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NEC HT510 by Mr HDTV - Feb 12, 2005
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| SVGA (1024x576), 1000 ANSI Lumens, 6.6 lbs, $995 (MSRP) |
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| Personal Experience |
| Beautiful, engaging picture. The HT510 is intended for coffee table use as is evident in the setup menu where you can choose the wall color that you are projecting against and the HT510 will compensate for your wall color. (i.e. lt pink, lt blue, beige, etc) On a matte screen it throws a very clear, satisfying, but slightly inaccurrate image. MOST colors are spot on, beautiful. The 5 segment color wheel draws yellow a bit toward mustard and some greens are a bit yellow. Example: during the Superbowl the Eagles helmets looked great, but the jerseys and field were just a tad to yellow. The Patriots uniforms were beautiful, silver was perfect, (many times hard for DLP to reproduce accurrately), reds great. Excellent shadow detail although blacks weren't as black as a 6 segment DLP. If WAF affects you, (Wife acceptance factor) this is a great PJ, easy to set up, vertical lens shift, just pull it out of the closet, set on coffee table and you have a home cinema. Good deinterlacing, 3000 hr bulb in eco mode. If it's your first PJ, or upgrading from X-1 you'll be thrilled. |
| Problems |
| Like most projectors the first 40 hours or so you get a burning smell from the lamp breaking in, but it goes away. Other than the slightly inaccurrate yellows and lt greens there is one glaring omission, no DVI input. Kmart can sell a 30' CRT HDTV monitor with DVI for $499 but it's not on this NEC. Upconverting DVD players, and upcoming HD-DVD players will only output HD resolutions via DVI. I wouldn't be as worried about the OTA DVI, if the copy nazi's (MPAA) force providers to downrez component, in violation of the 1983 fair use decision by the supreme court, I suspect there will be commercials all over TV by lawyers wanting to gain class action status for rendering sooooo mony HD monitors crippled that I wouldn't worry about broadcast HD. All in all an excellent product. |
