Comments on: Mitsubishi HC1600 720p DLP Home Theater Projector

By: William K. Chicoine

William K. Chicoine — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:15:00 +0000

Great machine, reasonable on the noise, you can hardly tell it’s on. Decent setup, I think the manual could do a little better. My condo has a lot of light and I’m running on medium bulb power I haven’t needed the full power at all. This is my second one in a year, the other one sold with my house.
Rating: 5 / 5

By: T. tamas

T. tamas — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:49:26 +0000

out of the box color needed some adjustment, but overall can be set very true. black level performance isn’t stellar, but sufficient. that is, deep black comes across as very dark and deep gray. despite the slow 2x color wheel, i have not noticed rainbow effects. motion is excellent. skin color and tones look amazing. picture is sharp. highly pleased for the $700 price. used the projector about 500 hours now.
Rating: 5 / 5

By: NY Movie maniac

NY Movie maniac — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:50:42 +0000

I bought the HC1600 for my basement media room about 6 months ago and its now become our favorite room in the house. Our family looks forward to Friday night movies and sports in HD. The price (650) was unbeatable and I’m only projecting on a new wall which is painted with flat ceiling white paint! I have purchased better paint (Home Depot screen Goo imatation) but just haven’t gotten around to applying it yet.

The image is a 110 inch diagonal “screen” about 16 feet from the ceiling mounted projector. There’s a slight trapazoidal effect which has been corrected by the projector controls with no side effects.

My room is very dark, only one small window, but even with the lights dimmed low the image is sharp and clear. I’m using Low lamp setting to entend the bulb life. The fan noise is never even noticed.

All in all, if you have the right room, this is an unbelievable value for a Home Theater setup. I bought a Costco Denon receiver (170) 10 inch ebay sub (100), five in wall and in ceiling speakers on ebay (100, up-converting DVD player (25).

Total expenditure – about $1100. Just added four leather recliners from ebay for 1400. Total Home Theater = 2500. Amazing!

Do it! you won’t regret.

Rating: 5 / 5

By: Your Average American Guy

Your Average American Guy — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:16:57 +0000

I liked this projector, it had what I needed mostly. Very good picture for this price range.

I was a little frustrated with the adjustment controls, it wasn't quite as vertically flexible as I would have liked.

I ended up returning the projector, because it didn't have the throw range I needed for my projector room. I needed something with a 20 ft throw range, and the Mitsubishi only had a 15 ft throw for the 100 inch screen I have (my fault I should have checked this ahead of time).

It's too bad because the picture was solid. I ended up getting a Panasonic, which has a large thow capability. Rating: 3 / 5

By: Zvi Schreiber

Zvi Schreiber — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:11:43 +0000

The picture on the projector is good and the price attractive BUT it refuses to show a high-def signal (720p) from my Sony Blu-ray so I have to run it in standard low-def 480p. I tried contacting support many times but they were completely useless – they do not answer email or web support and phone support you wait ages and they offer to call you back and then don’t.
Rating: 2 / 5