HD4000 Projector Review: Summary, Pros, Cons 2

Posted on October 15, 2013 By Art Feierman

Pros

Excellent color handling and accuracy (especially for a DLP projector)
Bright enough for most small and medium sized rooms with moderate to bright lighting
Suitable for home theater/entertainment use in rooms that cannot be fully darkened, particularly suitable for sports, TV/HDTV
Provides widescreen solution for widescreen laptops and for applications where widescreen is superior – messages/announcements, church hymnals, spreadsheets, some scientific
Very good for photographic image display
Exceptional warranty
Excellent black levels and shadow details
Very good compression technology
Affordable per lumen (for a wide screen projector)
Good input selection including HDMI, analog computer/component video, and separate component video
Remote control is backlit
12 volt screen trigger for controlling properly equipped motorized screens
3 savable user memory presets

Cons

Slight posterization in brightest areas on video, noticeable primarily when there is slow panning of the image
Price per lumen, relative to 4:3 aspect ratio projectors
Noisy in full power mode for home theater environments
For business – lacks remote mousing
2X speed color wheel means higher percentage of viewers of video may be sensitive to the rainbow effect
Actual lumens in brightest mode about 30% below claim of 2000 (typical is about 20% below claim)

Typical Capabilities

Documentation
Menus
Remote
Lamp life
Audible noise (for a portable projector)

HD4000 Projector Review: Summary, Pros, Cons

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