Comments on: JVC DLA-RS10 and DLA-RS20 projectors have arrived!

By: lovingdvd

lovingdvd — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:12:40 +0000

Steve – for maximum contrast and to see the RS20 at its best, try running it in HIGH lamp mode and then stop the iris down to the minimum you feel is needed for your screen. Depending on your throw I’d say high lamp with iris around -10. Enjoy!

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:34:29 +0000

Which iris position was the rs20 set to when you compared it to the 6500ub?

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I had the manual iris almost all the way closed, and the lamp on low, Cinema 2 mode, I think (the one that defaults to 6500K, the other Cinema is 5800K for black and white movies. The Epson had it’s dynamic iris on, lamp on high, calibrated TheaterBlack 1 mode. The two were about even in brightness that way. The dynamic iris on the Epson does compress the whites a little on dark scenes, resulting in very good black levels, but the whites jump out more on things like those night time city scenes in The Dark Knight.

I have great hopes that the RS20 can handle my 128″ Firehawk, something that the RS2 did not have the muscle for. Mike’s still calibrating it, I get it back tomorrow. So far just a few hours watching it uncalibrated. “It do look good”! -art

By: Steve Atkinson

Steve Atkinson — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:03:19 +0000

Hi Art… a bit OT, but have you requested a review sample of the new Optoma HD8200?

Also, last NOV/DEC there was discussion of a “new” 1080p offering from Infocus…, but I have not heard anything since… have you?

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I met with Optoma at CES, and they were going to send one out, sometime around this week. I haven’t followed up, but will today or tomorrow. I’ve got both the JVC RS10 and RS20 here now, so the Optoma will have to follow that. I told them that if they get it to me by early next week, it can get reviewed, and considered in the 2009 1080p Projector Comparison report that will publish next month.

No, haven’t heard anything about an InFocus – will look into it. -art

By: steven moss

steven moss — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:33:03 +0000

Hi:
I just saw a screen innovations Black screen that seemed superior to the eye then Stewart…What are your expert thoughts?

For a medium lit living room of 15ftX20Ft,
what projector in the $3,000 range do you recommend?

Thanks a million lumens,
Steven

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Sorry Steven, never have worked with it. I did take a close look at one of their older extremely high contrast screens, a year or so ago. I just don’t know enough to comment, other than “black” screens are really good in terms of dealing with ambient light. There can be trade-offs, as some, at least of them are tuned specifically to Red, Green, Blue. I imagine that will trip up any of the DLP projectors that use four color wheels (ie. RGB + dark green, or RGB + yellow color wheels).

I’ll get black screens one of these days. -art