shezy
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Hi All
I thought may benefit from the knowledge of elite minds here.
Just grabbed a Sony HW40ES from classifieds and am planning to replace my faithful BenQ W1070. Current bulb in Sony has only 200+ hours on it.
I have a dedicated HT room measuring 12 X 14 feet, one wall painted in dark teal colour and other three walls and ceiling are painted in white. Fairly light controlled, only has one window with thick blinds on it. Screen is mounted on top of the window and when dropped covers the whole window area with very little light bleeding from one side of the screen during the day time. Near complete dark in the night. Projecting on a budget white motorised screen around 110 inches diagonal using a HTPC.
Using recommended settings mentioned by Steve Withers in following thread:
Sony VPL-HW40ES Reviewer's Recommended Best Settings
Fired Sony up this weekend and wasn't impressed by the image quality while comparing it with BenQ. Although Sony's image looks a bit more clearer and better focused especially towards the edges where BenQ was a bit blur the over presentation is rather dull. Picture feels a bit washed out and way too bright specially in brighter scenes. Decreasing the brightness make things a bit better on cost of overall picture looking darker. This projector is famous for the Colour accuracy and black levels so I was expecting overall improved picture quality but its rather quite dull when comparing to BenQ at least to my eyes. The colours doesn't seems accurate either specially Red colour. Picture doesn't has the vibrance which is very evident on BenQ in the same environment. I do understand that BenQ is a bit more brighter than Sony (2000 vs 1700 lumens) but the difference isn't huge. And despite everything colour accuracy should be there even if it's less bright. I tired playing with settings but haven't been able to to improve the results to satisfaction.
This is only my second projector (BenQ W1070 being the first). Would appreciate if experienced dedicated HT projector users specially of the same model can share their valuable knowledge which can help. Am wondering:
If I am missing something in settings
Is it the screens which isn't better match for Sony.
Can it be 3 X white painted walls and ceiling which is affecting the picture quality.
I can change the screen and can even consider painting the other three walls with dark teal colour (although better half wouldn't like it a bit) leaving only white ceiling. But need to be a bit confident that the changes and all the hard work will improve the things.
Thanks in advance for your valuable opinions.
Shezy
I thought may benefit from the knowledge of elite minds here.
Just grabbed a Sony HW40ES from classifieds and am planning to replace my faithful BenQ W1070. Current bulb in Sony has only 200+ hours on it.
I have a dedicated HT room measuring 12 X 14 feet, one wall painted in dark teal colour and other three walls and ceiling are painted in white. Fairly light controlled, only has one window with thick blinds on it. Screen is mounted on top of the window and when dropped covers the whole window area with very little light bleeding from one side of the screen during the day time. Near complete dark in the night. Projecting on a budget white motorised screen around 110 inches diagonal using a HTPC.
Using recommended settings mentioned by Steve Withers in following thread:
Sony VPL-HW40ES Reviewer's Recommended Best Settings
Fired Sony up this weekend and wasn't impressed by the image quality while comparing it with BenQ. Although Sony's image looks a bit more clearer and better focused especially towards the edges where BenQ was a bit blur the over presentation is rather dull. Picture feels a bit washed out and way too bright specially in brighter scenes. Decreasing the brightness make things a bit better on cost of overall picture looking darker. This projector is famous for the Colour accuracy and black levels so I was expecting overall improved picture quality but its rather quite dull when comparing to BenQ at least to my eyes. The colours doesn't seems accurate either specially Red colour. Picture doesn't has the vibrance which is very evident on BenQ in the same environment. I do understand that BenQ is a bit more brighter than Sony (2000 vs 1700 lumens) but the difference isn't huge. And despite everything colour accuracy should be there even if it's less bright. I tired playing with settings but haven't been able to to improve the results to satisfaction.
This is only my second projector (BenQ W1070 being the first). Would appreciate if experienced dedicated HT projector users specially of the same model can share their valuable knowledge which can help. Am wondering:
If I am missing something in settings
Is it the screens which isn't better match for Sony.
Can it be 3 X white painted walls and ceiling which is affecting the picture quality.
I can change the screen and can even consider painting the other three walls with dark teal colour (although better half wouldn't like it a bit) leaving only white ceiling. But need to be a bit confident that the changes and all the hard work will improve the things.
Thanks in advance for your valuable opinions.
Shezy