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Infocomm 2009 – A few new home theater projectors announced


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 »

Samsung SP-A600 Projector arrives – an engineering sample


June 26th, 2009 Art Feierman

UPDATE: The Samsung SP-A600 Review has been posted.

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 »