MITSUBISHI HC1600 HD Home Theater 1280 x 720 DLP Projector 1700 ANSI Lumens 2500:1 - Retail

Reviewed By: Home Theater Nut on 10/21/2009

Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: Incredible picture, very quiet. Shooting 88" at @15'; I'm using black out cloth as a screen and the picture is amazing. Good picture even on non HD source; DVD and HD channels are spectacular! I have a 42" 1080p plasma and cannot tell a difference between 720 and 1080.

Cons: occasional rainbow effect due to DLP but barely worth mentioning

Other Thoughts: As stated before, the projector projects upward so it is perfect out of the box for table top projection. I have small kids and wanted to place the projector higher so I built a "nest" on top of the A/V cabinet placed behind the sofa. The projector can sit in the nest inverted thus projecting down rather than up putting the image at the perfect height on the opposite wall. This setup does away with lengthy and expensive wires because everything is in the same vicinity. Especially useful because I am renting and didn't want a permanent installation. I love this projector!

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Great Picture Quality

Reviewed By: Rob on 10/4/2009

Tech Level: average - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: I have got about 350 hours on it and I have it hooked up to my Samsung HTZ-320 Home Theater DVD System. It is mounted 22ft. from the wall that I taped off and painted with BEHR Interior flat Siver Screen(light gray) paint and it looks great. The colors are vibrant and saturated. Its hard to explain how good it looks here in text but everyone who sees it, they come in and they say WOW! I painted the walls and part of the ceiling over and around the screen black(beluga) with BEHR Interior flat enamel to cut down on glare. I basically turned my living room into a Home Theater Room.It is 145 inches diagonally and could go bigger but the power inlets stoped me. Very clear and crisp picture. I also have three windows that I put curtains on to block out the light and make the room darker so I can watch movies in the daytime.

Cons: The only con I can think of is if something is moving really fast across the screen, sometimes there will be small horizonal lines in the picture but it is not to distracting and it doesn`t happen very often.

Other Thoughts: This is my first projector and I am very, very happy with this one. I will probably keep it for a long time, maybe next year I will hook a Blue ray player up to it. It still puts a smile on my face every time I watch a movie on it and my friends who come over to watch one with me say it is better than going to the movies.

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Give me quantity over quality any day of the week

Reviewed By: BryanF on 9/23/2009

Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: 720P resolution, can take any input you will ever need, small size. Computer games, console games, and movies all look great on this (for a real treat, play Crysis on this bad boy). I almost backed out of buying this model because some reviewers complained about "rainbow effects". I've used this for about 50-100 hours so far and I haven't found anything. I'm using it on low power mode to get everything I can out of the lamp, and the image looks fine. This looks just superb on a budget projector screen like the DaLite 105" I purchased to go with it. With my current throw distance, I only cover 90" of it, but I'll be moving soon and hopefully the living room of the new place will be larger.

Cons: Only 720P resolution, but you'd have to put up about another $1,000 to get a projector that'll do 1080P. Other than my computer, I do not own any HD devices so that's a very small problem. The biggest problem I have thus far is that the projector is natively angled to shoot a little bit upward. I have a fan in my living room so I couldn't mount this upside down from the ceiling so I instead put it on a shelf above the couch. Because it's right-side-up still, the trade-off is that I sacrifice a bit of quality when I keystone the image to correct the skewing.

Other Thoughts: Keep in mind, you'll need to spend about $300 everytime the lamp burns out.

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