<p>This affordable Full HD beamer combines gaming-friendly speed with Darbee&#39;s real-time postprocessing. The result has <strong>John Archer</strong> impressed enough to dig out his PlayStation controller.</p>

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THE RULES OF home cinema technology are made, it seems, to be broken. Take for instance the Optoma GT1080Darbee projector. This DLP PJ claims to be both a great display for video gaming and the proud owner of an unusually powerful picture processing system – two features which experience and logic dictates make extremely bad bedfellows. Yet somehow the £780 GT1080Darbee makes it work.

You’d wouldn't guess at its ground-breaking nature from just looking at it, though. It’s small, light and features some pretty rudimentary build quality. A glossy top panel and elevated lens barrel give it a modicum of cuteness, and it’s well connected with twin HDMIs and a powered USB port that opens the way to using devices such as Google Chromecast, or Optoma’s own optional wireless video transmission system. Overall, though, it doesn’t manage to stand out from the sub-£1,000 projector crowd.

The clue to where the GT1080Darbee does stand out from its peers lies in the Darbee part of its name, as this refers to something seldom found on any affordable projector: a sophisticated video processing engine.

Neuro-bio-what-ic?

When it comes to projectors, the DarbeeVision Visual Presence processing system is currently exclusive to Optoma. We're told it's the result of third-party research into how you can use neuro-biologic algorithms to make pictures look sharper, more contrast-rich and more three-dimensional without introducing any hardware changes. Owners of D-suffixed

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