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September 10th, 2008 Art Feierman
OK, a little levity here. I just posted a blog on the new JVC’s and earlier, one on the tiny LED projectors. When viewing the front page of my blog, I was struck by the respective photos. Both projectors, from looking at the pictures, could be roughly the same size.
Obviously the JVC home theater projector is far larger, and far brighter, but nothing you could tell from the image. A quick guess is that almost two hundred of those small, Micro-led projectors should easily fit into a case the size of the JVC.
Most amusing (to me, at least). I will have to try to find a photo of an LED projector with something to provide scale, like a pen, or cell phone. -art
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September 10th, 2008 Art Feierman
JVC has been busy on the home theater projector side. Once again, they have launched, essentially two new models, but since they have two divisions - Pro and Consumer, each “real” new home theater projector, has two versions. For the most part, the differences between the Pro and Consumer versions seems to be strictly cosmetic.
What we have here, on the lower end is the DLA-RS10 home theater projector (Pro group), and it’s twin, the DLA-HD350 coming from JVC’s Consumer group. Up the food chain, and you find the DLA-RS20, and matching DLA-HD350.
According to JVC, these projectors aren’t (at least immediately) going to replace the existing DLA-RS1 and DLA-RS2 (or their consumer counterparts. That does tend to make things a bit murky, but it definitely looks like the new projectors have some advantages.
Before I get into individual models, let’s look at what all four new JVC projectors have in common:
- A new 16 element lens with 2:1 zoom ratio (same 2:1 range as the older RS1 and RS2)
- Customized gamma control - the lack of the ability to customize gamma, was always something I’ve missed on the RS1.
- All have superb range in terms of lens shift both vertical (80%) and horizontal (34%), for easy placement. Lens shift is now motorized
- All support HDMI 1.3 with Deep Color and CEC
- Image processing - already good on the older projectors now uses the Silicon Optics Reon-VX
- All four, are supposed to be available this November (you never can tell, until they ship)
- All have a screen trigger - this can be used to control a motorized screen, or a masking system, or alternately can be used to control the motorized sled for an anamorphic lens.
- And all four support an anamorphic lens, without needing an outboard (expensive) processor
- JVC has moved the inputs and output panel to the side, as opposed to being on the back on the older projectors - more on this below.
- These models are brighter than their older equivalents - RS10 vs. RS1, RS20 vs. RS2, etc.
Let’s start with the DLA-RS10. Read the rest of this entry »
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September 10th, 2008 Art Feierman
I’m way late on this blog, it’s one inspired back at Infocomm, in mid-June, and I thought for sure, I would get it done before CEDIA. No such luck so here goes.
What is an LED projector? That’s obviously the first question. LED (light emitting diodes), is not a technology that will replace, DLP, 3LCD, nor LCoS.
The Toshiba LED projector is less than 4 inches long and 2/3 inch high
Rather it is a lighting system for any and all of those projector types. So far, there are apparently several being shown, all called Pico LED projectors, but most using a DLP chip (although one with LCoS), with light provided by LED. The thing is, they are tiny!
Shown at the right is Toshiba’s entry, and it isn’t even one of the smaller ones.
Now it’s true that a couple of large type projectors have been demoed (pre-production) models using LED light instead of the traditonal lamps (Digital Projection was one company that showed one), but that’s something that’s probably coming, with a few models in a year or so. Since that is evolutionary (though it should have some advantages), I’m not going to get into that here.
Let’s talk about the newest tiniest projectors. I saw them at Infocomm 2 months ago. Optoma and 3M I physically saw and there are probably one or two other with prototypes. Read the rest of this entry »
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