Panasonic PT-AE1000E LCD Projector Review

[Phil Hinton]

Reviewed by Phil Hinton
...the Panasonic has forgettable blacks, yet does everything else extremely well and should be considered for audition if you are looking to go full HD with your next projector

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[Mark_a]

Noise level?

Regards

Mark

[Phil Hinton]

In eco mode and just above my head when watching I could not really hear the projector when film watching. I didn't measure but would guess it is in teh 20-30db range but the tone is not distracting.

[Mark_a]

20 - 30 is a helluva range, dB being logarithmic an' all. My existing projector is supposedly 26dB in low-lamp mode and that's about as noisy as I would ever tollerate. I see the Epson EMP-TW1000 comes in at the same level. How folks can live with anything noisier I don't know, but each to their own.

Regards

Mark

[BISHI]

Might you send me your callibration settings Mr Hinton for this projector. I have absolutely no idea how to set it up properly and am presently using cinema 3 . When watching the matrix the other evening I did notice the difference between the black clothing and the edge border of the screen to be disturbingly large !! Nice succint review.

[David Mackenzie]

Great review Phil, thanks for that. I'm going to be looking for a projector fairly soon (some of the transfers on HD DVD and BD deserve to be seen on a wall, not a TV) and was considering this. I've been a little scared away from the idea of an LCD-based projector already though.