This excellent contrast performance gives the 110's pictures enormous depth too, and plays a part in serving up a magnificently rich, overwhelmingly solid colour palette. What's more, provided you're careful with your colour temperature settings, this palette is sublimely natural in tone, genuinely giving Barco's esteemed CRT models a run for their money in this key department.

The combination of brightness and contrast on the 110 means that it often has to handle some extreme edge contrasts - but it does so flawlessly, without a trace of ringing, ghosting, tizzing, jaggedness or over-emphasis, especially if you use the DVI input.

The 110 also proves supremely talented with fine details, bringing out the most minute texture from a well-mastered DVD with ease.

The longer I watched the 110 in action, the more I started to appreciate the astounding cleanliness of its pictures. Noise of any sort is nonexistent, opening the door to a full appreciation of just how much the three-chip design brings to the party by doing away with single-chip models' colour wheel induced rainbow effect and dithering problems.

It goes without saying that the 110 looks magical with high-definition footage. For me, it's actually a greater testament to the 110's confidence and class that it's willing to pull out all the stops even with lower quality sources. If this Barco had any weaknesses in its video processing, sources like that would show them up. But it doesn't, so they don't.

The only minor disappointment I felt with the Cineversum 110 is that even after an outlay of more than £20,000, it still can't get past the gentle green dotty noise DLP projectors show over really dark parts of the picture. But perhaps it's not fair to pull the 110 up for a currently universal DLP problem.

The Cineversum joins similarly specified three-chip models from the likes of Sim2, Marantz and InFocus, as a landmark projection device. It reveals all the filmic joys three-chip DLP has to offer - and at the same time shows us that finally trusty CRT has met its match when it comes to high-end projection.