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D-ILA1080MF2 Digital Projector

Meridian’s compact, powerful D-ILA1080MF2 Digital Projector takes high performance theatre to a new level, with true 3-chip performance. The 1920x1080p D-ILA-based display delivers a native resolution equal to full bandwidth High Definition, allowing the beauty and drama of the original source to be reproduced with stunning accuracy.

Each projector is ‘Optimized by William Phelps™’ in our UK factory using proprietary firmware, techniques and optical equipment developed by video expert William Phelps, to offer improved contrast ratio, excellent shadow detail and film-accurate colour.

Step up to Full Spec High Definition! Now all your video sources can look simply incredible, with sparkling colour, breathtaking clarity and film-like smoothness.

The D-ILA1080MF2 is available as a complete projector/processor package including the powerful DVP1080MF Digital Video Processor to convert all analogue and digital high definition and standard definition sources to the native 1920x1080p resolution of the projector.

The processor incorporates the entire suite of Faroudja’s patented technologies for colour reproduction, detail enhancement and motion tracking, ensuring that all sources produce film-like images full of depth and vibrant power.

The processor/projector package offers a unique combination of power, performance and flexibility that makes the ideal heart of a Meridian/Faroudja ‘higher definition’ sound and vision system.

Superior colour performance

The optical engine produces rich, natural colours with smooth gradations and low noise. White field uniformity is tuned to near perfect, providing optimal cinema-style reproduction consistently from projector to projector. D-ILA also offers a uniform response, irrespective of brightness, displaying a wide range of intermediate tones.

D65 colour temperature

Reference standard D65 colour temperature ensures accurate colour reproduction of video and film originated programming. D65 performance and dynamic range is adjusted by an illumination system with RGB-optimised f-numbers. The colour gamut of D-ILA (see illustration below) is greater than that of any current television standard, ensuring accurate reproduction of virtually any programme material.

Professional-standard greyscale reproduction

Analogue Gradation technology produces highly accurate shades with low noise, particularly in darker areas with less than 20% brightness. The quality of greyscale reproduction is further enhanced by a constant, high 2500:1 contrast ratio that ensures high-precision, high-quality pictures even when the on-screen image is dark.

In addition, D-ILA technology reproduces blacks that are truly black, and there is impressively accurate rendering of shadow detail.

‘Optimized by William Phelps’

To remove the guesswork from projector installation, each unit is individually precision-tuned and calibrated in our UK factory using technology, techniques and expertise developed exclusively by world-renowned video expert William Phelps. To take just one example: conventional calibration simply aligns a projector’s white reference to a given colour temperature. However, colour temperature, surprisingly, does not tell you how accurate the colour rendering is. Only one point in the colour measurement coordinate system (D65) is actually correct - and our projectors are calibrated specifically to that point. This, and the many other processes that make up a full William Phelps projector optimisation procedure, take several hours of painstaking work to perform – something that no other manufacturers can afford to do. Yes, this does increase the price of our projectors – but placed side by side, the difference is more than obvious: it’s unmistakable.

The optimisation process provides accurate colour temperature and Gamma tracking (see above), while the white field uniformity (above) is superbly aligned for virtually zero deviation for an extraordinarily wide range of luminance values.

Optional Digital Video Processor

The 1080MF1 projector has no internal scaling and is optionally available as a package with a powerful Meridian Faroudja digital video processor specially-designed and matched to the projector, the DVP1080MF that can be connected to a variety of video signals including 480i and 576i SD signals as well as 480p, 576p, 720p, 1080i and 1080p HD sources via composite, S-Video, progressive analogue and DVI inputs.

The processor features Faroudja’s advanced motion adaptive de-interlacing with DCDi and 3:2 pull-down technology to ensure error-free progressive-scan signals. Faroudja colour matrixing provides accurate colour profiles for PAL, NTSC and HDTV, allowing the processor to up-convert standard analogue and digital video inputs to a high-resolution, fully HDCP-compliant digital signal that can be transmitted via the DVI-D connector to the projector.

The processor also allows detailed video adjustments to suit viewer preferences, and custom user-defined configuration profiles can be established, saved and recalled at will to address an extensive range of operating requirements.

Summary

• D-ILA 3-chip 1920x1080 resolution display engine

• Separate Gamma curves for SD and HD sources

• 2100:1 contrast ratio

• Light output 500 lumens typical

• Very small pixel spacing (pixel aperture) • High precision imaging Look-Up-Tables (LUT)

• ‘Optimized by William Phelps’ utilising proprietary software and optical equipment in our UK factory

• D65 colour balance calibrated to 128 levels of white

• D65 calibration error less than .003 from 0-100IRE

• Exact gamma curve based on light characteristics of human eyesight, film and the projector

• Improved contrast ratio with excellent shadow detail

• Superior White Field uniformity

• Excellent lens optics for corner-to-corner focus

• 1.3x zoom lens (1:8–2.35:1, manual zoom and focus)

• 250 watt, NSH bulb for accurate and stable output, replaceable without de-mounting the projector

• Optional DVP1080MF digital video processor converts all SD/HD sources to 1920x1080 DVI

• DVI input

• HDCP compatible

Technical Specification

Model: Meridian Faroudja D-ILA1080MF2 Home Theatre Projector

Imaging Device: 3-chip D-ILA® (0.82-inch diagonal)

Aspect Ratio: 16:9

Screen size/Throw: 40in to 200in (16:9)/1.6m to 10.5m (16:9)

Resolution: 1920 x 1080 pixels (16:9) x 3 chips

Total resolution: Approx. 6,220,000 pixels

Projection Lens: 1.3x zoom lens (1.8:1 - 2.35:1, manual zoom/manual focus, 50% offset). Wide conversion lens attachment option

Light-source: 250 W Ultra-high pressure mercury lamp [Part No. BHL5006-S]

Contrast Ratio: 2100:1

Colour Temperature: D65/user selectable 1/user selectable 2

Gamma Control: Normal, A, B, and Custom

Video Input: Digital x1 (HDCP compatible DVI-D) Serial

Control: RS-232C x1

Power Input: 100V-240V AC, 50/60Hz

Rated Power: 3.5 A (100 V AC) – 1.4 A (240V AC)

Dimensions: (W x H x D) 11¾in x 5¼in 14-3/16in (298 x 134 x 360mm) without protrusions

Weight: 13.66 lbs (6.2kg)

User Manual

Data Sheet

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