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Re: Replaced Infocus 4805 with Mits HC1500 - My thoughts


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3) Colors - This is probably the biggest difference between the two units. Colors seem far richer on the Mits and it seemed capable of producing more of them. On several scenes in SW Episode 2 there were colors that appeared that simply weren't there (or noticable) on the 4805. Due to the added brightness of the Mits, things like explosions had a far more 3D effect than on the 4805. Also, deep colors (e.g. dark reds, greens and blues) were much 'richer' on the Mits. In other words, they stood out more and made the image appear more 3D.
The mits seems to have more dynamic range
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5) Upconversion - This is an oversight on my part more than anything else. I never hooked my Toshiba HD A30 to the 4805 via HDMI (only component). As such, I was only feeding it a 480p signal. Now I had my 22AWG HDMI cable from Monoprice (which really is close to the thickness of a garden hose!!!) and hooked it in to the Mits (set to 1080i). WOW! My regular DVD's look much better and come close to what I'm seeing with my HD DVD's. I didn't realize how much of a difference a good upconverting player could make until I saw it on my 96" screen!
Yeah. It makes night and day differnce! Avoiding DAC then ADC by hooking an HDMI cable keeps a lot more details and sharpness.
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6) SD material (cable sources) - This was the last thing that I checked out and probably my biggest surprise of the night. I fully expected the 4805 to best the Mits on SD material...it did not. I would say that they were about equal. Unfortunately, I had spent my entire night viewing HD sources or upconverted DVD's until this point so there was a serious "ugggghhhh" factor when switching over to SD cable material. Yes, it sucked but it was equally 'watchable' on both projectors. This is good because my 4 year old daughter spends most of her projector time watching Scooby Doo and Kim Possible from our PVR.
Same here, I thought the Epson TW-2000 would not be better than a business projector. Anyway the key is contrast ratio, brightness... comes before resolution.
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