Re: Which Projector to Buy for home theatre?

[azzure@olypen.com]

apple wrote:
> People in this group reported that DLP projector produces color
> rainbow and cause headache. True?
>
> Thank you for all your advice and help.

This is the exception, not the rule. No one who has viewed our X1 DLP
Home Theater has ever mentioned any problem.

At first I was worried about this problem. I had read about the
rainbows on avsforum.com so I was looking for them. I found them.

After a couple of weeks they vanished. I see a flicker of one every now
and then but it is nothing, really nothing.
The act of looking for rainbows exacerbates the problem. Go to
avsforum.com and read all the threads concerning rainbows. A very small
percentage of people are troubled by them.

LCDs have their problems - read about them as well. I won't say which I
like better because I have only lived with a DLP for a year and a half.
LCDs I've only auditioned for an hour or so.

I like our Infocus X1 a lot. It projects a beautiful picture.

[Karyudo]

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 07:18:54 -0800, azzure@olypen.com wrote:

>apple wrote:
>> People in this group reported that DLP projector produces color
>> rainbow and cause headache. True?
>>
>> Thank you for all your advice and help.
>
>This is the exception, not the rule. [...] I had read about the
>rainbows on avsforum.com so I was looking for them. I found them.
>
>After a couple of weeks they vanished. I see a flicker of one every now
>and then but it is nothing, really nothing. [...] The act of looking for
>rainbows exacerbates the problem.

I'll second that emotion. I went to a projector shootout organized by
a guy on AVSForum, so you know that all of the 30 or so people there
knew about rainbows, and what to look for, etc.

I was sort of shocked to find that I was one of only two people who
could see rainbows on all the DLP projectors (even the high-end ones)!
However, I also found it pretty easy to ignore the rainbows on even
the entry-level PJs. Like Azzure, I find they pretty much disappear
once you stop looking for them.

For all the posts I've seen whining about rainbows, I'd have thought
it was a bigger problem -- but in my experience, it simply isn't.

[Clams Canino]

I wish I didn't know about them.......... and made sure not to tell my wife
about them. :)

-W

"Karyudo" <karyudo_usenet@yahoo.com.remove.me> wrote in message

> I'll second that emotion. I went to a projector shootout organized by
> a guy on AVSForum, so you know that all of the 30 or so people there
> knew about rainbows, and what to look for, etc.
>
> I was sort of shocked to find that I was one of only two people who
> could see rainbows on all the DLP projectors (even the high-end ones)!

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I'll echo what most have said here. I've owned a DLP projector for
years now. I currenlty have a BenQ PE8700+ in our home theater room
and never have observed the rainbow effect. I've tested several LCD
projectors in the past and I found that the screen door effect was WAY
too distracting.

Ray
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