projector advice - native resolution against max resolution

[furnic]

I have been thinking a while now between buying a hd tv or a projector. I was put off initially by the projector because of the cost of the lamps, but I have come across a projector that is very reasonable, about 7k and it has a very long lamp life - of up to 8000 hours, but even once you have to replace a lamp, its actually not expensive, around R200!

What is fairly cool as well, besides the low cost of the lamp, is that it also comes with a built in TV tuner and it has connections for every imaginable device including S-Video, Scart with RGB, RGB, HDMI, Composite Video, Component Video, VGA, Audio-In, USB and card reader.

from the specs though the following info:

Brightness: 1600 Ansi Lumen
Resolution: Native 800x 600 Supports 1920 x 1080
Video Standard: 1080i/720i / 480P / 576i / 480i
Contrast: 800:1
HDTV: Yes, HDMI, Componant, XVGA

So what I don't understand is the native 800x600 but supports 1920x1080, that part is beyond me.
Basically if I can hook up the Xbox to this and have 1.20m high COD4 ih Full HD then I will be one happy chappy!!

 

[TivoZA]

So what I don't understand is the native 800x600 but supports 1920x1080, that part is beyond me.
Basically if I can hook up the Xbox to this and have 1.20m high COD4 ih Full HD then I will be one happy chappy!!

Although the projector can accept a Full HD signal, it can only output at EDTV quality. To achieve this the projector will downscale the input (i.e. reduce the quality) to match that of it's native resolution. That projector isn't able display 720p output let alone Full HD.

 

[werner]

as tivoza said, you can feed it 1920x1080 and it will still display, but it will downscale it to the panel size of 800x600. so you will never see hd quality from this projector, although you can feed it a hd source and it will display it to the best of its abilities.

older projectors werent able to do this, feed it anything different than what it was capable of and it would show "signal out of range" or similar.

 

[furnic]

Thanks for the input.
It kinda defeats the purpose then I suppose.
No point in buying this then, I want my 1.5m COD4 marines in crystal clear full HD, so I guess I must wait for a cost effective projector with a native resolution of 1920x1080.

 

[TivoZA]

No point in buying this then, I want my 1.5m COD4 marines in crystal clear full HD, so I guess I must wait for a cost effective projector with a native resolution of 1920x1080.

1080p projectors tend to be rather expensive, you can however get a decent 720p projector for around R5000 (e.g. LG AN110W).