Official JVC RS25/HD950 Owners Thread! - Page 5

Originally Posted by Waboman

I'm curious to read your review of the 950. Have you posted it? If not, can you PM me with your findings? Thanks!

Originally Posted by drewski11

direct link got censored! oops!

click the link in his sig and you can find your way to it.

Originally Posted by darinp2

joerod,

When you compared the HD950 to the Sony for motion did you use the Dark-Frame-Insertion on the Sony or any of the fake frame creation modes on either projector?

And I may have missed it in your review, but what screen do you use for the reviews? Is it the SilverStar? If so, do you notice the sparklies/speckling with that screen?

--Darin

Originally Posted by trf1968

I saw a demo of the 950 the other day. The picture looks very very good, however, when they turned the FI on, and played a scene from Transformers Blu-ray -- there was a HORRIBLE distortion effect. (It was the scene where Megan Fox is looking under the hood of the car, and the effect appeared on her shirt). I'm assuming this is the problem that the earlier posts mentioned. It disappeared when they shut the FI off. It's really concerning to me that this projector has that problem. While I probably won't be watching movies with it engaged, it is still worrisome and I can't help but wonder whether it will appear on some sports broadcasts as well (which I would probably want to use it for). Has anyone seen the Sony vw85 yet? If so, how does its FI compare to the 950?

Originally Posted by Jason Turk

It's not intended for film based sources but rather video based (such as sports). Not surprised that you didn't like it with that movie.

Originally Posted by JonStatt

I did try it with Planet Earth albeit briefly and it had a positive effect on this 1080p/24 material. I played the mountains, chapter 3, and instead of "film like" it became "helicoptor like". It smoothed out the motion to the point that I felt i was looking out of a helicoptor window instead. Now I only played a few minutes, so i don't know if there are scenes, like the movies I tried, where the FI goes nuts and messes up completely..but it was fine on that scene.

Originally Posted by JonStatt

I did try it with Planet Earth albeit briefly and it had a positive effect on this 1080p/24 material. I played the mountains, chapter 3, and instead of "film like" it became "helicoptor like". It smoothed out the motion to the point that I felt i was looking out of a helicoptor window instead. Now I only played a few minutes, so i don't know if there are scenes, like the movies I tried, where the FI goes nuts and messes up completely..but it was fine on that scene.

Originally Posted by RonF

+1 As I already posted a number of days ago. I don't know what is "wrong" with my 25 but the FI works great on it. These mountain scenes are incredible on mine with the most realistic 3D effect from 2D I've seen yet, but it's also fed 1080i from early Toshiba HA2 HD DVD player through a Flea with detail enhancement boosted, then 1080p60 from an Edge....and off of a Hi Power screen. Not everyone's combination for sure.

But Phil on AV forums stated it was useless also watching movies like King Kong from whatever TV feed he has. All I can say is again mine works GREAT. I have a very good cable HD feed from Charter that can look almost as good as Bluray at times. With the same combination I just mentioned above, and with the CMD on High I just saw the cleanest, clearest, coolest rendering of Deliverance at home I've ever seen the other night, from one of the movie channels. As others have mentioned, even on High, the effects of the FI with JVC's implementation is not over the top. Now that I've watched a number of parts of movies on cable, many of them look just better. Not soap opera like, but just more depth and realism. Talking about my cable feeds now, not booting up a Bluray and running at 1080p24 with the FI on.

OMG....had forgotten the incredible real river running footage in that movie. Better by far than The River Wild....especially in that they ran huge rapids in those aluminum canoes. And lots of closeups of Voight, Reynolds, etc where you could see they were actually in a number of those medium rapids.

Originally Posted by Jason Turk

It's not that some people won't enjoy it on more sources, but its original intention was for video based sources. That's all I am saying.

Originally Posted by drewski11

is it 1080/24 on disc? the original source for Planet Earth is HD-video, not film.

Originally Posted by RonF

Right. And I get that. It does work very well for video acquisitioned programming and for sports. Very well for sports in fact, and I would think there are a lot of owners who will watch more than just movies with these projectors. Plus, with 1080i TV sources from "clean" cable or satellite feeds some movies are also enhanced with it and not put "over the top" with the soap opera look. It just seems that aside from your initial impressions of it where you and Alan both agreed the implementation was quite good, that there is a lot of misinformation coming from other respected sources that the CMD isn't worth a poop with anything, not just 1080p24. I don't get it.

Originally Posted by vigga

Should we start a separate thread for calibration of the RS25?

Originally Posted by lovingdvd

No, it is virtually identical to the RS20 and calibration is identical so would be best served IMO by the wider community (and redundant threads otherwise) to have its own thread. Please use the existing RS20 calibration thread.

Originally Posted by lovingdvd

No, it is virtually identical to the RS20 and calibration is identical so would be best served IMO by the wider community (and redundant threads otherwise) to have its own thread. Please use the existing RS20 calibration thread.

Originally Posted by vigga

The thread for the RS20 is over 1100 posts long. As someone who didn't move from the RS20 -> RS25, I'd would appreciate a new thread for questions.

Originally Posted by lovingdvd

Think about all the value already contained in that thread. I know it takes a long time, but often when I buy a new piece of equipment and there are dozens (in some cases hundreds) of pages of posts, I read/skim through everything to catch up. In doing so I learn a great deal about past issues, FAQs, solved issues, open issues, tips/tricks etc.

If a new thread is started, without people reading through the other posts, a lot of the same questions that have already been discussed will be asked all over again. There are already thousands of experienced folks subscribed to that existing thread, and that is the best way to tap into the community for questions that have not already been addressed. Questions that have can be learned from the previous posts.

Originally Posted by vigga

Here's a question for the cloud:
Is anyone here using an Oppo BDP-83? Last night, I noticed that in order to see BTB test pattern on the AVS-HD test disc, I had to set the RS25 to Enhanced - even though I was sending YCbCr. I was under the impression that BTB and WTW should be seen within video levels in YCbCr. Oppo is insisting that maybe the RS25 automatically clips when HDMI is set to Standard. Has anyone else seen this?