Mitsubishi HC7800DW Special Features

True, the HC7900DW is 3D capable, but you will need a couple things before you watch your first 3D movie.  Besides the 3D movie itself, you’ll need a 3D emitter which plugs into the input panel.  And you will also need 3D glasses.  Those will be the usual active shutter glasses. This Mitsubishi HC7900 uses “universal” glasses, specifically glasses from xPand, such as the 103 and 105 series.

The 3D emitter is $99.  Mitsubishi does not sell 3D glasses, but there are a number of choices out there with varying prices.  When manufacturers sell glasses, these days $100 is a common price, but 3rd party can be found for under $40.  The better glasses out there should be lightweight, preferably be rechargeable (instead of needing new batteries every 30 – 40 movies).  For comparison purpuses, we’ll consider glasses to cost $99 each.  (There are 3rd party glasses for lower costs available for most 3D projectors).

DLP projectors are usually fast, when it comes to minimizing those pesky lag times, and this Mitsubishi HC7900DW makes an excellent gamer based on rather minimal lag times.   As you can see from the image on the right, there is a 34 milli-second delay, between the screen of my MacBook Pro (bottom) and the image projected from the Mitsubishi HC7900DW.   By comparison, this is a similar lag time to the Panasonic PT-AE8000, which in Game mode was in the 37 ms. range.  The HC7900DW is definitely faster than the Epsons – all versions of the HC3020, HC5020, and PC6020, which all seem to be at 50 ms, at their best – which is “just fast enoough” for most serious gamers. the Mitsubishi, is, therefore reasonably fast for hard core gaming, even if some others are even faster.

That’s what my gamer/bloggers tell me, in any case:  50:  OK, 35: very good, below 20:  Excellent.  That’s a rough summary, but the bottom line is that very few serious gamers will have an issue with this projector’s lag-times.