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Panasonic 1080p Projector: Visions of Heaven, Stratospheric Price

bradley0241 — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:18:13 EDT

Imagine arraying 9 of these together with a video processor. All controlled via Crestron (232).... Did it. The on-board edge blending capability works pretty good and the color adjustments in the menu let you color match multiple projector arrays quite well.

bradley0241

Panasonic 1080p Projector: Visions of Heaven, Stratospheric Price

fc3 — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:00:54 EDT

rs232 connections are in common use for commercial and custom home systems. There are both audio, video, and controllers that are RS-232. Crestron makes quite a nice control system. Also expensive.

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Panasonic 1080p Projector: Visions of Heaven, Stratospheric Price

Manboy — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 07:21:03 EDT

That'd be a static contrast ratio, Bagel, and a good one too. The dynamic contrast ratios quoted for consumer LCD projectors rely on trickery involving human persistance of vision, and their contrast ratio on any given frame wouldn't be anywhere near 4000:1. DLPs divert light entirely for dark pixels so by their nature they have good black detail.

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Panasonic 1080p Projector: Visions of Heaven, Stratospheric Price

Buford T. Justice — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 20:33:13 EDT

FOUR bulbs??? Can it even get close to black or is it just "not quite so white?". That's a SHITEload of light. Found the specs, 4000:1 contrast... yeah that blows.

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Panasonic 1080p Projector: Visions of Heaven, Stratospheric Price

bulletmagnet — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 01:53:58 EDT

This is a large venue projector. If you have a theater in your house where you need 10K lumens then you can probably afford this and the projection booth and power needs it has.

For mere mortals Mitsubishi, Epson and others make great 1080p LCDs well under $10K.

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Panasonic 1080p Projector: Visions of Heaven, Stratospheric Price

nbenko — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:04:02 EDT

definitely pro gear.
but the rs-422, must be for interfacing with given edit/mix theatre's 9-pin system. or is there some other use for rs-422 in a video situation that im not aware of?

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Panasonic 1080p Projector: Visions of Heaven, Stratospheric Price

Hoffen — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 21:16:26 EDT

ack! 75k! must be geared towards theaters with those bnc inputs and the wack of serial, remote and lan hookups.

EQC: I think the 2000 hours is the time between when you have to physically clean the filter. My projector has a 100 hour filter life, which just means every 100 hours i have take it out and vacume it. and by the looks of filters on most projectors, i would imagine that they are roughly 25 bucks tops for a new one.

il take a good Runco for 25k and use the other 50 to build a nice looking theater in my house ;)

Hoffen

Panasonic 1080p Projector: Visions of Heaven, Stratospheric Price

fastmike — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:55:47 EDT

keep the projector , just send the auto cleaning bot round , my cribs in a right mess

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Panasonic 1080p Projector: Visions of Heaven, Stratospheric Price

homerjay — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:10:11 EDT

Excellent use of the industry term "Burny-outy," EQC.

I'm surprised to see only one DVI. You'd think they could fit 9 or 10 in that big honkin' box.

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Panasonic 1080p Projector: Visions of Heaven, Stratospheric Price

EQC — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:03:01 EDT

Wait wait wait...

1) it uses 4 bulbs. Don't those bulbs run about $400 each when they burn out? Pricey.

2) The filters only last about 2000 hours too? How much are those to replace?

3) I also imagine that since a typical bright projector consumes about 300Watts, this 4-bulb beast eats about 1200 Watts -- or about 2.5 kilowatt hours per movie.

Not that anybody spending $75000 would care about these extra expenses...but if they can engineer a robot to clean the filters, you'd think they could engineer a better solution than 4 bigass burny-outy bulbs.

EQC

Panasonic 1080p Projector: Visions of Heaven, Stratospheric Price

eckre — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:17:51 EDT

$75K is a bargain, the only other 1080P LCD based projector I've found it Runco's @ $195,000

eckre

Panasonic 1080p Projector: Visions of Heaven, Stratospheric Price

dle5 — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:03:43 EDT

I'm quite happy with my $2000 Panasonic thank you.

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Panasonic 1080p Projector: Visions of Heaven, Stratospheric Price

daftrok — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:34:34 EDT

That is a shitload of lumens. I see this more for movie theater use and not home theater use.

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Panasonic 1080p Projector: Visions of Heaven, Stratospheric Price

twistah — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:24:50 EDT

That thing is huge. Somehow it screams "first gen."

twistah