Mitsubishi HC9000D Projector – Performance

Mitsubishi claims the HC9000D projector is a 1000 lumen projector. As it turns out, they are right. Mike’s highest measurement was 1005 lumens. Here’s the whole story:

First are the lumen measurements for each of the preset and user modes. Also included was the measured color temp for white, for each one.

The Mitsubishi HC9000D projector brightness numbers below were recorded by Mike before and after calibration.

Cinema wss the best looking image before Mike calibrated. These measureents were all taken with the zoom set to mid-point.

“Best mode” calibration of the HC9000D yielded an impressive 701 lumens beating the Sony and JVC projectors.

As Mike mentions below, you can only save one custom grayscale color temp. That prevented him from tweaking Dynamic, exchanging minimal brightness loss for improved picture quality.

For a brightest mode: Use Dynamic, but change the color temp to High Brightness. That doesn’t seem to cost much in lumens, but definitely looks better. Of course “best” mode, isn’t that much less bright.

3D mode has a completely different color gamma setup. Mike measured the 815 lumens using the default setting for their brightness/shutter glasses setting. I would expect using the highest setting will increase brightness to about the same as Dynamic.