enricovillani
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300, Z1, HTPC
Salve a tutti!
Questo thread mi sembra il posto giusto in cui postare 3 recensioni che ho trovato in rete, scritte da persone che in teoria dovrebbero aver provato i proiettori!
Il mio dilemma è tra Panny 300 e Z1, ma probabilmente questo dilemma si risolverà con Z2 e Panny 500! (Si sa una data esatta?)
Su projector central (prima review) dicono che il 300 è meglio per HTPC.
Le altre 2 review non ricordo dove le ho prese, ma una insulta lo Z1 (credo che siano stati incompetenti loro nei settaggi...) e l'altra invece parla dell'ormai celebre mappaggio 1:1.
Ora, dalle vostre impressioni (parlo a coloro che hanno visto quella fatidica sera...), questo benedetto mappaggio serve e a qualcosa oppure il 300 riesce comunque ad andare come lo Z1 (a parte le considerazioni già fatte in post precedenti che valgono comunque)?
Mi sembra di capire che non serva a nulla, leggendo i post precedenti!
Altro problema: la tenda Tupplur è ancora in produzione? Che tipo di tenda è? Le hanno cambiato nome che non la trovo sul sito www.ikea.it?
E poi, il prezzo attuale di Z1 in Italia minimo è 1400 e rotti Euro di VideoDigit, vero? E se compro all'estero, la garanzia 3 anni Sanyo mi vale in Italia? E a che negozio ordino?
Ringrazio tutti!!! Scusate per la lunghezza!
PROJECTORCENTRAL: If you want to stick with a regular DVD player, and you are not sitting too close to the screen, then save the money and go for the PLV-Z1. If you want to use a computer, or you want to sit in the range of 1.5x the screen width or closer to the screen, you will be better off investing the extra money to eliminate the pixelation that you'd otherwise have with the Z1.
1: Most of all I like movies of the 16:9 format as there are no dark stripes, all matrix pixels work and the lamp produces less useless heat. Unfortunately, it's not that comfortable to watch movies on the PC screen through the VGA connection. First of all, the matrix resolution doesn't coincide with the standard ones; plus, the signal goes through double interpolation from the movie resolution to the video card's current mode and then to the matrix resolution. Besides, we couldn't make the video card's vertical scanning frequency coincide with the projector's internal frame frequency, and the image torn and jerked when it shifted horizontally. There is also a flare light from the rear air vent which however does not make a great effect.
2: Speaking of projectors, this is probably where the HTPC can do the most compared to a separate DVD-player. Almost all projectors has something called their "native resolution", which means some semi-weird number of pixels corresponding EXACTLY to the number of pixels that are on the LCD display or DLP chip. When the projector gets fed this exact screen size, the resulting image is a lot better than what you get with just feeding it a "normal" output from a standard DVD player. This is generally what the HTPC/projector people strive for. Also called 1:1 pixel match. In addition to this, most projectors have a higher resolution than your average DVD movie is stored as, and a HTPC does a very good job of scaling the movie up to the projectors resolution and feeding it that image instead. And it will look even better still. A word of warning here though, is that finding this exact resolution is a case of educated trial and error. And in some cases, people have been unable to find this 1:1 resolution for a given projector. The Panasonic AE300 (it has many names, most of them contain '300') is one of them, in which case a HTPC will not do you too much extra compared to a normal DVD player in terms of picture quality. It certainly won't be worse though, but it won't be amazingly better either.
Salve a tutti!
Questo thread mi sembra il posto giusto in cui postare 3 recensioni che ho trovato in rete, scritte da persone che in teoria dovrebbero aver provato i proiettori!
Il mio dilemma è tra Panny 300 e Z1, ma probabilmente questo dilemma si risolverà con Z2 e Panny 500! (Si sa una data esatta?)
Su projector central (prima review) dicono che il 300 è meglio per HTPC.
Le altre 2 review non ricordo dove le ho prese, ma una insulta lo Z1 (credo che siano stati incompetenti loro nei settaggi...) e l'altra invece parla dell'ormai celebre mappaggio 1:1.
Ora, dalle vostre impressioni (parlo a coloro che hanno visto quella fatidica sera...), questo benedetto mappaggio serve e a qualcosa oppure il 300 riesce comunque ad andare come lo Z1 (a parte le considerazioni già fatte in post precedenti che valgono comunque)?
Mi sembra di capire che non serva a nulla, leggendo i post precedenti!
Altro problema: la tenda Tupplur è ancora in produzione? Che tipo di tenda è? Le hanno cambiato nome che non la trovo sul sito www.ikea.it?
E poi, il prezzo attuale di Z1 in Italia minimo è 1400 e rotti Euro di VideoDigit, vero? E se compro all'estero, la garanzia 3 anni Sanyo mi vale in Italia? E a che negozio ordino?
Ringrazio tutti!!! Scusate per la lunghezza!
PROJECTORCENTRAL: If you want to stick with a regular DVD player, and you are not sitting too close to the screen, then save the money and go for the PLV-Z1. If you want to use a computer, or you want to sit in the range of 1.5x the screen width or closer to the screen, you will be better off investing the extra money to eliminate the pixelation that you'd otherwise have with the Z1.
1: Most of all I like movies of the 16:9 format as there are no dark stripes, all matrix pixels work and the lamp produces less useless heat. Unfortunately, it's not that comfortable to watch movies on the PC screen through the VGA connection. First of all, the matrix resolution doesn't coincide with the standard ones; plus, the signal goes through double interpolation from the movie resolution to the video card's current mode and then to the matrix resolution. Besides, we couldn't make the video card's vertical scanning frequency coincide with the projector's internal frame frequency, and the image torn and jerked when it shifted horizontally. There is also a flare light from the rear air vent which however does not make a great effect.
2: Speaking of projectors, this is probably where the HTPC can do the most compared to a separate DVD-player. Almost all projectors has something called their "native resolution", which means some semi-weird number of pixels corresponding EXACTLY to the number of pixels that are on the LCD display or DLP chip. When the projector gets fed this exact screen size, the resulting image is a lot better than what you get with just feeding it a "normal" output from a standard DVD player. This is generally what the HTPC/projector people strive for. Also called 1:1 pixel match. In addition to this, most projectors have a higher resolution than your average DVD movie is stored as, and a HTPC does a very good job of scaling the movie up to the projectors resolution and feeding it that image instead. And it will look even better still. A word of warning here though, is that finding this exact resolution is a case of educated trial and error. And in some cases, people have been unable to find this 1:1 resolution for a given projector. The Panasonic AE300 (it has many names, most of them contain '300') is one of them, in which case a HTPC will not do you too much extra compared to a normal DVD player in terms of picture quality. It certainly won't be worse though, but it won't be amazingly better either.