InFocus ScreenPlay 777 Home Theater Projector – General Performance4 Posted on October 1, 2013 By Art Feierman 1. InFocus Play Big SP777 Home Theater Projector Review2. InFocus Screenplay 777 Home Theater Projector – Image Quality - Black Levels and Shadow Detail 3. Gamma and Dynamics - Hi-Def - Image Quality wrap-up4. InFocus ScreenPlay 777 Home Theater Projector-Menus - InFocus ScreenPlay 777 - Menus - User Memory Settings - Remote Control5. InFocus ScreenPlay 777 Home Theater Projector – General Performance2 - Lens Throw and Lens Shift - SDE and No Rainbows - Light Leakage - Audible Noise Levels6. InFocus ScreenPlay 777 Home Theater Projector – General Performance3 - Projector Brightness - Lamp Life and Replacement - Projection Screen Recommendations7. InFocus ScreenPlay 777 Home Theater Projector – General Performance4 - Calibration - InFocus ScreenPlay 777 - Menu - InFocus ScreenPlay 777 - IRE - Image Noise 8. InFocus 777 Projector Review – Warranty - Warranty - Projector Reviews: Summary, Pros, Cons - Pros - Cons - Typical Capabilities9. Projector Reviews: Summary, Pros, Cons - Pros - Cons - Typical Capabilities10. InFocus Play Big SP777 Projector Specifications CalibrationCalibrating the InFocus 777 was very straightforward. I first set brightness and contrast based on the image off of my Firehawk screen (high contast – light gray). As a result, those settings would vary depending on the screen surface you choose. I ended up with: InFocus ScreenPlay 777 - MenuInFocus ScreenPlay 777 - Menu Picture Color Control Brightness: 44 (default is 50) at 50 on this unit, blacks were way toO gray Contrast: 53 (default is 50) After the usual adjusting, these are the RGB gain and offset settings I ended up with. Please note, again, I do not know how many hours were on this lamp. (Even color will shift slightly as a lamp ages, which is why some calibrators recommend not doing a full calibration until there are 200 – 500 hours on the lamp. Below are a sequence of images shot off the screen of my laptop, showing color balance. (I’ve only shown 4 different IRE’s from 30 to 100 although I started measuring at 10 IRE… InFocus ScreenPlay 777 - IREInFocus ScreenPlay 777 - IRE 30 IRE 50 IRE 80 IRE 100 IRE You will notice a “cooling trend” at the brighter measurements… At the lower IRE ranges I was getting termperature measurements from the mid 6400’s (10 IRE) to right around 6500K (at 50 IRE) but by the time I got up to 80 and 100 IRE, the temperature increased to 6532 and 6547 respectively. Translation, dark grays shift every slightly to red, while very bright grays and also white, shift very slightly toward blue and green. Overall the neutrality of the grays was very good. I’ve seen better, but then, with a lot more playing, I may have been able to come up with slightly better settings. Also, I did not go into the service menus, where it may be easier to fine tune the settings. Note, all calibrations were done with a signal from DVD passed to the projector via DVI/HDMI (digital). I did not do separate measurements for component input. Nor did I do a separate calibration for HDTV. Image Noise Looking for noise in the dark areas on this DLP projector was more challenging than usual, which is to say that I found the 777 to be very low in noise levels for a DLP projector. In this regard, it was cleaner than the SIM2. The Advanced (Picture) Menu has a Noise control option, but I did not experiment with it, finding image noise levels to be perfectly acceptable for normal viewing. 1. InFocus Play Big SP777 Home Theater Projector Review2. InFocus Screenplay 777 Home Theater Projector – Image Quality - Black Levels and Shadow Detail 3. Gamma and Dynamics - Hi-Def - Image Quality wrap-up4. InFocus ScreenPlay 777 Home Theater Projector-Menus - InFocus ScreenPlay 777 - Menus - User Memory Settings - Remote Control5. InFocus ScreenPlay 777 Home Theater Projector – General Performance2 - Lens Throw and Lens Shift - SDE and No Rainbows - Light Leakage - Audible Noise Levels6. InFocus ScreenPlay 777 Home Theater Projector – General Performance3 - Projector Brightness - Lamp Life and Replacement - Projection Screen Recommendations7. InFocus ScreenPlay 777 Home Theater Projector – General Performance4 - Calibration - InFocus ScreenPlay 777 - Menu - InFocus ScreenPlay 777 - IRE - Image Noise 8. InFocus 777 Projector Review – Warranty - Warranty - Projector Reviews: Summary, Pros, Cons - Pros - Cons - Typical Capabilities9. Projector Reviews: Summary, Pros, Cons - Pros - Cons - Typical Capabilities10. InFocus Play Big SP777 Projector Specifications InFocus ScreenPlay 777 Home Theater Projector – General Performance3 InFocus 777 Projector Review – Warranty LnRiLWhlYWRpbmcuaGFzLWJhY2tncm91bmR7cGFkZGluZzowfQ==