Optoma HD66 720P 3D-Ready DLP Home Theater Projector
By admin On February 1st, 2010
- DLP Technology by Texas Instruments with BrilliantColor Technology
- 2500 Lumens produce a bright, crisp image
- Produces mind-boggling 3D images for high intensity gaming!
- Complete on-screen menu adjustments in 23 languages
- Native 720P widesreen resolution
Product Description
Optoma’s HD66, 3D-Ready home theater projector delivers the future! Breathtaking and bold, the Optoma HD66 hometheater projector provides stunningly beautiful widescreen viewing. The 3D-Ready HD66 adds a whole new demension to the gaming and home theater experience-and delivers more dynamic learning in education and training applications. With 2500 ANSI lumens, 4000:1 contrast, and native 720p widescreen resolution, the HD66 delivers subtle details and striking clar… More >>
Optoma HD66 720P 3D-Ready DLP Home Theater Projector
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Gary A. Peck Says: February 1st, 2010 at 9:22 pm
The images produced from this projector are unbelievably sharp and the color is so rich you won’t believe your eyes that a projector for under $700 can work this well. IMHO there is no need to buy any other projector no matter what the price is. It is a 720P native projector but operates at 1080P with a blueray player with HDMI connector, and at 1080i with VGA connector (supplied with unit).
Rating: 5 / 5
Yiyang Wu Says: February 2nd, 2010 at 12:20 am
Color Distortion: bright projector, but the color is terribly distorted with the redish-yellowish backroud (such as human skin, face portrait), Problem occurs under all modes: movie, bright, presentation, etc. I use HDMI Cable so this is no connection problem. You can adjust color become nature only if you disable the BriliantColor function by setting it to 0-2. but then the brightness is totally compromised, the picture will become very dim.
Resolution: This is a 16:10 projector, NOT 16:9, which is mistakenly stated on many website as native 1280×720. The real native resolution is 1280×800. I dont know why the picture become gray and much darker if you use standard 16:9 mode: 1280×720@60Hz.
Overall: HD66 is absolutely not a choice for people who prefer color quality. But it’s okay to be a low level buisness projector which needs more brightness rather than color/contrast.
Very Disappointed.
Rating: 1 / 5
J. Condon Says: February 2nd, 2010 at 12:49 am
Very nice projector, good colors, brightness and black levels. This is not going to compete with a $2k projector, but for its class, it does a really impressive job.
I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 because out of the box, the settings make the image look quite poor, complete loss of detail in faces, skin tones are definitely off. After some quick calibraiton, Specifically:
- I turned down the bulb to standard
- turned “Brilliant Color” way down
- reduced the contrast to about 42-45.
- I also turned down the brightness to 43, but after doing a THX optimizer, brought the brightness back up to the standard 50.
AFTER CALIBRATION, I am VERY pleased with the colors, the black levels are good (not great, but pretty darn good) and the shadow detail is much better than what I have seen in the past.
I would recommend this projector to anyone looking for a ht projector in this price range.
(Also, as others have reported, the remote is not laid out well at all (although this would not sway my purchase decision, it is worth noting))
Rating: 4 / 5
Westcoast Gunner Says: February 2nd, 2010 at 2:42 am
I bought this projector 3 weeks ago from Amazon. Delivery was prompt and on time. The projector came in the usual Optoma box but without a carry case. Of course I knew that, but one would have been nice anyway. I had already printed out the manual (at work of course) from the Optoma website.
Set up was easy enough but a little time consuming as the settings where totally off. I believe everyone using this projector primarily for home theater will and should set the bulb to standard. The extra lumen will come in handy however when using the 3D glasses to view 3D content.
Once calibrated, picture quality was very impressive for a 720p projector. Blacks were black enough, color and shadow, rich and detailed. The projector does a good job (imo) of scaling 1080p content. I have two Blu-ray players and the projector showed Blu-ray content a lot better with my Philips player so like everything else the source is important.
Overall I’m very happy with my purchase. Couldn’t convince the wife at this stage to let me spend the extra money on a 1080p projector, so I was already looking at the HD65. I was encouraged by what was being said by the very early adapters that had pulled the trigger on the dedicated AV forums (God bless them). Early veiwings included Iron Man and Transformers, and Walle and UP for animation, all in Blu-ray on a 72″ 16:9 screen and I’m truly impressed. The harshest critic is too, the wife. Picture is as good, if not better, than my Sanyo 42″ 1080p plasma. I’m English; my wife is American so were now looking forward to the World Cup being shown in 3D. By the time the tournament begins hopefully the price of active shutter glasses will have fallen enough so were not passing one pair around the room to everybody.
If you have bought this projector from Amazon just post a review good, bad or indifferent. I was compelled to do so because for a long time the only one posted nearly caused me to pass on the HD66. $700 is a lot of money (to me at least), so I utilize reviews all the time without giving back. This was my first one ever, hope it helps.
Rating: 5 / 5