Mitsubishi's 1080p
HC6500 has
been shipping for just over a month now, but if you've been holding off from unloading $2,500 until you saw a bona fide review, you can finally have a peek and move on with life.
CNET was able to wrap its retinas around the expansive image beamed out of this sexy piece of front-projection goodness, and overall, it had incredibly positive things to say. For instance, the deep blacks were applauded, skin tones were "natural," noise wasn't an issue at all and the input selection was quite stout. The only real rubs critics had were that it wasn't perfectly calibrated out of the box and the fact that it's up against some stiff competition -- neither of which are particularly "negative" traits. The bottom line? It's an "excellent all-round performer for the money," or in other words, you can finally commence with that trigger pulling.
posted Nov 30th 2008 4:21PM
A review for this projector has been available for a long time:
http://www.projectorcentral.com/mitsubishi_hc6500_projector_review.htm
Bottom line -- good only if you want to buy from a local big box store. Otherwise, go with the Panasonic AE3000 or (most likely) the Epson 6500/7500UB.
The HC6500 was on sale for $1,999 Fri/Sat at Best Buy, and it is $2,299 this week.
@KEN
Assume your thinking of the HC5500? They wouldn't discount the HC6500 by $1000.
@Xyzzy
Epson 6500/7500 will undoubtedly build on 1080UB and Panasonic is packed with features but I've been extremely happy with Sony HW-10 projector and I'm really NOT a Sony person. I don't like their business practices overall but with that being said, if they made a good product I'll give them the benefit. This HW-10 projector turned better color and black reproduction along with sharpness over Panasonic AE3000. Since 6500/7500 wasn't available I checked it out. It's really a great projector with stunning picture quality.
I wasn't impressed with Mitsubishi HC6500 at all. I had a chance to view them at my Magnolia and it fell short on quite a few things. For $2500 I'd rather recommend someone if they can find an Epson 1080ub or even you are lucky get Panny AE3000 (I saw some deals that had them for $2500 even though they are $3500 msrp) but definitely not this Mitsubishi.