Del Atenas audio video show.

I went today to the athens audio video show,and i saw the hs 50 for about 30 mins.
first of all the room was very dark,and the chairs provided were at approx 1.5 to 2 times the screen width away from the projected image.
it was roof-mounted,shooting at a fixed stewart firehawk with a gain of 1.35 and an aprox. size of 120in dia.
dvd player was a sony 999 feeding via component to the hs50 a progresive pal signal(576p)
the movie was hulk in pal.
my impressions are:
1.contrast: out of this world for an lcd and to my eyes as good as any hd2 dlp unit
2.black level:as above
3.colours were excellent vivid,faces looked alive,eyes of the actors the same.
4.brighteness:adequate for what we were watching,dont forget thought the 1.35gain.
5.screen door:better than say an hs20 but more than say a ptae700.i had to go at less than 2 meters away to start noticing it.of no importance whatsoever i would say given the fact that nobody watches movies so close to the screen.
6.noise:what noise ?inaudible operation way better than an hs20 or a ptae500.
7.vertical banding:i m warning u that i m very very sensitive to vb(my best friend has a ptae500 and it is horrible in that sense)but thanks god there was none!i say again none.we were trying (3 of us)to find it but to no avail there was none.
8.auto iris opening and closing:never bothered me,did not notice it.
i have never purchased a sony product and i m in noway a sony fun BUT with that projector they blew me away.
needles to say that i will buy that pj by next month.just for comparison i will mention that i also saw the benq8700+,the panny700,and the sim300 with a hd2+ and a price in greece 3.5 times that of the sony.
the benq had rainbows flying all over the place and really bad colors
the pt700 had vb in the same amount the 500 has
the sim is an excellent piece of equipment with no flaws no rainbow,but at a forbidden price.
and to close was there something that i did not like about the sony?image quality-wise i would not ask for nothing more even if it was costing 2times what it is,but to be fair i would like a longer throw lens,and in a sense a less digital like appearance of the projected image more towards the film like quality u get when u watch a movie with a dila jvc.