Vivitek H1080FD & Optoma HD20
Author: TM_PW
A couple of months ago both Vivitek and Optoma announced the availability of the “below $1000″ budget 1080p projectors. I expect both these affordable projectors to fly off the shelf during this Christmas buying season. Till this announcement, the lowest price you could get online for a 1080p projector was about $1300.
These projectors may not have the feature set of the higher priced projectors but if you are just planning to view a movie with good image quality and have a limited budget (like many of us), these projectors will be more than adequate. The higher prices you would have to pay for features that you don’t use or care about would not be justified.
The Vivitek H1080FD has a native resolution of 1080p (1920×1080) resolution, 1800 lumens of brightness and a contrast ratio of 5000:1. It comes with multiple input options ; most outstanding are the 2 HDMI ports. The others are Composite Video, S-Video, Component Video, RS-232c and a 12v Trigger. It has a projected lamp life of three thousand hours. It has an estimated lamp life of 3000 hours.
The Optoma HD20, based on the DLP chipset, also has a local resolution of 1080p, 1700 lumens and a contrast ration of 4000:1. Optoma states that the ANSI contrast proportion, a better measure of contrast, is 500:1 which matches it against more expensive projectors. The input ports match those of the Vivitek H1080FD (S video port is missing) but the lamp life of four thousand hours, about 33% higher.
If you are a home theater enthusiast on a budget, you cannot go wrong by purchasing either the Optoma HD20 or the Vivitek H1080FD. And, by the time you reach the end of life of these lamps, innovative, cheaper, technology would have arrived.
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