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  • Introduction

  • Front

  • Back

  • Sides

  • Top/Bottom

  • Stand/Mount

  • Lamp

  • Remote Control Tour

  • In the Box

  • Portability

  • Setup Assistance

  • Aesthetics

  • Peak Brightness

  • Tunnel Contrast

  • Uniformity

  • Greyscale Gamma

  • Color Temperature

  • RGB Curves

  • Color Gamut

  • Motion Smoothness

  • Motion Artifacting

  • 3:2 Pulldown & 24fps

  • Resolution Scaling

  • 3D Readiness

  • Throw

  • Screen Brightness

  • Screen Materials

  • Optical Issues

  • Video Processing

  • Formats

  • Calibration

  • Video Modes

  • Ergonomics & Durability

  • Button Layout & Use

  • Programming & Flexibility

  • Input Ports

  • Other Connections

  • Placement

  • Internet & Media Features

  • Menus & Manual

  • Noise

  • Heat

  • Power Consumption

  • Lamp Life

  • Value

  • Blacks & Whites

  • Color

  • Motion

  • Viewing Effects

  • Connectivity

  • Value

  • Blacks & Whites

  • Color

  • Motion

  • Viewing Effects

  • Connectivity

  • Value

  • Blacks & Whites

  • Color

  • Motion

  • Viewing Effects

  • Connectivity

  • Conclusion

  • Introduction
  • Front
  • Back
  • Sides
  • Top/Bottom
  • Stand/Mount
  • Lamp
  • Remote Control Tour
  • In the Box
  • Portability
  • Setup Assistance
  • Aesthetics
  • Peak Brightness
  • Tunnel Contrast
  • Uniformity
  • Greyscale Gamma
  • Color Temperature
  • RGB Curves
  • Color Gamut
  • Motion Smoothness
  • Motion Artifacting
  • 3:2 Pulldown & 24fps
  • Resolution Scaling
  • 3D Readiness
  • Throw
  • Screen Brightness
  • Screen Materials
  • Optical Issues
  • Video Processing
  • Formats
  • Calibration
  • Video Modes
  • Ergonomics & Durability
  • Button Layout & Use
  • Programming & Flexibility
  • Input Ports
  • Other Connections
  • Placement
  • Internet & Media Features
  • Menus & Manual
  • Noise
  • Heat
  • Power Consumption
  • Lamp Life
  • Value
  • Blacks & Whites
  • Color
  • Motion
  • Viewing Effects
  • Connectivity
  • Value
  • Blacks & Whites
  • Color
  • Motion
  • Viewing Effects
  • Connectivity
  • Value
  • Blacks & Whites
  • Color
  • Motion
  • Viewing Effects
  • Connectivity
  • Conclusion

Introduction

Front

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The Canon LV-8310 is a medium sized portable LCD projector WXGA projector that is mainly designed for business use. Although it can be used for watching movies, the features are mainly aimed at office users.

Back

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Sides

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Top/Bottom

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Stand/Mount

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On the front of the projector body is a single adjustable leg which allows the projector to lift up to about 1.8 inches above the table top. If you want a more permanent mount, VESA mounting screws are located on the bottom of the projector body.

Lamp

Remote Control Tour

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The small remote of this projector has a large number of buttons on it that allow quick access to most of the features.

The small remote control of the 705HD

In the Box

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As well as the projector itself, you also get:

  • Soft carrying case
  • Lens cover
  • Power cord
  • VGA cable
  • Remote control & batteries
  • Quick Start guide
  • CD with users guide as a PDF
  • DVI to VGA adapter

Not included is a HDMI cable, but the VGA cable is a welcome inclusion. The carrying case can carry the projector and all of the cables required for use.

The 705HD comes with a carrying case, manuals, power cable and remote

Portability

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The LV-8310 is a fairly large projector, but it isn't all that heavy: we measured the weight of the projector, case and cables at just over 8 pounds. A case comes with it that can easily carry the projector, a few cables and the remote. The projector itself also has a handy handle on the back that makes it very easy to pick up and carry around the office or classroom.

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Setup Assistance

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The LV-8310 is pretty simple to set up; you just plug it in, turn it on, set the zoom and focus, select the source and set the keystone. The latter has an automatic setting as well, which uses a tilt sensor to automatically set the keystone to the appropriate angle. The keystone can be set to correct for up to 30 degrees of offset.

