Hi All
After thinking that the next upgrade to our Panasonic AX-100U projector was going to be something approaching the BenQ 1070 or similar, my wife has said that she wouldn't mind if I really wanted something in the price range of a Panasonic PT-AT600E! As long as I don't update that in three years time.
We have had the AX100 for approx four years from new and use it projected onto an 84" Projecta drop down screen, approx 14 feet away from our seating position. The projector is not permanently mounted, but gets placed on a purpose built shelf just above our seating position.
This is very wife / living room friendly, and allows for the PJ to be lined up pretty much perfectly in the centre of the screen, which is a version that has an extra deep black border at the top of the roll-down
The PJ has now reached only 250 hours on the bulb. We used our Pioneer Kuro plasma mostly in the early days, but are now finding we watch films via the PJ more, so the hours on a new projector will go up, but not considerably. We've even made a mask with black velvet applied to the screen for 2.35:1 ratio films, which helps with framing, contrast and perceived black levels
We view a mixture of mainly blu rays and occasional DVDs from a Pioneer BDP-51FD player, Sony BR player and Sky HD content and are very happy but I think now is the time for a step up in quality?
The room has a mid cream carpet, white ceiling and mid toned walls, so certainly not a bat cave! We do however only watch at night with black out curtains covering two windows and patio door / windows
We demoed the PT-AT6000E against a BenQ1070 and an Epson 6100 at a retailer and had the PT-AT6000E at home for an overnight test, and found it to be very sharp, have good motion control and of course, certainly better black levels than our AX100.
So now because I can spend a touch more, do I consider the JVC DLA-X35, Sony VPL-HW55ES and Epson EH-TW9200?
Any thoughts would be very much appreciated many thanks...
After thinking that the next upgrade to our Panasonic AX-100U projector was going to be something approaching the BenQ 1070 or similar, my wife has said that she wouldn't mind if I really wanted something in the price range of a Panasonic PT-AT600E! As long as I don't update that in three years time.
We have had the AX100 for approx four years from new and use it projected onto an 84" Projecta drop down screen, approx 14 feet away from our seating position. The projector is not permanently mounted, but gets placed on a purpose built shelf just above our seating position.
This is very wife / living room friendly, and allows for the PJ to be lined up pretty much perfectly in the centre of the screen, which is a version that has an extra deep black border at the top of the roll-down
The PJ has now reached only 250 hours on the bulb. We used our Pioneer Kuro plasma mostly in the early days, but are now finding we watch films via the PJ more, so the hours on a new projector will go up, but not considerably. We've even made a mask with black velvet applied to the screen for 2.35:1 ratio films, which helps with framing, contrast and perceived black levels
We view a mixture of mainly blu rays and occasional DVDs from a Pioneer BDP-51FD player, Sony BR player and Sky HD content and are very happy but I think now is the time for a step up in quality?
The room has a mid cream carpet, white ceiling and mid toned walls, so certainly not a bat cave! We do however only watch at night with black out curtains covering two windows and patio door / windows
We demoed the PT-AT6000E against a BenQ1070 and an Epson 6100 at a retailer and had the PT-AT6000E at home for an overnight test, and found it to be very sharp, have good motion control and of course, certainly better black levels than our AX100.
So now because I can spend a touch more, do I consider the JVC DLA-X35, Sony VPL-HW55ES and Epson EH-TW9200?
Any thoughts would be very much appreciated many thanks...
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