Hi all - got my HS10 a couple of weeks ago - 35 hrs and counting and I would like to chip in. I paid approx. 22.000 Danish kr. (£1750-£1800) incl. shipment, japanese bankingfee, danish VAT and insurance. I bought it from PriceJapan - excellent service and price!
I should mention that i saved some 900 Dkr (£70) by paying PJ in yen instead of dollars.
My overall setup:
90" 16:9 matte white screen.
1.7-1.8 screenwidth sittingdistance.
10 m. component cable.
I agree with you guys - Kramer and Dan18 - the overall PQ of this baby is just awesome! Detail, contrast and lumens is superb. Black is not 'black' though and problaly never will. LCD's are known for 'poor' blackreproduction (this is my third LCD projector), but that said, I'm very satisfied with the blacks and shadowdetail of this projector.
As you said the fannoise is a bit too loud in cinemablack - I agree. Although I only notice the fan in quiet moments, I expected the fannoise of the HS10 to be just sligthly lower than it is. But considering the overall qualityimpression of the HS10, it dosen't matter a bit. I too have no dead pixels - even if I had, I'd have trouble finding them - they are soo TINY!
After hours of tweaking, my settings are:
Cinama black ON
Cinema Filter ON
Black Level Adj Low (enough shadowdetail and good blacklevel)
Picture: Standard (pure
true bright whites, spot-on fleshtones!)
Contrast 80
Colour 50
Bright 50
sharp 60
Color temp: Middle
DDE: Film (crisp, razorsharp image)
Servicemenu:
R Offset 211 (standard)
B Offset 209 (to compensate for the Cinema filter)
G Offset 209 (to compensate for the Cinema filter)
There's a lot of settings in here, and I haven't had the time to check most of them out yet - don't think it's necesary anyway.....
These settings can be found under the 'Panel Driver' menu in the servicemenu
Later, I'll have more info to post and sometime next week I'll try borrow a camera and post screenshots/pictures of pj, backwall mount etc. if anyone desires...?
Anyone with questions, feel free to ask anything!
BTW: Has anyone seen Resident Evil on their HS10 yet - saw it a couple of days ago and the PQ was simply awesome!
Enjoy!
- Thomas