Projector Advice

[murph1234]

Originally Posted by Oddiophile

Here is a good review on the RS2
http://www.projectorreviews.com/jvc/dla-rs2/

Epson 6500UB
http://www.projectorreviews.com/epso...00ub/index.php

& Panasonic AE3000U
http://www.projectorreviews.com/pana...000u/index.php

Note the RS2 was originally an $8000 projector.


One negative to the RS2 is brightness, the RS2 only has 600 lumens rated at the D65 standard. That should be OK for a 110" screen but it's not going to be super bright. The Epson & Panny would be much brighter, but you then you would be at LCD and dynamic iris's.

There are no perfect products out there, finding the right one is finding the one that has the flaws that YOU can live with.

Both LCD and JVC's DILA have there strengths and weaknesses.
LCD's have a visible pixel structure people have dubbed "SDE" (Screen door Effect). If you sit too close to an LCD you will see the pixel structure that looks like your looking threw a screen door. LCDs also have to have an open light path and are susceptible to dust blobs.

LCoS (or DILA as JVC calls it) has a better pixel fill ratio then LCD so there is no SDE. Also the light path is sealed on LCoS so there is no dust blob problem.

It's hard to say if DILA looks better then LCD, but it does look different. I had a Sony LCD front projector with 10,000:1 dynamic contrast with a iris before the JVC. The picture looked good but I could be the pumping from the dynamic iris and brightness compression.

The JVC RS10 has as much as 33,000:1 contrast without a dynamic iris. So there is no pumping from an iris, brightness compression, or artifacts. The JVC is the most CRT like projector I have ever seen!!!

If I was in your shoes I would probably go with the AE3000 if I was going to do a 2:35 cinema scope screen. The pannys lens memory lets you easily zoom in and out of the screen at the push of a button, No expensive anamorphic lens required. If I was going to stick with a 16:9 screen then I would go with the JVC.

Of memory from reading the reviews you are right in saying that the jvc is 600 lumens at d65 but that is actually brighter than the Epson and the panasonic when they are calibrated to D65 (i think they both measured around 450)

the panasonic and epson come in to their own when put in brightest mode. they are 2 x 3 times bright than the jvc but you sacrifice image quality. (which doesnt mater with sports and such)

so in a dark room and calibrated properly then the JVC all the way but if you have ambient light then go for one of the other options as suggested by everyone here


from http://www.projectorreviews.com/epso...erformance.php

"When doing the side-by-side images comparing the Epson Home Cinema 6500UB to the Panasonic PT-AE3000, I had to drop the Epson into low lamp mode, and it still appeared just a tad brighter than the Panasonic at full lamp power. That pretty much says it all.

In "best mode" Epson's calibrated 587 lumens makes it brighter than average for best mode performance, but it can't match the lumens of the Sony VPL-HW10 or the JVC RS1 in their best modes - both are around 800 lumens"