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September 15th, 2009 Art Feierman
Greetings all,
Well, I survived CEDIA, once again. I hate east coast trade shows (ok, I know the east coast people probably think the same about west coast shows). It means an extra day, and while Atlanta was just fine, Denver was more fun, and, geez, what would it take to get the CEDIA folks to do Las Vegas, where hotel rooms would be dirt cheap (in Sept), and the partying, even better.
But, to business - or should I say home theater projectors:
T’was an interesting CEDIA show in terms of home theater projectors. Not so much because of all the new projectors Read the rest of this entry »
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September 13th, 2009 Art Feierman
UPDATE: The BenQ W6000 projector review has been posted.
The BenQ W6000 is one of 3 new 1080p projector offerings from BenQ.
Front view of the $2799 BenQ W6000 DLP projector
There’s a lower cost - $999 - W1000, which should also be shipping shortly, and a very expensive LED lightsource top of the line, due out in January/February ‘10 timeframe. (Should be most interesting!!!)
But let me try to keep my focus - this blog is about the BenQ W6000 projector.
What’s the scoop?
The BenQ W6000 s a DLP home theater projector, with 1080p native resolution, and a street price that should be based on MAP pricing, of $2799. Since the BenQ is one of the first fall projectors to ship this year, it likely will hold pretty close to that price for the immediate future.
The most notable “spec” is the W6000’s brightness. Even in the W6000’s best mode we measured over Read the rest of this entry »
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September 4th, 2009 Art Feierman
I’m back. Should have included this in the last blog.
While BenQ, Sony, Optoma, and others have sent me projectors for my birthday (yeah, I have to give them back), here are a couple of folks who won’t be enriching the celebration: Read the rest of this entry »
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September 4th, 2009 Art Feierman
Greetings all,
Well, I”m buried in new home theater projectors. Tomorrow really kicks off the college football season, so I’ll likely start with one (BenQ W6000) for the first game of the day - Penn State vs. Akron (go PSU), and switch into two other projectors during the day, before a bunch of friends Read the rest of this entry »
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July 21st, 2009 Art Feierman
UPDATE: The Samsung SP-A600 Review has been posted.
OK, the first SP-A600 which arrived a couple of weeks ago, was an early engineering sample. After much debate, Mike and I decided not to review it. My initial impression was that the color tables were not “finished”, and some minor communications issues with the HDMI port (only on occasion). If we did the review based on that unit, I feared all of our calibration settings would be worthless to folks buying production units.
Now for the good news. A replacement A600 (actually two Read the rest of this entry »
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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 »
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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 »
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May 11th, 2009 Art Feierman
Greetings all,
OK, I’m a bit late on this one, but finally ready to put the CFI issue to rest.
For those new, I’ve written a number of blogs on creative frame interpolation, and some of the issues. Of the four projectors we’ve seen with CFI, Epson had some problems, which have been discussed. Epson has just released their new firmware, to deal with the issues. This blog looks at the performance of the new firmware in terms of creative frame interpolation, and also talks about the process of upgrading.
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May 1st, 2009 Art Feierman
Greetings all,
Epson has just emailed me the new 1.09 firmware, with “fixes” to their creative frame interpolation. This is just a heads up. I’m going to try to get around to installing it tomorrow, and see how much better it is.
I had hoped that Epson would send it to me in installed in a Pro Cinema 7500 UB. That would have let me run Read the rest of this entry »
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April 28th, 2009 Art Feierman
UPDATE: The Epson Ensemble HD Home Theater system Review has been posted.
Greetings,
As many of you know, I don’t blog very often about new projector announcements, but today is an exception. Earlier today I received a press release from Epson, announcing two new versions of the Ensemble HD Home Theater system. One uses the Home Cinema 6100, and has an MSRP of $6499, while the other has the Home Cinema 6500UB, for $7999.
What I really like about the announcement is that there will be two versions, one with Epson’s entry level 1080p projector - the Home Cinema 6100. Of greater interest to myself, and many potential buyers, however, is that the other projector available in the Ensemble HD is the Home Cinema 6500UB, their higher performance, ultra high contrast projector. Read the rest of this entry »
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