Optoma HD81 Expert Reviews

August 20, 2007--The competition among higher-end front projectors has hit fever pitch recently, partly because DLP has finally caught up to LCD and LCoS in delivering 1080p native resolution. Enter Optoma's flagship 1080p resolution DLP projector, ...

We are witness to the beginning of a new era in front projection. As CEDIA Expo 2006 so clearly demonstrated, the market is about to be flooded with 1080p front projectors, many with list prices below $10,000. Among them is the Optoma HD81, one of the ...

The HQV Benchmark DVD revealed an exceptional video processor. Detail was excellent, as were lowangle diagonals and the waving flag, with virtually no jaggies. The noisereduction controls didn't seem to do much with the noise tests, but noise wasn't ...

The Optoma HD81 combines the finest 1080p DLP home theater projector with a studio-quality imaging processor. Featuring Texas Instruments' DarkChip3 technology, the HD81 offers a superb projectio...

Cinema has come closer to Home Theater. What we see in a movie theater can almost be experienced at home. Optoma HD81™, a single Texas Instruments® DarkChip3™ 0.95" DLP™ chip projector, has narrowed down this gap deeply. Films transferred on to ...

This combination of projector and processor seems expensive but the Video Enhancement Processor is the heart of this whole machine and it can take care of your other analog and digital devices. Just reel back to the days when Lexicon™ line doublers ...

The new Optoma HD81 is one of several aggressively priced 1080p resolution home theater projectors to come to market this fall. It is the brightest of the new 1080p models and delivers a particularly sharp and detailed HD image. Other performance ...

The Optoma showed a slight amount of color decoder error (-5% green) via both its HDMI and component-video inputs. Color points were very accurate - a factor that, along with the projector's precise color decoding, contributed to its rich, well ...

•Crisp, detailed pictures with all sources

At $7,000, the Optoma HD81 1080p DLP front projector is an undeniably great deal. Its setup features are somewhat basic, and the Auto Iris feature is, unfortunately, a work in progress that Optoma claims will be fixed with a firmware upgrade.

I've only been living with the new Optoma HD81 DLP projector for a little over a week, but it's already becoming obvious that new 1080p projectors selling for more than the Optoma's $7,000 price are likely to have a difficult time in the market. Even ...

We're in a 1080p world now, home theater fans. That's right, as much as you love your stunning, 720p resolution projector, the one the sales person at the electronics store told you was the best picture you could get from a little light engine-well, ...

If you're thinking of upgrading your older projector, or getting into a front projection theater for the first time, the HD81 is definitely worth considering

Offers much of the ability of more expensive projectors for a far more reasonable price

And in the main, we've no complaints at all about its performance: colour rendition, detail resolution and black depth are exemplary, whether with standard-definition or high def. It shines with 1080i HD from HD TV, and looks great with 1080p Blu-ray, ...