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Hughes-JVC ILA-12K $250,000
WEIGHT: 1,670 pounds.
CRT/ILA SIZE AND RESOLUTION:
Seven-inch CRTs with 2.6-inch liquid-crystal image light amplifiers (ILA) that the manufacturer claims support up to 2,000 x 1,280 resolution.
OPTICS: Three-path reflective, flat-mirror dichroic system with oil-filled polarizers. Three fixed-focal-length lenses.
LAMP: 7,000-watt xenon lamp.
MEASURED BRIGHTNESS: 5,442 ANSI lumens with SVGA 800 x 600 computer-signal input; 6,867 ANSI lumens with XGA test-- pattern input.
MEASURED ANSI CONTRAST: 109-to-1.
BW ON/OFF CONTRAST: 1,108-to-1.
CONNECTIONS: Two flexible 5-BNC inputs and one D1/D5-compatible serial digital data interface. One RS-232 control port and one RS-232 switcher control port.
VIDEO COMPATIBILITY Accepts most popular video sources up to and beyond UXGA.
SPEAKERS: None.
ACCESSORIES INCLUDED: Remote.
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The enormous Hughes-JVC ILA-12K projector might well be the mother of all projectors.
It's certainly the largest projector I've ever seen, and it performs so well that it is a leading contender for the next generation's movie experience, namely digital electronic cinema -- what I call e-- movies. (For more digital-cinema projector reviews, see the Projector Review in the May issue.)
The ILA-12K actually performs quite similarly to the DLP-based projectors reviewed in May. All rely on an arrangement of dichroic mirrors to split a large xenon lamp's white light into...