Save our souls! A fifty-foot-tall Natalie Portman on our living room wall! The schmaltzy but endearing chick flick Where The Heart Is is not standard fodder for home-cinema benchmarking, but what the hell, we're bored of Attack of the Clones. It's time for something heartwarming. This slow-burning drama is rich with close-ups -- the actors look universally gorgeous. The Screenplay 7205 renders flesh tones with an arresting vividness we've not seen since we stole Grandpa Crave's bifocals and stared at the sun.
In a world overrun by gadget porn, we're rarely surprised by products, but this projector didn't so much shake us awake as defibrillate us on a setting marked 'disco fever'. The 7205 is described by Screenplay as "an unparalleled HD home theatre projector" and "the finest single-chip DLP projector yet. Leaving all other home theatre projectors far behind". Not short on a sense of self-worth, are they? But who wouldn't be when your projector touches the hem of traditional 35mm cinema?
Difficult wide angles with high contrast black and white sections expose slight moire problems -- such as the scenes in which Natalie secretly lives in the sterile brilliance of Wal-Mart for a couple of months. But these problems are barely perceptible in comparison with any other DLP we've tested and probably had more to do with the limitations of our DVD source. We were overwhelmed by all other shots: close-ups did an especially convincing imitation of the 35mm cinema. Considering our source was the real-world, no-frills £20 Starlogic DVD player (the cheapest DVD player in the world) and a lowly S-video cable, results with the 7205 were nothing short of breathtaking. Expect a full review with a fancy-pants source soon. -CS
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