Re: The What You've just Bought thread!
That does look interesting, will give that a try.
Ah, fair enough.
Yes - projectors black levels suffer in most situations. The only way to get the best out of your projector is a pitch black room that is furnished completely in matte black. Significant light screws with contrast ratios pretty bad. If it was sunny outside and you closed the curtains or blinds, it's a perfectly watchable image (assuming your projector is reasonably bright). But it won't look great. If you can the room as dark as a cinema - where you can see where your going, so it's not pitchblack, you get a really good image. Good 1080p projectors can be super sharp, and don't appear pixelated until within about about a meter at a 90" screen size. In good conditions i would say a high end (1.5k+) projector looks as good as high end calibrated plasmas from 3 or so years ago. I've never seen a $20k projector but i doubt it can match the best of the TV world today, especially in black levels. Black levels can only be as dark as your room. So when your watching a space scene in a film, with a bright sun against pitch black space, the sun illuminates your room and the blacks suffer. Hence the need for a light absorbing room.
They certainly have many problems, don't look quite as good as TV's, but when you watch Avatar on a well calibrated DLP 1080p projectors the picture can be pretty stunning, quite the wow factor
A bigger screen makes films so much more immersive. And when you get them adverts about how you cant get the cinema experience at home, you can smile, knowing they are wrong
That does look interesting, will give that a try.
Ah, fair enough.
Yes - projectors black levels suffer in most situations. The only way to get the best out of your projector is a pitch black room that is furnished completely in matte black. Significant light screws with contrast ratios pretty bad. If it was sunny outside and you closed the curtains or blinds, it's a perfectly watchable image (assuming your projector is reasonably bright). But it won't look great. If you can the room as dark as a cinema - where you can see where your going, so it's not pitchblack, you get a really good image. Good 1080p projectors can be super sharp, and don't appear pixelated until within about about a meter at a 90" screen size. In good conditions i would say a high end (1.5k+) projector looks as good as high end calibrated plasmas from 3 or so years ago. I've never seen a $20k projector but i doubt it can match the best of the TV world today, especially in black levels. Black levels can only be as dark as your room. So when your watching a space scene in a film, with a bright sun against pitch black space, the sun illuminates your room and the blacks suffer. Hence the need for a light absorbing room.
They certainly have many problems, don't look quite as good as TV's, but when you watch Avatar on a well calibrated DLP 1080p projectors the picture can be pretty stunning, quite the wow factor
A bigger screen makes films so much more immersive. And when you get them adverts about how you cant get the cinema experience at home, you can smile, knowing they are wrong 
A REAL MANS GAME.
