Samsung SP-A600

Samsung SP-A600 Projector Review

Six months or so ago, a new 1080p projector with a list price of under $2000 would have easily qualified as an "entry level" 1080p projector. By the time the Samung SP-A600 hits the streets in September, from a pricing standpoint we are just starting to see the first under $1000 1080p home theater projectors. The SP-A600 is a bit of a departure from Samsung's reputation for home theater projectors. Samsung has been best known for their more expensive SP-A800, SP-A700 and before them, eariler models that offered rather excellent color and image accuracy. Those higher end projectors have been limited distribution, and were targeted at purists. It's been a while since we reviewed a Samsung home theater projector. The last one really did have a great image from a color standpoint, but for it's high price, it came up really short in terms of black level performance. The Samsung SP-A600, is a very typical lower cost 1080p DLP projector, complete with lots of brightness in best picture mode, very typical black levels, that can't compete with the more expensive - what I call "ultra-high contrast" projectors.