Official JVC RS40/X3 Owners Thread - Page 81

I will test this again myself on my new 360 tonight, but as I said it looked pretty bad on his video, I can't imagine myself not noticing this flickering by now on my 140" screen from 10 feet away.

I ABSOLUTELY hated how it looked on the Epson from 2 years ago, YUCK!!!

I can't say the same about the Sony, because I have not seen FI on a Sony projector, but I dislike it on my Sony 55HX800, which is a 240hz top of the line 2010 model LED flat panel TV. Only difference with the NX series, is that the 3D and WiFi is built in, and there seems to be some kind of Constrast enhancer feature, but the CMD on the HX800 is about as good as it gets on the Sony's, and I prefer the JVC RS40 Mode 3 over it.

Unlike the PS3, most xbox360 games are in 1080p/60.

EDIT: I should say upconverted to 1080P from native 720P.

Exactly I was talking about Epson's first PJ with FI, which was released around the same time as the RS20. I compared the PQ side by side with the Epson at the time against the RS20, with FI turned off, and the RS20 blew the Epson out of the water with the inky blacks and obvious contrast superiority. And the FI on the Epson was HORRENDOUS at the time, which is why I am saying the FI on the RS40 is better than the 2 yr old Epson I saw at the time.

The Sony VW90 is almost triple the price of the RS40's preorder price, so there is no way in heck I would fork that much more money to get better FI, or lose the great 3D capabilities to get the new Epson w/ better FI, which is why I still think the RS40 at its price range offers the best bang for the buck for pretty much any projector that had been released in the past 10 years. I am still amazed at both the 2D and 3D picture quality of the RS40 and the fact that it also happens to be the least expensive of the 3 projectors I have owned.

If only JVC can address the 720p 3D DirecTV issue with ESPN 3D, I would be a happy camper.

The better thing to do, is to plug in the same slim 360 to another display in a different room, to avoid a possible interference. Also if you can, move the RS40 temporarily to another room just to eliminate the possibility of an electrical interference.

It may be native 720P, but 90% of the 360 games are listed as 1080P, if you look at the back of the case/artwork, they're listed as full 1080P.

Ps3 on the other hand, keep the resolution at 720P for some reason, so much for Sony touting bluray with the bigger capacity at 50GB but at 720P res, while the 360 continues to use 9GB DVDs with 1080P resolution, go figure!

I have not tested the 3D Movies channel since it's PPV. But the 103n channel plays everything just fine in 3D since they are 1080i SBS, including 3D movies and documentaries and even some sports. Only caveat for the DVR portion, is that these 3D shows had to have been DVR-ed while connected to the RS40 or the AVR which is connected to the RS40. As far as viewing live content, by simply tuning to 103n, it works just fine.

I am no longer getting the "1080p/24 playback display incompatability" error when playing back recorded 3D content from the 103n, but the 720P 3D error still comes up when I try to watch 3D Sports by ESPN.

I demo-ed FI with the Epson 6500UB while playing Phantom of the Opera Bluray, and I almost wanted to punch the Epson PJ in the balls It was awful, and it almost ruined my opinion of FI forever, this opinion grew stronger when I demoed one of Sony's first 120hz flat panels about 8 months later. I could totally see it being useful on Sports, OTA or Network/Cable broadcasting TV shows, but not at all on films. But after seeing the improvement with FI on the RS40 (granted I have not seen the VW90 or 8500UB which sound better) I started to appreciate it more on film. Because it looks acceptable to me, all the smoothness/sharpness and none of the too realistic waxy look of the older gen FI. So I welcome the FI improvements with the Sony, Epson and Panasonic if they are as good or better than the RS40, which I am sure they are from what everyone is saying.

Wow, almost 2500 posts in less than 4 weeks, that's an average of almost 100 posts per day. WOWZA!

OFT!!!

you're right, I don't think all 360, not even most, are true 1080P native, but there are a few which actually were. But I can say that almost every single multi-platform game I've tried including the latest COD:BOps looked better through the 360 over the PS3. Other games I had tested on both systems included NFS Hot Pursuit and the latest GTA, which all looked visibly better on the 360 than the PS3, even though they were all 720P natives more than likely.

I was and still am a huge proponent of the PS3 because I was what you would call Blu-ray fan boy the first two years during the format wars 2006 through 2008 and the PS3 may have single handedly declared bluray as the winning format, but I will be the first one to criticize how archaic the PS3 OS is when it comes to user friendliness and overall intuitive design. Almost every new game I bought for the PS3, required an HOUR LONG update, then another 30 min to install the update, the PS3 functions like a PC in that sense. While the xbox 360 is sooo much easier to deal with, most game updates take less than 15 seconds, and the game is up and running. Heck even the big annual UI updates for the xbox live platform take less time to update than a single game update on the PS3. Which is why over the past 2 years, I buy all of my multi-platform games on the 360, while reserving only the Sony exclusives for the PS3. The xbox 360 and xbox live platform are far more superior to the PSN, which is understandably free. But I can say that Sony has quite much to learn from Microsoft when it comes to marketing their network, when compared to how well laid out and smooth the xbox live market is.

Sorry to go off topic in a major way, and this is sad coming from a huge Sony, bluray, playstation fan too.

As much as I hate to admit it, yes! opt for the 360 version whenever possible. Only because the PSN and Sony are years behind Xbox live and xbox Marketplace. But we all know the PS3 hardware is superior to the xbox360, but sometimes the software is what sells the inferior hardware (biggest example, not a Mac fan here, but I love the iPad and iPhone 4, because of the ease of use and the overwhelmingly rich app content).

Thanks Ron, but this whole thing with DirecTV's position towards AVRs is total BS, and for me would be enough to consider a breach of contract. They ARE THE ONES marketing the heck of out their HD video with 5.1 surround sound, how could they market that audio capability if they are asking their consumers to skip the AVR and connect directly to a flat panel TV with crap 10 watt stereo speakers? I call B.S. and as soon as I get the time this week I will call DirecTV and rip them a new one if they give me this lame excuse.