Hi
My first impressions of this projector were not good, interlaced component from my Pioneer 737 was awful, poor contrast and soft. After tweaking ,mostly the 737's menus, things started to look much, much better.
It's now been running for about 1 1/2 hours and I'm impressed. I'm going to be brief tonight because I am knackered. Contrast and colour are superb. Black levels are pretty good, blacks are dark grey but still blacker than my old Philips 4100 which is about a quarter as bright. Artefacts ( although I'm no expert in this field )are practically non-existant. I did see a little stair-stepping and noise initially but this was due to poor set up of my dvd player. I'm about 10 feet away from a 5'10" wide screen and can see no difference between interlaced and progressive component in.The picture from my HTPC ( athlon 650 , Powerdvd ) is slightly smoother but presently I'm sticking with the dvd player I think. The picture is sharp but diplays the more smooth film-like properties of DLP projectors ( I you are used to LCD, you may think it soft at 1st ). S-video was close to component, slightly less saturated colours as you might expect. I do see rainbows but not often and they don't bother me ( as yet, hopefully never )
The projector isn't user friendly and intuative at all to my mind. I still haven't worked out how to access half of the menus ( Sherlock Holmes would be pressed to find sweetvision ) It also runs very hot ( which is a worry with the fire service on strike in this country !?!
I'll hopefully post some more thoughts tomorrow.