Mitsubishi HC6000 LCD Projector Review

**The News Bot** · 16-12-2007, 5:40 PM

Reviewed by Phil Hinton
The HC6000 offers a sharp, detailed and three dimensional performance with HD material and is one of the better images I have seen of late from any projector in its price range, plus there are no issues with video artefacts thanks to its excellent processing. I have to say that this Mitsubishi punches well above it weight in picture quality terms, with only the slight over saturation of primaries taking anything away from it.

Read the full review...

Russell.Williams · 16-12-2007, 10:42 PM

Hi Phil,

Excellent review, the outcome of which I obviously find satisfying.

The only question I have is regarding the lack of colour adjustment. In the main 'Image' menu, if you scroll down to 'Colour Temp', pressing 'Select' after scrolling to 'User', it brings up a menu allowing control of brightness and contrast for all three colours, using whichever of the presets as a base level to work from.

Is this not colour adjustment?

Russell

PS. No chance of nipping round and calibrating mine is there?

Gary Lightfoot · 17-12-2007, 12:49 AM

Those are for greyscale calibration, not primary colour adjustment.

Sometimes the colour saturation control can reign in the primaries, but if they're not all equally over saturated, the colours that are are not oversaturated become effected when you don't want them to.

Gary

**Phil Hinton** · 17-12-2007, 4:52 AM

As Gary mentions those are the colour temp controls for setting the grayscale. What I mean by colour management controls are RGBCYM hue and saturation controls, which alas are not present on the HC6000. However as you can see within the review for the medium setting this gives you the best possible colour points as well as close to D65 without any calibration, but the reds and green are still wide of the 709 gamut. Hope that helps and hope you are enjoying your HC6000.
P.S. I think I'm a little bit too far away to help at the moment with that request

**inzaman** · 17-12-2007, 10:39 AM

Another thoroughly enjoyable and indepth review Phil. I am also looking forward to some of those other items you have coming up for review, keep up the good work

anbjornk · 19-12-2007, 10:18 PM

How do you measure contrast, Phil? (close to the projector? Close to the screen ) And what equipement do you use ?

Edit: Found the information in your review.

Smurfin · 22-12-2007, 11:41 PM

Phil

Your reviews get better and better...superb and very in depth. Russ brought his machine over to mine a few weeks ago and I must say I was very impressed!

Curious about the 2.35:1 mode, this is something that always bugs me about projectors (the black bars), so ideally I want a scope screen when I get my nxt dedicated room....is there a noticeable decrease in image quality from using this mode and then zooming the 1.85:1 image? Also, I may have missed it in the review, but is it a manual zoom?

Cheers
Matt

**Phil Hinton** · 23-12-2007, 1:33 PM

Matt,

The best way to achieve 2.35:1 is with an anamorphic lens, but if you can get away with the loss in detail and resolution then the zoom option is available, although personally I would go with the more expensive lens route. There is plenty of discussiona nd good advice about those available in the projectors forum. The zoom is motorised on the remote. Thanks.

Russell.Williams · 05-05-2008, 6:00 PM

Phil, there was mention of:

"full 'before' and 'after' calibration reports and tests run on the HC6000, we will make available 'soon' the PDF forms which give a very detailed run down on the projector's performance and scoring"

Ive just invested in CalMAN plus a Spider3 Elite so am suddenly more interested in this sort of detail than I was when the review was posted.

Has this idea been given up as a bad one, or is the intention still to attach the files?

Cheers,

Russell