| Optoma HD66 720P 3D-Ready DLP Home Theater Projector | 
| Brand: Optoma
Category: CE
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as of 3/10/2010 07:55 CST details
New (15) Used (1) from $593.99
Seller: Adorama Camera
Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 1,387
Color: White
Media: Electronics
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Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 11.3 x 4
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MPN: HD66
Model: HD66
UPC: 796435811143
EAN: 0796435811143
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| Features:
| • | 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 |
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Product Description
With 2500 ANSI lumens and 4000:1 contrast, the HD66 delivers subtle details and striking clarity for pure viewing delight.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 8
 Great Quality, as long as you don't like the rainbow effect... March 4, 2010
Peter (Belleville, NJ United States)
I bought the HD66 (and subsequently returned it) based on the reviews on the web, and from other users. It's a great projector, and is very sharp. Once you calibrate the settings, the HD-movies will appear flawless (or expose flaws). I played some of my PS3 games on it, and watched some Blu-ray movies, and its definitely great quality. I do not see any issues with the contrast, despite what some folks said on this website.
However, if you are sensitive to the rainbow effect - and it really comes out with the higher contrast movies and games, it may annoy you enough that you cannot tolerate it. The rainbow effect probably only applies to a small part of the population, but it stood out more during movies (and games), with high contrast.
Otherwise, if you can handle the rainbow effect or can't perceive it, it's a great buy. Otherwise, I would stick to LCD Projectors - and my old Hitachi CP-RX60, even running at component at 720p, had a better picture and contrast than the Optoma HD-66.
 2D is great, 3D is a total pita. February 26, 2010
Bought too soon (LA, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For starters, Nvidia doesn't support this projector yet - so unless you like beating yourself in the head all day, the 3D will probably be out of most people's reach until there's some actual support for it. When the 3D DOES work it's pretty fantastic - but there are WAY, WAY, WAY too many bugs for me to recommend you even attempt it.
When the projector is mounted to a ceiling and the image is rotated 180 degrees to orient the image correctly - it reverses the L/R interlace forcing you to wear the 3D glasses upside down in order for 3D to work. There is a setting on the projector under 3D mode that looks like it was intended to compensate for that - but it doesn't.
New Mac products will not display 1080p/i or 720P on the HD66. They also recognize the projector as the EW536. So that sucks.
Anyway, to sum up: they rushed this to market without sufficient testing or support. If you're buying it with the hope of using it for 3D - wait until there's actual support for it and Optoma has worked out some of the bugs (of which there are many).
 Highly recommended February 16, 2010
Ryan J., Yazzie (Scottsdale, AZ)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this projector for watching movies and video games, and its doing remarkably well. The picture is clean and crystal clear. The HDMI port makes your Blu-ray connectivity easy. This projector is 3D ready as long as you have the appropriate glasses, i cant wait to see how Avatar is going to look on my 4 by 7 1/2 foot screen. It came 2 days early and snugly packed in a box. I do not notice any of the "color wheel effect" Great buy.
The UPS driver left a $700 projector sitting on my front lawn, so make sure you are there when it arrives.
Very Good Projector. February 14, 2010
Daniel P. Osorno
Just got this in the mail a few days ago. All i can say is WOW! A big step up from a 800x600 native projector (EP721). There's one thing i didn't like about it though...
120hz seems to only work on 720P and lower. It's native resolution is 1280x800, which is only @60hz. Making video playback jittery. If there is a way to make it progressive @ 1280x800, please let me know. Comment the review.
Other than that, This is a great projector. Go for it!
Does a truly excellent job for the price! January 23, 2010
Westcoast Gunner (CA USA)
21 out of 21 found this review helpful
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.
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