Samsung SP-A800B

The Samsung SP-A800B projector has gotten the Hollywood touch. Joe Kane, the man behind the Video Essentials DVD, has tuned the colour settings and it's a masterstroke, as the A800B produces the most outstandingly authentic colour tones we've se...

Impressive detailing; pitch-perfect colours; exceptionally quiet runner; good price

Visible DLP rainbow effect; lack of depth in black levels; slightly blurred motion

It's clear that Samsung has nurtured the A800B into being with plenty of love and devotion, even going so far as to call in a renowned picture quality expert to help them 'tune' its colour performance for movies. But although the A800B cert...

The adjustable front feet make it easier to straighten the image when the Samsung is destop-mounted

Impressive styling; Excellent colour and greyscale rendition; Calibration-friendly

Black levels could be better; No provision for keystone correction

Setting up the projector is straightforward. Samsung states that the SP-A800B has been 'designed to show images optimally on a 100-120in screen' - and funnily enough, my Unity-gain One fitted the bill nicely

Samsung's second HD projector is good, but there's still room for improvement.

There's a lot to like about Samsung's A800B. The brand's connection with Joe Kane has certainly helped the projector stand out from the pack in the shadow detail and colour tone departments, and the design is both practical (in that it's terrifically quie...

Samsung SP-A800B 1080P Projector : Samsung Electronics, a global leader in consumer electronics and digital technology, introduces two home theater projector models at IFA 2007, announcing the active participation in projector market. Samsungs' new Projec...

Samsung's flagship one-chip DLP-based home theater projector, the SP-A800B, takes accuracy of signal reproduction to a new level. My previous reference projector, the Samsung SP-H710AE, was designed by Joe Kane, and that well-known video guru and author o...

Extremely accurate color including spot-on color decoding for both SD and HD, nearly perfect primary colors, and linear grayscale tracking; superb black level and shadow detail performance; plenty of light output; excellent lens; solid feature package wit...

No horizontal lens shift.

The Samsung SP-A800B outperforms every projector in its class hands-down, and competes favorably with the three-chip DLP units that cost three times as much.

Samsung has an unusual history with high-definition video projectors. Its most recent 720p DLP model, designed in consultation with video expert Joe Kane, was superb, even standard-setting in many important respects. But dealers were rare, and worse, the

Nearly flawless color, Outstanding resolution, Unique, and accurate, calibration procedure

Black levels are adequate, but short of the best, Video processing, both SD and HD, could be better

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Samsung invests market Home Theater projectors with two models including a full HD 1080p, the SP-A800B.

-- Compatibility 1080/24p-compatible - Connectics complete - A foot promising Joe Kane

-- We expect to see ...