JasperandWalter
Standard Member
As it arrived this morning I thought I'd better start one. First impressions - well the box is brown cardboard and very similar to the box my Z4 came in 3 years ago.
Now that I got some full HD test patterns, I can see that it is the green panel that is not aligned with the other two. Also, the blue and green panels aren't perfectly aligned either. Here are two PICs.
- HD convergence pattern - no explanation needed really
- the menu from Top Gun Blu-ray (US region free) - notice that all the white lines are red on the left adge and green on the right. Same for the yellow letters.
- not shown, but the built in test pattern shows convergence issues, but since the background is blue (why?), it makes it more difficult to see.
I contacted Ivojo, who I bought it from. (BTW, my unit was shipped direct from Sanyo UK, not from Ivojo.) Sanyo apparently need to look at some pictures of the convergence, so I had to send Ivojo some pictures (including those above) for them to pass on to Sanyo. That was about 5PM yesterday. I will find out on Monday if Sanyo are going to swap it out. If Sanyo don't swap it, I will be returning the projector. That would be a shame because I am pleased with it in all other respects. This throws my Christmas HD movie watching plans up in the air...
Also, my front room looks like a war zone because I have perched my bluray player and my xbox360 on a ladder underneath the Z3000 to have just direct 1.5 meter cables to the PJ in order to rule out any issues that could be introduced by my Onkyo 876 or 10M HDMI cable.
This is a similar story on most lcd projector, and can also cause issues with sharpness, which is why I went with the hw10 (you can adjust the convergence);-). I hope you get the issue sorted.
Sanyo started requesting photo's for image problems a while back after a first time purchaser got a bit aggressive with a Sanyo support technician about a blurry image on their brand new projector. Turned out they hadn't read the manual and didn't know you had to focus a projector....
A bit of good news. Sanyo will be delivering me a replacement PJ tomorrow.
Having previously been a part-time ISF calibrator a number of years ago, I can fully appreciate why Sanyo would want to look at some pictures. So I was happy to take the pictures and send them in. (Although it is difficult to easily get the exposure correct so that the picture is representative.) Anyway, I was pleased with how Ivojo handled the situation. Since Sanyo seems to ship direct to Ivojo's customers, it probably makes things a bit tricky for them to coordinate between the customer and the supplier. I was very worried that it would be a nightmare, but it wasn't.
Fingers crossed that the replacement does arrive tomorrow, has better convergence, and doesn't have other things wrong with it.
I'm looking forward to getting some hours on the bulb and dusting off my spectroradiometer for a full calibration.