Marantz’ VP-11S1 1080p DLP Projector
Marantz makes some of the best DLP projectors that you can buy. Now Marantz is offering something that many people have been clamouring for: a 1080p version. The VP-11S1 is a 1080p DLP projector with 68-plus billion colours on-screen. I wonder if they’re going to have a version that works with HDMI 1.3, which has deep colour support as well?
Strangely, no mention is made of 1080p HDMI support. Everybody’s been waiting for more 1080p projectors because we have things like Toshiba’s HD DVD players and Samsung’s BD player. Soon we’ll have even more HD DVD players and BD players. And then we’ll have the Sony PS3. All of these glorious HD devices can put out 1080i and most can do 1080p. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to view them in 1080p?
Yup, with source material in 1080p, it would be good not too have to convert to 1080i and then back to 1080p again before finally getting the image on the display. You’d think that with all the emphasis in the HDTV world these days on 1080p cabilities, that manufacturers would start to get the hint that 1080p support for HDMI inputs is a necessity. Of course, this projector may very well support this. But if so, then why wasn’t it mentioned? I have to wonder.
Ooops, sorry for the tangent. Where was I? Oh yeah. This projector will be available in July for a paltry $20k. That’s twice the price of Sony’s 1080p SXRD projector, the VPL-VW100. And we know that one support 1080p inputs.
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June 30th, 2006 at 6:50 pm
Are you really questioning whether a 20k 1080p projector accepts 1080p or not? What do you do for a living? It’s obviously not anything audio/video related.
Did you miss the 1080p part?
June 30th, 2006 at 8:27 pm
Most 1080p sets sold up to now have not accepted 1080p on their inputs. Scanning the Marantz website, no mention of 1080p on HDMI. This is a major feature that people look for, don’t you think they’d mention it?
July 1st, 2006 at 11:41 am
Ok I apologize for my original tone, now that I’ve read your about page I realize you probably wouldnt know that the Gennum VXP processors specd for use with 1080p displays, accept 1080p signals.
“Most 1080p sets sold up to now have not accepted 1080p on their inputs” that’s because 1080p displays have higher quality deinterlacers than the average cable box, satellite box, game console or dvd player. 1080i in then deinterlaced equals 1080p displayed. I see so many so called experts that get so wrapped up in WHERE the deinterlacing happens, its kind of amusing.
But 1080p discs don’t have to be deinterlced, if the display accepts 1080p blah blah blah. When more than 1% of the video available to us is 1080p, this might matter. but as cable, satellite and off-air are ALL interlaced, 1080p content will be a small minority of whats available to us for a long time to come. How many hd programs are 1080i only versus the tiny amount of hd discs? the overwhelming majority.
They don’t mention it because they know anyone willing to shell out 20k for a projector, is savvy enough to demand that kind of feature in the product. When is the last time you saw “COLOR TV” mentioned in a tv advertisement?
But since your probably still in doubt, this is taken right from Marantz’s Japanese website
“Corresponding signal Video input corresponding signal BS/CS/ terrestrial digital correspondence (1080 i /p, 1035 i, 720p, 576 i /p and 480 i /p)”
Since you’ll no doubt, not believe this either, heres the link http://www.marantz.jp/ce/products/hometheater/projectors/vp11s1/index.html
And heres a link to babelfish
http://babelfish.altavista.com/ So you can read it yourself.
See how easy it was to find the answer to question, without speculating?
July 1st, 2006 at 8:26 pm
I like the original author’s writing better. He’s not an asshole.