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Optoma HD72 720p DLP Home Theater Projector
Studio : Optoma Technology
by Optoma Technology
Brand : Optoma
Model : HD72
Publisher : Optoma Technology
Availability : This Item is currently Not Available
EAN : 0796435115890
UPC : 796435115890
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 17 reviews)
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Device Type - DLP projector - High Definition
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Image Brightness - 1300 ANSI lumens
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Max Resolution - 1280 x 768
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Image Contrast Ratio - 5000:1
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7.00 Lbs (WxLxH) 3.72" x 13.56" x 9.67"
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Product Description |
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The HD72 home theater projector by Optoma Technology is the company's newest high performance, cost-friendly digital projector for home theater enthusiasts. Featuring Texas Instruments' technology the HD72 provides stunningly high brightness and deeper black levels. The HD72 is super bright with 1000 lumens and offers an exceptionally high contrast ratio of 4000:1 for a greater range of color, light intensity and to deliver subtle color details. The Optoma HD72 home theater projector is also one of the most feature-rich projectors available in its class. The HD72 home theater projector uses BrilliantColor technology for increased brightness in mid-tone images, common in-video and natural scenes. This creates truer, more vibrant colors and deeper levels of black.Offering remarkable display capabilities the HD72 is a 16:9 enhanced HDTV projector that features HDMI input and Faroudja de-interlacer, DCDi chipset for extraordinary leading-edge performance. Optoma projectors have O2Air technology, which has been shown to reduce pollutants in the air (e.g., cigarette smoke) by up to 90%.The unique Shield Design of the projector casing prevents unwanted light emission. Through strategic use of baffles within the cooling tunnel, air speeds are reduced resulting in quiet operation. Offering the best in home theater entertainment the HD72 home theater projector provides vivid, crisp digital images that won't fade or degrade over time and provides HDTV native picture quality. |
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Americancivilwar.com Product Description |
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Offering true 720p high-definition resolution, the Optoma HD72 DLP (digital light projection) home theater projector features new technologies to deliver brighter images and truer colors to the projected picture. With a proprietary 7-segment color wheel with BrilliantColor and TrueVivid color enhancement technologies, the Optoma HD72 produces superior color and deeper dark settings at the same time. With native HDTV and HD PC resolution at 1280 x 768 (16:9), the HD72 delivers a 5000:1 contrast ratio at 1300 lumens to deliver subtle color details. And with 10-bit color per channel color processing, the HD72 delivers great color saturation and subtle color details for optimized image quality. Featuring a new, unique design, the HD72 also lowers the noise level usually associated with typical home theater projectors. The patent-pending wind tunnel cooling system is designed for near-silent operation with minimal light leakage. Features
- True High Definition 720p home theater projector
- Bright 1300 lumens with 5000:1 (ImageAI mode) contrast ratio
- BrilliantColor technology by Texas Instruments delivers higher brightness and more vibrant colors
- Native pixel-to-pixel matching for 720p HDTV and 4:3 XGA computer display
- ImageAI - Auto Adjusting light intensity output delivers amazing contrast
- 7 segment color wheel for detailed color reproduction
- Input connectors: DVI-I, HDMI, RCA component, Composite, S-Video
- Light shield design and ultra-quiet 27 dB operation
What's in the Box
Projector, composite video cable, S-video cable, remote control, batteries for remote control, lens cap, userÕs manual, Quick Start Guide, warranty card, power cord, printed operating instructions |
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everything i expected and more |
i owned this projector for 1 month and it is everything i expected. with the combination of hd tv this is better than most plasma or lcd tvs that i have seen . hopefully the lamp holds up to the 2000 hrs that is
suggested in the owners manual. no regrets i would recommend this product |
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Nice picture |
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Excellent on all points. This projector is easy to use, has an excellent picture, is essentially silent and the price Americancivilwar had it for was untouchable. It's the way to go if you want to step up to HD DLP projection. Don't skimp on your screen though. Complement this device with the best screen you can get and you'll be very happy. |
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Optoma HD72 review |
I just replaced my older Benq PE5120 480p projector with this one, and it's night and day. The Faroudja processor even cleans up standard cable to a watchable signal. Colors are deep, blacks are much better, and no more seeing pixels at 13ft. from the screen. Rainbows are pretty much non existent in all but extreme cases of high contrast you "might" see one if you race your eyes across screen. I love this projector and i'm only feeding it with a 480p signal over component video! I think the optics are sealed so no dust will get inside.
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Optomistic! |
I bought this product after reading many reviews and studying the situation on the internet. I actually would of liked to buy a bit cheaper one, but the advertised brightness of this unit, combined with it's ability to the xga computer display were the ultimate hooks.
I have a small restaurant in Guatemala named Blind Lemon's and I bought the unit to show movies there. I am projecting onto one of my dead mother-in-law's old bed sheets hung between two metal poles to stretch it out, and it just looks fantastic. I'll get some black out cloth when I can, but I am impressed. I have had to crank down the brightness in the normal mode...to get the blue back in the sky, so this thing really puts it out. I have also added an upscaling dvd player, the pioneer, to the mix and this gives a very near high d look on an original dvd and still pretty dang good on a file from the internet or a copy.
I had no trouble setting it up. The only thing to be aware of is placement. I have it sitting on a stand in back of the couch, and have to tip up the back feet pretty drastically to hit the screen from that position and it gives a little bit of a trapezoidal shape to the whole image but it is not bothersome and I detect no distortion. My other experience was with an epson lcd projector, supposedly, according to the guy that lent it to me much more expensive than this one, but it could not come anywhere close to the clarity, brightness, or depth and richness of the color that this baby puts out. It's a hot product. |
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Unreliable |
First of all, it would be wise to avoid Optoma products all together. This is the second one I've owned (due to the inexplicably good reviews on Americancivilwar). I've had plenty of problems with them, and Optoma USA is spectacularly unresponsive and unhelpful. I sent this particular projector back to them twice, and they have still failed to fix it.
One problem that I've seen in both Optoma projectors I've owned is that despite the bright pictures and purportedly huge contrast ratios, most of the actual effective contrast is skewed towards the bright end of the range. This means that no matter how much calibration, tweaking, and adjustment you do (or how dark your viewing environment) dark scenes tend to range from muddy to unviewable. So these projectors are really not good for viewing movies and some TV shows. They're mostly good for business presentations in brightly lit office environments.
The main problem I've had with this particular projector is spontaneous lamp shutoff after about a minute of use. Having to constantly restart the projector is maddening (as is sending it in for repairs only to have it returned with the same problem).
Other problems are, of course, minor by comparison. This model vents hot air out the side, as if it was intended for the viewers to be seated behind it. In a home environment, where both the projector and the viewers are likely to be against the wall opposite the screen, this means that viewers to one side of the projector are having hot air blown at them. And despite the side venting design, the form factor seems explicitly designed (with corner feet and sloping top) to *not* stack nicely with other A/V components (specifically any component that is smaller in some dimension than this large projector).
The bottom line is this projector is a head-ache from start to finish. Avoid it.
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