Happy New Year – shutting down now, until Saturday
December 31st, 2008 Art Feierman
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Greetings!
This is it, for 2008. First thanks to all of you for a very successful year for ProjectorReviews.com. We saw a 30% increase in visitor traffic, and pumped out more reviews than any previous year.
Friends are arriving from Las Vegas, San Diego, and LA, for new years in a few minutes. Many of us are off to the Rose Bowl tomorrow to watch (hopefully) Penn State lay a whooping on USC. (no offense Trojans, but you are due)!
As such, I’m “shutting down” for the year, after I post this.
When I return to “work” (not likely to be before Saturday evening), here’s what’s up:
Finishing the competitors section of the 6500UB review, and some other minor stuff in that review.
Working on posting an “update” – I received a new version of the Elite Acoustic screen that I reviewed early 2008. The new one has a different (better) surface, and a black backing.
Working on a review of the Gefen wireless HDMI solution
And, of course, working on the Epson Home Cinema 6100 review.
If that isn’t enough to do, before leaving for Las Vegas, for the CES show, on the 7th, I may well get out a first look blog on the already in-house SIM2 D80E DLP projector.
And I’ll continue to harass JVC, who was supposed to send me an RS10 10 days ago.
Have a great 2009. To our regulars and “newbies” – keep upgrading – perhaps we AV home theater enthusiasts can pull the entire US economy out of recession on our bootstraps. Hey, someone has to do it.
Best to all! -art
- and also from Lori (wife, operations, database manager, and proofer), Lisa (daughter and day to day webmaster), Scott (long time webmaster – major projects), Darren (SEO stud), and Mike (neighbor, chief calibrator, writer, and new friend) 
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January 4th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Great review of the Epson 6500UB but even though the Sony hw10 is listed as a competitor in the header of the section, no comparison was made. What happened? What is your opinion of these two?
Thank you and a very happy new year!
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Fixed! -art
January 6th, 2009 at 9:16 am
Art,
Thanks for the work, got one of these for Christmas, and enjoy it tremendously! Wanted to share that even with my Panasonic DMP-BD55 which produces a beautiful picture, I get the “jerkiness” with the frame interpolation and am looking forward to turning it off to see the difference this weekend.
As for the “live video feel” yeah, incredible, like you are there, but the family thought that while watching our favorite non blu ray LOTR, seeing Gollum in almost “real live” was kinda creepy!
Thanks and keep up the great work,
Jim
Let me know your thoughts of FI on vs. off. As to your Gollum comment, I forwarded your whole comment on to Epson and the engineers I met with.
And, I fully intend to watch LOTR with FI on this weekend to acertain exactly “how creepy”. Good thought. None of the segments I use in my photoshoot have Gollum in them, so I really haven’t seen him when working with the 6500UB. Everyone laughed, though, with the “creepy” comment. -art
January 7th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
Will you be comparing the Epson 6100 to the Sanyo 3000? I know many people are interested in comparing these two projectors.
Thanks
-Derek
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Hi Derek,
Yes, as I do the competitive section I will cover the 6100 vs. the Z3000, as well as the Panasonic, and, of course, the logical step up, the 6500UB. I’m back from CES now, and should have the competitive section posted no later than Thursday evening, along with additional thoughts. -art