PLUS Piano HE-3200

The Avanti HD-3200 is one of the first high-quality, budget, portable projectors. It only weighs 4.4 pounds but its got a zoom lens, lots of placement options, and a bright picture. We're smitten already....

The upright gets upgraded to a grand. You'd think there would've been a flood of entry-level DLP projectors since PLUS came out with their HE-3100 last year (see our review in the December 2001 issue). PLUS has even dropped the original Piano's price...

Like the HE-3100, the HE-3200 uses Texas Instruments' Dual Mode DMD chip, which allows 16:9 or 4:3 aspect ratios. Both have the same six-segment, 4x-speed color wheel and built-in Silicon Image 504 deinterlacing chipset. Both are rated as having the...

For such a tiny projector, the new Plus Piano Avanti HE-3200 has an absurdly long name. The HE-3200 is the next step up the Plus line from the Piano HE-3100, which I reviewed in the December 2001 Guide. For an additional $600, you get more features,...

Is this the projector for you? It's compact, light, and quiet. It puts out a beautiful picture from DVD as well as a nearly HD picture. It's easy to use and the adjustments are basically set-and-forget. The price is unbeatable. Negatives? The 450 ANSI...

Introduction Up until a couple of years ago, the biggest picture that you could get, short of spending the equivalent of the average college tuition, was a 50-65-inch rear projection "big screen" TV. While the picture on a big screen was huge compared...