Sony HW50 / BenQ W7000 / Epson 5020 / JVC RS55 / JVC RS 46 / JVC RS4810 / JVC RS56 Mini-shootout... - Page 60

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David, thanks for the great info in your review. I had a few quick questions / comments.

Are you running those patterns in the 2D -> 3D conversion or is this a frame packed 3D source? Regarding the comment on the 3D resolution, I noticed last year my HW30 was the only projector I reviewed that looked a little soft in 3D compared to the JVC, Epson, BenQ, etc. I'm projecting on a 142" screen so sharpness stands out here (for good or for bad). The HW50 with the RC in 3D seems to counteract the effect I was seeing on the HW30 and overall looks quite good in 3D.

I'm curious if you've run the resolution test on the JVC projectors. They look naturally sharp in 3D, similar to my experience with the 3D DLPs.




3D Calibration - I don't recall this being discussed much in the past. The color shift with the 3D glasses is something that always bothered me with 3D and takes away from the overall presentation since my brain knows I am looking through tinted glasses and color that isn't right. I figured it could be calibrated out with the glasses in front of the meter.

Your before / after 3D calibration looks very similar to my results as well with red being way down before the calibration. I had to pull back green and blue quite a bit to compensate.


"After calibration through the active-shutter glasses to essentially remove the tint they add to the picture, the Sony VPL-HW50 produced some of the best 3D video we’ve seen to date. Even before calibration, it was no slouch.

If you’ve seen projected 3D video calibrated, you’re in a very fortunate position, because the practice isn’t widespread. The improvement calibration made on the Sony VPL-HW50ES was huge, though, and honestly has to be seen to be believed. We’re sure that most of our readers have had the experience of sitting in a cinema and pulling polarised 3D glasses in and out of their view and noting that the colours never look completely right either way. After seeing so many compromised cinema presentations of 3D films, watching them naturally coloured on a high quality, calibrated home projector like the VPL-HW50ES is really special. In our case, we tinted the picture coming out of the projector to be overly red, so that it would look correct seen through the glasses (we covered the process in the calibration section on the previous page)."

I'm glad you found the same positive results. The last HW50 I calibrated looked excellent through the glasses with 'people' movies (non-animations).


White field uniformity - our experience here differs a bit, I've only seen 2 HW50's so far, but both were relatively consistent with white field and gray field uniformity. Definitely better than the Epson's I've seen recently. I think the JVC's usually lead in this area.

Reality Creation- you have a good perspective on reality creation. I agree that each year there is an expectation of new features. This year it was reality creation for Sony, Super Resolution for Epson (a leftover from last year) and E-shift 2 for the JVC's. Plus we have the Darbee which has been wildly popular even with video purists. Each technology attempts to create sharper image in their own unique way.

All of these processing techniques are acquired tastes, but they seem popular with the masses so far. I like using the reality creation with the setting at minimum on the resolution since I sit relatively close @ 1.25 from the 142" 16:9.

This is a great review, everyone interested in the HW50 should take the time to read it.

FYI -RS4810's are shipping from AVScience today. 2 full weeks to spare before X-mas for those that got their pre-orders in early.

JVC RS 46 Lag time = 80MS, same as the RS45.

This shouldn't come as any surprise, I don't think there was any mention of improved lag times.



There is a NEW gaming champ in town.....




The QUMI pocket LED projector. 20MS, that's pretty good!

Mitsubishi HC8000 - Game Mode, IRIS = off, FI = off, 50 MS - similar to the W7000.

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no problem. I really want to test the 3D but still waiting on Mitsubishi to send the transmitter and the 'high speed' shutter glasses.

The 2nd iris has a 'high contrast' setting, it doesn't look adjustable (at least not in the main menu). The light output drops noticeably when this iris in engaged.

thanks for posting!

Translation from Cine4home:


In the last few weeks we have received several requests from readers wondered who had bought the recently released JVC DLA X35 or see in the show:

Contrary to our first preview results (see below), after which the 3D performance has improved significantly over its predecessor, it is the X35 become dramatically worse, with massive ghosting. If JVC in the series but does not deliver what was achieved in the previous series, or was there a production error?

This issue only affects the X35, but not the big brother X55, X75 or X95. This shows that there may be no fundamental technological problem. It remains only the question of whether there is a serious hardware failure in the series, or pure software.

We have pursued the matter further and directly with JVC contacted. Fortunately, there are clear: Over the firmware of the X35 series is the wrong timing of the glasses sync programming slipped in the wrong time for switching, making it the strong ghosting responsible.

The engineers have fixed the problem and now a firmware update program that can later be flashed in any X35 and eliminated the problem completely 3D. We were able to convince yourself: With the update, the X35 achieves the same good 3D Ergebnsse, as in pre-production model.

All owners who hope but now, download the update from the JVC website, and even flash in the projector can be disappointed: This update is only possible via a special interface, which can be opened for connecting the projector also has. In other words: An update is only available from JVC service.

The manufacturer regrets the mistake and promises to take care of as soon as possible to etwaig necessary updates. As of this week, no X35 with the firmware bug multiple delivered. New buyers still have access soothes, while all concerned are "early adopters" asked to contact their local dealer to order time-level update in conjunction. The JVC dealer trained care of this for you!

Also, we are now waiting for the updates of our test devices, so we our soon