Optoma, recently ranked as one of the top three (3) projector manufacturers by Pacific Media’s 11th annual Associate Dealer Survey, has introduced the HD80 home theater projector (HD70 pictured) with native high definition of 1080p (1920 x 1080).

The Optima HD80 has a DLP projection system powered by a single 0.95″ 1080p DMD DLP Chipset having BrilliantColor technologies by Texas Instruments. This chip has the highest fill ratio (smallest gap between micro-mirrors on DMD chip) of its family yet and offers higher brightness and contrast then previous versions. The DarkChip3 DMD chip has the full two million (and some) micro-mirrors for the 2 megapixels required for 1080p high definition display as opposed to the use of Wobulation (Smooth Picture if you use Texas Instruments terminology) for chips with less mirrors.

With a brightness of 1300 lumens and a 10,000:1 contrast ratio the projector is well suited to the intended for home theatre and could tolerate some ambient light.

The Optoma HD80 has a three-stage video/color enhancement processing system offers personalized adjustment options: decoding, image enhancement and color reproduction enhancement . Video processing capabilities include; motion adaptive 480i, 576i and 1080i de-Interlacing, 10-bit image processing, advanced 3D comb filter, four pre-set display formats, advanced noise reduction and sharpening.

Optoma offer a 2 year limited parts and labor warranty. There one year lamp warranty is much longer than the usual 90 days offered in the projector market.

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