JVC Projector Owner’s Thread

[Gmoney]

Your projector was hit by lighting? Nothing else was taken out by that hit? Or that's what you told the wifey.

 

[cgarlock]

Your projector was hit by lighting? Nothing else was taken out by that hit? Or that's what you told the wifey.

No the neighbors house was struck directly but the static discharge fried about $17k worth of gear in my house.

 

[Gmoney]

No the neighbors house was struck directly but the static discharge fried about $17k worth of gear in my house.

Hope your homeowners policy covered.

 

[cgarlock]

Hope your homeowners policy covered.

Most but not all, electronics depreciate the most.

 

[The Dukester]

I have one just waiting for me to finish my theater. Slow going working by myself. Well, a little help from my wife...and a lot of understanding while I'm upstairs working most every nite when I get home and on the weekends. Gotta get'r done!
I had a RS2 a good while back and then had a Planar 8150. The Planar is a really good DLP for it's time but the RS2000 obviously smokes it.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

I have one just waiting for me to finish my theater. Slow going working by myself. Well, a little help from my wife...and a lot of understanding while I'm upstairs working most every nite when I get home and on the weekends. Gotta get'r done!
I had a RS2 a good while back and then had a Planar 8150. The Planar is a really good DLP for it's time but the RS2000 obviously smokes it.

Looking great. Looking forward to seeing your HT room gradually progress.

The RS2000/NX7 is an awesome projector for sure!

 

[cgarlock]

I've now had the chance to watch a few movies on the NX5. It even looks good on 720p material, no joke at all.

I've found that I prefer NATURAL setting with no image processing at all. There is just great native contrast that these JVC units have. The image looks very crisp and shall I say "natural".

I can completely control the light in the HT room so I run the lamp in LOW mode and it's still very bright.

My impressions so far do not include any 4K material as I don't have a source yet so it's all been 1080 and 720 but it's night and day from the Panasonic.

I also should add that I'm not employing an exotic, overpriced screen either. It's a simple 1.1 gain Silver Ticket from Amazon.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

I've now had the chance to watch a few movies on the NX5. It even looks good on 720p material, no joke at all.

I've found that I prefer NATURAL setting with no image processing at all. There is just great native contrast that these JVC units have. The image looks very crisp and shall I say "natural".

I can completely control the light in the HT room so I run the lamp in LOW mode and it's still very bright.

My impressions so far do not include any 4K material as I don't have a source yet so it's all been 1080 and 720 but it's night and day from the Panasonic.

I also should add that I'm not employing an exotic, overpriced screen either. It's a simple 1.1 gain Silver Ticket from Amazon.

“Night and day” improvement is right.

Now I find myself rewatching everything.

Tonight, it’s “Rambo First Blood” 4K DTS-HDMA .

 

[cgarlock]

“Night and day” improvement is right.

Now I find myself rewatching everything.

Tonight, it’s “Rambo First Blood” 4K DTS-HDMA .

I must put that on my list!

 

[The Dukester]

If you don't have one already you should look into a Panny UB820 BD player. The new JVC's are optimized to work with them on tone mapping HDR discs. I plan on picking one up to go with mine.
Unless, of course, you are using Madvr or a Lumagen.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

I must put that on my list!

Well, the picture quality of “Rambo First Blood” looked great for an old film, as expected from the JVC.

But the Sound quality of “First Blood” sucked.

Get these (not in any order):

1. Pacific Rim 2013 4K Atmos
2. Blade Runner 2049 2017 4K Atmos (among the best)
3. Cloverfield Paradox 2018 Atmos
4. The Equalizer 2014 Atmos
5. The Great Wall 2016 4K Atmos
6. Hunter Killer 2018 4K Atmos
7. The Matrix Trilogy 1999, 2003, 2003 4K Atmos
8. Oblivion 2013 4K Atmos
9. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies 2016 4K Atmos
10. Salt 2010 Atmos
11. Sully 2016 4K Atmos
12. Twilight 2008 4K Atmos
13. Underworld 2003 4K Atmos
14. Underworld Blood Wars 4K 2016 Atmos
15. Atomic Blonde 2017 4K DTSX
16. Harry Potter franchise (8 movies) 2001-2011 4K DTSX
17. Black Hawk Down 2001 4K Atmos
18. 13 Hours 2016 4K Atmos
19. Gravity 2013 Atmos
20. Ready Player One 2018 4K Atmos
21. Robin Hood 2018 4K Atmos
22. Jurassic World 4K DTSX
23. Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom 4K DTSX
24. Terminator Genisys 4K Atmos
25. Alita Battle Angel 2019 4K Atmos
26. Pet Sematary (2019) 4K Atmos
27. Blade Runner 1982 4K Atmos (among the best)
28. Godzilla King of the Monsters 2019 4K Atmos (among the best)

 

[cgarlock]

Well, the picture quality of “Rambo First Blood” looked great for an old film, as expected from the JVC.

But the Sound quality of “First Blood” sucked.

