Comments Planar Xscreen Monaco 80 - TV - review

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While the compromises I mentioned at the end of the review might be enough for a real movie purist to dismiss the Xscreen Monaco 80, that doesn't alter the fact that it is, in my opinion, a work of genuine genius. It delivers on its revolutionary ambient-light-use claims spectacularly well, and looks divine into the bargain. I guess another potential stumbling block could be the Monaco 80's price; at £1,400 (or £2,300 with a scaler and TV tuner) it's hardly cheap by 80in projection screen standards. But even here, if you consider how its ‘daytime' design opens up the possibility of the screen in conjunction with a projector becoming a genuine replacement for your TV, the price suddenly doesn't look so bad. After all, couple an 80in Monaco with, say, the superb InFocus IN78 projector, and you're looking at a total spend of £2,900 (or £3.8k with the optional media box) - a price which actually compares very favourably indeed with what you'd currently have to pay for an 80in plasma or LCD TV.

Overall

8/10

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Reviewed by John Archer

17 May 2008

Price as reviewed

£1,400.00

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