JVC DLA-X95R Projector Calibration and Settings

No specific "brighest mode" was "created" due to Stage (with Color Temp set for 7500), being less than 100 lumens brighter than a calibrated "Best". Short translation. Use either the calibrated mode, or when you want a little brighter, Stage, although lowering the color temp to 7000 is a little nicer than 7500.

Mike's comments (same as on the Performance page):  Grayscale Calibration

Grayscale calibrated pretty well, with an average Delta E of only 1.3.  The RGB balance was also pretty good, other than a spike in Red at 20 IRE.  Adjusting Gain has a greater effect on the total IRE range than it should, whereas Offset has less of an effect on upper IREs.  So, if you adjust Gain, then compensate for the adjusted gain effect with Offset, it works out pretty good.  As Animation (the brightest mode) is only 81 lumens more than THX mode, there’s no need for a quick cal of a “bright” mode. 

Typical of JVC projectors, gamma was too low in any of the presets (Normal was the high with an average gamma of 2.14), so I used the custom gamma.  The custom gamma started with the Normal preset, but I dropped the numbers -15 from 5 to 75%, -10 at 80% and -5 at 90 and 95%.  This results in a pretty smooth gamma with an average of 2.20.  Luminance tracking is quite good as well. 

The standard color gamut is decent and doesn’t have the oversaturated green that prior models had, but the secondaries are all off a little in hue (see CIE charts).  Fortunately, the CMS works quite well and I was able to dial in the colors pretty well.  Overall, colors look very good. 

A reader "Rob I" contacted me with a valid point.  We report and mention in the review that after the calibration, 20 IRE and below were strong on red.  (Not too bad, still over 6200K). Rob points out that when Mike was calibrating the gamma, he could have used the ability to make separate gamma adjustments respectively to R, G, and B. Doing that, he says will allow one to calibrate out that extra red.  Nice.  Our thanks to Rob, for sharing good info.