Individual panel adjustment Posted on February 10, 2010 By Art Feierman 1. JVC DLA-RS35 Projector Review - JVC DLA-RS35 Projector Overview2. JVC DLA-RS35 Projector Review 23. DLA-RS35 Projector Highlights - JVC DLA-RS35 Special Features4. Individual panel adjustment - CFI - Clear Motion Drive - Color Management System (CMS)5. JVC DLA-RS35 Physical Tour - JVC DLA-RS35 Physical Appearance - Control Panel6. Input/Output - JVC DLA-RS35 Menus - JVC DLA-RS35 Remote Control7. DLA-RS35 Lens Throw - DLA-RS35 Lens Shift - Anamorphic Lens8. JVC DLA-RS35 Projector – Image Quality - DLA-RS35 Out of the Box Picture Quality - Flesh Tones9. JVC RS35 Black Levels & Shadow Detail10. JVC RS35 Black Levels & Shadow Detail 211. Shadow Detail Performance 212. Shadow Detail Performance 313. JVC RS35 Black Levels & Shadow Detail614. Overall Color & Picture Quality15. JVC DLA-RS35U Projector: Performance, HDTV and Sports16. JVC DLA-RS35 – Performance - JVC DLA-RS35 Brightness - JVC DLA-RS35 Projector - Uncalibrated: - The Effect of low lamp (eco) mode on brightness: - Effect of Lens Aperture setting on lumen output (THX Mode):17. Sharpness18. Sharpness 2 - JVC DLA-RS35: Bottom Line Sharpness19. Light Leakage - JVC DLA-RS35 Image Noise - DLA-RS35 Audible Noise20. JVC DLA-RS35 Projector Calibration and Settings - JVC DLA-RS35 Projector Calibration and Settings - JVC DLA-RS35 Color Temperature - Color Temp over IRE Range (Pre calibration): - Lumen Output and Color Temp at 100 IRE (mid zoom): - JVC DLA-RS35 Basic Settings21. JVC DLA-RS35 Post Calibration Grayscale - Color Temp over IRE Range (Post calibration): - JVC DLA-RS35 RGB Settings - CMS Settings: H=Hue, S=Saturation, B=Brightness22. JVC DLA-RS35 – Screen Recommendations - JVC RS35 Projector Screen Recommendations23. JVC DLA-RS35 – Competitors - DLA-RS35 vs. Epson Home Cinema 8500UB, Pro 9500UB - JVC DLA-RS35 vs. Mitsubishi HC700024. JVC DLA-RS35 vs. Mitsubishi HC7000 2 - JVC DLA-RS35 vs. BenQ W6000 - JVC DLA-RS35 vs. LG CF181D25. JVC DLA-RS35 vs. Planar PD8150 and Optoma HD8600 - DLA-RS35 vs. InFocus IN83 and SP860226. DLA-RS35 vs. InFocus IN83 and SP8602-2 - JVC DLA-RS35 vs. Panasonic PT-AE400027. JVC DLA-RS35 vs. JVC DLA-RS20, DLA-RS15 and RS25! - JVC DLA-RS35 vs. JVC DLA-RS25 - The two best under $10K home theater projectors? - JVC DLA-RS35 vs. Sony VPL-HW15, VPL-VW8528. JVC DLA-RS35 Projector – Warranty29. JVC DLA-RS35 – Review Summary - JVC DLA-RS35 Projector - The Bottom Line - JVC DLA-RS35 Brightness30. JVC DLA-RS35 Projector: Pros, Cons, and Typical Capabilities - JVC DLA-RS35 Projector: Pros - JVC DLA-RS35 Projector: Cons - JVC DLA-RS35 Projector: Typical Capabilities31. JVC DLA-RS35 Projector Review Stop right here! Yes, the JVC DLA RS35 projector does offer digial pixel alignment, like the other JVC’s. One, huge difference though, and right there lies the justification for spending the extra $2000 for the RS35 over the RS25. The DLA-RS35 projector that arrived for review has, best I can tell, with my eyes, pretty much perfect alignment of all colors, vertical and horizontal. With a 128″ diagonal projected image, and standing less than a foot from the screen, I can’t see any shift. When I compare it to the RS15 here, there’s no comparison. On the RS15, I can see some shifting both horizontal and vertical, including red being off just over a pixel (so it can be corrected with the pixel shift). My own RS20 happens to have slightly better pixel alignment than the average JVC that’s come through here, but also is clearly, inferior to this RS35. More to the point. I can see the difference in sharpness, between my RS20 and the RS35 while watching the Olympics. I haven’t yet put the RS35 side by side with the new InFocus SP8602, but likely will have before I post this. The InFocus is a single chip DLP, and as such tends to be inherently sharper appearing, since there are no three sets of colors to converge imperfectly. Single chip DLP’s generally just look sharper than the rest. Not so this time, this RS35 I’m pretty certain will be every bit as sharp as the InFocus. If the JVC’s not as sharp as the InFocus, you won’t be reading this paragraph! CFI - Clear Motion DriveCreative Frame Interpolation! JVC calls theirs Clear Motion Drive, and there are two settings. We stuck to low. Good for sports. With movies, like with others, you get a little of that “live digital video” or “soap opera” look, that most enthusiasts and all purists will avoid on movies, but, hey, some folks like it. When my daughter has friends over, they mostly watch stuff like Iron Man, or Star Trek, or Across the Universe, or