Viewsonic Pro8200 Projector – Performance 2

Viewsonic Pro8200 Sharpness

Close up of a computer monitor, from Space Cowboys (Blu-ray), left to right: Pro8200, Optoma HD20, BenQ W6000, and Sharp XV-Z15000.

Viewsonic Pro8200: Bottom Line Sharpness

When you consider that the Viewsonic’s image is everybit as sharp, overall, as most 3LCD and LCoS projectors selling for several times the price, my suggestion is simply not to give the Viewsonic’s sharpness any additional thought (except to catalogue sharpness as a strength.)

Light Leakage

Image Noise

I see no issues with Viewsonic’s image processing. which is provided primarily by Pixelworks, a well respected image processing provider to a lot of projector and LCDTV manufacturers. In fact, considering the entry level nature of the Pro8200 projector, we can completely dismiss the Viewsonic’s image noise abilities as something we don’t need to be concerned with.

Audible Noise

OK, now you can be concerned. The Viewsonic Pro8200 isn’t exactly quiet. It’s a single chip DLP projector, and as a class, they tend to be a bit noisey. Viewsonic claims 31 db at full power, and 27 in eco-mode. My take is that their eco-mode estimate might be a bit high, it seems quieter than that, but, in full power, the 31 db is probably accurate or a touch optomistic. This projector does make some noise – though nothing unusual for a single chip DLP, especially in the low price ranges. In the somewhat noiseyr family environment, no one is likely to notice.