Quote:
Originally Posted by kbfern  It's not so much eye strain as whether you will see the rainbow effect or not.You need a demo to find out.
Even if you see it, unless it is very frequent sighting of rainbows it will probably get less over time as the brain will compensate. |
I probably don't know enough about projectors to comment. I'm an AV layman.
But it seems to me that the 'Rainbow effect' is the scandal of the industry. When I was first looking for a projector a few years ago I was assured that only a very small percentage of the population could see this mystical rainbow effect - and not just by some salesman, but by many reviews and supposedly impartial sites on the internet. Hell, you can check wikipedias articles on DLP projectors, and the rainbow effect is only mentioned as being a problem with 'older' projectors. The figures I'd seen originally suggested that - maybe - 5% of people would suffer from 'rainbows'.
So I bought a 2nd Gen DLP projector, with 2x colour wheel. And I found it utterly unwatchable.
I would just have assumed that I was one of the (un)lucky few, given what I'd read. But then something strange happened: every single person who sat down in front of it actively complained about the rainbows.
I didn't need to prompt them, they weren't looking for anything, they didn't know what my projector was, how it worked, they didn't know I wasn't happy with it, they weren't asked to comment. Every single person was awash in rainbows.
I got rid of the damn thing immediately.
It is entirely possible that the technology has come a long way, that my projector was a POS, that there was something wrong with the model, that lighting conditions weren't optimal and 101 other things.
And maybe with modern DLPs, even the budget ones, the 'rainbow effect' has really, honestly, been 'virtually eliminated'.
But I was so appalled at how much BS there was surrounding the issue that I've now been put off for life. I wouldn't get another one now if they came with free spare bulbs and ice cream.