Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector – Physical Tour 2 Posted on July 24, 2013 By Art Feierman 1. Viewsonic Pro9000 Home Theater Projector Review - Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector Highlights - Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector Overview2. Viewsonic Pro9000 Special Features - Pro9000 LED/Laser Light Engine - Picture In Picture - Pro9000 Projector 2D Only - Viewsonic Pro9000 Color Management System3. Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector – Physical Tour - Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector - Appearance - Pro9000 Control Panel - Pro9000 Projector - Input/Output4. Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector – Physical Tour 2 - Pro9000 Menus - Viewsonic Pro9000 Remote Control - Viewsonic Pro9000 Lens Throw - Lens Shift - Anamorphic Lens - Wide Screen5. Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector Picture Quality - Viewsonic Pro9000 Out of the Box Picture Quality6. Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector Picture Quality 2 - Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector - Flesh Tones7. Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector Picture Quality 3 - Pro9000 Black Levels - Pro9000 Black Levels - Viewsonic Pro9000 Shadow Detail Performance - Viewsonic Pro9000 Shadow Detail Performance - Black Level and Shadow Detail Performance: Pro9000 Projector - Bottom Line8. Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector Picture Quality 4 - Viewsonic Pro9000 - Overall Color & Picture Quality9. Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector Picture Quality 5 - Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector: Performance, HDTV and Sports - Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector: Bottom Line on HDTV and Sports10. Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector – Performance - Viewsonic Pro9000 Pre-Calibration Color temp, User 1 Mode11. Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector – Performance 2 - Viewsonic Pro9000 Brightness - Post Calibration: User 1 "best" mode = 448 lumens - Pro9000 Projector Low Lamp Mode12. Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector – Performance 3 - Viewsonic Pro9000 Sharpness - Viewsonic Pro9000 Sharpness - Light Leakage - Image Noise - Audible Noise13. Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector Calibration and Settings - Viewsonic Pro9000 Color Temperature - Viewsonic Pro9000 Basic Settings - Viewsonic Pro9000 Post Calibration Grayscale: User Mode - Pro9000 User Mode - Pro9000 RGB Settings14. Viewsonic Pro9000 – Projector Screens15. Viewsonic Pro9000 – Competitors16. Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector – Warranty17. Viewsonic Pro9000 – Review Summary - Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector - The Bottom Line - Pro9000 Color and Overall Picture Quality18. Viewsonic Pro9000 – Review Summary 2 - The Very Bottom Line on the Pro9000 projector - Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector: Pros - Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector: Cons - Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector: Typical Capabilities19. Viewsonic Pro9000 – Full Specifications Pro9000 MenusMenus are well thought out. There are four main menus including Picture, Video/Audio, Setting, and Options. Text size in not especially large, but very readable even at a distance. There are the usual menu controls including placement and opacity, for you to customize as desired. Viewsonic Pro9000 Slideshow Picture Video/Audio Setting Optoions Picture-In-Picture Sub-menu It is indicative of a great many small sub-menus. If I have one complaint, you toggle through choices you can't see. For example, here you see Off, but not On. For the Color Mode, you only see the name of one at a time, using the arrow keys to advance to the next choice. I'd prefer to see a list, which is fairly common. This is minor, but, everyone likes a better user interface. CMS sub-menu You can see the usual individual color controls for Hue and Saturation, as well as gain. Viewsonic Pro9000 Remote ControlThe Viewsonic’s remote is a very good one. It is a long, thin remote, about 10 inches in length. The remote’s range is respectable, but not exceptional – between 20 and 25 feet range with a bounce off my 1.4 gain screen. The remote is black but the keys are light colored. Not glow in the dark, but relatively easy to spot in a dark room. It’s downright easy to find compared to locating my PS3 remote control. At the top there’s a red button to power on, and a green one to power down. OK, maybe I get it, that the green button represents being green, as the projector draws almost no power when turned off. I may be wrong, but green is go – as in “on”, and red is stop – or “off” normally. When I reached for the remote, for the first time (to turn the projector off), I hit the red button, but alas, nothing happened. That’s a survivable detail. Below those two buttons are two rows of input buttons. The two HDMI, the S-video, computer, and video. The sixth button is labeled Source which when pressed has the projector scan the inputs sequentially, looking for a live source to lock on to. I should note that in my testing, the auto Source feature failed to lock onto either my PS3 or satellite box. I use a high quality 30 foot HDMI cable, but even more to the point, I haven’t had that problem with these sources and cable with any other projectors in recent memory. Quite possibly this is something not quite finished, in this early build projector, that will be better when they are shipping product. The good news is that the manual buttons work fine. I press HDMI 1, and in the usual few seconds, the picture is up there. The next two rows house Keystone correction, Volume control for the internal speakers, Aspect