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Tech support didn't know how to fix it. 5 stars.This projector runs hot. That fiddling took about 2 hours to be honest. 3 stars.All in all.If I had 2 grand, I'd buy it again without even thinking about it. After reverting to normal setting, the image came back.At this point, I wouldn't drop money on a 720 projector, it's a bad investment giving the rate at which technology is moving. It's that good. I'm not bothered by it because, how many people stare at your ceiling anway. X-box 360 has a black level setting.
To me, the movie was easy to take in with half the lights on. I got mine today and hooked it up. Projected onto a screen, this is a very good image. I projected it onto a light yellow wall and the image was as good as my LCD. The projector must sit horizontal. 5 stars there.I have 20 pot lights downstairs, with half of them on (see my uploaded pic with Halo 3 [.]. I played with the zoom (contrast was already spot on) until the image fit perfectly into the projector frame.
There's no way this will blend into a ceiling, won't happen. That bothered me because I could see black edges on the image before the black images on the projector frame. Still, there's ample s-video, component and hdmi to keep me occupied. And it just would not go away. What I had to do, which worked really well, was to set the projector plumb horizontal and use the lenses shift to move the image down and across to fit the screen. Get used to it.
The extended black option setting caused the component 1 input to cast nasty green lines. After that, it's easy sailing.Picture Quality, contrast etc.I don't have a TV in the room so I really have no point of reference other than what I understand to be a good picture based on the couple of plasmas and lcd's I have upstairs. I couldn't drop the project lower down from the ceiling beccause of space issues - that would have worked as well. 3 stars.I didn't get a co-ax plug-in. With the lights dimmed, it's that much more beautiful.It's bigger than I thought it would be. I wouldn't spend more money than 2 grand on a projector either because I don't edit movies for living and I don't work in a movie studio so I don't need a ferarri projector - not many of us do. correction - at least that is what the tech support guy said it was. The picture is decent.
I finally figured out that it was the black level setting. 4 starsThe problem.This thing has no key stone (sp). It just needs a couple extra minutes to adjust to it. The issues I ran into had work-arounds - except one which turned out to be really nasty. If it is not, the projected image follows the angle so you end up with a projected angle that doesn't fit square into the frame of the projector screen. However, the fan is not loud enough to be noticeably.
Easy to setup, 5 stars there. I spent a few hours installing it into the ceiling and I can tell it needs to be well ventilated. The menu on the remote is a bit funky, not much though. Bummer. It wasn't cristal clear because I was running Oceans 12 at 480P, still very clear. the picture is still clear - not sure what the fuss is about poor image quality there.
This projector works for me because I can run my computer through it and work on a 120 inch screen without fuzzy fonts, I can watch movies in all their splendor when I am bored, and the rest of the time, Xbox puts it to plenty of use.
Contrast levels are poor, color accuracy, even after calibration is so so, the menues are designed in a way that makes it very complicated to tune the picture. Brightness is also an issue if your room is not pitch black.Overall, it generates a good picture when playing Blueray DVD with bright scenes but any dark content, especially standard definition DVD movies will look as good as a $700 SD projector.Another thing that bothered me is that for some reason, perhaps for seperation from the official PLV-Z700 model (which is identical), the front panel is black. The Sanyo PLV-Z700 and the PLV-Z2000 were beutifuly desgined with an all-white enclosure that merged very nice with the ceiling when mounted but this model that is exculisvily sold by Amazon and Best Buy has a black front which makes it intrusive to the room. I bought this projector as soon as it came out. Was dissapointed as soon as I powerd it up. An unfortunate decision.Bottom line - If you can afford the few extra hundreds of dollars skip this projector and go for a unit that will not cause you to plan your next upgrade after the first day you watch a movie with a new purchase.
This is the first sub $2k 1080p projector I found.b) Simple to setup. It has two HDMI and two component inputs. I just plugged the power in hooked up my HD tuner and DVD player in and I was up and running in a couple of minutes.c) The image is bright, crisp and colorful. This is my first projector and so there is not much I can compare it with. First the pros:a) Great value for money. On my first attempt I projected the image onto a dark wall and yet I could see a lot of detail and colors.d) The zoom combined with the vertical and horizontal shifts mean that you can pretty much install it wherever you want and control the size of the image.e) The lens cover is motorized and shuts off when you power off the device, keeping out unwanted dust.Cons:1) The projector is a bit bulky.
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