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uncle eric
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Not yet anyway.<br />I'm currently doing a couple of installs for some friends one of whom does not want (for various reasons including size) a CRT projector.<br />Budget for Single lense projector can go to around 7/8K.<br />Having completed a little research I've narrowed the choice down to the Seleco/Sim2 250 and the Sharp 9000 which is about to hit soon.
I managed to find a Sim2 200 last week and luckily was able to do an instant shootout with a Sony D50 (7" CRT) which also happens to reside in my dealer friends demo room.
My first impressions were ok really. The Sim 200 DLP performed on a different level to my old Sony VPL 900 LCD from way back when.<br />Looking at the screen (Stewart Studiotek 130) and standing further than 6 ft away rendered the pixels virtually invisible. I also found this DLP to be very quiet (especially when I remember the Hoover like noise of my old Sony Lcd from years ago.<br />On the whole the DLP had a very pleasent user interface making the machine a cinch to set up. So far so good.
Then we switched to the Sony D50 having obscured the light from the SIM2(Side note* we left both machines running so as to maintain warm up in order that we could do instant back and forth comparisons by obscuring each machine in turn)
Having looked at the Sony D50 I could see right away that it was in a much lower league than the Barco 808s that I have in my dedicated room, I've really been spoilt by my 808s, which, once warmed up looks totaly glorious. Anyway, I diden't spend two hours there to pat myself on the back and enlarge my head, back to the comparison.
First thing I noticed was that the CRT was much brighter. This surely is incorrect!!!! <br />Most single lense fans take the micky out of our puny CRT ANSI brightness figures. I even read something last week to the effect that if a CRT guy were to 'ungrade' to an LCD/DLP we would need welders goggles.....From my brief comparison, I dont think so!<br />Of course, I was unable to make it to 'The Event' and would welcome comments from people who did.(Any sunglasses needed for your shootouts?)
Getting back to the brightness issue, I can only put it down to contrast differences between the two machines.<br />The CRT having a far bigger difference between black and white probably accounted for my brain telling me the CRT was brighter.<br />Because the blacks were so much blacker, the whites looked much whiter, hence the percieved 'extra' brightness of the CRT.<br />Having said that, percieved brightness was not the only issue I pondered on.
The colours of the DLP looked so much more artificial than the CRT. The image as a whole looked more 'digital' hence less lifelike than the CRT.<br />Also as with most CRT the image just seems easy on the eye. More restfull to watch if you like.
As usual I'm open to all opinions from both camps and would welcome any advice on the search for a 'Good' single lense device.<br />Hopefully, something that wont look a million miles away from a CRT. Fingers crossed.
Eric
[ 25-09-2001: Message edited by: uncle eric ]</p>
I managed to find a Sim2 200 last week and luckily was able to do an instant shootout with a Sony D50 (7" CRT) which also happens to reside in my dealer friends demo room.
My first impressions were ok really. The Sim 200 DLP performed on a different level to my old Sony VPL 900 LCD from way back when.<br />Looking at the screen (Stewart Studiotek 130) and standing further than 6 ft away rendered the pixels virtually invisible. I also found this DLP to be very quiet (especially when I remember the Hoover like noise of my old Sony Lcd from years ago.<br />On the whole the DLP had a very pleasent user interface making the machine a cinch to set up. So far so good.
Then we switched to the Sony D50 having obscured the light from the SIM2(Side note* we left both machines running so as to maintain warm up in order that we could do instant back and forth comparisons by obscuring each machine in turn)
Having looked at the Sony D50 I could see right away that it was in a much lower league than the Barco 808s that I have in my dedicated room, I've really been spoilt by my 808s, which, once warmed up looks totaly glorious. Anyway, I diden't spend two hours there to pat myself on the back and enlarge my head, back to the comparison.
First thing I noticed was that the CRT was much brighter. This surely is incorrect!!!! <br />Most single lense fans take the micky out of our puny CRT ANSI brightness figures. I even read something last week to the effect that if a CRT guy were to 'ungrade' to an LCD/DLP we would need welders goggles.....From my brief comparison, I dont think so!<br />Of course, I was unable to make it to 'The Event' and would welcome comments from people who did.(Any sunglasses needed for your shootouts?)
Getting back to the brightness issue, I can only put it down to contrast differences between the two machines.<br />The CRT having a far bigger difference between black and white probably accounted for my brain telling me the CRT was brighter.<br />Because the blacks were so much blacker, the whites looked much whiter, hence the percieved 'extra' brightness of the CRT.<br />Having said that, percieved brightness was not the only issue I pondered on.
The colours of the DLP looked so much more artificial than the CRT. The image as a whole looked more 'digital' hence less lifelike than the CRT.<br />Also as with most CRT the image just seems easy on the eye. More restfull to watch if you like.
As usual I'm open to all opinions from both camps and would welcome any advice on the search for a 'Good' single lense device.<br />Hopefully, something that wont look a million miles away from a CRT. Fingers crossed.
Eric
[ 25-09-2001: Message edited by: uncle eric ]</p>