RS2/ PRO-FPJ1 Owners: Setup Discussion Thread - Page 2

I will be checking mine for convergence very soon with the DVE disc. So far mine looks pretty good, but I haven't really scrutinized it too much.

The mounting plate for the sled does seem like a good idea. I might say that the price for one is a ripoff. Even the AVS discounted pricing is a good bit high.

I've had my RS2 for about two weeks now and I've ended up with brightness -2, and contrast 0, cinema profile and for gamma either theater 1 or normal. Black items in a movie such as a hat, coat etc. are as black as my screens black border but at times the image appears a little washed out on my 100" Firehawk. I wish I could solve this and I wish in the service menu I could adjust the blanking like on the Sony VW60 and the new Marantz. I don't like the image spilling onto the black sides of the screen and the mask affects sides and the top and bottom. My room is dedicated with no light but it's not black. I don't think this is why some movies look sort of grey in dark scenes. Maybe it's the movie itself, I haven't determined this yet. Does this sound familiar to anyone else ?

I noticed your HT has light ceiling and walls. This would limit your contrast dramatically I would guess.

Sorry but my room has very dark maroon walls and a dark grey ceiling. They may look brighter in the picture but in real life both a very dark and a far cry from light colored. The pics in my gallery were taken with a 1000w halogen light so you could see the projector when I was selling it.

I'm glad to hear that it is looking great!

When you say it looks brighter with lens etc, are you comparing it to zooming?

I have my RS2 temporarily setup on a Stewart Grayhawk in the rec room. It still looks way awesome even on the old low gain screen.

I still have construction underway in the dedicated theater room and it is of course behind schedule as it is taking me too long to do all of the wiring.


So are you ceiling mounting your RS2?

That is interesting on the tilt. Thanks for the clarification on the brightness.

My final setup will be with a 10' wide 2.35 screen. Ultramatte 1.5 gain microperf. I am excited to try it out. The screen is setup in another theater and I can try out the combo when the Panamorph arrives.

I will try it on the grayhawk first. It is a 9' wide 16:9.

I'm glad to hear the good results. I really didn't want to go anamorphic, but at the discount price, it was definitely doeable.

Cheers.

I think I will be happy with it too. I just didn't want to spend the extra money on the lens and sled. MSRP the combo kit with the plate is close to $6500.00.

So have you figured a way to automagically enable VStretch when you need it?

The JVC NA Chief engineer for D-ILA doesn't seem to know very much in regards to this projector and doesn't seem to want to help out that much to get the RS232 and other important IR codes. Perhaps I can get Tom Stites to help out with this a little.

Thanks for the pics.

Has anyone gotten into the maintenance menus yet? Anything interesting in there? Just curious.

Mine's due on the 8th so I'm busy cleaning out the room so I can paint 'mouse ears' on the walls/ceiling and hang the screen.

I just got my BlueRay copy of Blade Runner Final Cut and am saving it as the first movie!

Can't wait!

The good thing about the service menu is a white cross hatch pattern. My convergence looked off with the DVE pattern but was much closer with the internal pattern. Using the remote codes in one of the other threads you can also adjust the focus using the white crosshatch instead of the standard green one.

Folks,

Can you tell me what the highest resolution you were able to input into the RS2?

I cannot get over 1080px24Hz. That was the highest I could get to work from my Anthem D2 processor. I am not sure whether it is a HDMI cable (I only have 25' run) or something else... In the manual it says that JVC RS2 can accept up to 1080p x 60Hz. But as soon as I go over 24Hz I lose the picture..

Thanks

I have no problems with 1080p coming from a xa2 and ps3. My guess is a problem with your anthem settings or output.

Cameron,

I can set Anthem to higher refresh rate, and as soon as I go over 1080p x 24Hz I get blank screen.

So, 1080px30Hz or 1080px60Hz is not working for me.

What refresh rates are your PS2 and XA2 outputing?

How long is your HDMI cable?

Thanks

Is the convergence off just as much in the other corner? If not it's the lens.

Sorry if I missed it, but how do you access the service menu?

In the HD100 of a friend of mine we put with an HTPC 1080px50Hz with no problem.

Just got my RS-2 yesterday and was surprised at the packaging material it came in....just two styrofoam sides inside of a box that was too big. I mean during shipment it could rattle around inside its box...(and the box was the acutal JVC RS-2-G box) so when I set up my PJ, the left/right lens shift knob doesn't work. Everything else about the unit looks great, and am wondering if anyone else has had packaging problems? Is it a huge deal that the knob doesn't work? could I just manually shift the lens, or should I ask for an exchange?

Curious...how did you determine the shift knobs were broken? They are not the greatest quality and on mine I had to move/turn them several turns before they seemed to catch and actually move the picture.

FerPhobos,

How long was the cable between the HTPC and RS2?

I figured the shift knob was kaput when after several HUNDRED spins in either direction, nothing happened to left/right. the vertical shift works, though. I'm sure its something simple as re-threading the knob on its internal mechanism.

Curious, on the box or warranty card, does anyone else have an "RS2-G"? Does anyone know what the G stands for?

I recieved my RS2 on Dec.29/07 and was so happy. The image is just staggering compared to my old PT-AE700U. However, after the honeymoon, I noticed that the bottom left 1/4 of the image is out of focus compared to the rest of the screen. Now I'm not saying it looks really blurry from my seating position, but I can not see the individual pixels focused sharply in this area when I focus the pixels in the center of the image. When I focus the pixels in the bottom left 1/4 of my image the center pixels are out of optimum focus. So in other words I can not have the rest of my image focused the same as the bottom left 1/4 of my screen. I hope that makes sense to you guys........

My projector is 14ft from the 119" screen. I have it shelf mounted 2 1/2ft from the ceiling and about a foot to the left (when looking at the front). There is a good amount of vertical lens shift used, and a bit of horizontal. I know that this is not optimal, but my room dictates this setup.

I am wondering if this is to be expected on this model (or any other model) when using the lens shift. I did not notice it on the PT_AE700U with a similar lens shift, but then again I was not really looking.

I would greatly appreciate it if GlenC (I believe he has an RS2) or someone could tell me if this is normal or not for the RS2.............


Ditto! Mine says DLA-RS2-G on the bar code and on the warranty card. Every where I look I see no mention of a "G", only DLA-RS2U. Does anybody know what the heck this is? Mine was packed pretty tight in the box.

Thanks,

Relic