In a word, wow.
Our family TV set has been a creaky old 40" Mitsubishi rear-projection unit for nearly 2 decades. The darn thing just kept running and running--one service call in all those years. The green CRT was getting long in the tooth, though, and very bright objects would sport a green smear on the leading edge.
I loved that old TV not only for its reliability but also for the wood cabinet, with stout hinged doors that covered the screen when closed. Remember when TV sets were pieces of fine furniture?
Anyway, I had some money burning a hole in my pocket last weekend when the Fry's ad came out--$800 off the regular price for a Mitsubishi DLP rear-projector monitor. One thing led to another, and now I'm $2,800 poorer but with a new toy in the living room.
This DLP technology is really cool. I have discovered, however, that it's easy to spot the "color strobe" artifact if you know how to do it. Also, there's an expensive lamp that will need replacing every few years.
I'm just learning about all the different screen display modes. I am frankly baffled why anyone would want a "stretched" mode (where the image is stretched horizontally so that a 4:3 image now is a 16:9 image), or a "zoom" mode (where the 4:3 image is expanded vertically and horizontally, so that substantial vertical data is cut off). This stikes me as appealing to the same people who select the "jazz" or "concert hall" audio equalization curve on boomboxes. Give me flat, please, and hold the coloration.
Anyway, it's a really neat toy, and I would recommend it to all Vegas people. It even does a great job with the video I've shot myself, though now I'm paying a bit more attention to the Sony HDV camcorder ads.
Our family TV set has been a creaky old 40" Mitsubishi rear-projection unit for nearly 2 decades. The darn thing just kept running and running--one service call in all those years. The green CRT was getting long in the tooth, though, and very bright objects would sport a green smear on the leading edge.
I loved that old TV not only for its reliability but also for the wood cabinet, with stout hinged doors that covered the screen when closed. Remember when TV sets were pieces of fine furniture?
Anyway, I had some money burning a hole in my pocket last weekend when the Fry's ad came out--$800 off the regular price for a Mitsubishi DLP rear-projector monitor. One thing led to another, and now I'm $2,800 poorer but with a new toy in the living room.
This DLP technology is really cool. I have discovered, however, that it's easy to spot the "color strobe" artifact if you know how to do it. Also, there's an expensive lamp that will need replacing every few years.
I'm just learning about all the different screen display modes. I am frankly baffled why anyone would want a "stretched" mode (where the image is stretched horizontally so that a 4:3 image now is a 16:9 image), or a "zoom" mode (where the 4:3 image is expanded vertically and horizontally, so that substantial vertical data is cut off). This stikes me as appealing to the same people who select the "jazz" or "concert hall" audio equalization curve on boomboxes. Give me flat, please, and hold the coloration.
Anyway, it's a really neat toy, and I would recommend it to all Vegas people. It even does a great job with the video I've shot myself, though now I'm paying a bit more attention to the Sony HDV camcorder ads.