Color correction settings for 9 different types of screen material are also available, including options for whiteboards, greenboards and several different colors of paint, which makes it possible to use it on materials other than a dedicated projection screen. This projector is missing the auto focus and material sensor of some of Canon's more expensive models, though, which use a camera to analyze and correct for the color of the material.

If you are driving the projector from an VGA video source, the Auto PC feature provides a simple way to automatically adjust the image for the best quality: we found it did an effective job of correctly scaling and adjusting the image. If you are driving it from a DVI or analog video source, you'll have to do your own tweaking, though; the Auto PC feature only works with VGA signals.

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Aesthetics

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The LV-8310 has an attractive, almost organic design with curves and swoops instead of the usual beige box. The large carrying handle on the back of the case makes it easy to pick up and move from location to location.

Peak Brightness

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The LV8310 has some power behind it: we measured the highest white screen lumen output of this projector at 2570 lumens in presentation mode. That's a little below the 3000 that Canon claims, but it's a pretty decent number for a sub-$1000 projector. The projector outputs less in the other modes: the standard mode managed 2120 lumens, while the cinema and video mode managed about 1720. That's not surprising; we usually see a reduction in the lumens the projector outputs for modes where color accuracy is more important than brightness.

On our 80-inch test screen, this translated into a screen brightness of 488 Cd/m2, as bright as a decent HDTV. However, you should consider that, like all projectors, the screen is much more sensitive to ambient light, so a projector will look much worse in anything other than near-total darkness than a HDTV.

The LV-8310 compares well with the other projectors, although it is a close thing. The Epson 705HD has nearly the same brightness, but in a smaller, more compact package.

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Tunnel Contrast

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The peak brightness that a projector can produce is only half of the story: it also has to be able to produce deep, dark blacks at the same time. We found that the LV-8310 struggled a bit here: in our test of how well the blacks held up when surrounded by an increasing amount of white, the blacks quickly became muddy greys. To be fair, all projectors struggle with this test, and the LV-8310 is not much worse than others, but it is still disappointing to see.

Uniformity

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We found that the LV-8310 produced clean, uniform screens when showing both black and white screens. We did notice some noticeable drop-off in the top left and top/bottom right corners, though, but this was subtle and wasn't particularly visible when watching normal video.

Below are two photos of the projected image, showing an all white and all black screen. Note that these have been processed to enhance the uniformity differences.

Greyscale Gamma

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We measured the greyscale gamma of the image that this projector produced at 2.19, right in the 2.1 to 2.2 range that we look for as being ideal. This was with the projector in the cinema mode with the gamma control set to Natural.

Color Temperature

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The LV-8310 had some issues in this test, where we analyze the projectors ability to maintain a constant color temperature for whites across the range of intensities. We found that the whites shifted significantly, becoming warmer in the middle of the range and then cooler as they reached the darker end of the scale. The shift in both cases is not huge, but it persists over a large range of intensities, which could give those shades of grey a definite color cast.

RGB Curves

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A projector should be able to accurately reproduce subtle color changes in the source, whether that is a graduated background in a Powerpoint slide or the blue sky of a movie. We found that the LV-8310 did a very good job here, accurately reproducing these changes. We test this by measuring a series of test screens that contain gradually changing colors, and measuring how well these changes are represented on screen. This test produces the graph below, where the ideal response is a smooth, clean curve. The LV-8310 gets close, although there are some minor bumps and jumps that show it is not perfect.

Color Gamut

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The colors that a HDTV image contain are defined by a standard (called Rec.709), which contains the limits of the colors (called the color gamut). A good projector should stick to these limits, but we found that the LV-8310 was a little off: the red and green corners in particular were inaccurate, which would cause these colors to look different than the source material. This would be less of an issue for showing presentations than movies because the colors in presentations don't represent real life objects, but it is a definite issue for movie use.

Motion Smoothness

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The LV-8310 did a decent, but unspectacular job of displaying motion. We found that fast-moving objects in both our test charts and various video sources moved smoothly, but there was some noticeable jerkiness on occasion, especially with very fast moving objects and camera pans.

Motion Artifacting

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We did not notice many issues with the projector creating issues with the video on the screen: the projector seemed to create very few artifacts or glitches that were not present in the original video.

