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Move over Panasonic PTAE300?
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naaah not now the PT can be had for 600 billies.
The AE300 for £600? Are you sure you are not thinking of the AE100?
Must be the AE100.
Projector looks as though at it has some astonishing specs, but it's 4:3, right, so you can't run through movies in proper anamorphic resolution?
Originally posted by Grandmaster
Projector looks as though at it has some astonishing specs, but it's 4:3, right, so you can't run through movies in proper anamorphic resolution?
yep - this means an V rez of 340 for 2.35:1 and 432 for 1.85:1 (?) and potentially DLP rainbows - but on the up side you dont get screendoor (?) and you do have good quality deinterlacing onboard so no expensive scaler/player required
You could get an anamorphic lense, but you'd need to do some HTPC cleverness to deal with 4:3 and non anamorphic though
Phil
I read a review on this projector somewhere comparing it with the Infocus X1 which is essentially the same projector. The 2800 is supposedly tweaked with home cinema in mind and ships by default outputting in widescreen mode. I do take your points though about the resolutions issues though as the DLP chip is indeed 4:3 natively.
Originally posted by Ron Hill
ships by default outputting in widescreen mode.
If this means that it's got an anamorphic lense then the fact it's a 4:3 won't matter too much as the whole panel will be used and then optically stretched.
Of course it'll have to do some scaling for 4:3 (digitally squashing horizontally - therefore loosing some Horizontal resolution) and non anamorphic (digitally stretching vertically) but it depends on what you watch the most. Could produce some pretty nice results
Phil
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naaah not now the PT can be had for 600 billies.
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The AE300 for £600? Are you sure you are not thinking of the AE100?
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Must be the AE100.
Projector looks as though at it has some astonishing specs, but it's 4:3, right, so you can't run through movies in proper anamorphic resolution?
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Originally posted by Grandmaster
Projector looks as though at it has some astonishing specs, but it's 4:3, right, so you can't run through movies in proper anamorphic resolution?
yep - this means an V rez of 340 for 2.35:1 and 432 for 1.85:1 (?) and potentially DLP rainbows - but on the up side you dont get screendoor (?) and you do have good quality deinterlacing onboard so no expensive scaler/player required
You could get an anamorphic lense, but you'd need to do some HTPC cleverness to deal with 4:3 and non anamorphic though
Phil
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I read a review on this projector somewhere comparing it with the Infocus X1 which is essentially the same projector. The 2800 is supposedly tweaked with home cinema in mind and ships by default outputting in widescreen mode. I do take your points though about the resolutions issues though as the DLP chip is indeed 4:3 natively.
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Originally posted by Ron Hill
ships by default outputting in widescreen mode.
If this means that it's got an anamorphic lense then the fact it's a 4:3 won't matter too much as the whole panel will be used and then optically stretched.
Of course it'll have to do some scaling for 4:3 (digitally squashing horizontally - therefore loosing some Horizontal resolution) and non anamorphic (digitally stretching vertically) but it depends on what you watch the most. Could produce some pretty nice results
Phil
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