As to the iris statement you made, you might want to be a bit clearer there. All dynamic irises can be seen “operating” on things like scene changes, etc. If you want a 100% perfectly smooth iris, the only solution I know of, is to not have a dynamic iris, although plan B, would be to make so little use of it, that it accomplishes very little improvement, but does it smoothly. “from bright scenes to almost completely blacked out…” Well, dark scenes are supposed to be dark. A dynamic iris, to some degree allows you to expand the overall dynamic range (its reflected in those almost meaningless contrast specs). That is, Not only are the blacks blacker on dark scenes, but so are the bright and mid-tone areas. In that regard, the iris gives you more total dynamic range, even though it really doesn’t change the dynamic range on individual frames. -art

My firmware is 1.0 still….

July 10 seems not many upgrades have happened.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Did you ever check to see what version of firmware your W6K was running?

All of the folks on the forums seem to only have version 1.0 of the firmware.

It seems strange that you would receive a projector whose IRIS works better than the original version you tested if yours also has version 1.0 of the firmware.

That would lead one to the conclusion that you were originally sent a “pre-production” model with firmware that had not been finalized… maybe version .9???

I was curious is you had any more info to share on this issue.

Ps. We know you are slammed with all the projectors you are trying to review and want you to know we appreciate the effort you are expending in our behalf.