Toshiba DLP Home Cinema Projector for under £350 all-in! Takes Sky HD.

monkeydust_2

Found (and brought!) this Home Cinema Projector - £347, it’s a Toshiba, will take in Sky HD and great reviews! Details and good links to review here its not totally HD Ready but at this price you cant argue.... now have to figure out how to mount it to a ceiling .. any ideas/advice?

guerillasaver

where did you buy from?

EDIT!! never mind, just finished reading the whole post :S

Baz_2

monkeydust wrote:

its not totally HD Ready

Forget "its not totally HD ready" its not even close to being HD ready, in fact its the very definition of not HD Ready.

HD compatible is the geek speek for it.

monkeydust_2

it will take HD inputs and de-scale down from what I have understood, like I said its a great price for a DLP projector. A HD one and youre looking at around 1K

sainthalo

my two decade old 14" sony portable is as high def as this is.

monkeydust_2

quote from AVForums:

....not since my days of owning a beautiful Seleco Ceiling mounted projector have I seen such a 'filmic' result. Looks awesome with my 360 and you would be hard pressed to notice that it's not in HD, as it does such a nice job with 720p. I'm currently projecting onto a beige 'textured' wall which I thought would just be unwatchable (just due to the texture on the wallpaper), and the image is stunning


... pleanty more like that :-)

paul.carter

Great price for projector, just be wary of the cost of replacement bulbs. I have found these people to be amongst the cheapest when purchasing bulbs

http://www.avprojectorlamps.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=3139&category_id=b859eb3008917b1f3fb5b6fbc60c21b2&option=com_phpshop&Itemid=1

Still works out at £207, and this may only last around a year or two (3000 hours) depending on how much you use it.

zafonica

http://www.dabs.com/ProductView.aspx?Quicklinx=3ZB3&InMerch=1

Little_John

zafonica wrote:

http://www.dabs.com/ProductView.aspx?Quicklinx=3ZB3&InMerch=1

Ye its that one, how did you work that out? by clicking the link and reading thepage it went to?:rotfl:

xplo5iv

Just a quick note with regard to DLP. If you're using a PC as your DVD player, and connecting via RGB, set the refresh rate to 75Hz (Rather than say 85Hz), as it reduces the 'rainbow effect' that sometimes occurs. My wife found it unwatchable at 85Hz, unnoticeable at 75!
(I assume it's due to the fact that 75 is a multiple of the 25fps PAL signal)

Jonathan

mclaren_2

monkeydust wrote:

Found (and brought!) this Home Cinema Projector - £347, it’s a Toshiba, will take in Sky HD

it wont take in Sky HD as it will not have HDMI connections - you can use scart but you will not get HD images - they will be SD