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June 29th, 2009 Art Feierman
Greetings all,
This blog will be short (well, short for something I write)! I’ve already posted an article on the new configurations of the Ensemble HD, and the new pricing.
The long and short of it is this: The Ensemble HD continues to be the only fully integrated projector based home theater system on the market. And one designed for a quick and easy installation! As such, what are now three different models, have no direct competition. They do, however, “compete” with systems put together by folks piece by piece, making separate decisions on projector, AV receiver, Read the rest of this entry »
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June 26th, 2009 Art Feierman
Greetings again!
I’m going to keep almost all of this piece to the home theater side of what was shown at Infocomm 2009. There was far more action - as expected, on the business side, with many dozens of new biz projectors. Hey, this is a home theater blog, so I won’t bore you. I will add an article about Infocomm 2009 to the website late next week, discussing a number of the new business projectors as well as, in general LED light source projectors and 3D projector solutions. 3D is getting A LOT of attention in the commercial space, but I figure we are still a few years off before we see any real move toward 3D in our homes.
Where to start? Hmm! Vivitek, a not overly well known Taiwanese manufacturer was showing an LED lightsource based projector, the H9080HD. I should have a review unit late July, and publish (hopefully) in the first half Read the rest of this entry »
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June 26th, 2009 Art Feierman
Greetings!
The other day, I received an early engineering sample of the Samsung SP-A600. I fired it up yesterday for the first time.
Now I’ve got a quandry. Whether to do a review on this unit, or send it back and wait for a late pre-production unit, or a full production projector. Read the rest of this entry »
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June 4th, 2009 Art Feierman
Greetings!
I just bought a new HDMI switcher, and since I do get a number of emails with questions about switchers, I thought a blog was in order. From a practical standpoint, I brought in the switcher to review, because it looked like it would solve some problems for me. Turns out, it solved them, and I’m trying to work out a great deal on the review unit. I’ve done a review of the unit, which was posted a few days ago, you can check it out here: Octava HDMX42
OK, Before I start, keep in mind that I’m getting a little out of my Read the rest of this entry »
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June 2nd, 2009 Art Feierman
Greetings all,
I’ve been playing with the XV-Z15000 for more than a week now. The Sharp XV-Z15000 projector is Sharp’s low cost 1080p DLP home theater projector. When first announced it had an MSRP of $2999, but it seems to have dropped to $2499. Either way, online pricing tends to be around $2000, mostly a little more, though I have spotted a few prices just below $2000.
I often talk about projectors that are particularly enjoyable to watch, regardless of details relating to color accuracy, black levels, etc. Read the rest of this entry »
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May 11th, 2009 Art Feierman
Greetings all!
The VPL-VW70 supposedly replaced the VW60 at the end of last year, although VW60’s still seem to be available. I’ve had the VPL-VW70 here for a couple of weeks now, and have logged a good 20 hours of viewing, almost all of it after Mike calibrated the projector.
Let’s start with what the Sony VPL-VW70 represents. It is the big brother of the Sony VPL-HW10 which we reviewed back in December. (Both projectors were announced at the same time, at CEDIA last September.)
The MSRP of the Sony VW70 is $7999, which is Read the rest of this entry »
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May 11th, 2009 Art Feierman
Greetings all,
OK, I’m a bit late on this one, but finally ready to put the CFI issue to rest.
For those new, I’ve written a number of blogs on creative frame interpolation, and some of the issues. Of the four projectors we’ve seen with CFI, Epson had some problems, which have been discussed. Epson has just released their new firmware, to deal with the issues. This blog looks at the performance of the new firmware in terms of creative frame interpolation, and also talks about the process of upgrading.
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May 6th, 2009 Art Feierman
Greetings all!
I have now installed the 1.09 firmware upgrade for the Epson Home Cinema 6500UB and Pro Cinema 7500UB, and have preliminary comments regarding the CFI - creative frame interpolation changes. What a difference! Read the rest of this entry »
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May 1st, 2009 Art Feierman
Greetings all,
Epson has just emailed me the new 1.09 firmware, with “fixes” to their creative frame interpolation. This is just a heads up. I’m going to try to get around to installing it tomorrow, and see how much better it is.
I had hoped that Epson would send it to me in installed in a Pro Cinema 7500 UB. That would have let me run Read the rest of this entry »
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April 29th, 2009 Art Feierman
Greetings!
I had originally hoped to to have reviewed Sony’s VPL-VW70 in time for the 1080 Projector Comparison Report, that published last month. Alas, it was not to be.
The good news is that Sony has Read the rest of this entry »
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