High School Musical 3 with CFI on low. (strange child!). To put it in further perspective, anytime I have a projector on with CFI running (always on low), Lisa can walk into the room, and in about 1 second she’ll say “you’ve got CFI on”. Which just goes to show you that it does have a visible impact. And some may like it even though it may distort the “director’s intent”. Color Management System (CMS)JVC provides a primary and secondary color management system on the JVC DLA-RS35 and the HD990. The CMS needs to be calibrated (that would be calibrating the individual primary and secondary colors), for the JVC DLA-RS35 to produce its best results. Apparently the THX mode has its own CMS settings, and the results of THX mode are superior to the other key modes (notably Cinema 2, the closest), because of the better CMS settings. Once Mike calibrated the individual colors, the RS35 started looking even better. I’m still doing some very minor tweaking as I feel the skin tones have a tiny bit of “goldish” look that I’d like to remove, but I’m talking really, really picky – the kind of thing you only notice on some content. Once again the end result was slightly better overall color, and slightly better skin tones than the THX mode. Not a huge difference, but enough to be worth the effort. Unlike the original CMS on last year’s JVC RS20 (that I had to deal with), JVC’s CMS now works rather normally. Mike reported no real surprises, and the results prove that out. With last year’s CMS, every adjustment you made seemed to affect some other adjustment, and it was a mess. We needed outside help from the forums to get the CMS right. (Later, JVC came out with a firmware improvement, but since I had already achieved “good color” I decided not to start all over). Bottom line: A good CMS system, now easy to use. It works, and a proper CMS setup is needed to maximize the JVC RS25 and HD950 projectors performance. 1. JVC DLA-RS35 Projector Review - JVC DLA-RS35 Projector Overview2. JVC DLA-RS35 Projector Review 23. DLA-RS35 Projector Highlights - JVC DLA-RS35 Special Features4. Individual panel adjustment - CFI - Clear Motion Drive - Color Management System (CMS)5. JVC DLA-RS35 Physical Tour - JVC DLA-RS35 Physical Appearance - Control Panel6. Input/Output - JVC DLA-RS35 Menus - JVC DLA-RS35 Remote Control7. DLA-RS35 Lens Throw - DLA-RS35 Lens Shift - Anamorphic Lens8. JVC DLA-RS35 Projector – Image Quality - DLA-RS35 Out of the Box Picture Quality - Flesh Tones9. JVC RS35 Black Levels & Shadow Detail10. JVC RS35 Black Levels & Shadow Detail 211. Shadow Detail Performance 212. Shadow Detail Performance 313. JVC RS35 Black Levels & Shadow Detail614. Overall Color & Picture Quality15. JVC DLA-RS35U Projector: Performance, HDTV and Sports16. JVC DLA-RS35 – Performance - JVC DLA-RS35 Brightness - JVC DLA-RS35 Projector - Uncalibrated: - The Effect of low lamp (eco) mode on brightness: - Effect of Lens Aperture setting on lumen output (THX Mode):17. Sharpness18. Sharpness 2 - JVC DLA-RS35: Bottom Line Sharpness19. Light Leakage - JVC DLA-RS35 Image Noise - DLA-RS35 Audible Noise20. JVC DLA-RS35 Projector Calibration and Settings - JVC DLA-RS35 Projector Calibration and Settings - JVC DLA-RS35 Color Temperature - Color Temp over IRE Range (Pre calibration): - Lumen Output and Color Temp at 100 IRE (mid zoom): - JVC DLA-RS35 Basic Settings21. JVC DLA-RS35 Post Calibration Grayscale - Color Temp over IRE Range (Post calibration): - JVC DLA-RS35 RGB Settings - CMS Settings: H=Hue, S=Saturation, B=Brightness22. JVC DLA-RS35 – Screen Recommendations - JVC RS35 Projector Screen Recommendations23. JVC DLA-RS35 – Competitors - DLA-RS35 vs. Epson Home Cinema 8500UB, Pro 9500UB - JVC DLA-RS35 vs. Mitsubishi HC700024. JVC DLA-RS35 vs. Mitsubishi HC7000 2 - JVC DLA-RS35 vs. BenQ W6000 - JVC DLA-RS35 vs. LG CF181D25. JVC DLA-RS35 vs. Planar PD8150 and Optoma HD8600 - DLA-RS35 vs. InFocus IN83 and SP860226. DLA-RS35 vs. InFocus IN83 and SP8602-2 - JVC DLA-RS35 vs. Panasonic PT-AE400027. JVC DLA-RS35 vs. JVC DLA-RS20, DLA-RS15 and RS25! - JVC DLA-RS35 vs. JVC DLA-RS25 - The two best under $10K home theater projectors? - JVC DLA-RS35 vs. Sony VPL-HW15, VPL-VW8528. JVC DLA-RS35 Projector – Warranty29. JVC DLA-RS35 – Review Summary - JVC DLA-RS35 Projector - The Bottom Line - JVC DLA-RS35 Brightness30. JVC DLA-RS35 Projector: Pros, Cons, and Typical Capabilities - JVC DLA-RS35 Projector: Pros - JVC DLA-RS35 Projector: Cons - JVC DLA-RS35 Projector: Typical Capabilities31. JVC DLA-RS35 Projector Review DLA-RS35 Projector Highlights JVC DLA-RS35 Physical Tour