Mitsubishi HD4000 DLP Projector Review

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<P><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><A href="http://www.audioholics.com/productreviews/avhardware/MitsubishiHD4000p1.php"><IMG style="WIDTH: 125px; HEIGHT: 125px" alt=[mits40001] hspace=10 src="http://www.audioholics.com/news/thumbs/mits40001_th.jpg" align=left vspace=5 border=0></A>Mitsubishi has built a solid reputation over the last decade manufacturing high quality, high performance display devices and is an industry leader in the implementation of DLP technology.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN></SPAN><FONT size=2>Although it produced very bright vibrant images and nice deep inky blacks, we found the images’ fine detail lacking and the&nbsp;dreaded rainbow effect more often than not&nbsp; became almost painful to watch.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>The HD4000s lackluster build quality, fit and finish, and the ho hum aesthetic characteristics of this projector made it look more like a board room projector than one suited for home theater applications. The Mitsubishi HD4000 fell well short of our expectations and it is therefore NOT recommended.</FONT></FONT></P>
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[jcPanny]

Projector Applications

Ray,
Good review. One of the projector sites gave this model an OK review and it is good to see your objective feedback. They agreed that the combination of 2000 ANSI lumens and the 2x color wheel was geared towards system integrators and comericial applications vs. home theater. The 2x color wheel explains the rainbow issues you observed.

I think that one of the Mitsubishi HT models like the HC3000 would have been more comparable to the Optima HD72.
http://www.projectorcentral.com/mitsubishi_hc3000.htm

It is great to see AH doing more projector reviews and I would be interested in your thoughts on the Optima HD7100.