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Mitsubishi HD1000U by Dave C - Apr 21, 2007
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| HD 720 (1280x720), 1500 ANSI Lumens, 6.5 lbs, $1,495 (MSRP) |
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| Personal Experience |
| This projector is superb value at a street price of well under $1,000 ... I bought it as a low cost alternative to a flatscreen TV, with a bonus of a much larger picture. I ended up spending about $1,200 including a ceiling mount and a replacement bulb contract. It offers a much better selection of inputs and picture configurability than anything else remotely in its price range, and a decent power output (see below). One of my big concerns in going with a projector was brightness, and I'm very pleased with the output on this one ... I run about a 105" picture size on an off-white wall (have not yet invested in a screen) and it's very viewable even with a bit of ambient light. It has a fairly fast colour wheel, and so DLP rainbow fringing effects are considerably reduced. I had vacillated about getting an LCD one instead but I'm glad I went with this one. As with any projector, colour saturation is not as rich as a CRT or plasma TV, and it's necessary to spend a bit of time configuring the picture settings. Fortunately, it offers a large number of settings memories (3 per input) as well as preconfigured gamma modes. It is 100% necessary to ceiling mount this model in order to end up with a decently located picture; I had second thoughts about this but in the end it only took a couple of hours to mount it and run cables. One hidden extra cost from ceiling mounting is the long cable runs - I had to hunt around to find a 15m HDMI cable for a sane price. I had also wondered about getting widescreen since most of the content around is still 4:3, but again it was the right choice ... you rapidly get used to viewing 4:3 TV pictures stretched to widescreen, and it can show them in native 4:3 if you really want. |
| Problems |
| The only minor feature annoyance with this projector is that the "Zoom1" mode (which is supposed to exactly un-letterbox a 16:9 image in a 4:3 signal) is a bit misdesigned and reduces the image size rather than using the whole picture area. |
