The battle of the 1080p home theater projectors gets even more rip-roaring today with Sanyo tossing its somewhat clunky looking Sanyo LP-Z2000 projector into the ring, at least in Japan. This 3-LCD $3000-ish monster looks more like an industrial-strength toaster, but still nails the specs with an HDMI 1.3a port, 1200 lumens and a 15,000:1 contrast ratio.
It’s also doing its best not to wake up the neighbors, matching that Mitsubishi LVP-HC6000 projector we showed you the other day in the noise department, also quoting a nearly inaudible 19dB sound emanating from its cooling fan. However, like that Mitsubishi, this Sanyo projector’s aimed at the Japanese market first, set for an October release.
https://gizmodo.com/mitsubishi-lvp-hc6000-1080p-projector-cheap-and-quiet-292128
The big news is that there’s a whole lot of activity now in the low-cost 1080p projector front, bound to find its way across the Pacific, and it’s putting even more competitive heat on the Epson with its Powerlite and Panasonic and its PT-AE100U, both projectors already released for $3000 stateside. Will some enterprising manufacturer try to undercut these $3K players? Do we hear $2000 for a 1080p shiner? [Akihabara News]
https://gizmodo.com/1080p-smackmodo-pits-panasonic-vs-epson-projectors-256370
