Toshiba TLP-ET1 Home Theater Front Projector
Category: Projector, DLP TV Reviews
The Toshiba TLP-ET1 designed for families who don’t have space for a dedicated home theater but still want high-quality entertainment, Toshiba’s all-in-one, standalone TLP-ET1 front projector is highly portable and easy to set up. Capable of operating in TheaterWide, movie, and game modes, the ET1 offers great viewing flexibility while producing a native 16:9 format for true widescreen renderings of your favorite movies. The projector features an input capability of 480i, 576i/p, 720p, and 1080i.With just over an 8-foot throw distance for a 100-inch diagonal image, there’s no need for the large dedicated room often associated with home theater projectors–the ET1 is ideal for smaller rooms. The ET1 combines high-quality Toshiba video circuitry with the latest Faroudja DCDi 12200 scaling chip for clean, sharp, and natural images. Â
Weighing just 7.6 pounds, this TLP-ET1 features built-in high-performance stereo speakers with 5 watts per channel and even simulated surround sound to create a sense of spaciousness around your presentations.
User adjustments include manual focus, digital keystone correction, simulated surround sound, and more. The projector also features a full complement of A/V inputs for home-theater connectivity, including ColorStream component-video, RGB, composite-video, and S-video.
Toshiba TLP-ET1 Features:
- 16:9 widescreen display with 858 x 484 native resolution; image scaling accommodates 720p and 1080i HDTV signals
- 3 x .54-inch LCD panels
- Faroudja DCDi video scaler for smooth, natural-looking pictures
- Built-in stereo speakers with 5 watts per channel
- 600:1 contrast ratio for deep, vivid blacks; graphical user interface
- 16:9 widescreen display with 858 x 484 native resolution; image scaling accommodates 720p and 1080i HDTV signals
- 3 x .54-inch LCD panels
- Faroudja DCDi video scaler for smooth, natural-looking pictures
- Built-in stereo speakers with 5 watts per channel
- 600:1 contrast ratio for deep, vivid blacks; graphical user interface
Toshiba TLP-ET1 Review:
I use a nice 5-foot “da-lite” screen to get a 16:9 image with the projector only about 6 feet away. Picture quality seems to be very good to me, much better than computer-centric projectors I tried in the past. The menus and setup are very easy to understand, and the little remote has dedicated buttons for the most used functions like picture size.
Drawbacks with a projector are you need a dark room, about 5 minutes setup time if you are not permantly installing it, and a new set of 4-meter long video cables; but that outweighs the benefits in my case of living in a small apartment and putting it all out of site in 5 minutes when I am not using it.
So far I have used it with my progressive scan DVD player, and my Xbox system, all using component cables and really enjoying the picture quality.
One comment is that since this model is so new - even Toshiba themselves do not know how much the replacement lamp (2000 hours) will cost. I see other lamps on their website for $500 so I wonder how much it will be for this…..
But in summary, for my situation it does exactly what I wanted it to do, and the price was right.Tags:Toshiba
