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I am including a short support bar. The new bulb in it only has 10 hours on it. I have watched movies in broad daylight on my 10 X 8 screen - the 1700 lumens really works well! Here is some data from a review: Cinema Film 1, a bright and colorful mode thats well-suited to living room use, measures 1421 lumens on our test sample after calibration. CF1 has very good grayscale tracking, averaging 6550K across the board. Color saturation is overdriven to create a vibrant, larger-than-life image. Cinema Film 2 is similar to CF1, but it is balanced at 5500K, making it ideal for black and white films. CF2 measured 1016 lumens.If you want pure home theater performance, Reference mode is the way to go. At 1136 lumens, Reference mode is well-balanced and natural, with an average grayscale of 6500K and a gamut thats very close to the Rec. 709 standard. Many folks will be able to use Reference mode without making adjustments, making calibration effectively optional.Game mode, at 1719 lumens, is the projectors brightest mode. It also boasts the lowest input lag at only 24 milliseconds. Game mode has a slight blue tint, since its grayscale averages 7200K, so its all set for living room use. Folks intending to play games in a theater environment should adjust color temperature down to 6500K, which is easily done.Other image modes include: TV (1123 lumens), Photo (1016 lumens), Bright Cinema (1501 lumens), and Bright TV (1396 lumens). The Bright modes arent brighter in terms of light output, but are calibrated for use in ambient light.Contrast. Contrast specifications these days are getting more and more inflated, so its almost refreshing that the HW40ES does not have a published contrast spec. In Reference mode, the HW40ES produces an image rich in shadow detail with deep, velvety black levels. Comparative testing puts the HW40ES neck-and-neck with other projectors in its price range despite its lack of an automatic iris.Color. These days, its not unusual for a projector to produce accurate color after calibration, but it is still rare to see accurate color straight out of the box. But thats what you get with Reference mode on the HW40ES. Theres a little bit of room for improvement in the gamut if you want to spend the time fine-tuning things, but it is by no means required.As for grayscale, Reference mode measured 6500K from 0% to 50% illumination and then slowly rose to 6600K between 50% and 100% illumination using the projectors D65 preset. Since the presets are locked, any adjustments have to be made using the Custom 5 preset, which starts out around 7400K. Some folks may decide that full calibration isnt worth the hassle, especially with this level of performance out of the box.Input lag. In most of its image modes, the HW40ES measures 60 milliseconds of input lag, or about 3.5 frames. Its fastest mode is Game mode, at 24ms, or 1.5 frames. Input lag measures the time between when a signal is sent to the display and when it actually appears on screen. Higher numbers indicate more lag, which manifest as slow response time in games and audio arriving before video in movies and television.
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