Waza04

Hello There,
Firstly, I appologise if I am posting in the wrong forum.

Basically, I know absolutly nothing about HDTV - however, heres the situation:

I have a NEC VT460 Front Projector (quite old now) which is apparantly HDTV compatible. Now that the the XBOX 360 release is just around the corner with HDTV support, will the projector be able to take the HDTV quality image the Xbox sends out and output it at on screen at the same quality (or at least better than a non HDTV input) - or will the projector cause a lower quality image because it is old? Also the project doesn't have any "special" inputs besides the standard Composite/RGB/S-Video, adding to my concern.

The NEC website says the resolution is SVGA (800 x 600 pixels) native, VGA through UXGA with Advanced AccuBlend, that doesn't sound very advanced

Info:
http://www.necvisualsystems.com/app...?Product_id=355

Any help (and advice for a new projector if the quality will be poor) would be greatly appreciated!

Many Thanks,
Warren

57U

Your projector has a native display of 800 x 600. In 16:9 aspect, this equates to roughly 450P. Not bad for an old unit, but far short of the 720P required for HD.

I'm not an FP expert, so I'll let others make suggestions... True HD FPs are not cheap though... You have to be a bit careful, because there's a lot of "HD compatible" stuff floating around, meaning it'll accept an HD signal (720P or 1080i), but then downconvert to the native resolution.

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Waza04

Thats a shame

Do you think it would even be worth buying a new one? Infact, the bulb on this is due its first replacement soon, maybe sieze the oppertunity then to buy a new projector alltogether?

Waza04

Oh and last thing, I assume HD data can travel over the standard cable/connectors, if thats all what the project supports?

57U

HD only travels over component video, DVI or HDMI. See the HDTV FAQ on "Cables & Connections"

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