My UPS and FedEx delivery guys know me pretty well. I see each of them on a near-daily basis when they drop off the latest techno widget for review. As they're fond of pointing out, some boxes are larger than others but nothing could have prepared us ...

After connecting my Philips BDP7200 with a BetterCables HDMI cable, I threw in one of my favorite Blu-ray test discs, Christopher Nolan's The Prestige. Put simply, I was absolutely floored by the depth and quality of blacks put forth by the DLA-HD100. ...

The home theater projector market is probably the most rapidly advancing segment of the HDTV world. While inexpensive flat panel TVs get most of the attention from consumers and most of the floor space at electronics retailers, it's the projector that ...

After I had spent time tweaking the picture settings, I played a series of high definition and standard definition sources. Through a PlayStation 3 and a Toshiba XA2 I viewed a variety of 1080p/24fps material and all looked fantastic. HDTV 1080i ...

It seems inevitable that 2007 will be remembered as The Year of 1080p. That coveted "holy grail" of video resolutions may have made its debut last year, but in 2007, it seems to have become the chief must-have feature for TV and projector shoppers ...

Once everything was calibrated, I fired up some test material and everything looked, for the most part, very good. The only problem I encountered was some vertical banding that reared its head during very bright scenes and a white field test pattern; ...

One of the biggest barriers to the wider use of front projectors for personal home theaters, the astronomical price of the projector itself, is steadily being eroded away. As the technology evolves, the entry-level price of many high definition ...

The picture is striking for such an affordable projector. The colors were rich and well saturated. Setting TI's Brilliant Color in the middle produced the most pleasing results. Another control in the advanced menu, TrueVivid added some intensity to ...

While we've been paying an extra lot of attention to the new crop of home theater projectors sporting 1080p resolution, we don't want readers to get the impression that anything less is, well, crap. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, ...

A review of Optoma's $3,000 1080p product will be forthcoming as soon as we get one

Life may be full of compromises, but having to watch video on an iPod's small screen shouldn't be one of them. Not when you can easily haul this 4-pound Viewsonic front projector wherever you want and have its built-in iPod video dock spit out big ...

Hooking up a DVD player to the S-video input, I played the same opening from the DVD. It was like getting a new prescription for your glasses: the image being noticeably sharper, colors crisper, and better shading and tighter detail (I could read even ...

When it comes to home theater gear, Planar is a name you may not recognize. However, with the PD7150 projector, and other products such as their Xscreen display, Planar has decided to throw their experience into the competitive home theater market. If ...

There's no question the PD7150 is a formidable first effort from Planar's home theater division. The question is: is it worth the somewhat hefty $5,999 asking price? A year ago, I would have said absolutely. However, even with its deep blacks and ...

For several years, Panasonic has been leading the charge to make high performance front projection technology affordable and accessible to the masses. Speaking as a prior owner of the PT-AE300 and a current owner of the PT-AE900, I was just as eager ...

Isn't there anything wrong with it? I have one gripe. While making the remote more elaborate and capable than previous models, Panasonic did away with direct access input buttons. This means you have to repeatedly press "Input" until you reach the one ...

Urban legends usually center around alligators in sewers, but when it comes to home theater the myth is that the more technically proficient the product, the harder it is to use. But that doesn't wash with Mitsubishi's HC5000-yes, it has a native ...

It's fair to say that pretty much any video source benefits from this projector, with the exception of older SD content which shows off a lot of junk (not the Mitsu's fault and the inclusion of Silicon Optix HQV video processing can do just so much, I ...

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