Looking for an ultra high-end 1080p home cinema projector that you won’t want to hide in a cabinet? Well, Sim2 seems to own this category and the latest edition is now shipping and it looks great. I had the opportunity to check them out and see David Lynch in full HD from his home in California (I think). He loves the Sim2 and picked them out of a handful of other high-end projectors. The C3X 1080 is the smallest and most powerful full HD 3 chip projector available today. It certainly owes a lot to TI’s DLP DarkChip 4 that enables it to output such great video.
The C3X 1080 might be on the hefty side at 22 pounds, but it looks gorgeous thanks to Giorgio Revoldini. The projector is built around three 0.95-inch, 1080p DLP chipsets with the DarkChip 4 being the main attraction. It basically makes the black, blacker and everything brighter.
The C3X 1080 features two HDMI inputs that are HDCP-compliant as well as S- and composite-video and RGB connections. There’s also a USB and RS-232 serial port. And an optical digital-audio output on top of IR sensors.
It comes in high-gloss Gunmetal, Black , Red and Gold. It’s $31,995, but the picture quality is incredible.
Best. Line. Ever.
“It’s $31,995, but the picture quality is incredible.”
Yeah, and unless you are in a pitch black room the contrast ratio sucks, just look at your own posted picture.
Those were taken with a BlackBerry, Chuck.
Even with direct overhead lighting a few feet from the walls the picture quality was still crisp and popped off the walls. All the demos looked great and none of them were set in a pitch black room.
Most anyone who has a Sim2 projector is all about audio/visual home theater systems and/or has enough money to where they would only install it in a pitch black room. A grey screen can also help to brighten the look of any picture in which ambient light is near.Ive had many different projectors and hands downs Sim2 aswell as Marantz make the finest projectors ive seen.
I’m going gaga over this. I love DLP, and these latest pics make me want to cry. All this and no burn in, and motion blur. Why would anyone go for LCD or plasma???? I can’t even imagine the video game experience. Man, what I’d do for one of these for Christmas.