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June 24th, 2008 Art Feierman
After much thought, I’ve decided to produce a report following the Infocomm show last week. It will feature capsules on about 35 or so, newly announced projectors and related products. In additional to the usual news and announcements on business and home theater projectors, I’ll be focusing on the new class of cell phone sized projectors (8-12 lumens?), that we’ll see hit the market late this year or early next year, Read the rest of this entry »
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June 24th, 2008 Art Feierman
Finally, done, except for some minor editing, and perhaps an image or two.
The first unit we received had an issue, so we received a second one, and it performed beautifully, give or take a minor issue or two. In a nutshell, the Pro8100 is definitely brighter than the average 1080p projector for the home, especially in its best mode, and it is one of the sharpest projectors I’ve seen.
The Pro8100 was found to have great color management, decent but not great out of the box color (but it calibrates beautifully), and an overall dynamic image with rich colors – lots of wow and pop! We also found a flaw or two, notably with its dynamic iris. For most considering the Pro8100, the “issues” are not deal breakers, and the strengths are multiple.
Check out the full Pro8100 projector review. -art
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June 24th, 2008 Art Feierman
6-24-08: Our next home theater projector review is the 1080p resolution, InFocus IN83.
I just received tracking information from InFocus for my IN83 review projector. The IN83 is perhaps the first big name Darkchip4 DLP projector to ship. 
UPS advises that it will arrive tomorrow. Thursday night it will get fired up, in the theater, and I’ll check out it’s out of the box performance. With luck, it will be calibrated by Friday night, and I can spend the weekend doing extensive viewing. Look for the review to post around 7/8, sooner if I can (don’t forget – there’s the 4th of July, between now and then.
Not much else to say, other than the IN83 should be almost identical to the IN82 we reviewed earlier this year, with some minor improvements, and one major one – the switch from the Darkchip3 DLP chip, to the newer, higher contrast Darkchip4. This allows even better black level performance. Read the rest of this entry »
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June 10th, 2008 Art Feierman
Greetings all,
Things haven’t worked out as well as I had hoped with this review, and I am now waiting for a replacement review projector from Viewsonic. As a result, the review will now likely be posted around June 25th. There have been some very interesting results. To quote The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” however, “DONT PANIC”.
Let’s start at the beginning. TheViewsonic Pro8100 is Viewsonic’s first serious entry into the 1080p home theater projector market. It is a 3LCD projector, however, it is unusually large for an LCD projector. It’s pretty, in shiny black, and slightly sculpted. Physicially, it looks worth the price tag ($4999 list price).
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