Thje Optoma HD80 is a true 1080p DLP home theater projector with studio-grade resolution and best all-around high-quality display experience for home theater enthusiasts. The HD80 delivers higher brightness and provides truer more vibrant colors to the projected picture, and features BrilliantColor, Texas Instruments’ color processing technology. With an amazing 10,000:1 contrast ratio, the Optoma HD80 delivers great color saturation and subtle color details for the best image quality.
Technical Details:
1080p DMD DLP by Texas Instruments.
native 1080p (1920×1080) resolution.
1300 lumens and a 10,000:1 contrast ratio.
Advanced three stage video processing system offers powerful and personalized adjustment options at each stage: decoding, image enhancement, color reproduction enhancement.
Customer feedback:
1. I’ve used this projector for one year with a Comcast HD-DVR cable box (outputs in 1080i and 720p), a Playstation 3 / Blu-Ray player, an Onkyo TX-SR606 receiver w 1080p upconversion.
My room is 22 x 15 which is a little bigger than you need, but is about the right size if you want the maximum screen size (120 inch diagonal). You need a room that’s at least 18 x 12, at the VERY minimum, if you want a 100 inch screen. Make sure you have a tall ceiling – the projector has to be at least TWO feet above or below the image. Our basement ceiling is about 9 feet and that’s more than enough space.
Currently the 120 inch screen has a total image area of 6,136 inches or 43 square feet. It is a gigantic image… having HD quality at this size is something special. Every sport looks amazing, especially NFL games and the NFL Network HD channel. ESPNHD is perfect for catching up on sports. The HD movie channels – HBO, TMC, Starz, Cinemax, and Showtime (my favorite) look great.
2. First of all, I’m no audio or videophile. In fact I was initially wary of this new fangled technology (my hi-tech abilities end with tin-can telephones). So, I did my homework. I wanted the best picture possible for under $3000 for a projector. I was willing to run gold-tipped HDMI cables, use an upconverting DVD player capable of 1080p resolution, and get a high-quality screen (white matte with 1.0 gain…I learned this from Consumer Reports), etc. I read all the reviews for this projector on amazon, and on Google. Then, I researched what size sceeen I’d need, given my 13′ of projection distance (I typed in ‘projection distance’ on Google and found a website that calculates the distance by brand & model name). I found the biggest picture I’d get from 13′ of projection was 92″ (Consumer Reports says that the optimum picture size (diagonally) for this projector is 110″). In order to be 13′ back from the screen, I had to remove some closet doors and hang the projector from the closet ceiling like a bat hanging in a cave. The projector lens peeks out from the upper right-hand corner of the closet entrance (the doorless ‘closet’ is now referred to as the ‘alcove’…lol). In order that the projector didn’t over-heat in the cramped ‘alcove’ ceiling area, I put in an ultra-quiet yet high volume bathroom-type exhaust fan (from Home Depot) in the ceiling just to the left of the projector. And just so my friends’ jaws would drop, I sprung for an electric, wall-mounted, drop down screen.
