Once upon a time, a home projector meant serious cred. Darkened lights and popcorn to underscore the formality. Now we’ve got the netbook delivering HDTV via wiHD in the home theater to sixteen audio channel TV sets and lethal black soundbars Darth Vader would envy. The projector device delivers video and visual product a large scale audience with multiple options for projection, like a wall, ceiling, screen, or wherever owners want to direct their video source.
Projector peeps like to talk visual artifacts and lamp life, fan efficiency and color saturation. Zoom is of concern because the distance to the video target may need to shift from presentation to presentation. The footlamberts and the calibration of the factory settings are of concern. But you can’t fool the eye, and the Sanyo pumps enough crisp scaled image into the air that movie fans, game day and home video just got sexier by the inch.
Got projection? Home and standalone video projectors have been the business/entertainment stratosphere device for home theater nerds who really want to impress. Sanyo now rolls out a stunning 3LCD projector for those techie fans that can’t get beyond the Don Draper “carousel” moment. The Sanyo PLV L4000 takes no prisoners with a 1080p resolution paired with 120 Hertz refresh speed. This gadget will be worked and worked hard until the DVD collection cries “uncle”.
You won’t want to paint the town red, you’ll want to paint the back of the house luminescent gray for summer movie open-air theater. This bad boy will put some oomph into those home movie nights, and the whole neighborhood can watch as you stream “Avatar” onto the garage wall. This is the item all your neighbors will want to borrow.
Sanyo’s electronics store little brother is the PLV 1020p, a nightstand projector model compared with the 3LCD PLV 4000. As always, audio and brightness are of concern, but with zap friendly video playing and a group wide area audio source the $2500 is still in the reasonable price neighborhood. The Topazreal system outputs 216 million colors, which should keep the kids occupied after a long day of sun and fun.
