Toshiba TDP-MT700 review

Verdict:

Review Date: 17 Mar 2006

Price when reviewed: inc VAT

Reviewed By: Lynley Oram

Our Rating 3 stars out of 5

Review
Specs

Like BenQ's PE7700, the Toshiba TDP-MT700 uses the latest DLP chip, and produces excellent contrast with more detail in darker areas.

Its brightness rating of 1,000 ANSI lumens is the lowest in the group, though, so it needs quite a dark room to project a decent picture.

The TDP-MT700's industrial design won't appeal to everyone - it looks big and boxy. There's an HDMI port on the rear for connecting to a computer or High Definition source, along with two component inputs and the usual S-video and composite connections. There is no SCART socket. The TDP-MT700 has a six-segment colour wheel, which helped its performance in our tests. The colour transitions in our colour wheel test were nearly perfect, and rainbow effects were barely noticeable.

It performed well in our video signal processing tests; only the BenQ PE7700 produced better scores. Even with the sharpness set to zero it produced highly detailed images. Adjusting this setting sharpened the smaller details and resulted in clear, crisp text. The TDP-MT700 trailed slightly behind the BenQ in two other areas: it isn't quite as bright, and it doesn't create quite as large an image at 2m, producing a 177cm picture compared with the BenQ's 203cm.

The TDP-MT700 produces a great picture, but it's slightly inferior to the cheaper BenQ PE7700. All three other home cinema projectors are better and cheaper. We recommend that you save yourself the best part of £700 and buy Panasonic's PT-AE900E instead

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