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| Personal Experience |
| 800 Lumens should be considered the absolute minimum brightness for home theatre projectors, since I have to darken the room during the day to watch anything, and even then the picture is not the best. The low lamp power is made acceptable only by the LT150's excellent contrast ratio (800:1 by the specs - I think it's pretty close to that). I have run several diagnostics on the colour and found it to be excellent. The very easy-to-use menus make it a very simple matter to fine-tune the picture. I highly recommend the Avia Special Edition Guide to Home Theater DVD for optimising the picture, as the factory settings are not quite there. Be careful choosing this projector if you have a spot in mind for it. It doesn't have any zoom, so the size of the picture is what you get and that's it. It has digital keystone correction, but that's pretty much useless I think because it blurs the image significantly. If you're ceiling mounting it, bear in mind that the top of the picture will be BELOW the bottom of the projector (by about a foot with the projector 5m away from the screen). It could really use another RGB/VGA port and lose the CF card slot (although I'm sure that's quite useful to mobile presenters). The unit itself is extremely small and light, which doesn't really benefit a fixed installation much, since you need to give it plenty of room to breathe, but great for taking over to a buddy's movie night or something. Apart from the small fan noise problem I had, this thing hasn't missed a beat and is generally very sturdy. Given the price, I suggest you buy it then belly-laugh out loud at people who spend $thousands on big-screen TVs. |
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| Problems |
| After about 6-700 hours use, the fan started to generate a lot of noise for longer and longer periods after turning the unit on. NEC fixed this under warranty in about 5 days. |
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