( 5 reviews )
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Posted: May 22 2009
First off: I'm a techie, but not a videophile. I know just enough about video to have an educated opinion, but many of the advanced topics lie beyond me. I bought this projector to upgrade my current living room video system to a high-definition system, including a new Blu-Ray player. This projector worked flawlessly for me. The colors are bright, the menus are reasonably easy to navigate, the fan's reasonably quiet (not silent by any means, but quieter than most), and the unit is solid; feels like an occasional bump wouldn't destroy it. And I like the aesthetics: a black matte front and a matte gunmetal grey body. I did have one problem: the HDMI plug on the back of the projector is surrounded by a close metal band on one side, which prevented me from plugging in the HDMI cable I bought. I ended up having to cut off some of the rubber padding around the end of the HDMI cable, and with that, it fit just fine. However, technically speaking, no complaints.
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Posted: Mar 27 2009
Not a bad projector for the money however 9 months into ownership and 700 hours on the bulb and it has stopped working. Sony says it needs a new bulb but a quick trip to avsforums shows that lots of people have the same problem and replacing the bulb only puts off the problem for another 3-400 hours. If you don't mind buying a new $350 bulb every 6 months, this is the projector for you!
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Posted: Dec 3 2008
This is my very first projector, so I'm going to be writing this with a little bit of excitement from the "WOW, this is so cool" Standpoint. First of all, it's very easy to setup right out of the box if your just setting it on a desk and not mounting it on the ceiling. It just took me about 10 minutes to read a bit of the instructions and figure it out. I only needed to adjust the focus a bit, which you do by turning the dial on the lens. You don't need to buy a screen as long as you have a white painted wall in your house thats big enough. I had the projector sitting on a desk about 8 to 9 feet from the wall and had a beautiful 75 to 80in picture(I didn't measure it, but it was huge.) I used a Blu ray player hooked into the HDMI input. Even watching standard DVDs like Back to The Future and Star Wars, I noticed small details that I never picked up on before when I would watch them on my 37' HDTV. The reason I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 is for 2 reasons. The replacement bulb is very pricey at $300 and there is no exact time frame given in the manual about how long it lasts. I hear it's about 1000 hours, but don't quote me. So as long as you don't use it as your everyday TV set you should be good for at least a few years. The other downside which has already been mentioned is that you can't really use it during daylight hours unless you have a room with no windows. Overall, this is a great product for any movie buff.
