Hi all, you may be pleased to hear that I have decided to buy the Z2 and so I will now stop pestering you all with questions after these final few......
Firstly my purchase will probably be from nexnix or ivojo ( they appear to be the cheapest unless any of you know other wise) Can anyone reccomend either one over the other as it will now come down to post sales support etc...
Secondly, I have seen an old LCD PJ in use and I was pretty impressed with the results, I just want to know how the Z2 will compare to this. The PJ in question was a sanyo PLC-XU20E, it has the following stats
Contrast 250:1 (Dont laugh)
1000 ansi lumen (more than the Z2)
res 1024 x 768
150W lamp.
This was projection a picture 200cm wide, I could see faint screen door ( i pressume thats what it was) but apart from that the pic seemed great. The room had alot of ambient light ( fish tank lights on and a light in the hall way shinning into the room) but the picture still seemed good to me.
The Pj was fed via a component lead from a £30 alba player and being shone onto a £20 blackout blind from IKEA. No VB visable and no dust blobs either.
My question is this, if i thought that picture was reasonable then surly I can only see an improvement from a Z2??? I will be showing the Z2 at a distance of 11Ft 4" and maybe onto a 104" (diagonal )screen...
Any one know why the older projectors never seemed to suffer from VB? I keep reading posts from panny 100 owners etc that had never seen VB until they upgraded to a 500 or equivlent?
Thank you all for your help and advice during my planning stage and choose between AE500 and Z2.
Cheers
Firstly my purchase will probably be from nexnix or ivojo ( they appear to be the cheapest unless any of you know other wise) Can anyone reccomend either one over the other as it will now come down to post sales support etc...
Secondly, I have seen an old LCD PJ in use and I was pretty impressed with the results, I just want to know how the Z2 will compare to this. The PJ in question was a sanyo PLC-XU20E, it has the following stats
Contrast 250:1 (Dont laugh)
1000 ansi lumen (more than the Z2)
res 1024 x 768
150W lamp.
This was projection a picture 200cm wide, I could see faint screen door ( i pressume thats what it was) but apart from that the pic seemed great. The room had alot of ambient light ( fish tank lights on and a light in the hall way shinning into the room) but the picture still seemed good to me.
The Pj was fed via a component lead from a £30 alba player and being shone onto a £20 blackout blind from IKEA. No VB visable and no dust blobs either.
My question is this, if i thought that picture was reasonable then surly I can only see an improvement from a Z2??? I will be showing the Z2 at a distance of 11Ft 4" and maybe onto a 104" (diagonal )screen...
Any one know why the older projectors never seemed to suffer from VB? I keep reading posts from panny 100 owners etc that had never seen VB until they upgraded to a 500 or equivlent?
Thank you all for your help and advice during my planning stage and choose between AE500 and Z2.
Cheers