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28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Learn what Keystone is before you buy...., 16 Jan 2008
Oddly I actually returned this item, not because of the quality, but because the spec is not clear enough I feel.
I read up, read reviews, 'Googled' everything I needed to know about projectors, screens, photo luminescent paint, and despite this unit seeming to be too good to be true, it actually is...well almost.
Firstly why to buy; Its compact, its all-in-one fun, DVD, decent speakers (ace with the free sub) and excellent picture - even a carrycase to boot.
So why should you not? Well, and this may not apply to everyone but, you need to work out your projection distance! I had it at just under 3m from the wall and the picture was gigantic!
I had visions of it on the freshly plastered chimney brest in my bedroom watching Indiana Jones, but at this distance away instead of watching Indy running from a huge boulder in some tomb all I could see was his hat! A frigging 2 meter wide fedora!
Anyway, judge your projection distances correctly, and allow for the fact that there's no horizontal keystone correction (You have to have the unit square on to the wall) and you'll be in for a treat with this little pandoras box.
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36 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very Impressive!, 10 Aug 2007
Bought this product from Dabs.com
I am very impressed with the quality of the product. Not sure how optoma compare in the projector market, but the DV11 is awesome
Picture quality is superb. I know there are higher resolution projectors available, but i have no complaints about the DV11's picture quality. DVD's pictures are clear, and bright, much better than i expected!
Best results are achieved in a dark room
watching the same films on the projector really makes a difference!
Sound quality is very good too. The built in speakers are loud and clear. Although additional speakers would give a truer cinema feel, i think with a picture quality as good as this I will be setting up a good sound system to complement it.
Also set up my PS2, and im enjoying playing old classics once again!
yet to test the 1080i HD compatibilty with my PS3 the DV11 boasts about.
if you have a budget of about £500 i would definetly recommend this projector. i find with the built in DVD player and good built in speakers it avoids having additional equipment connected, so for ease of use it definetly get 10/10!
I project my DVD's onto a white wallpapered wall, and the colours are bright and clear. also set it up in my other room on a clear white sheet, which i find absorbs the colours, and reflects to much white. so i prefer a clear white wall. screens are expensive, and far too small for my liking.
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28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Superb all-in-one home cinema solution, 20 Feb 2008
Just bought this projector a couple of days ago, and I have to say I'm extremely chuffed with it. In terms of picture and sound quality, I'm sure it doesn't compete with a £2000-plus home cinema system featuring a big HD TV, BluRay player and 5.1 speaker system all carefully positioned in an ideal viewing environment, but so what? For less than a quarter of that price - and probably less than a quarter of the hassle involved in planning your living room around that sort of set-up - you get something really pretty impressive.
Within 10 minutes of getting this projector delivered, I'd set it up on a coffee table, pointed it at a blank wall, and was watching Star Wars on a screen around four times the size of a 42" TV. OK, so it wasn't HD and I couldn't hear laser beams zapping around behind my head, but still, the sound was more than adequate even without the subwoofer - better than typical TV speakers I think, loud and clear and with decent bass - and the picture was bright, vivid and pretty much pin-sharp. DVDs haven't started looking rubbish just because something better has come along, and the resolution of this projector is perfectly suited to them. (Of course, as with any modern TV, you start to see the pixels if you get too close to the screen - but at the right distance the picture genuinely looked superb.)
A few things were worrying me before I bought this projector, so just in case the same things are worrying you I'll talk about them here. 1 - I was worried the fan noise would be a problem. It really isn't. It's just about audible in those rare ultra-quiet bits of a movie where there's no music or dialogue, but even then it's just a quiet hum - nothing like the loud whirr my computer fan gives off! 2 - I was worried the picture wouldn't be bright enough. Actually it's fine - better in a dark room, obviously, but certainly watchable in daylight with the curtains drawn. In fact, thinking about how much the reflections on a normal TV screen in daylight can spoil the picture, this really doen't count against the projector at all for me. 3 - I was worried it would be weird having the sound coming out of speakers in the projector just in front of me while the picture was on the other side of the room. Actually you soon forget about this - the sound fills the room quite nicely, and when you watch the screen, I think your brain quite naturally tricks you into thinking that's where the matching sound is coming from.
All in all I would recommend this to pretty much anyone for whom HD isn't the prime concern. It displays a great DVD-quality picture bigger than any TV could, and offers surprisingly beefy sound too - not to mention the convenience of being able to pack it away easily (it comes complete with a carry case) and take it to another room, a friend's house, on holiday etc. And for anyone who really IS bothered about HD, surround sound and all the rest of it - I would still strongly suggest that you think about the projector option in general rather than the TV option. Frankly I just don't see how even the largest TV could begin to compete with the sort of picture a projector can give you.
All in all a great purchase - I'm definitely going to enjoy rediscovering my DVD collection on the big screen!
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