Introduction

Remember back a few years when projectors were 720p resolution, had modest brightness, not so great contrast, and you could spend $15,000 to get one?

Well, you can still spend that kind of money and a lot more, but it gets you a lot more too.

The buzzword now of course is 1080p and HDMI all the way. Marantz' latest donation to this category is called the VP-11S2. It has two HDMI inputs, will accept and project native 1080p, has Deep Color capability, and is built like a tank.

It is $14,999, and if you want to have the anamorphic lens so you can watch 2.35:1 movies using the entire DLP panel, you can get one of those too. Speaking of DLP panels, the VP-11S2 sports the latest Texas Instruments Dark Chip 4, and is one of the first projectors to have this chip.