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| Personal Experience |
| I have had the projector installed for about six months, with 561 hours on the lamp. The projector is ceiling mounted (inverted) to allow a dead-center (no lens adjustment) alignment to the screen, so although I did play with the excellent adjustments, I don't use them. The weight forced me to use four counter-mounted steel guy wires (I was concerned about all that weight above my head), which also give the projector a rock-steady picture. The picture is beautiful on a 123" 16:9 Stewart 1.25 gain Firehawk G2 screen, with a throw of about 14'. With the room lights on the screen is slightly washed out, but with the room lights off (the room is absolutely pitch black) the colors are brilliant, the whites are bright and the blacks are very black. I use the network interface to control and monitor the projector from computers around the house, as well as the computer in the theatre. I use almost all the video inputs (DVI, Composite, Component, HDMI), and all work very well, with DVI and HDMI giving spectacular results. The projector's input search function is very useful, making it easy to move from input to input. The projector is incredibly quiet. It sits four feet above my head, and is almost impossible to hear. I don't think there is a comparable projector that delivers this performance for the price. |
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| Problems |
| I would not recommend using this projector on a screen of more than 90-100" in a room with any ambient light unless the screen has significant gain (>2). Occasionaly the lamp has a hard time starting , cycling through the starter for several minutes. Sometimes it starts on the first "click" of the starter (I don't know why). The lamp (at $1000) is very expensive. The input cannot be selected until the lamp starts, as far as I can tell. This makes it almost impossible to use a programmable controller to select the input at startup, instead I use the auto search function to move to the active input after the projector starts. |
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