Out of white plastic, the case of Nec NP216G weighs 2,6 kg and its size remains traditional for a videoprojector of living room. Its remote control is complete, offers all the short cuts of rigour and a total control of the apparatus, but it is not backlighted, a detail far from being futile for a videoprojector who often turns in a dark part.
A good luminosity which falls in 3D
We made our tests with the adjustments by defect in native definition: 1 024 X 768 pixels. Placed at two meters of the fabric, the focal distance of the apparatus posted an image of 131 cm diagonal with an optical zoom regulated to the maximum. No the surprise, it is a traditional dimension for this type of videoprojector at low prices.
In mode 2D (60 Hz), the NP216G posts a good luminosity of 555 cd/m ² by defect. It falls on the other hand to 230 cd/m ² in mode 3D (120 Hz), which also strongly makes fall its rate of contrast. Indeed, whatever the luminosity of the white, the projector posts blacks an identical depth. Blow, the good rate of contrast of 1787:1 in 2D mode to 60 Hz crumbles with less of 800:1 in mode 3D to 120 Hz.
It is a phenomenon which we met with two other projectors 3D that we tested: Acer H5360, and the HD67N of Optoma (of which the test will appear in the next days). We observed a strong fall of luminosity on the projector Acer H5360 after a few tens of hours of use. The luminosity in 2D passed from 563 to 336 cd/m ², and the rate of contrast thus fell of 1941 with 1792:1. The fidelity and the stability of the gray also underwent variations, but without gravity. In the same way, we will test Nec NP216G (which was new during our first test) after several hours of use to check what it is.
A posting 3D without phantom defect of image
We obviously tested the NP216G with a 3D solution Vision of Nvidia (Geforce GTX 260, glasses active and pod USB Nvidia). The result is with the image of that of which technology of posting DLP is able: one made 3D active of very good quality, which does not suffer from any perceptible phantom image. The 3D is thus posted without defect, in large size, and gets excellent feelings in the black, without disturbing elements nor reflections. It is not the case of all televisions LCD 3D, which suffer sometimes from a light unfolding of the image on certain zones.
One however regrets the reduction in the luminosity implied by posting in 120 Hz. The image lacks contrast and the colors are a little insipid. It's a pity that the projector does not ensure either a native posting in 720p, with a format 16:9 which gives well in the video games. One regrets blow the absence of entry HDMI and thus of DRM HDCP, which makes impossible the reading of Blu-ray 3D on the NP216G.
In short, the NP216G is not a bad projector, it just starts to be done a little old-fashioned. Its first version left a long time ago now. It can miser on its sufficiently low price to still make of him a good solution 3D large size of line entry, which would then remain interesting for those which want to benefit from a good immersion 3D without ruining itself.
