January 27th, 2011 Art Feierman
The Sharp XV-Z17000 looks like it's predecessor
Wow, a practical 1080p home theater projector. I set the Sharp XV-Z17000 down on the table in my theater, plugged it in, connected it to my PS3, and DirecTV box, and dropped in Alice In Wonderland in Blu-ray 3D.
Eureka! It works – in “living” 3D. My PS3, and the disk recognized the projector as a Blu-ray 3D device, and everything fired right up.
So, what have we here? The XV-Z17000 projector from Sharp is essentially a slightly updated (overall) version with 3D, of the existing XV-Z15000 which has been around more than a year, and Read the rest of this entry »
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January 27th, 2011 Art Feierman
Update: The Viewsonic Pro8200 projector review has been completed and published.
Greetings all. For those of you who read my previous post, or commented about the Pro8200 projector, you are aware of some issues. I’ve addressed these to Viewsonic, and got some answers for you.
First, I’m told a new Viewsonic Pro8200 (click for specs) will arrive here tomorrow. It has the latest shipping firmware. I will check out, and confirm. These are the issues I’ll be looking at:
1. Problems with HDMI – retesting the same hookups the first unit had problems with.
2. Checking for other HDMI artifacts when coming from a different source (reported by a reader)
3. Static or sound from an hdmi input coming through the projector’s speaker, when the projector is turned off!
4. Failure to hold various user settings in memory when the projector is turned off.
Now the first thing of interest in conversing with Viewsonic about the Pro8200 projector, is Read the rest of this entry »
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