Product Description
Optoma's HD66, 3D-Ready home theater projector delivers the future! Breathtaking and bold, the Optoma HD66 hometheater projector provides stunningly beautiful widescreen viewing. The 3D-Ready HD66 adds a whole new demension to the gaming and home theater experience-and delivers more dynamic learning in education and training applications. With 2500 ANSI lumens, 4000:1 contrast, and native 720p widescreen resolution, the HD66 delivers subtle details and striking clar... More >>
- DLP Technology by Texas Instruments with BrilliantColor Technology
- 2500 Lumens produce a bright, crisp image
- Produces mind-boggling 3D images for high intensity gaming!
- Complete on-screen menu adjustments in 23 languages
- Native 720P widesreen resolution
Optoma HD66 720P 3D-Ready DLP Home Theater Projector
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Color Distortion: bright projector, but the color is terribly distorted with the redish-yellowish backroud (such as human skin, face portrait), Problem occurs under all modes: movie, bright, presentation, etc. I use HDMI Cable so this is no connection problem. You can adjust color become nature only if you disable the BriliantColor function by setting it to 0-2. but then the brightness is totally compromised, the picture will become very dim.
Resolution: This is a 16:10 projector, NOT 16:9, which is mistakenly stated on many website as native 1280×720. The real native resolution is 1280×800. I dont know why the picture become gray and much darker if you use standard 16:9 mode: 1280×720@60Hz.
Overall: HD66 is absolutely not a choice for people who prefer color quality. But it’s okay to be a low level buisness projector which needs more brightness rather than color/contrast.
Very Disappointed.
Rating: 1 / 5
Nice projector at a nice price, EXCEPT:
The projector performs as expected with two inputs (HDMI, component) and NOT with the other two:
Using either the composite input or the S-video input, the projected image has a very noticeable amount of jitter – bouncing vertically a few pixels at a few hertz. I tried using three different DVD players (a Denon, a Sony, and a JVC) and various cables – all combinations yielding the same defect. Amazon sent a replacement projector (great, prompt service) that exhibits the same problem.
More data: I took the HD66 to the home of a friend who has an HD65 to compare the two using the same signal source, a JVC player, and same cable. We saw the expected good results with the HD65 and visible jitter on the HD66 (making movie-watching on the HD66 unacceptable, to my eyes anyway).
Thinking I might be missing some setup option, I called Optoma tech support. The person I spoke with tried his best to help, but was unable to suggest any settings or reconfigurations to fix the problem.
Rating: 1 / 5
Thanks to Amazon I was able to get my hands on this little baby. Delivery was prompt. I owned the Optoma Ezpro 735 which delivered a pretty good picture and was faithful up until the lamp needed changing. Still have 30hours of juice left in it though!So having owned an Optoma projector and being please with the performance I decided to invest in another one after discovering that the cost of the replacement lamp module was about half the cost of a new projector!!! On looking at the Optoma models I discovered that they actually had a 3D model. I was excited!!
Even more exciting was that Samsung had just brought out the Samsung BCP 6900 3D blu Ray player and ….get this the 3D glasses. I was sold on the optoma. I ordered everthing down to of course the 3D bluray movies.
The Optoma HD66, didn’t let me down. This thing is amazing! I read reviews about how you had to adjust the image settings for a good picture. NOT ME. this thing gave a fantastic picture striaght out of the box with factory settings. 10 out 10.. it’s that good. Can’t think it could be better and if it is who cares. This thing is showing like plasma. I’m projecting it onto a 100″ diagonal widescreen. Brightness is amazing. It was so bright that I had to set it to standard. You don’t even need “bright” setting for 3D. Even in the day the 2500 lumens shined!! This thing left my mouth wide open, Then my eyes when I stared at a 3D movie.
3D doesn’t come on automatically. You actually have to select 3D. Guys and Gals images were literally coming off the screen 6 inches from your face!! It was that good. In the movie “My Valentine” there is a scene when the naked woman ( yeah guys fully nude in 3D) throws a gun at her lover. The gun actually comes out the screen right into your face…I literally ducked. lol.
Then there’s this totally amazing clip where a gun is fired the bullet comes to you in slow motion ( YOU HAVE TO SEE IT TO BELEIVE IT!!), stops right at your nose..it’s like you can touch it..then it suddenly turns, heads back to the screen and hits the bad guy!! The movie in itself is no AVATAR but some moments of 3D that I described are worth it!
The Optoma HD66 truly delivers. You wont regret buying it. SStart up and shut down are fast. The only thing that you must be aware of is that the image drops sometimes when using a long HDMI cable. Not the fault of the Optoma but in a second or two the Optoma HD66 has the image back on screen. This by the way doesn’t happen often. The frequency for me so far has been about 2 per movie.
The Optoma Images are incredible with 2D movies. I LOVE IT!!
Just bought some more 3D movies (m final destination 4 in 3D, Haunted House, Polar express 3D and Friday the 13th part 3). Hope to see more!! Oh guys, “National Geograhpics: Sea Monsters 3D” IS A MUST HAVE!!
Rating: 5 / 5
Just got this in the mail a few days ago. All i can say is WOW! A big step up from a 800×600 native projector (EP721). There’s one thing i didn’t like about it though…
120hz seems to only work on 720P and lower. It’s native resolution is 1280×800, which is only @60hz. Making video playback jittery. If there is a way to make it progressive @ 1280×800, please let me know. Comment the review.
Other than that, This is a great projector. Go for it!
Rating: 4 / 5
this is a good start for any home theater. i hooked it up to my blue ray and it works and looks great. check out [...]
for the review on this projector. i used there seting to set it up and it made the picture look 10 times better than what the projector is programed with. great projector would recomend it. i use it for Blue ray as well as Xbox with a 128″ screen. A+++
Rating: 5 / 5