List Price: $1,599.00
Sale Price: $1,499.00
Today's Bonus: 6% Off
Due to the fact that all projector performance gets better with each generation (even as the cost goes down), I always expect to be pleasantly surprised by each new projector's performance and cost.
Having said that, I'm "surprisingly surprised". This projector is amazingly good, and perfect for its intended application, which is for use within rooms that have perfectly normal amounts of ambient light. The trade-off for this much brightness is this: IF you're using it in a room that IS darkened, I believe you will find the dark picture elements to be brighter than you might like, EVEN THOUGH the contrast ratio between the light and the dark are as good as on any projector. In other words, this projector is a gift from the gods in the well-lit conference room (or un-darkened living room) because it can create beautiful, bright 100+ inch 1920x1080 projections without making the room less usable (by dimming the lights or drawing the shades). By extension, if you are buying a projector for a darkened home theater, there are projectors optimized for THOSE design priorities. In other words, not all top-of-the-line projectors are good at the same things. Cars are cars, trucks are trucks. Cars are not BAD trucks, they're just NOT trucks. I expect that at some point in the near future, a misinformed or ignorant buyer will review this projector and complain that it's "too bright" for their darkened room.
Within two weeks of receiving this, we purchased two more units.
Noteworthy Attributes:
-Unusually bright: Perfectly adequate in a well lit-room
-Unsusally quiet: Fan is less noisy than comperable models
-Unusually loud: Built-in speakers enable 'real' presentation audio w/o external speakers.
-Network attached: Allows you to attach to a host computer without any video cables.
-Lots of Inputs and Outputs: For "tweaking" to your needs (i.e. 12V signal to lower a screen).
-Good optical zoom range: Better than its peers (as of 11/6/2012) means you have more flexibility with placement.
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