Product: InFocus System ScreenPlay 5700 Price: $25,000 Pros: Excellent picture, bright even with some ambient light; easy to set up; stable performance Cons: Long throw distance and some noise from the cooling system
If you want a real home theatre system that will blow your friends away, think projection. An LCD or a plasma television is nice, but even a 50-inch screen is not quite as impressive as watching the Battle of Helm's Deep projected against your living room wall.
But first, if you want a true cinematic experience at home, you must have space, control over the lighting conditions and about $70,000 to spare.
For $25,000, the InFocus System ScreenPlay 5700 projector will give you a viewing experience no LCD or plasma television at Fortress can rival.
The 5700 is a native 16:9 format projector using Texas Instrument's Matterhorn Digital Light Processing (DLP) chip, which has a physical resolution of 1,024x576 pixels.
The 5700 is rated at 1,000 ANSI lumens after optimisation for video, but is brighter than many competing units with the same rating. It has a 1,400:1 contrast ratio and a six-segment, 5x speed colour wheel that modulates the light.
One of the best projectors in the XGA class, it has Faroudja DCDi video processing which handles the interlaced inputs and is bypassed when using progressive scan.
