This Projector Costs As Much As A BMW M5

What would you rather spend your $85,000 on?

…s Guillermo Lemus placed the projector
on a stand, ran the intake tube to one side
of the room, and ran the exhaust tube out my
back door so as not to heat the room.
Wolf Cinema technicians had already calibrated
the projector for a 1.0 gain screen such as the
108-inch, 2.35:1 Stewart Filmscreen StudioTek
100 that I use. Lemus set up several picture
memories for me: aspect ratios of 1.78:1 (HDTV),
1.85:1 (standard widescreen movies), 2.2:1 (an
old 70mm standard), 2.35:1 (CinemaScope), and
2.40:1 (Panavision). After that, there was little
for me to do but set contrast and brightness.
For a room like mine, Wolf Cinema would usually
recommend the $65,000 DCX-500i, which is intended
for screens between 8 and 11 feet wide.
The DCX-1000i is recommended for screens between
11 and 15 feet, and the DCX-1500i for
screens measuring 15 to 20 feet.
A few minutes of experimentation showed me
that the DCX-1000i produced far more brightness
than I could use. For most of my…

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This Projector Costs As Much As A BMW M5

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