ratio, and Eco-mode. Two more buttons next: Auto Sync (for PCs) and Mute Then comes the navigation, with the Menu and Exit buttons below the ring. The Enter button is in the middle of the arrows. Getting tired yet? Next come four small programmable keys. That’s a nice touch, that many may use. I never got around to it. Next – a Default button (factory reset!!!) and next to it, the User 1 and User 2 Color Mode memories. The rest consist of an array of direct access to menu features. They include: Overscan – Magnify – Lock CMS – Color Temp – Gamma Freeze – Blank – Pattern Color Mode – Sleep Timer – Info Yes, this projector has a sleep timer. That’s a real nice touch for those who like to fall asleep in front of the TV. Viewsonic Pro9000 Lens ThrowThe Pro9000 projector’s 1.2:1 zoom offers placement range similar to a number of other projectors with 1.2:1 zoom lenses. To fill a 100″ diagonal screen, the Pro9000 projector can be placed as close as 10 feet 10 inches, or as far back as 13 feet, 1 inch (approximate – based on a user manual.) Many lower cost, and some high priced DLP home projectors offer a 1.2:1 zoom lens. That’s sort of your basic minimum in flexibility. Many other projectors have far more lattitude. That said, if you are ceiling mounting, either it works for where you can place it, or it doesn’t. For most, that’s not a problem. Lens ShiftThe Viewsonic Pro9000 lacks adjustable lens shift to keep those images nice and rectangular. Of course, the Pro9000 does have keystone correction, but optical lens shift is superior. Don’t be too surprised that a projector in this price lacks lens shift. Keep in mind this is a DLP projector. DLP projectors without lens shift can cost upward of $5000. On the other hand, virtually every 3LCD and LCoS projector from $1000 up, will have lens shift. I’m strictly talking about home theater projectors. The fixed amount of shift built in places the center of the lens of the projector almost 8 inches above the top of the screen (or below the bottom if on a table), for that same 100″ diagonal screen. That can give some folks whose rooms have low ceilings, some problem if they like larger screens. Otherwise, the Pro9000 has a judicious amount of lens offset, to make up for not having adjustable lens shift. Anamorphic Lens - Wide ScreenThe Viewsonic Pro9000 supports an anamorphic lens. This pre-production unit does not seem to have a second anamorphic setting, one to use when viewing 16:9 and 4:3 aspect ratio content, with the anamorphic lens still in front of the projector’s lens. That means you will need a sled. It is the better way, but also more expensive. 1. Viewsonic Pro9000 Home Theater Projector Review - Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector Highlights - Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector Overview2. Viewsonic Pro9000 Special Features - Pro9000 LED/Laser Light Engine - Picture In Picture - Pro9000 Projector 2D Only - Viewsonic Pro9000 Color Management System3. Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector – Physical Tour - Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector - Appearance - Pro9000 Control Panel - Pro9000 Projector - Input/Output4. Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector – Physical Tour 2 - Pro9000 Menus - Viewsonic Pro9000 Remote Control - Viewsonic Pro9000 Lens Throw - Lens Shift - Anamorphic Lens - Wide Screen5. Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector Picture Quality - Viewsonic Pro9000 Out of the Box Picture Quality6. Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector Picture Quality 2 - Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector - Flesh Tones7. Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector Picture Quality 3 - Pro9000 Black Levels - Pro9000 Black Levels - Viewsonic Pro9000 Shadow Detail Performance - Viewsonic Pro9000 Shadow Detail Performance - Black Level and Shadow Detail Performance: Pro9000 Projector - Bottom Line8. Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector Picture Quality 4 - Viewsonic Pro9000 - Overall Color & Picture Quality9. Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector Picture Quality 5 - Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector: Performance, HDTV and Sports - Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector: Bottom Line on HDTV and Sports10. Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector – Performance - Viewsonic Pro9000 Pre-Calibration Color temp, User 1 Mode11. Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector – Performance 2 - Viewsonic Pro9000 Brightness - Post Calibration: User 1 "best" mode = 448 lumens - Pro9000 Projector Low Lamp Mode12. Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector – Performance 3 - Viewsonic Pro9000 Sharpness - Viewsonic Pro9000 Sharpness - Light Leakage - Image Noise - Audible Noise13. Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector Calibration and Settings - Viewsonic Pro9000 Color Temperature - Viewsonic Pro9000 Basic Settings - Viewsonic Pro9000 Post Calibration Grayscale: User Mode - Pro9000 User Mode - Pro9000 RGB Settings14. Viewsonic Pro9000 – Projector Screens15. Viewsonic Pro9000 – Competitors16. Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector – Warranty17. Viewsonic Pro9000 – Review Summary - Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector - The Bottom Line - Pro9000 Color and Overall Picture Quality18. Viewsonic Pro9000 – Review Summary 2 - The Very Bottom Line on the Pro9000 projector - Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector: Pros - Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector: Cons - Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector: Typical Capabilities19. Viewsonic Pro9000 – Full Specifications Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector – Physical Tour Viewsonic Pro9000 Projector Picture Quality