SIM2, the Italian manufacturer whose striking high performance HD home theatre projectors are known worldwide for their pristine video and dramatic cabinet designs, has introduced the exciting next generation design of the award winning Grand Cinema C3X projector. SIM2 C3X1080 integrates benchmark quality 1080p video display with the functions and features required to power today’s sophisticated home theatres, all within the dramatic industrial design for which SIM2 is justly famous.
In 2005, the original C3X model revolutionised the home theatre market. For 2007, SIM2 is taking the C3X concept to the next performance level. The new C3X1080, as its name suggests, is a full HD 1080p projector, but shares the same compact form factor as the original.
In the best SIM2 tradition, the 43cm square, 10kg C3X1080 is housed in a stunning, high-gloss sculpted cabinet designed by Giorgio Revoldini with the company’s trademark flowing lines. Revoldini, who has designed several SIM2 models, has received several prestigious international industrial design awards, including a 2006 Good Design medal – a coveted award in industrial and graphic design administered by the Chicago Athenaeum.
Although diminutive in size, the C3X1080 conceals truly powerful abilities and a great deal of technology. The projector is based on a trio of the latest DarkChip4™, 0.95-inch, 1080p DLP® chipsets from Texas Instruments. The three-chip SIM2 design further exploits improved optics in SIM2’s proprietary ALPHAPATH™ light engine to form a system able to deliver full-HD, 1920x1080 progressive video of stunning clarity and definition. The combination’s superb contrast (=10,000:1, typically) matches its impressive colour depth and remarkable brightness capability, for a net result of breathtaking, almost three-dimensional picture performance from high quality source material.
With the C3X1080, SIM2 has created more than a mere reference grade projector. Full depth 10-bit video processing, with HD scaling and de-interlacing capabilities, maintains 1080p/24fps full-HD purity under actual content playback conditions, and does much to upgrade the delivered perceived quality of lesser formats. What’s more, SIM2’s newly developed advanced colour management software is available to permit installers and calibrators to precisely match each projector to its home theatre environment. SIM2’s software allows near total control over colour and white-point coordinates, gamma correction and more for unprecedented power to refine and improve real world installed performance.
The latest SIM2 achievement incorporates the functions and features demanded by custom theatre designers and installers. The C3X1080 delivers two selectable HDMI inputs (both fully HDCP compliant), as well as inputs for Component, S- and Composite-video, and an RGB connection. Both RS232 serial and USB ports are included to ease connectivity for control and software/firmware communications. Even twin 12-volt trigger outputs are on board for total flexibility of installation and control.
The C3X1080 is available now from selected SIM2 specialist dealers. Released Date: 19/02/08 |