Acer H5360 3D ready projector
Posted March 1st, 2010 by admin No Comments »
By Alistair Dabbs (via reghardware.co.uk)
2010 is supposed to be the year that 3D breaks into mainstream home entertainment but most of the PR puff has been focused on expensive TV sets. Acer does a good job of making this currently tiny market a damned sight more interesting with its H5360, a sub-£600 ’3D Ready’ digital projector.
3D ready? Acer’s H5360
The H5360 is a small-ish (268x192x80mm) and light-ish (2.2kg) DLP projector built into a shiny white casing that will look at home in a modern living room, and pretty smart in a boardroom. Home movie theatre enthusiasts should note that it’s ‘HD Ready’ credentials extend to 720p only, not 1080p: the H5360′s native resolution is 1280×720 pixels. You can use an enhancement mode to mimic 1920×1080 resolution, but interpolating pixels like this never works as well as you wished it would.
The lens can be adjusted for a zoom using a dial lever conveniently located on top of the unit. Focus, however, is adjusted using a notched ring, snugly and inconveniently located around the red-hot lens itself. So many projectors are built like this, but why? After setting up a projector, you only ever set the zoom once, but fiddle with the focus all the time. Read the rest of this entry »