3:2 Pulldown & 24fps

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The LV-8310 does not support the inverse telecine effect that some broadcasters use to give their TV shows a more filmic look; the video is simply presented as it is broadcast. We also found that the projector was unable to display a 24 frames per second signal: it supports only 30Hz and 75Hz frequencies from a computer source, and the lack of a HDMI port means that you can't connect a device such as a Blu-ray player.

Resolution Scaling

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The LV-8310 is a WXGA projector, but it also has to display images at other resolutions. So, we test this by feeding it a variety of different formats of video signals to see how it deals with them. We found it did a very decent job handling the lower resolutions, scaling them well to fit the native 1600 by 1200 pixel resolution of the projector.

480p 480p screens were acceptably sharp, although they do look rather blocky on a large screen.

720p
The LV-8310 had no major issues scaling up a 720p video signal; the resulting images were clean and sharp, although we did notice some giltching with fast-moving motion, where the edges of objects occasionally had a slightly stair-stepped look caused by the projector having to scale the image up to the higher native resolution.

1080i
The LV-8310 did a decent job of scaling 1080i video to fit the WXGA screen by letterboxing the image (adding black strips to the top and bottom of the image). We found that our test screens were cleanly and sharply scaled to fit the projector screen.

1080p
The LV-8310 does not support 1080p video, so it was unable to display a 1080p signal.

3D Readiness

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The LV-8310 is not a 3D ready projector: it cannot display the 120 sequential frames a second that 3D projection requires. Canon has demonstrated a 3D projector system that uses two projectors with polarizing filters and polarized glasses, but this is designed for industrial use.

Throw

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The relationship between the screen-projector distance and the size of the image on the screen is a critical factor in choosing a projector. So, we calculate the range of distances from the screen that every projector has to be in order to fill screens of a certain size. If you want the projector to work with a certain size of screen, you will need to be able to mount it within the ranges indicated below. The LV-8310 includes a 1.2x zoom lens that provides a decent amount of flexibility here, which makes it more flexible than many in terms of where it can be mounted.

Screen Brightness

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The further the projector is from the screen, the dimmer the image is going to be. Below are our calculations for how bright the image is likely to be on various sizes of screens when running in the Presentation mode.

Projectors like the LV-8310 have to overcome the ambient light in the room they are showing in, and this becomes increasingly difficult as the amount of incidental light increases. Below are our predictions for if this projector will be suitable for use with various sizes of screens at different incidental light levels, ranging from near darkness to a well-lit office. The bottom line is that this projector should be able to handle up to a 140-inch screen in a dark or simply lit room, but it doesn't have the power to cut through moderate lighting on a screen bigger than 100 inches, or anything bigger than a 64-inch screen in a brightly lit room. So, if you are using this in a typical office or conference room, you'll need to either dim the lights or use a smaller screen if you want your presentation to stand out.

Screen Materials

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You don't always get a nice screen to work with, so we test how well the projector does at projecting onto other surfaces, such as wood paneling and a couple of types of paint. We found that the LV-8310 did pretty well here: the image is still visible on all of the surfaces, and the Screen Color modes provide a good amount of customization. There are 10 different settings for different types of screen (whiteboard, greenboard, etc) and different colors of paint (light yellow, pink, sky blue, etc), which should provide enough options to find a setting that at least partially corrects for the surface color.

Optical Issues

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We noticed a few minor issues with the optics of the LV-8310. The right side of the image was slightly softer than the center and the left, making edges and fine details a little less defined. This seemed to be caused by a slight flaring effect; on close examination, we found that isolated pixels on the right side of the screen had a slight flare to them that bled into the adjacent pixels, softening the overall image.

Video Processing

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Only one video processing option is available: the Auto PC mode that analyzes and corrects signals coming in on the VGA port.

Formats

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The LV-8310 is a WXGA projector, which means it has a resolution of 1280 by 800 pixels. It can display any computer resolution lower than this, and can also display larger resolutions by scaling them down to fit. It can also handle video signals in any one of a range of resolutions, from standard definition video up to 1080i. It cannot, however, handle a 1080p signal, which is the same 1920 by 1080 pixel resolution as 1080i, but with 60 frames a second of video instead of 30.

