Introduction
Despite
the advent of truly exciting digital projection technology in the past
few years, there is still no denying that a “big gun” CRT video
projector is the best source for a great-looking video image available
on the market today. While digital projectors DLPs and D-ILAs are
incredibly bright and appealingly small, an eight or nine-inch CRT
projector still creates a picture that looks more like film. Someday,
digital projectors may surpass the performance of a CRT, but if you are
in the market for the best picture money can buy in 2003, you are
likely shopping for a big-time CRT projector.
There is a new kid on the block dedicated to absolute video performance
with a special angle towards customer service. Crystal View was formed
in 2002 to address the needs of the high-end video projection customer.
Co-owners Gary Guidi (also owner of HI-REZ, one of the world’s largest
and most respected projector ...
Introduction
Are you ready for High Definition? Do you want to catch all the action
when CBS broadcasts four NFL games in High definition later this year?
Well you can display those amazing three-dimensional pictures in your
home today with Runco's DTV-852 $15,000 Super HDTV projector.
The DTV-852 incorporates three 7 inch CRT liquid cooled tubes, a
built-in line doubler with multiple aspect ratio capability and a data
grade 50kHz horizontal scan frequency. Not only will regular NTSC
sources look fabulous, you'll be able to display virtually any HDTV
source.
Functions such as contrast, brightness, sharpness, color and tint are
controlled via an on-screen menu. The horizontal scan frequency can be
synced to 15-50kHz while the vertical scan frequency can be synced to
50 -100Hz. Ultimately, the DTV-852 is capable of 900 lines of
resolution for NTSC sources and 1200 lines for HDTV sources.
Up to ten aspect ratios, (i.e. 1:33, 1:85 and Anamorphic) can ...
Home theater has improved significantly in the last few years, due to
discrete 5.1 audio, larger screen TV's, laserdisc and DVD. Still, what
I love so much more about the `big movie theater' experience is the
heightened level of realism delivered by fine grain, 35 millimeter film
prints with professionally installed and acoustically treated sound
systems.
Despite the number of big dollar, high-end home theater systems I've
had the pleasure of viewing over the years, they have always been
second best in my mind to the 35 millimeter experience. That is until,
I was treated to a Joe Cali demonstration of the Cello Music and Film
System featuring Vidikron's top-of-the-line Vision One 9 inch CRT
screen projector.
The image from the Vision One with a Faroudja VP
400A quadrupler ($25,000) was life-like and so close to film it pulled
me beyond the edge of my seat, right into the picture. Colors were
accurate without any ...
The Runco DTV-991 projector incorporates three 8" liquid-cooled CRT
tubes for a super bright, high-resolution picture. The companion
SC-4200, video processor, contains both a line quadrupler and a line
doubler. Together this dynamic duo projects extraordinary video images
with any type of source material.
Taking a drive down to Genesis Audio Video in Lake Forest, California
(just south of Irvine) I was treated to a demonstration of the Runco
combination in Genesis' new home theater room. Featuring Snell's THX
speaker system, the room was powered by Proceed amplifiers and
accompanied by the Proceed PAV preamp and DSD digital processor
incorporating both Dolby Digital and DTS decoders.
The Runco DTV-991
Due to its 75 kHz horizontal scanning
capability, the DTV-991 handles any video media including the newly
adopted High Definition format and PC graphics. Several different
aspect ratios and temperature settings can be programmed into its 100
memory locations. At Genesis Audio Video, they calibrated convergence
for three ...
