I own or have owned several DLPs. I have a 58" Panasonic Plasma, and several smaller LCDs. People don't seem to understand the size TV that is required to see a full 1080P from their viewing distance. I sit 14 feet away from the set. A 65" wasn't big enough, a 72" was not big enough. Heck the WD-82837 is not large enough. I really need a 100" set for my viewing distance. The big Mits is one heck of a bargain. It has great blacks, will calibrate to nearly reference levels. Do it yourself if you have the test gear or get an experience ISF certified calibrator to do it for you. I bought the Mits at my local Best Buy. There price was very good and I got a bazillion reward points.

The only other set available in this size is an 84" Panny Plasma. If you have to ask the price, forget about it.

I love this TV, but it has one tremendous weakness. You should understand what you are buying when you buy this set. You are buying a fantastic movie experience. If you have a bright sunny room and you are looking to watch a lot of weekend sports on sunny afternoons you will hate it. Well, maybe you won't hate it. But if you are demanding of accurate color, and high brightness levels at that same time out of a TV, then this set is challenged. It can make a fair amount of light, but it does so only in the "Brilliant", or "Bright" modes, which are fine for people who like the store "Torch" modes. Unfortunately these modes are far from accurate. You will need to use Advanced or Natural modes, the sets clips green, when configured in an accurate mode and you really crank the brightness.You can go accurate, or very bright, you can't have both.

This is a big set and it has the same lamp as the smaller Mits DLPs, obviously Mits had to cut a corner somewhere to sell a set this big for the price. To do both superbright, and still make highly accurate color, the set needed a higher wattage lamp. There are two lamp settings. One is Energy Star, the other is Bright. If you want to get the most out of the set, choose the Bright setting for the lamp. DLPs are economical on power consumption so you are not loosing much by setting the lamp to Bright. Don't be confused by the terminology, the lamp setting of Bright and the picture mode Bright are two different things. You can run the TV in Bright mode and the lamp mode in Bright, do that if you really need the set to put out a lot of light. The problem is that the Bright picture mode is way to blue, if you calibrate in Bright mode to make the color accurate you will end up decreasing the brightness. You can't really have both maximum brightness, and maximum accuracy.

This is not the easiest set to fully calibrate. If you want to get it very accurate on color and grayscle, and you will need to know what you are doing. For most folks that means and ISF certified tech, look on AVSForum, the best ones in the country travel. Although calibration is not a walk in the park, when it is calibrated, it looks fantastic. In theater type lighting, this set when calibrated will give you the shivers.


I have a dim living room, even with a bunch of windows. I don't watch much TV during the day. For me the weakness in terms of maximum brightness is not an issue. I bought this set for cinema. You really have to compare this TV with a front projector. Front projectors make much less light than this set does. It is a great Home Theater display and a mediocre display for sunny Sunday afternoon with all the blinds open. But if you want to see 1080P and your room does not allow you sit 8 feet away this set is the answer to a videophile's prayers.

Sure if I could have afforded the K for the 84" Panny Plasma, I would have gone that direction. My room makes a front projector impossible, and my budget means I could never afford the 84" Panny Plasma. This is the only game in town folks. It is a big TV, with a superb movie experience, and it can be bought for relative peanuts compared to the only other option, the Panny. I am very demanding on picture quality. This set can knock you out if it is set up right. I spent less than K on this set and I have a DVDO DUO Video Processor feeding it. I am using ChromaPure software and a Chroma 5 Colorimeter to calibrate it . The set, the Video Processor, and the Calibration equipment altogether was about 5 grand, there is just nothing like it for the money. My only regret about the TV is that it 100 simulate the light is too big a company is small, my hands can transfer.

Mitsubishi WD-82837 82-Inch 1080p 120Hz Home Theater DLP HDTV Features

• Smooth 120Hz Film Motion eliminates motion artifacts for smooth, crisp, fast and slow action content
• x.v.Color delivers up to 80 percent more color than standard HDTV for breathtaking realism and vivid, natural color
• Four HDMI inputs and three Component inputs; USB input for enjoying JPEG images and WMA/MP3 music files
• Displays all images at 1080p; converts lower-resolution signals with Plush 1080p 5G technology
• Energy Star 3.0 Qualified for high energy efficiency

Mitsubishi WD-82837 82-Inch 1080p 120Hz Home Theater DLP HDTV Overview

With picture perfomance that outpaces todays smaller flat panels, Mitsubishi Home Theater TVs offer a larger than life, intensely vivid viewing experience. In screen sizes ranging from 60 inches to 82 inches, Mitsubishi Home Theater TVs define the large screeen entertainment category by offering incomparable value and stronger performance than smaller flat panel televisions!



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