Projector specialist Optoma’s latest HD home cinema projectors are the ThemeScene-branded HD86 and HD20.
Both offer full HD 1080p DLP, but the HD86 is the big boy here at a credit crunch busting £4,500, with professionally tuned PureMotion2 image processing which promises to ‘eliminate’ motion judder and blurring, a 700:1 contrast ratio, brightness of 1600 lumens and three HDMI inputs.
There’s a variety of lenses available for short or long throw, plus an anamorphic lens for fully automated constant height projection and there’s a nine-step user-adjustable iris with a choice of preset colour gamuts.
The HD20 is at the other end of the scale at £900 but still offers some noteworthy features with a 500:1 contrast ratio, 1700 lumens and a pair of HDMI inputs.
Optoma is confident enough in the performance of both models to offer a five-year colour and image guarantee, promising that neither will deteriorate in that time, which can’t be bad.
The HD20 will go on sale in the UK July and the HD86 is expected to follow sometime in August.