Toshiba TLP-ET1 Home Theater Front Projector

[Archived in HDTV Accessories, Home Entertainment Projectors, Multimedia Projectors, Products, Projection TVs, Projectors, Toshiba]

Manufacturer: Toshiba
Price at amazon.com: New from $1101.19




Product Features:

• 16:9 widescreen display with 858 x 484 native resolution; image scaling accommodates 720p and 1080i HDTV signals
• 3 x .54-inch LCD panels
• Faroudja DCDi video scaler for smooth, natural-looking pictures
• Built-in stereo speakers with 5 watts per channel
• 600:1 contrast ratio for deep, vivid blacks; graphical user interface

Product Description:

Designed for families who don't have space for a dedicated home theater but still want high-quality entertainment, Toshiba's all-in-one, standalone TLP-ET1 front projector is highly portable and easy to set up. Capable of operating in TheaterWide, movie, and game modes, the ET1 offers great viewing flexibility while producing a native 16:9 format for true widescreen renderings of your favorite movies. The projector features an input capability of 480i, 576i/p, 720p, and 1080i. Weighing just 7.6 pounds, this TLP-ET1 features built-in high-performance stereo speakers with 5 watts per channel and even simulated surround sound to create a sense of spaciousness around your presentations. With just over an 8-foot throw distance for a 100-inch diagonal image, there's no need for the large dedicated room often associated with home theater projectors--the ET1 is ideal for smaller rooms. The ET1 combines high-quality Toshiba video circuitry with the latest Faroudja DCDi 12200 scaling chip for clean, sharp, and natural images. User adjustments include manual focus, digital keystone correction, simulated surround sound, and more. The projector also features a full complement of A/V inputs for home-theater connectivity, including ColorStream component-video, RGB, composite-video, and S-video.
From the Manufacturer Home Theater Front Projector is designed to appeal to families who don’t have space for a dedicated home theater, but still want to enjoy a high quality entertainment experience. The unique all-in-one design makes the TLP-ET1 highly portable and easy to set up. Capable of operating in TheaterWide, Movie and Game modes, the TLP-ET1 offers consumers greater viewing flexibility while still delivering a native 16:9 format for a true wide screen experience. With a 480p wide screen display, the... read more

Description from Manufacturer: Designed for families who don't have space for a dedicated home theater but still want high-quality entertainment, Toshiba's all-in-one, standalone TLP-ET1 front projector is highly portable and easy to set up. Capable of operating in TheaterWide, movie, and game modes, the ET1 offers great viewing flexibility while producing a native 16:9 format for true widescreen renderings of your favorite movies. The projector features an input capability of 480i, 576i/p, 720p, and 1080i.

Weighing just 7.6 pounds, this TLP-ET1 features built-in high-performance stereo speakers with 5 watts per channel and even simulated surround sound to create a sense of spaciousness around your presentations.

With just over an 8-foot throw distance for a 100-inch diagonal image, there's no need for the large dedicated room often associated with home theater projectors--the ET1 is ideal for smaller rooms. The ET1 combines high-quality Toshiba video circuitry with the latest Faroudja DCDi 12200 scaling chip for clean, sharp, and natural images.

User adjustments include manual focus, digital keystone correction, simulated surround sound, and more. The projector also features a full complement of A/V inputs for home-theater connectivity, including ColorStream component-video, RGB, composite-video, and S-video.Average Customer Rating:

---

Comment: Toshiba TLP-ET1 Rating:
I've been using the Toshiba TLP-ET1 for about 3 months and love it. It is LCD, 480x858 pixels ( 1-to-1 mapping of DVD video ). The color is fantastic and the 700 lumens is very good for home theatre with an 80" screen. I keep my room dark and use the low power setting. The only negative point that I can see is that screen door effect is still slightly visible at 1 1/2 x screen width but my best seating is at 2x anyway. Contrast ratio - black level is respectable and this is coming for someone that has been using (still uses) a 36" Sony XBR television which has outstanding black levels. There are no visible artifacts of any kind and the internal DCDi processor even makes 480i signals look great (ie standard broadcast). The internal sound system is a bit of a joke and may make some people over look this other wise great projector. Because of the short lens throw, I am uable to use this on a coffee table in what is otherwise a rarely used formal living room. The screen gets put away for other entertaining and the PJ looks good enough to stay on the table. I put my DVD player (Denon 710) on the same table to minimize the Video cable length and run the digital audio to my Denon 3803 receiver by a single long coax cable.

It has excellent features and is very easy to use.

For the previous reviewer; I've been quoted $400(cnd) or a new bulb from my dealer so it should be $300(us) or less.

---

Comment: Great Image and easy to use Rating:
After almost buying a HD wide screen TV that weighs 200 pounds and costs twice as much, I decided for now to go the projector route, and so far I'm not dissapointed.

I use a nice 5-foot "da-lite" screen to get a 16:9 image with the projector only about 6 feet away. Picture quality seems to be very good to me, much better than computer-centric projectors I tried in the past. The menus and setup are very easy to understand, and the little remote has dedicated buttons for the most used functions like picture size.

Drawbacks with a projector are you need a dark room, about 5 minutes setup time if you are not permantly installing it, and a new set of 4-meter long video cables; but that outweighs the benefits in my case of living in a small apartment and putting it all out of site in 5 minutes when I am not using it.

So far I have used it with my progressive scan DVD player, and my Xbox system, all using component cables and really enjoying the picture quality.

One comment is that since this model is so new - even Toshiba themselves do not know how much the replacement lamp (2000 hours) will cost. I see other lamps on their website for $500 so I wonder how much it will be for this.....

But in summary, for my situation it does exactly what I wanted it to do, and the price was right.

Posted at September 11, 2003 01:23 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)