Local Gamer wanted – To Review Home Projectors for Gaming Abilities

Greetings all,

Lots of readers have asked about gaming on various home theater projectors.

OK, I’ve concluded that I’ll never be a real gamer – certainly not one with the gaming experience, etc. to make good judgement calls on whether a given projector is particularly good, bad, or otherwise, when it comes to playing various types of games, be it WOW, or Carbon Canyon, or…Sonic?

So, here’s the story:   I’m looking for an experienced gamer, living somewhere near San Clemente CA. (half way between LA and San Diego).

This person ideally is both a PC gamer and PS/3 or XBox  (even Wii counts, but, hey, it’s still not as high end…)

Said person would evaluate various home projectors for key issues such as how good is the response time, picture quality (many projectors end up too dark on dark scenes (ie. WOW), and other issues.

Most likely “testing” would be done at my location.   I already have PS/3′s and a Wii.  I can add XBox 360 if really needed. Since I’m looking for a PC gamer, that person would help me purchase and configure a pretty high end gaming PC, which would be installed in my location, to be used by our “Projector Gaming Master.”

Once a process is set up, I imagine, the testing per projector shouldn’t take more than an hour or two, to cover both PC and game machine options.

The individual I’m looking for, would probably have the option of evaluating up to 20 projectors a year, but likely more like a dozen or so.

My gaming expert would be an independent contractor.  Said person would be contracted one projector at a time, or perhaps several over a period of time.  Very “part time” only a few hours a month, most likely, and that depending on what projectors…  But, it should be fun.   And, if the gamer can write reasonably well, I may want to launch a blog about gaming and projectors on the site.  If that was the case, I’d be looking for someone to blog about once a month.  This would be separate from testing the projectors/gaming.

So, OK, you hard core gamers, anyone nearby, have skills, and want to make a few bucks?

Students also welcome.  Must have own transportation.   Since the desired person will be an independent contractor contracted for on as needed basis, they should be flexible.  Testing will be done here (with rare exceptions), in the daytime, or the evening.  Those are details that can be worked out.  While this may be about gaming, I’m looking for someone I can count on.

BTW, some of that gaming in 2011, is almost certain to include 3D gaming.

If local, skilled (at gaming), and interested, contact me at reviewer@projectorreviews.com

thanks! -art

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Sony VPL-VWPRO1 Home Theater Projector – Review time

Greetings!
Sony’s new moderately priced VPL-VWPRO1 is now shipping, and according to Fedex, and Sony, one is inbound, and arriving tomorrow the 21st.

The VWPro1 projector replaces the HW15, and like it, the PRO1 (it’s Sony’s idea to make PRO all caps), is another in a long series of high quality home theater projectors sporting LCoS (SXRD) technology. This may be Sony’s lowest cost 1080p home projector, but it’s still going to be over $3000.
And each year, the previous Sony’s have been excellent projectors. This year, The PRO1 is claiming 1300 lumens, which is great, in that it would be a step up in brightness from the older HW10 and HW15, which claimed 1000.
Well, we’ll know shortly. I will have as much of the full review posted before Christmas Eve, as possible. Expect an update in a couple of days. I’m alerting Mike, to get the VWPRO1 calibrated tomorrow or Wednesday night.
Should be a serious projector. Contrast is now up to 85,000 claimed, and there’s a new iris, plus that 30% boost in lumens will open this projector up to many of us who like larger screens (above 110″ diagonal).
Lastly, it looks like the previous models, although the skin color is probably changed slightly, as Sony likes to do that. -art

Happy Holidays!

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Epson Home Theater Projectors – EU and US Projector Equivalents

Greetings,

OK, my thanks to the folks at Epson America, marketing, for putting together this handy-dandy list that now cross references current US and EU Epson projectors, so you all can keep things straight – which has always been a challenge.  Here ya go: Read the rest of this entry »

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December Projectors Update – and Projector Reviews new Home

Greetings all,

OK, I haven’t been writing much.  Today is the 27th day Projector Reviews Inc., myself, Lori, etc. are now living in our new home.

That also means it’s 28 days since we moved out of the last house, with all my gear packed up, and my two viewing rooms there, abandoned.

I’m back in business!  Soon to be better than ever!  Here’s the scoop on the two new rooms: Read the rest of this entry »

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