The Mitsubishi XD480U, a DLP projector, has a sleek design with little feet on the back and front to help you get the projection on the screen just right.
This projector has a well-designed focus and zoom lever making it easy to fine tune both settings -- much simpler than the ring adjustments found on other projectors.
At the rear is a DVI connector with all your other standard ones but no component. Networking isn't integrated but you can buy an external kit for another AU$915.
The menu offers good picture adjustment options but has no lamp-life counter -- something we have found missing on many of their previous models projectors. To be fair, Mitsubishi claims the lamp will last you 5000 hours in eco mode and, if true, you probably won't need to keep much of an eye on it.
With such a high contrast rating we thought this projector would perform really well, yet it was actually the opposite. Colours appeared dull and very flat. Yellows were more mustard coloured and fine lines were actually quite coarse. In some movie scenes the sky appeared grainy -- a problem not found in the other projectors.
Overall, the image quality was a little disappointing, to say the least.
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Lamp doesn't last long enough for the price.
There isn't enough IR ports.All ok if you don't mount it but once mounted IR ports just not good enough