I looked over the threads talking about ultra expensive projectors. They all have me scratching my head. One over $10k beautiful hunk of plastic offered no lateral adjustment. Holy mackerel!
I went to an FX showroom opening in a building made famous here by Keith Yates. There was a blacked out room. A small crowd was in there watching video picture on the wall. There was a $10k projector, the brand escaping me now, perhaps a Runco. I looked at the picture in that dark room, and could not see any improvement over my Samsung PLV Z3000. In fact, I like mine better.
What I don't understand is why someone would pay more than $3k for a product that is going to fail in 2 to perhaps 6 years depending on it's usage. I have also allowed, swallowing my pride, a DLP TV to be placed on my stereo equipment cabinet between my Apogees. This is an abomination to me. I turn it sideways when listening to music. The fact is, having that blasted TV there will greatly extend the life of our projector.
The Sanyo Z3000 is a very good projector. It is a darn sight better than our 42" Samsung DLP tv. Detail for the projector is wonderful. The contrast is good enough, color rendition bright, correct, and strong. The action is very good. Watching the US Open Tennis matches, I can watch the ball being pounded across the net with no streaking. The box TV can't do that. Slammed tennis balls look like Haley's comet. When, watching true HD, I can see the skin texture on a close up face, what can be finer?
So, with the steeply diminishing picture values in costly projection, and their ultimate failure, I say keep the money spent on projection to one of the very fine sub $3k projectors on the market.
Has anyone compared sub $3k projectors with each other?
Vince
I went to an FX showroom opening in a building made famous here by Keith Yates. There was a blacked out room. A small crowd was in there watching video picture on the wall. There was a $10k projector, the brand escaping me now, perhaps a Runco. I looked at the picture in that dark room, and could not see any improvement over my Samsung PLV Z3000. In fact, I like mine better.
What I don't understand is why someone would pay more than $3k for a product that is going to fail in 2 to perhaps 6 years depending on it's usage. I have also allowed, swallowing my pride, a DLP TV to be placed on my stereo equipment cabinet between my Apogees. This is an abomination to me. I turn it sideways when listening to music. The fact is, having that blasted TV there will greatly extend the life of our projector.
The Sanyo Z3000 is a very good projector. It is a darn sight better than our 42" Samsung DLP tv. Detail for the projector is wonderful. The contrast is good enough, color rendition bright, correct, and strong. The action is very good. Watching the US Open Tennis matches, I can watch the ball being pounded across the net with no streaking. The box TV can't do that. Slammed tennis balls look like Haley's comet. When, watching true HD, I can see the skin texture on a close up face, what can be finer?
So, with the steeply diminishing picture values in costly projection, and their ultimate failure, I say keep the money spent on projection to one of the very fine sub $3k projectors on the market.
Has anyone compared sub $3k projectors with each other?
Vince
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