Optoma makes a great looking DLP RPTV. And by “great looking” I mean the physical set. You know, when it’s turned off. The set is called the RD50A, and it looks great. You may scoff, buy I like my televisions to be handsome. It’s one of the reasons I like my Hitachi 57T500. It looks great even when I’m not watching it.

Unfortunately, this seems to be the only state in which the Optoma RD50A does look good, at least according to PC Magazine. They did a review of the set and found it a bit wanting:

Our objective measurements confirmed that the RD50A’s color accuracy was less than ideal, with yellow shifted toward green and magenta shifted toward blue.

And:

Red, blue, and green intensity levels were less than optimal, with red tracking 40 percent below target. The RD50A’s average contrast ratio of 177:1 was the highest among the RPTVs we have measured using our 9-point spot test. But this admirable result was tempered by high black levels that prevent the RD50A from producing a convincing black.

Now they didn’t seem to actually calibrate the set to 6500K, so my guess is that you’d see a lot better results if you actually did that. It would be a shame for such a good-looking set to look so terrible.

Link: PC Magazine - Optoma RD50A
Link: Optoma - RD50A