLP would be a good
fit. Combination still costs less than high end 65" rear projection. Image should not exceed
92" and move projector as close as possible. That way the pixel structures are less noticeable. |
| Comments: |
Incredible value. Would pay extra for WXGA. Extra pixels would go a long way to hide
the visible structure even at 9 feet. Native 525p as good as any sub $10k projector for viewing
progressive DVD. Have not viewed on HD source and suspect this is where the Sony VPL-VW1HT
pull ahead of it. Color saturation and accuracy close to the Sony, though at times depending
on material seems a bit watered down. Again more pixels would help here. There are 2 1/2
times less, but you wouldn't have guessed. This unit is not embarassed by the SIM2 HT300
which is the benchmark LCD WXGA. Don't even consider current equivalent priced DLP's which
have flat images and flat colors. Next year this may not be true. |
Bugs Bunny - Feb 10, 2002
| Application: |
Home Theatre and Game Consoles (PS2/Dreamcast) |
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I want higher resolution (720p native), but for dvd and game play, it is just fit! |
| Comments: |
700 ANSI, 500:1 Contrast ratio, very natural color balance ( the best I have seen only second to CRT, not kidding!) , 16:9, very high fill rate just a bit lower than DLP, gray scale at dark screen very nice, RGB in --> excellent quality!!!
Also 30db audible level (silence....) at lower power mode with 5000 hours lamp timer, thats mean I will throw this projector away with the first bulb when it is five years old! Never need to change bulb! |
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