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By: Art Feierman

Art Feierman — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 23:41:31 +0000

We just reviewed a Samsung (I didn’t review it), with an LED light source, and a price about $1K (biz projector).

Over the next year or 3, I imagine they will replace conventional lamps, but so far, the problem has been brightness. Both biz, and home…

By: Kostantino Diagoupis

Kostantino Diagoupis — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 22:54:03 +0000

Art, Do you have any information as to whether one of these companies will be coming out with L.E.D.’s as their light source for their lower price and middle priced projectors?

By: Art Feierman

Art Feierman — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:47:33 +0000

Scott, they should be up, and also the competitors page.

By: Art Feierman

Art Feierman — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:36:12 +0000

Hi, “so far, so good” sounds like.

Calibration page, and for that matter, also the competitors pages are now up. Mike’s dynamic should look better than the Livingroom. Let me know how it turns out…

By: L. Wright

L. Wright — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 01:08:27 +0000

Hey Art,
Last weekend I replaced my 9-year old Sanyo PLV-60HT with the new Epson 8700UB, and in short, I am blown away!

Out of the box, with no tweaking, the 8700 fills my 123″ original Stewart Gray Hawk (.9 gain) with the most vibrant, stunning picture I’ve ever experienced. I new it would be a big step up, but this is an exponential leap in brightness, sharpness, contrast, color accuracy, quietness, and of course, black level.

WOW, on “Living Room” mode in a dark room, the blacks are simply too black–black clothing can be so black-hole black they dominate the scene. But the space ship scene in Avatar’s opening is so phenomenally black, bright, and sharp it borders on being 3D–very addicting!

Thanks for your pre-review insights, and for the in-depth review you published. I’m really looking forward to applying all of your/Mike’s calibration settings once you have them published. I’d like to find a setup somewhere between THX (great film-like color & contrast, but somewhat dim or understated) and Living Room (hyper-real color, brightness,and intensity, but outrageously overblown.)

I’ve got lots of setup and calibration to do before Thanksgiving, but the first weekend was one helluva a ride! The Epson 8700UB is everything that I expected, and so much more.

By: Art Feierman

Art Feierman — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 21:37:46 +0000

Working on it.

By: Josef Aarskov

Josef Aarskov — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 17:39:06 +0000

Hi Art

Any hope of seeing a review for Lightspeed’s DepthQ system? Eagerly awaiting this one, although I’m having a hard time figuring out whether this would be a worthy option for upgrading an already satisfying projector to 3D, or better to hang on for an integrated solution in the shape of a new projector… (sigh) (O;

By the way, thanx for all your hard work; it’s always a pleasure to read your reviews, which I find more extensive than most. Keep it up!

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 05:18:07 +0000

Hi Art,

Any word on when you will be posting the calibration settings you guys came up with for the 8700UB?

Thanks!

By: Art Feierman

Art Feierman — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 06:38:42 +0000

Yep, that’s it. As I mentioned, the XP8000 that arrived I inadvertently assumed that was the 3D adapter, but it was the external battery for the Optoma Pk301. I’ve been so swamped with the move (the whole house is under remodel, and I’ve just gotten internet up (first time since Wed). I’ve been meaning to correct that mention. I’ve spoken with Optoma, they will ship me one, when they have them. They did not, as of last week. -a