Christie intros 95-pound CP2000-M DLP Cinema projector

It's not often that you need to phone a friend over in order to help you physically lift a projector for installation, but if you happen to place an order for Christie's newly announced CP2000-M, um, you may want to have some brawn nearby. At 95 frickin' pounds, this thing is hailed as "the most compact DLP Digital Cinema projector in the world," and true though that may be, you can tell it wasn't designed for the "average" home theater (or home theaters at all, really). As for specs, you can look forward to 12,000 ANSI lumens, a motorized lensing system and a selection of eight zoom lenses, 2K resolution, a 2,000:1 contrast ratio, and twin HDCP-compliant DVI ports. We have absolutely no idea how many vacation homes you'd have to liquidate in order to call one of these your own, but for the vast majority of us, we doubt it'll matter.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 15th 2008 8:58AM]

The 95-pound thing isn't really a problem. This isn't meant as a portable product so installing it shouldn't be a problem. Five years ago Sony brought out their Qualia 004 SXRD projector in the same weight-class, but even the two of these are no match for what the CRT projectors came in at.

For instance, I have a couple of CRT projectors and the lightest one is 140 pounds. The other one is about 165 pounds. But guess what, they were meant to be as non-portable as these current products. Trying to sensationalize its weight is like saying that king size oak bed is heavy. Duh!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 15th 2008 12:42PM]

All of Christie's projectors and, as GhostDoggy has pointed out, all projectors in this class aren't light. Yes, you could probably move it on your own if you absolutely had to. It's a two man job to make it easy and once it's wherever you're putting it, you don't really have a lot of need to move it again.

That is, of course, assuming that you never hook up two of them in tandem. One of the rooms on campus has 2x Christie projectors (model escapes me) that have this feature. It's rare we have to take one off of the top of the other but when we do, we always have two guys there to do it.