apparent brightness improvement from higher resolution, after many hours of critical viewing I
now attribute it to the lamp and the whole light engine. While looking good on my "XXL"
screen, this projector would really pop on a more typical 72" wide, 1.3 gain, or even a matte
version.
Over the weeks we watched "Shutter Island", "The Unthinkable", "The Book of Eli" and the dark
"Wolfman". All confirmed our initial impressions of superior sharpness, brightness and overall
improved C.R. In the opening scene of "Wolfman", the wolf's first victim walks through a forest
at night. The 2.5 gamma of the LS-5 rendered ample detail amongst the subtle blacks and
shadow detail in the trees. A reference piece that has been constant in my final viewings since it
came out is "Baraka". Carefully mastered and scene selected to be pure eye candy, almost any
segment offers fully saturated colors and most have inky blacks somewhere in the frame. I have
not seen this disc look better, even on much pricier systems I have calibrated.
I also found time to review old favorite concert videos; M.J.'s "This is it", Tony Bennett's "An
American Classic", Elton John's "Elton 60", "Chris Botti Live" and Roy Orbison's "Black and
White Night". Yes, the improved C.R. is even more noticeable in monochrome. While it is true
that concert videos don't really make good reference discs (stage lighting is artificial and
constantly changing making color accuracy an elusive parameter), still, having watched the
aforementioned clips dozens of times, I detected a punchier overall image quality. I also noted,
even with the addition of a color wheel, the LS-5 was quieter than the several year old 3-chip
Vidikron.
CONCLUSION
Runco has hit it out of the park with this product. One could even worry that they may have
cannibalized some high-end business with the extraordinary value proposition offered here. To
those who thought the rarified air of high quality front projection was filled with only products
made from unaffordium, think again. To get visibly higher image quality than offered by the LS-
5, be prepared to spend 4 to 5 times its retail price. Spot-on colorimetry, ruler flat gray scale,
high quality optics and every "tweak" necessary for an ultimate calibration, and all for less than
what we paid for a decent flat panel last year, yields a new high water mark for both performance
and value ... ... it does seem like a non-sequitur, doesn't it!
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