Get these (not in any order):

1. Pacific Rim 2013 Atmos
2. Blade Runner 2049 2017 4K Atmos (among the best)
3. Cloverfield Paradox 2018 Atmos
4. The Equalizer 2014 Atmos
5. The Great Wall 2016 Atmos
6. Hunter Killer 2018 Atmos
7. The Matrix Trilogy 1999, 2003, 2003 4K Atmos
8. Oblivion 2013 Atmos
9. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies 2016 Atmos
10. Salt 2010 Atmos
11. Sully 2016 Atmos
12. Twilight 2008 Atmos
13. Underworld 2003 Atmos
14. Underworld Blood Wars 2016 Atmos
15. Atomic Blonde 2017 DTSX
16. Harry Potter franchise (8 movies) 2001-2011 4K DTSX
17. Black Hawk Down 2001 4K Atmos
18. 13 Hours 2016 4K Atmos
19. Gravity 2013 Atmos
20. Ready Player One 2018 Atmos
21. Robin Hood 2018 Atmos
22. Jurassic World 4K DTSX
23. Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom 4K DTSX
24. Terminator Genisys 4K Atmos
25. Alita Battle Angel 2019 4K Atmos
26. Pet Sematary (2019) 4K Atmos
27. Blade Runner 1982 4K Atmos (among the best)
28. Godzilla King of the Monsters 2019 4K Atmos (among the best)

So have all these titles been re released in Atmos?

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

So have all these titles been re released in Atmos?

Most are in Atmos, a few are in DTSX. Most are available on 4K also.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

I just learned something last night - there’s always something.

You know how many older movies are shot in 70mm (Ben-Hur, Sound of Music, 2001 Space Odyssey) and 35mm analog films?

Some of the newer movies (Interstellar, Inception, Dunkirk, Dark Knight Trilogy, Hobbit Trilogy) are also shot on 70mm analog films.

I was wondering if 35mm and 70mm are equivalent to 4K.

It turns out 35mm is equivalent to 4K and 70mm is equivalent to 12K!

So all those 70mm analog films are equivalent to 12K and they are basically downscale to 4K BluRay.

 

[cgarlock]

That is very interesting!

I had my neighbor come over last night and did a little test drive with someone who has no bias.

He was blown away at the image quality of only 1080 material. The real kicker for him was when we threw in Avatar. When we were an hour in to it he turned to me and said the picture is so good I forgot it was CGI until they came out of the avatar bodies.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

That is very interesting!

I had my neighbor come over last night and did a little test drive with someone who has no bias.

He was blown away at the image quality of only 1080 material. The real kicker for him was when we threw in Avatar. When we were an hour in to it he turned to me and said the picture is so good I forgot it was CGI until they came out of the avatar bodies.

My wife had some friends over and we watched a regular 1080p movie from the PC. They were like “Wow look at the 4K HDR detail and clarity, it’s stunning!”.

I didn’t tell them the movie was 1080p.

 

[DigitalDawn]

Also interesting, is that over 70% of films shot since the mid 70's are Cinemascope widescreen.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

Also interesting, is that over 70% of films shot since the mid 70's are Cinemascope widescreen.

If these Cinemascope movies are shot on 70mm (12K) films or 8K Digital, I can forgive them.

But if they are just on 35mm (4K) or on 4K or 2K, then I hate them.

 

[cgarlock]

Now we are going to start a trend where we rate movies based on 35mm or 70mm LOL.

Well, that's how good these projectors are so we need to feed them the best resolution!!!

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

Now we are going to start a trend where we rate movies based on 35mm or 70mm LOL.

Well, that's how good these projectors are so we need to feed them the best resolution!!!

Oh you know I’m looking for these super high resolution films!

65/70mm Analog Film
Ben-Hur 1959
The Sound of Music 1965
2001 A Space Odyssey 1968
The Dark Knight 2008
Inception 2010
M. Impossible Ghost Protocol 2011
The Dark Knight Rises 2012
Star Trek Into Darkness 2013
Lucy 2014
Interstellar 2014
Dunkirk 2017
Tenet 2020
No Time to Die 2020
Top Gun Maverick 2020
Wonder Woman 1984 2020

Panavision DXL 8K Digital Camera
Mission Impossible Fallout 2018

RED DSMC2 8K Digital Camera
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 2017
Captain Marvel 2019

ARRI ALEXA 65 6.5K Digital Camera
Avengers Infinity War 2018
Avengers Endgame 2019
War for the Planet of the Apes 2017
Transformers The Last Knight 2017
Assassin's Creed 2016
Rogue One 2016
Captain America Civil War 2016
The Revenant 2015
Allegiant 2016
The Huntsman Winter's War 2016
Doctor Strange 2016
Ghost in the Shell 2017
Thor Ragnarok 2017
Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom 2018
Godzilla King of the Monsters 2019

RED DSMC2 6K Digital Camera
Underworld Blood Wars 2016
Geostorm 2017

ARRI ALEXA 5.1K Digital Camera
Justice League 2017

Fusion Camera System 5.2K Digital
Avatar 2009
Resident Evil Afterlife 2010
Tron Legacy 2010
47 Ronin 2013
Alita Battle Angel 2019

RED DSMC2 5K Digital Camera
Prometheus 2012
The Hobbit An Unexpected Journey 2012
The Hobbit The Desolation of Smaug 2013
The Hobbit The Battle of the Five Armies 2014
300 Rise of an Empire 2014
I, Frankenstein 2014
Shadow 2018