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Panasonic PT-L300U by imax-to-homemax - Feb 12, 2004
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| WVGA (960x540), 800 ANSI Lumens, 6.4 lbs, $2,799 (MSRP) |
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| Personal Experience |
| Using for film editing and screening this projector looks nice. I use a 4X7' sheet of foamcore from a local film and lighting supplier for 10 dollars, and hang the projector from a lightstand. The Foamcore is bright white and weighs very little, so it was easy to setup. The projector looks fantastic with dvd material and good with dv video off my mac with final cut pro feeding it componet video. The projector does not seem to have a deinterlacing feature in it so of course progressive scan dvd looks better then my video computer signal. I like also watching the visualizer in I-tunes on the big screen. Main reason for having this is for editing video, outside of interlacing issues of 3:2 pulldown, which I can correct later, I am very satisfied with the image. I don't have a long room, the depth is 13feet, so having a 4X7 foot screen looks bigger than most, I use another monitor for fine color adjustments, as video projector technology does not match the color of a nice tube yet. The pixelation from being a litttle close to the screen is not bad, this projector looks far better and bigger then the hp vp6110. The LCD is far better then the almost sickening DLP rainbow affect. Beware of this also in the BenQ 6100 and it's DLP rainbow too. If you feed this projector dvi from the computer, it looks better then vga. At 800x600 I use I-Photo to review my digital photos. I have run 1024X768 signal also, but would stress that this projector looks best with componet progrsive scan video. It is probably not the best choice for doing mostly presentaions from a computer. I'm very satisfied with the end result of having a lagre screen for editing. I was looking at having an acceptable working grade screen, and feel that I have ended up with something better than I anticipated. You do need to have a light controled darkend room, with some amient light okay. The conectivity of this unit is outstandind, and the remote is well designed also. For home theatre and screening this makes a good choice, It almost feels a like a little Imax thatre at home. I got this for $1350, and with having a spare bulb around ($220) and my screen with some harware spent less then $1600. I don't think the next model up would have been worth at least another $650 to me, I have money to get several hundred dollars of dvd's instead. Apocalypse Wow. Definitly get a 16:9 ratio projector, it gives a better use of vertical space, I prefer when I do watch a 4:3 aspect raio (computer screen, basketball) to have the black bars be on my horizontial space then my vertical space. I can say that unless I get other issues that arise this is a very nice image and the constuction fells solid, I don't hear it, and it cools down fast after shutting down. I hope to take it out and project my movies with a sheet on the side of my van in the desert, oh and on the side of my neighbors white stucco house, and maybe at your theatre someday |
| Problems |
| The zoom lens range is small, the projector may dictacte where it needs to be, but once your on I find minor adjustment fairly easy. |
