New Home Theatre Projector Recommendations !

[tsf]

Hi All

I am looking at adding a projector to the home theatre room to used in conjuction with the our 50" Panasonic. It will be mainly used for movies.

I am looking at about a 100" screen and the seating distance is approx 4m from where the screen is.

Any suggestions, recommendations would be greatly appeciated.

Cheers
Andrew

[TheRob]

See the 'Ultimate toy' thread in this forum

[MJC]

Heres a couple of links that I found useful I just purchased an Epson TW 2000


http://www.projectorcentral.com/home.cfm
http://www.dtvforum.info/index.php?showforum=63

Cheers Matthew

[DDH]

I have an Epson TW2000, great image, can be a bit noisy though.

[tsf]

Originally Posted by DDH

I have an Epson TW2000, great image, can be a bit noisy though.

How noisy is nosy ?, its going to on the ceiling above where we will be sitting.

Can I ask how large your screen is and the distance you have it from your screen ? and what I should expect to be paying for one.

Cheers
Andrew

[DDH]

Originally Posted by tsf

How noisy is nosy ?, its going to on the ceiling above where we will be sitting.

Can I ask how large your screen is and the distance you have it from your screen ? and what I should expect to be paying for one.

Cheers
Andrew

Its noisy enough that if / when I need to replace I will take that into consideration, but not noisy enough that it will cause me to change. I've found one important thing is that if you need to crank up the brightness to max then the fan certainly runs louder to achieve this.

210cm screen, about 280cm away for the seating, projector directly overhead at about 260cm (very high open ceilings).

Not sure about current pricing, have had mine for well over a year and got it through a mate who works in Epson, so the price was truly right ie staff rates.

[vlad]

I would reconsider.
Contrast ratio is crap on front projectors. Any light will ruin it completely, unless you have room with a total light control.
There not that much good movies around and TV is better on Plasma/LCD.

[stewy]

I have a sanyo plv z5 projector and a 100 inch screen.. If you want good value and great advice look at www.ausmedia.com.au i am in perth also and i had great advice and great service from these people and best of all great prices and value. the delivery process was great, right to your front door. you get a screen, projector for under $3000 last time i looked.

[skygazer]

www.pricejapan.com

Had a Sanyo Z2 for 5 years now still going strong.
Panasonics are good too.
www.projectorcentral.com for reviews / comprisons etc.

[ExtremePC]

The Sanyo PLV-Z2000 ROCKS!

1920 x 1080 and 15,000:1 contrast ratio ........ absolutely bloody fantastic HT projector and its under 6K!