Mitsubishi's next-to-top-of-line 3LCD 1080p front projector is certainly very well equipped, with a host of improvements over the model it replaces, including the latest C2Fine inorganic Vertical Alignment LCD imaging panels, which provide noticeable ...

Mitsubishi scores high marks with its HC5500. High points include the latest 3LCD 1080p imaging panels, the Silicon Optix Reon video processor, Mitsubishi's excellent motorized optical adjustment system, and dual anamorphic scaling modes (this is the ...

Count JVC as a leading proponent of Liquid Crystal On Silicon technology, which the company has dubbed D-ILA (for Direct drive Imaging Light Amplifier) as used in the firm's top-tier projectors, such as the DLA-HD350 reviewed here. This three-panel ...

Bottom Line: JVC has come up with an excellent projector that achieves the elusive combination of high performance and high value. Highlights include motorized optics, extensive picture-adjustment options, a vertical stretch mode for anamorphic lens ...

The Optoma HD806 is a no-nonsense 1080p DLP projector that produces sharp and vivid images, which stop well short of the garish color exaggerations some projectors impose (though you'll want to back color down a bit to achieve more accurate skin tones ...

Sonos has been making multi-room music servers since 2004. In the four short years since the introduction of its first player this 180-person company has become the market leader in moderately priced wireless multi-room music systems. How did it ...

This low-cost projector brings big-screen images home

There's nothing like a front-projection display system in a dedicated home theater to give you a true cinematic experience. The good news is that like all digital display technologies, front projectors are becoming increasingly affordable

Video processing is also good, especially 3:2 pulldown, which was immediately apparent in the opening sequence of Star Trek: Insurrection from my Panasonic DVD player's interlaced component output. The image was reasonably clean with few visible ...

Normally, a new performance plateau is defined by products at the highest possible prices, followed by less expensive models as more consumers fund larger manufacturing volumes. For some reason, however, this is not the case with 1080p front ...

During the initial setup, I noticed that the auto iris was very slow to respond to the average picture level on the screen, so I set it to Open. I generally prefer a non-dynamic iris in any event, and this setting helped maximize the peak white level. ...

The star of this year's CEDIA Expo was undoubtedly the VPL-VW50, the third generation of 1920x1080 SXRD front projectors from Sony. Listing for just half the price of the previous-generation VPL-VW100 (which garnered TPV's Product of the Year award ...

At 1080i, however, a pixel-phase test pattern (one pixel on/one pixel off) was severely rolled off-almost non-existent, in fact. A similar pattern at 1080p/60 was much better, though still a bit lower in amplitude at the highest frequency. As a result ...

Optoma is making great strides in the affordable DLP projector arena. The $3495 HD7100 is a 1280x720 DarkChip3 device, with quality optics, four-way lens shift, horizontal and vertical keystone correction, manual zoom and focus, easy-to-navigate menus ...

The menus are logically laid out and simple to navigate, giving users convenient access to every performance aspect they might wish to adjust, from digital image shifting to Gain and Offset for each color. (Don't try to adjust the Gain and Offset ...

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 ...