One of the most barren models feature-wise that we looked at (and only dubiously beating the Sony VPL-ES1 and the Sanyo PLC-SW30 which took the bottom honours), the Hitachi CPS210 certainly made up for it when it came time to undergo our strenuous testing regime.
We’re happy to report that the Hitachi took top honours overall, beating the more feature laden models, and even our Labs Winner and Recommended projectors. It had perfect scores for DVD playback and text readability, and its colour and greyscale scoresheet reads like the kind of report I wish I had gotten when I was in high school. This is even though it has an extremely low 300:1 contrast ratio.
With excellent performance and decent pricing, only its low features score drags the CPS210 to the very, very middle of the pack overall.