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Sanyo PLV-Z2000 by Andy - Apr 22, 2008
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| HD 1080 (1920x1080), 1200 ANSI Lumens, 16.1 lbs, $2,495 (MSRP) |
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| Personal Experience |
| I exercise with the PLV-Z2000 as a dedicated cinema-projector for 6 months now (ca 250 hrs viewing time). Since I made a good use of projectorcentral at my beginnings, I'm happy to leave my opinion in return. A really huge advantage of this unit is a superb set-up versatility. I had absolutly no problems with placing and connecting this projector (the vertical and horizontal lens-shift, the 2.0 focus, smart levelling, wide connectivity options, automatic switching upon signal resolution change etc). The self-closing sliding door is also very convenient (I'm sure I'd forget to cover the lens with a cap most of the times). Another star goes for the overall picture quality and final movie impressions. My primary target for this projector was to get as much as possible from my European 576i encoded DVD collection (ca 1000 titles). Using a basic 92'' DaLite Projecta 16:9 framed screen (matt white, 1.0 gain) I must admit, that following the upscaled HDMI signal (1080p or 1080i) from Toshiba HD-XE1 (known under XA2 label in the US I suppose) the overall picture reliability is excellent. There are absolutely no artifacts, no color-distortions etc, the saturation and the overall impression is overwhelming (with no filters or color enhancements - pure cinema mode exclusively). [one note - you really should use high-grade HDMI interconnectors, otherwise the quality might suffer] Basing upon all reviews and tests I read before purchasing this unit, I feared a little the "black" scenes, however all night-captures of "black hawk down" were satisfactory indeed. And while it is true the black bars for cinemascope ratio significantly distinguished from the screen's black frame (ca. 40% difference; a problem to be solved with a more advanced screen), it is for sure compensated with the overall picture quality (you do not intensively search for the deepest black items on the screen while watching a movie, do you?). Contrary to PLV-Z4 I upgraded from, the Sanyo Z2000 has enough power to give a decent picture even with ambient light in the room (brighter room conditions require more powerful picture modes, which definitely spoil the quality). Intuitively I'd suggest to run performance tests for bigger rooms before buing this unit. The 1080p HD-DVD contents (all happened to perfectly fit the 16:9 screen's black frames) was without exception simply perfect. Taking into consideration the comparable quality of the winning Blu-ray I would assume this machine performs in HD as expected (given a solid source signal). My overall opinion is very good, and I have not suffered any disappointment with this choice (maybe if the black bars were more black I'd be more pleased, however for that money there is absolutely nothing to argue about). |
| Problems |
| Just a few (not influencing the overall enthusiastic impression): - for the first 100hrs a plastic-burning-out smell, that finally vanishes in further usage; - unfortunatelly the iris is quite loud (taking into consideration the 19dB of this unit in cinema-mode), which is no subject once you turn up the volume to ca -20/ 25 dB; - as already reported the color of letterbox or pillarbox bars distinguishes significantly from the original frame of the fabric screen, however this is not an issue if the projected picture perfectly fits the frame of the screen of course; |
