http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/planar-announces-viper-dlp-hd-projector/ Engadget Comments for Planar announces Viper DLP HD projector http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/planar-announces-viper-dlp-hd-projector/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/planar-announces-viper-dlp-hd-projector/Aug 21st 2008 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/planar-announces-viper-dlp-hd-projector/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/planar-announces-viper-dlp-hd-projector/Aug 21st 2008 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/planar-announces-viper-dlp-hd-projector/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/planar-announces-viper-dlp-hd-projector/Aug 21st 2008 10:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/planar-announces-viper-dlp-hd-projector/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/planar-announces-viper-dlp-hd-projector/

No, that's a lie. I can't back that up with fact :(]]>Aug 21st 2008 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/planar-announces-viper-dlp-hd-projector/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/planar-announces-viper-dlp-hd-projector/
The three chip configuration removes the use of a color wheel. The colors are generated through a prism which requires an extremely white light. So the colors generated are from a pure source.

Also, the use of three chips reduce any pixellation from extremely fast movement. In single chip DLP's, the chip has to produce an image for each color stream very quickly so the viewers eyes merge the colors and sees an image.]]>Aug 21st 2008 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/planar-announces-viper-dlp-hd-projector/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/planar-announces-viper-dlp-hd-projector/Aug 21st 2008 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/planar-announces-viper-dlp-hd-projector/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/planar-announces-viper-dlp-hd-projector/Most manufacturers pull the wool over our eyes with things like resolution, contrast (usually dynamic), and lumens. Other than resolution, these numbers are subjective and can be fudged to make the product more appealing to uneducated consumers. One manufacturer of flat panels claims 1 million:1 contrast ratio on a flat panel LCD. The actual measured native contrast of that tv in a lab was less than 1 thousand to one. If resolution was all that mattered, each manufacturer would only have 1 model, and we would all own Visio or Westinghouse.
You can buy a really good projector for $2,500. Each leap in price may only provide incremental gains. Only the person looking at the projected image can judge what their point of diminishing returns is. To say that 15k is crazy expensive is like me saying that 2.5k is really cheap. Planar bought, and now uses techniques taken from, Runco. They are arguably the best manufacturer of video display devices. If guessing is in order, I would say that 98 out of 100 people in a blind test would pick the 720p Planar projector over mass market 1080p projectors. Whether or not they feel it is worth the difference in price is up to them.
As far as buying a better 1080p projector for less, that is hard to say. High end, 3 chip, HD4 DLP projectors from Runco are in the 50K range.
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It's not like there aren't high end 1080P projectors with great contrast ratios.]]>Aug 21st 2008 6:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/planar-announces-viper-dlp-hd-projector/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/planar-announces-viper-dlp-hd-projector/
byeeeeeeeeeee]]>Aug 21st 2008 11:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/planar-announces-viper-dlp-hd-projector/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/planar-announces-viper-dlp-hd-projector/Oct 2nd 2008 1:26AM