Mitsubishi's LVP-HC6000 3LCD projector throws 1080p at 19dB
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Aug 22nd 2007 8:17AM
posted Aug 22nd 2007 8:17AM
Today Mitsubishi took some time to out their latest 1080p home theater projector by the name of LVP-HC6000. The followup to their LVP-HC5000 opts for a trio of 0.74-inch LCDs from Epson and 160W UHE lamp to up the dynamic contrast to 12,000:1 while the throttling back the brightness a tad to 800 lumens under a quiet 19dB operational whir. The DVI input is gone in favor of a pair of 1080/60p/24p HDMI terminals, composite, D-Sub15 RGB, and S-Video inputs. Video processing then, is handled by a 10-bit Reon-VX processor from Silicon Optix. Expected to hit Japan for ¥350,000 (about $3,040) on September 25th. Peep a shot of the lens side forward after the break -- we think you'll forgive us for not running it as the headline shot.
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It goes on the ceiling. Unless you spend your days aimlessly stairing at the ceiling of your home theatre, who cares what it looks like.
It's a projector, you're not looking at it.
800 lumens just doesn't cut it.
You'd need a totally dark room for it to look good. IMHO the minimum useful brightness is about 1200 lumens. This will allow a basically watchable image during the day in a room with a few windows that have the shades pulled down and very subdued lighting
You realize there's a rather large gap between rated lumens and actual lumens in most cases right? And that 800 actual lumens will work for a semi lit room?
Most of these home theatre projectors are starting to use real ratings (or actual expected ratings) instead of some arbitrary, theoretical maximum lumen rating, and if that's the case here as I suspect, this projector will be more than bright enough for most people in just about any room.
If I was rich, and had my own house, I'd have TVs anywhere with natural light and only put a projector in a home theater room with no windows and a popcorn maker.
No, seriously. I had an 800 and I currently have a 1000. They behave as described. It is a kind of big room, and I'm throwing them over a 107" screen, so I guess your milage may vary.
It's a nice projector and even does well when there's ambient light in the room.
We used it with Blueray player and had really nice results. The screen we used is an 80" Beamax Dellegno projection screen.
See some screenshots and the set up here: www.projectionscreenblog.com/?p=39
Otto