If you sit here and tell me the Ruby is better then what Meridian/Faroudja offers , you must smoking some highend dope. I guess you're selling Rubys for a living.
I'm not selling Rubies for a living, I'm just interested in the best possible quality at whatever price. I've put alot of work into the Ruby to make it look as good as possible. Shading withing 1%, custom gamma curves, changed the way the iris works, corrected primaries and so on and so on.
Performance wise, it's the best up to a certain screensize. I'd say 10' wide scope with an ISCO III lens works perfectly. I've also had several demos of the HD10k and the Meridian and they're just not as good as an optimized Ruby. Out of the box without touching it is another story. You should really put these projectors side by side and compare with the right material. I'm usually using my broadcast HD master of 5th Element since the colors are so nice.
The Meridian package alone is useless to me, I'm a videophile just as much as I'm an audiophile and anything that will not do 48Hz is absolutely useless for me. So you at least have to match the headpiece with some processor that provides 1080p48. Meridian is well aware of this issue, as I've talked to them before and they even see my point but they just can't offer it at this time.
I've used 1080p for many years now, with 9" CRT. The Qualia was the first digital projector that really impressed me and I could live with. After that came the Ruby that even improved the Qualia (closer to CRT on/off CR again).
Of course I'm far away from what I really want, ideally I'd like to have a 3-chip (can't stand 1-chip artifacts) projector that gives me 10000:1 native and is bright enough for a 25' wide scope screen. Guess I'll never get that...
Perfection is not availble, so I have to take the best I can get. Of course once something better is availble, I'll replace whatever I have now. The new DPI 3-chip 1080p DLPs look very nice and I'd like a closer look. At 5000:1 and 2500 ansi lumens, they're not bad and the price of $42k is fair (street will probably be around $35k). It's definitely something I'll check out soon.
Oh and btw... Mark, if you're reading this. This might be the projector for you. Wouldn't put much money into a 1-chip anymore.
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