Piano Projects Home Theater

Some folks - especially console gamers - just can't get by with your run-of the mill 27" TV screen. If the image doesn't cover the whole living room wall, there's no point turning on the tube. Projection TVs tend to be a bit cheaper than giant LCD panels, and though the image quality isn't quite as good, you can spend the dollars you save on games and DVDs. PLUS' Piano HE-3100 home theater projector is priced at just under $3,000 and gives you a contrast ratio of 700:1 based on single-chip Digital Light Processing technology developed by TI, and uses the Silicon Image SIL 503 digital video processor/progressive scanning converter, which boasts a deinterlacer, horizontal scaler, color lookup table, chroma upsampler, memory controller, color space converter and DLP/LCD/CRT controller. It provides native 16:9 projection using the DLP Widescreen (480P) component set (also developed by TI) and features both a native 848 x 480 resolution-mode that lets the projector push out 16:9 images without scaling and an 800 x 600 resolution mode that produces 4:3 aspect ratio images. The Piano HE-3100 has a short-focus lens that gives you a 36 inch diagonal image from 3.9 feet, a 200 inch diagonal image from 22.6 feet, or an 80 inch diagonal 16:9 image from 9.8 ft. Other features include a composite input, an S-Video input, a component input, and a DVI-D input. It also includes a remote control, cables, and a soft carrying case.