Official DLA-HD10K owners thread

Well it's finely here and I only got to spend a small amount of time playing because I had to go to work. I will give my quick down and dirty first impressions and add in-depth later. Open the box and I see a small cheap looking remote. My first thought was that it's a secondary remote. It is very small and cheep looking for a $15,000 (or a $59.95 CD player for that matter) projector. I will say that it works well is back lighted and is very ergonomic. The projector itself is absolutely beautiful with great fit and fantastic finish. It truly looks great and extrudes high end by its appearance alone. The hookups are recessed and might be a little tough for people with big fingers. I fired it up feed 1080p 60Hz (from my HTPC) and the picture synced up but it had tears a was very wobbly. Try as I might adjusting porch, sync, and other settings I could not get it stabilized. Finely gave up and tried 48Hz and perfect (50Hz also). Since I plan to use 48Hz 95% of the time I will try to figure out 60Hz later (maybe tonight). Only had a few minutes of screen time and it is still daylight so I can only give basic impressions. The picture is super smooth, very non digital, and film like which is what I like about DILA. It seems to be a fair amount brighter (off axis) than my G11 but since I changed to a HP screen it is hard to tell. Can't wait until I get home to night to fire up and test.



I will also edit this thread and add links and other info to help present (or there any others) and future HD10K owners.

My cable is a 50' optical so I know it not the cable (also tested on my HP 2335 monitor at 1080x1200 60Hz). I ran Spy Sweaper before I went to bed last night and the HTPC locked while reading a ATI video file. So I may have a corrupt file related to my drivers. I'm going to download the latest Catalyst drivers today and see if that works.

My cable is a 50' optical so I know it not the cable (also tested on my HP 2335 monitor at 1080x1200 60Hz). I ran Spy Sweaper before I went to bed last night and the HTPC locked while reading a ATI video file. So I may have a corrupt file related to my drivers. I'm going to download the latest Catalyst drivers today and see if that works.

Also let me know the most ideal time that works best for you to send my HD10K. Although it looks like you already did it.

I removed Catalyst and 60Hz now works great even though 48Hz will be the standard to completely avoid Bob. Next I'm going to remove PowerStrip and reinstall Catalyst. I have over a 150 trailers of TS, Quick Time, Divx, and WMV that are 720p, 1080i, or 1080p. The picture is fantastically smooth, vibrant but still very non digital and film like plus it's almost too detailed, even before William's calibration. The problem I see now is that DVD (and even many OTA HD sources) don't look very good compared to high qulity 1080p metrial because of the huge deference in PQ exposed by the HD10K. The deference was not near as dynamic on my G11U. One caveat I have with my cable is that it's orange and looks like a cheep extension cord (I must run it on the floorboard). Wonder if there is a way to paint it black? I have the Gamma Wizard and may play with. I just don't want to mess anything up.

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I have a Da-lite high power screen which requires the projector to be mounted as close to eye level as possible. I have an old audio stand that I'm using (pic below). I temporarily stacked a couple of shelves to raise it up. I still get head shadows if I don't recline and set straight up. I have a friend who does wood work as a hobby and is going to build me an extension to set it on.

I got the JVC Gamma Wizard and it works fine except it would not turn the power off for some reason. I will give Hyperterminal a try later on.

I also can't wait to have mine back from William but don't look forward to sending it (being without).

I bought just the head unit and no scaler. It only has one input that excepts 1080p 48Hz, 50Hz, or 60Hz only. I have it hooked to my HTPC (DVD, Fusion HD, and lots of HD trailers) and use 48Hz (is perfect for all film not just DVD) for all film and 60Hz for all video. I plan to buy a (universal hopefully before year end) HD-DVD/Blu-ray ROM (or burner) drive. Not much for games but thinking about a X-Box 360 and it only outputs 1080i so at some point will probably be forced to buy a scaler. I'm also waiting on the next batch of Denon receivers to see if they have HDMI(1.3)/DVI to HDMI (not just analog to HDMI as now)scaling and DD True/DTS HD.

Tomorrow night I'm going to watch T2 WMV-HD and can't wait.

WOW that is a HUGE screen. I have a 116" wide Da-lite HP screen and it is very bright (even with some daylight light spill). At 700 lumens the HD10K is no light cannon but if you have total light control, your screen has over 1 gain (preferably HP), and using an anamorphic lens it should be sufficient.

Thanks Mark,

So far it looks fantastic. It still has to make a trip to William's for optimization. Something I'm not looking forward to especially with all the Ruby's lining up.

Correct me if I'm wrong William or Tom but just like the HD10K has no internal scaler it also has no internal signal processing so you can't adjust things like tint. You would need to do that with your scaler or HTPC.

Also you say it is disabled but there is no setting at all for tint in the menu.

Noticed that the masking system is hardware instead of software. I guess this is because the HD10K doesn't do any signal processing. Wonder why JVC didn't offer a 2.35 masking setting? Also mine seems to be a little off on the right side. Not that it is anything I need or would use unless it did 2.35.

According to UPS my HD10K is now in the hands of the master. William, just go ahead and rake all those Ruby's off the shelf and on the floor to make room for mine. Just don't step on any of them while you are carrying my projector.

William is through with my HD10K and I should be in business by the weekend.. Here are the shading and color uniformity charts. How do they look? Also a quote from William Phelps