The good: Incredible contrast performance; exceptional sharpness; decent design; runs very quietly; excellent DVD upscaling performance.

The bad: Lack of color management features; colors could be richer; no PC input.

The bottom line: JVC's DLA-HD350 improves even further on the remarkable black level of the DLA-HD1. Couple that with its extreme sharpness plus better brightness, and you end up with a projector that is a bargain of gargantuan proportions.

The good: Exceptional color fidelity; deep black with excellent shadow detail; superb feature package; includes panel alignment and blacking; solid connectivity.

The bad: Expensive; some loss of resolution because of the scalar; MotionFlow anti-judder processing creates artifacts and makes film look more like video; no horizontal lens shift.

The bottom line: Although it certainly costs more than most of the 1080p competition, the SXRD-based Sony VPL-VW200 delivers one of the best pictures of any projector we've tested.

The good: Deep blacks for an LCD; natural-looking colors and skin tones; flexible placement; whisper quiet.

The bad: Needs proper calibration.

The bottom line: Mitsubishi's delivered a top-notch sub-S$6,000 HD projector with the HC6500. It's a noticeable improvement over its predecessors and a serious contender at this hotly contested 1080p projection price point.

The good: Reproduces deep, clean blacks with solid shadow detail; reasonably accurate color; excellent feature package including horizontal and vertical lens shift; sleek styling.

The bad: Red and green are somewhat inaccurate; zoom, focus and lens shift are manual, not electronic; not bright enough to drive very large screens.

The bottom line: Sony's VPL-HW10, the company's least expensive SXRD projector yet, proves itself a very good performer for the price, and therefore an excellent value.

The good: Clean, film-like and smooth pictures; accurate primary and natural colors; unique swivel stand; handy touchlight remote; three 1080p24-enabled inputs.

The bad: Black crash; noisy even at low power; chassis lacks onboard controls; no lens cover; a bit chunky.

The bottom line: The InFocus IN83 works beautifully out-of-the-box, delivering smooth, rich pictures. That said, it fails to sizzle, plagued by mild black crush despite a new DarkChip4 engine.