Sanyo PLV-Z4 LCD Projector
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- Weight: 11.02 lb.
- Contrast Ratio: 7000:1
- HDTV Formats: 480i 720p 1080i 575i 480p 575p
- Type: LCD Projectors
- Form Factor: Desktop
- Display Technology: TFT Active Matrix
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Returned it
Pros
VERY quiet, vivid colors, short throw and nice H & V shift, cool motorized shutter
Cons
Pronounced screen door effect, poor detail in darker images
Recommended it?
No
The Bottom Line:
Save your money.
There's a lot I like about this projector, but at the end of the day I just wasn't happy with the image it put out.
Sitting twelve feet away with an 84" screen, I found the screen door effect (a black border around each pixel) to be quite noticeable and distracting. It wasn't an issue in highly textured scenes, but the image just looked gritty to me whenever there was a solid swatch of color. Clouds in a blue sky on this projector look to me like a dense cluster of white dots on an field of blue dots. I tried defocusing the image, but by the time I wasn't bothered by the screen door effect I was annoyed by the blurry image.
The published contrast ratio of 7000:1 sounds great, but it's a bit misleading. That contrast ratio is achieved partly through the use of an iris that cuts the light during darker scenes. In a scene with darker and lighter elements (stars in space) shown simultaneously, you are not going to get the deep blacks you might expect.
Ironically, the contrast ratio was so high in one scene from "Dream with the Fishes" that a taxi seemed to be suspended on amorphous dark blobs - the wheelwell and tire together resolved into solid blackness, and no amount of adjusting could show any detail. It's a grainy film on DVD, but still, other projectors do a much better job with this sort of material. I'm sure the image would be better with an HDTV source (didn't try it), but the screen door problem would still remain.
Sitting twelve feet away with an 84" screen, I found the screen door effect (a black border around each pixel) to be quite noticeable and distracting. It wasn't an issue in highly textured scenes, but the image just looked gritty to me whenever there was a solid swatch of color. Clouds in a blue sky on this projector look to me like a dense cluster of white dots on an field of blue dots. I tried defocusing the image, but by the time I wasn't bothered by the screen door effect I was annoyed by the blurry image.
The published contrast ratio of 7000:1 sounds great, but it's a bit misleading. That contrast ratio is achieved partly through the use of an iris that cuts the light during darker scenes. In a scene with darker and lighter elements (stars in space) shown simultaneously, you are not going to get the deep blacks you might expect.
Ironically, the contrast ratio was so high in one scene from "Dream with the Fishes" that a taxi seemed to be suspended on amorphous dark blobs - the wheelwell and tire together resolved into solid blackness, and no amount of adjusting could show any detail. It's a grainy film on DVD, but still, other projectors do a much better job with this sort of material. I'm sure the image would be better with an HDTV source (didn't try it), but the screen door problem would still remain.
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