THESE CANON projectors are LCD units, and are strictly formatted for 4:3 aspect. They're manufactured that way because Canon's thrust is exclusively for business presentation, NEVER home theater. If any Canon person or another says their projectors are "also" made for cinema - they're in the dark as to their kind of projectors or they want to make a sucker out of you. If one wants to go ahead with Canon as their HT beamer, then he ought to choose Canon's LCOS models. But when I asked one early this year, no one among these more rarified models is being sold for less than P150,000. The two main Projector reviews site in the web has evaluated these Canon LCOS and the verdict is they're bogged down by laughable Contrast and equally flimsy Black levels. At best, Canon could market these expensive models as "multi-media" but that doesn't mean it'll ever gratify videophiles or PinoyDVD enthusiasts in the know. The clincher why Canon is unsuitable are these: The units are listed at 2,500 lumens and upwards, and only one is cited as WXGA, hence presumably all others are either XGA, SVGA, SVG. Infocus in one of its advertising gimmick states that WXGA is the native resolution thats fit for HT. Thats misleading. WXGA might be "native" for many HT models but at best it could only managed a 720p resolution, or some odd configurations like 1024 X 960. Even if a unit is WXGA'ed, yet the problem remains that it wasn't created for cinema. HT beamers are more specialized, it is equipped with the best Contrast and ANSI capacities. XGA and the like always fall short of the cinema standard, resulting in poorer or oversaturated colors, hopelessly noisy images and lacking high-def inputs like HDMI or Component. Hence as to Canon, mahal na, di pa angkop.
