I have had the HD710 for about 4 months now and you couldn't pry it away from me. It is a great bang for the buck even though I paid almost $7500 (delivered). I built a two tier viewing theater in my lower level and unless you can spend maybe three times the cost to get front projection right, you wouldn't be sorry with the HD710. I was also going to wait for a year or so, but when I saw HDTV and DVD on the 710 I couldn't have expected more. My ISF calibrator also stated it will be maybe two more years from now for Pioneer to possibly better it.
DLP projectors vs. Pio. Elite HD710
Any opinions? I just saw the new Runco Vx-1c DLP chip front projector ($18,000 list)and was amazed at its film-like quality on DVD, and blown away by the HDTV demo (from Direct TV ch.199); and it was bright! no visible pixels. On the other hand, the HD710 is oustanding too. Both have great line doublers, although the runco has a scaler and more flexibilty with aspect ratios. Screen size is obviously a difference. I will be seated about 15' from a wall screen, and about 12' from the pioneer RPTV. Ignoring price for the moment, although....the RPTV weighs 300 lbs. and costs $7500 (only $25 a pound) while the Runco weighs only 17 lbs. ($1,000 a pound!!) seriously what are the pros and cons as far as picture quality, current and future flexibilty, etc.