Yamaha LPX-510 - Manual (Page 4)

on Input B (YPbPr or RGBTV) at the highest
frequencies for both 720p and 1080i. HDMI
overscan defaults to 0 percent on 480p,
720p, and 1080i. It is selectable and can
easily be set to 4 percent if extraneous
material is present in the program source.
The default setting on other inputs is 4 per-
cent, but 0 percent can be selected if
desired.
Two menu choices are available for the
HDMI video level, Normal and Expanded.
Normal maps 16 to 235 digital video values
to a range of 0 to 255, thus below black
and above white signals cannot be repro-
duced. By using Expanded for digital video,
16 to 235 video is preserved as 16 to 235
and below black and above white signals in
the range of 0 to 15 and 236 to 255 can be
reproduced. When these settings are
selected, a minor readjustment of the Black
Level to –6 is required.
Subjective Picture
Analysis
Almost all quality program material
looked superb using any input. Accurate,
noise free, gorgeous images were the norm,
and all of this was achieved with no addi-
tional calibration. Calibration made tiny
measurable improvements at low video lev-
els, but did not noticeably change the
appearance of DVD and HDTV images from
the factory settings.
I watched a large amount of HDTV, and
the images were superb. Master And
Commander on DVD is a dark and gray
movie, and it was reproduced well, even in
the dark scenes. Big Fish, Love Actually,
and The Last Samurai looked excellent. The
Space Shuttle launch and Video Montage
on the new Digital Video Essentials was ren-
dered with beautiful, accurate colors. The
Sony DRC Demonstration DVD looked
superb, almost like HDTV except in wide-
angle shots.
I’m extremely sensitive to rainbows and
color flashes on DLP projectors, as well as
the temporal dithering artifacts that are
common to DLP. Even though I may not
mention rainbows in reviews of DLP projec-
tors, I always see them and their absence is
welcome. This projector has none of the
typical DLP artifacts that often distract me
from the movie or HDTV program I am
watching.
Several shows I watched on Discovery
HD Theater looked almost like reality. HDTV
produced as live or recorded video (CSI,
Tonight Show With Jay Leno) look sharper,
more noise free, and more detailed than the
best films, but many films also looked
superb. The highest compliment I can pay
this projector is to say that it rendered a
beautiful, accurate, noise free, and high-
resolution picture—devoid of annoying arti-
facts—with adequate contrast ratio on a
great majority of program material. It looked
exactly as it should.
Summary
This is overall the best LCD projector I
have tested. It is a breakthrough product
offering wonderful flexibly of placement,
truly useful features, comprehensive menu
selections, excellent contrast, and terrific
as-received calibration. It is extremely quiet
and provides great value. Almost anyone
looking for a fine home theatre projector will
be thrilled with its performance.
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