Panasonic PT-AE1000U High Definition Home Theater Projector

List Price: $3,196.59 Discount Price: Too low to display

Features:

• Includes - Projector Lamp (Already Installed in Projector), Wireless Remote Control with Batteries, Power Cable
• Projector Display System - 0.74-inch LCD x3
• Native Resolution - Widescreen 1920 x 1080
• Lumens Brightness - 1100 ANSI Lumens
• Contrast Ratio - 10000 - 1

Customer Reviews:

Great out of the box! [Posted on 2007-05-12]
The PT-AE1000U LCD HD Proj 11000:1 1100 Lumens Hdmi Svid Rbg is a great unit. Excellent HD quality. We installed it ourselves - very easy with minimal handyman knowledge for the ceiling mount. Worked perfectly out of the box. We have since gone into some of the menu options and selected picture quality/brightness options that we preferred for our home theater. You'll be very pleased with this unit. PT-AE1000U LCD HD Proj 11000:1 1100 Lumens Hdmi Svid Rbg

1080p POWERHOUSE!! [Posted on 2007-09-09]
The unit casts an unbelievable image. Not just beautiful, detailed, 3-D, and exciting, but deeply soul-satisfying. The rich color is accurate out of the box, and setup is an absolute breeze. HDTV is superb, HD DVD is impossibly fantastic, and even SD looks great. VGA input gives a simple computer connection. Blacks are good except in very dim scenes, when they become a drawback. That's a small concession for such an extraordinary value in a TV. The quality of the built-in video processing alone is worth the cost. There is simply no comparison with flat panels or rear projection. You should have a 100-plus in. diag. screen in a DARK room for maximum impact.

Outstanding home theater projector! [Posted on 2008-08-19]
The one thing I promised myself that I would get after professional school was a projector for a home theater. I always wanted the "big screen" and wanted to be able to watch HDTV and HD DDVD as well as gaming. After graduation, I did my research and found this to be the best bang for the buck. I have been using this one for about one year.
Setup is super easy, I got a cheap universal mount off ebay and it works just fine and a cheap 100" screen with felt border. This projector will do fine on most surfaces, but the better the screen, the more forgiving the lighting conditions (I use mine in the basement so lighting is taken care of pretty well). Another fantastic feature is the flexibility of mounting; there is zoom, focus, and both vertical and horizontal screen adjustment built in so you can mount it where you want, and adjust the picture to be right wehere you want just by using the remote.
The picture is awesome right out of the box, but there are advanced settings to tweak to your heart's desire. The menus are rather intuitive and cover most of the standard features you will see in a projector. There are inputs galore to take whatever you throw at it, 2 HDMI, 2 composite, video, s-video, and vga. I wish the vga was DVI instead to keep up with modern machines, so I used an HDMI to connect to my PC instead. The video processing of the non-HD inputs is impressive, I had my old DVD player hooked up to it when I first got it and they looked fantastic on the screen, no pixelation at all. The remote is very good, and programmable to be used as a universal remote, but I have a Harmony 890 (highly recommend) and use that instead.
The unit is a bit bigger than I had expected, but once it's mounted that hasn't really been an issue at all. And it is quiet! Not much extra noise during movie time by the projecto.
I have a hard time coming up with drawbacks to this model since I am so pleased with it. I mentioned earlier that I wish the PC input was DVI instead of VGA. If you have a very light space, the 1100 lumens might not be enough for you. I guess my biggest advice to make this sing is to control your ambient light. And to be clear, there is no tuner in this projector, so you can't just hook an antenna up to this to get HDTV.
This thing just sings! Playing Wii Tennis is awesome! Movies are like being at the cinema. PC and Blu-Ray are superb! HDTV is a dream! It isn't the cheapest, but the quality rivals models you will spend twice the cash to buy. If I had to do it all over, I would get this one again in a heartbeat!

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