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advice on home cinema projectors
can anyone advise if the Epson 5350 is better than dlp
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It's not better or worse than a DLP projector of about the same price.
It's just different. LCD and DLP have different strengths and weaknesses. |
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Just had a look at the specs and some reviews. It seems good for the price.
One thing that was frequently mentioned was it's a bit noisy, but fairly quiet in Economy mode. Projectors these days have two brightness settings; Full and Economy. The lamp is a bit dimmer in Economy mode but this means the cooling fan is a lot quieter. When I say "dimmer" it's still amazingly bright, even on a big screen. But to use the projector with room lights on (or daylight in the room) might need the lamp on Full, so the cooling fan might then be a bit annoying. ---------- LCD projectors tend not to have a "black level" that is quite as good as DLP projectors at the same price range. What "black level" means is the darkest black that can be achieved. So if watching a film set at night it won't look quite as good as a DLP projector of about the same price. But it'll still look very good. DLP projectors also have a downside in that they can give some people a headache. It's because of the way the technology works. -------- Generally an LCD projector like this Epson is the best choice for a first projector since you can be sure that no one will have any problems viewing it's image. If you want to have the most "cinema like" image for under £1000 then it'll have to be a DLP type projector, but as mentioned they can cause a headache for some people. |
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Gosh this is a blast from the past for me, I have a very old DLP SVGA projector stored away somewhere from about ten years ago.
Could anyone advise if modern DLP's still suffer from what I think was called the Rainbow Effect? If memory serves me correctly not everyone's vision is sensitive to it (bit like the headache comment) although I was. Sometimes during fast moving scenes there would be some subtle (and fast, almost imperceptible) bands of colour distortion. |
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Gosh this is a blast from the past for me, I have a very old DLP SVGA projector stored away somewhere from about ten years ago.
Could anyone advise if modern DLP's still suffer from what I think was called the Rainbow Effect? If memory serves me correctly not everyone's vision is sensitive to it (bit like the headache comment) although I was. Sometimes during fast moving scenes there would be some subtle (and fast, almost imperceptible) bands of colour distortion. It depends on a thing called the "colour wheel", and how quickly it rotates to provide the colour/image. 2x / 3x / 4x / 5x are the typical speeds, although 6x is available. I have an old 2x DLP projector which is nice in every way but for the fact it gives me a mild headache after about 1hr use A different DLP projector with 4x colour wheel causes no trouble at all, although I can still see the rainbows sometimes. This projector can also do 5x and it's really hard to see rainbows at that speed. |
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Thanks for that tass, makes sense. I'd hazard a guess my old relic is 1x!
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