Top Gun Maverick, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Thor: Love and Thunder offered further proof of this system's superiority. Once we got to 4K movie clips, the gap between the Eclipse and all other projectors at the show became clearer. Even JVC’s impressive NZ9, renowned for its 100,000:1 contrast, could not keep up (and is much more limited in light output). I waited until the end of day two at CEDIA to experience the demo, so I’d already seen some other great projectors, including Sony’s VPL-GTZ380, an $80,000 light canon, as well as a demo featuring a Barco commercial projector that simply could not compete on black levels, which really held it back in comparison. It’s just there, on the screen, and everything around it is pitch black. Something as simple as white text on a black background immediately reveals how the Eclipse operates in a different league. According to Christe, the Eclipse achieves a 20,000,000:1 contrast ratio. The result is a viewing experience that definitively surpasses anything I have seen come from a projector. Unlike an LED video wall, this system’s output always looks seamless and the screen itself is acoustically transparent. Plus, this projector reproduces the full rec.2020 gamut without a hint of laser speckle. This is what makes OLED-like contrast possible. This is achieved with a unique three-chip DLP, native 4K design that uses a secondary 3-chip block with the sole purpose of modulating (dimming) the light output. The visual impact is thanks to the Eclipse’s unique ability to render pure black on a pixel-by-pixel basis, without having to dim the light source. This is the first time the Eclipse has been demonstrated at a trade show. It is a technological wonder, a 4K system that offers the visual impact of an OLED TV at the large screen sizes home theater demands. The Christie Eclipse demo by Absolute Ultimate AV has set the standard by which I will judge all other projection-based systems. In a show where it’s easy to become jaded by the impressive home theater AV systems found in the demo rooms, one audition stood above all the rest.
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