Calibration

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Projectors are designed to be used in a variety of situations, and there is no single group of settings that will work for all. So, we create a set of calibrated settings for one purpose: watching movies. In calibrating this way, our aim is to find the best balance of screen brightness and color accuracy for watching movies and TV in a dark setting. We started with the preset Cinema mode, and found that we only needed a few minor tweaks to get the best quality from the projector. In particular, we changed the gamma to the Natural setting and set the color temperature to 6500 degrees kelvin. The LV-8310 is unusual in offering a number of direct numerized settings for color temperature, rather than the usual warm, cool and standard settings.

Video Modes

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The LC-8310 offers a small selection of video modes. There are no user presets, but you can go into any of the presets and tweak the detailed settings, such as gamma, brightness, contrast, color temperature, etc. These changes are saved when the projector is powered off.

Ergonomics & Durability

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The remote control that comes with the LV-8310 is fairly small, but it fits well into the hand, with the thumb falling over the volume and digital zoom controls located on the center of the remote body. It feels pretty robust, so it should stand up to the everyday knocks of office use.

Button Layout & Use

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The layout of the buttons on the remote is a little disappointing: several of the more frequently used buttons (such as the source and aspect controls) are located at the top of the remote, where you have to stretch to reach them, or use the other hand. Other less commonly used ones (such as the volume and digital zoom ones) take up the more useful real estate in the center and middle of the remote body, and these are not likely to be used as much as the others in a typical business setting.

Programming & Flexibility

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This remote control cannot be programmed to control other devices: it is purely for controlling this projector.

Input Ports

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The LV-8310 shows its corporate stripes in the connections it offers: there are no HDMI ports, but there are both DVI and VGA inputs. The lack of HDMI is not a big problem: you can buy an adapter that converts HDMI to DVI for a few dollars. An adapter for converting a DVI port to VGA is also included, and there is a rather unusual VGA output that allows you to connect a separate VGA display or another projector.

There are also pleanty of audio connections, with three analog audio inputs (two as 3.5mm headphone style plugs and one set of photo sockets) and an analog audio output.

The only significant issue here might be if you are trying to connect more than two computers or similar devices: if so, you'll need to add an external switching device to choose between them or swap the cables manually.

Lots of cables are included

All the ports are listed below, compared with the competition.

Other Connections

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An Ethernet port is also included that allows this projector to be connected to a LAN. An RS-232 serial port is also present that allows the projector to be controlled by an external device such as a computer or A/V system. The required codes to control the projector this way are listed in the manual.

Placement

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The ports are well placed and have a decent amount of space between them that should make it easy to insert and remove cables and connections as required.

Internet & Media Features

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The on-screen menus of this projector are fairly straightforward to use, with the options broken down into tabs for Input, Adjustment, Setup, Information and Reset. The directional controls on the projector body or on the remote control are used to navigate these menus, and the layout is logical and easy to figure out.

The projector is supplied with a printed Quick Start guide that covers the basics, but there is a more complete manual available on the CD as a PDF. This covers the more complex features of the projector (such as how to change the lamp) with a good level of detail, and is easy to read.

Noise

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The LV-8310 is a reasonably quiet projector: we measured the noise level at an average of 46 decibels in the standard mode, which is somewhat quieter than most others. This is, in part, due to the large size of the projector body. A larger size provides more area inside for the heat to be exchanged with the circulating air, so quieter fans can be used. If you don't mind loosing some brightness, the Quiet Lamp mode cuts the noise level down even further to about 41 decibels.

Heat

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In all of the image modes that the LV-8310 offers, we measured the temperature of the air exiting the projector body at a toasty 87 degrees Fahrenheit higher than the air going in. The air was no cooler with the projector in Quiet Lamp mode, but the noise of the fan was much lower, so it is presumably using a lower fan speed and a lower volume of air to cool the projector.

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Power Consumption

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The LV-8310 sucks down quite a lot of power when working; we found that it used an average of about 307 watts when running in most modes, which would cost about $60 a year if you used the projector an average of 5 hours a day. This can be reduced somewhat by using the Quiet Lamp mode: this lower brightness mode uses about 235 watts, for a typical yearly running cost of about $45.90.

We found no significant difference between most of the modes on this projector: they all used about the same amount of energy.

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Lamp Life

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Canon claims that the LV-LP31 lamp that this projector uses has a lifespan of 4000 hours in normal mode, or 5000 in Quiet Lamp mode.

The lamp of the 705HD

Value

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The Epson is the cheaper projector, priced at around $700. The LV-8310 is more expensive, at around $900

Blacks & Whites

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The Canon LV-8310 is the brighter projector which is important for use in well-lit environments. However, the difference between this and the Epson is not huge: both provide clean, bright images.

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Color

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The LV-8310 was the better performer in our color tests, with more consistent color temperature and smoother color curves. Both of these translate into smoother, more accurate color on the screen.

Motion

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Neither projector wowed us with smooth motion on the screen. The 705HD can display 120 frames a second, but it does not seem to use this to produce any smoother motion than the Canon.

Viewing Effects

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Both projectors include 1.2x zoom lenses that provide some flexibility in where the projector can be placed, but we found that the Canon offered a slightly wider range on which it could be placed to fill a particular screen size. We found that the additional lumens that the LV-8310 offers make it more able to cut through incidental lighting, but both projectors are suitable for office use with a small or medium sized screen.

Connectivity

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Both projectors offer a number of inputs, allowing for both analog and digital video sources to be connected. The Canon projector is missing a HDMI port, though; it offers a single DVI port in its place. This makes it more suitable for use with computer video sources, but you can buy an additional HDMI to DVI adapter. This is not included, but Canon does include a VGA to DVI adapter that turns the DVI port into a second VGA input.

Value

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The Viewsonic PJD6531w is the cheaper of the two projectors at about $700. However, the Canon LV-8310 is easier to use.

Blacks & Whites

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Both projectors are powerful devices that can output a lot of light. We measured the lumen output of the Viewsonic at just over 3100 and the Canon at 2500. However, the Viewsonic relies on the BrilliantColor mode to boost the brightness, which has a very adverse effect on the color accuracy of the projector.

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Color

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Both projectors had strong color performance in our tests, with the Viewsonic having more consistent whites and the Canon having smoother color curves. However, the Canon can produce brighter color, as you have to disable the BrilliantColor on the Viewsonic to get the best color accuracy.

Motion

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Both projectors produced acceptably smooth motion, although, like all DLP projectors, the Viewsonic was somewhat prone to the rainbow effect, where fast-moving objects get an occasional color fringe.

Viewing Effects

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Both projectors offer a 1.2x zoom lens, but the Canon offers a wider range of distances that it can be mounted from the projector, making it more flexible for office and other non-permanent installation use. We did find that the Viewsonic produced a slightly sharper image, though.

Connectivity

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The Viewsonic has one thing that the Canon does not: a HDMI port. This makes it easier to connect the Viewsonic to consumer electronics such as Blu-ray players. The Canon offers a DVI port in its place, which makes it easier to connect to a computer. Both projectors offer VGA and a variety of analog video and audio inputs, though.

Value

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The Optoma HD66 is the cheaper projector, priced at about $630. But it also has less projection power and lower resolution, so the extra power and resolution of the Canon might be worth the extra outlay.

Blacks & Whites

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Both projectors can bring a lot of light to play: we measured both at about 2700 lumens in their brightest mode. But both have the same issue of the modes that provide the best color accuracy are much dimmer.

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Color

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Both projectors scored well in our color tests, producing consistent whites and doing a good job of reproducing subtle color changes. These tests are carried out in our calibrated settings, which look for color performance over brightness, and both projectors produced images in this mode that are much dimmer than their brightest modes.

Motion

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Both projectors produced acceptably smooth motion, although the DLP-based Optoma HD66 was somewhat prone to producing occasional color fringes on fast moving objects (called the DLP rainbow effect)

Viewing Effects

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The Optoma HD66 has only a short range 1.1x zoom lens, which means it can only be placed within a limited range of distances to fill the screen. The Canon has a zoom lens with a longer range, which makes it more flexible for business and other non-permanent placement usage.

Connectivity

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The Canon provides a wider range and number of connections, but the Optoma does include a HDMI port, which makes it easier to connect to devices such as Blu-ray players.

Conclusion

The Canon LV-8310 is an impressive package for the business user who needs some flexibility; it provides a good number of inputs, has the power to cut through moderate amounts of light and produces good looking color. It is missing HDMI ports, though, and it is somewhat bulky compared to other projectors. So, it would be a good pick for an office projector, but the road warrior is going to need something smaller and easier to carry.

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