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Sunday, 01 June 2008
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Written by
Kevin Miller
Introduction
JVC’s new DLA-RS-2 is the company’s new flagship 1080p-resolution front projector. It is a three-panel LCoS, or what JVC calls DLA (Digital Light Amplifier), which is a reflective variant of LCD display technology. The DLA-RS2 is the step-up from last year’s DLA-RS1, which remains in the company’s projector line-up at a lower price point. However, it improves in only one area of picture performance over the RS-1 with a higher contrast ratio, due mainly to better blacks. While the new projector adds some cool new features, it actually goes backwards in two key areas of performance. Higher contrast ratio on the RS-2 translates into a net loss of nearly 20 percent in light output from the RS-1, which was already marginal in this area. The new projector is conservatively rated at 600 ANSI lumens of light output, which means it ...
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Monday, 01 October 2007
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Written by
Kevin Miller
Introduction
If
you cruise the A/V forums, it seems that JVC’s latest DLA-RS1 D-ILA
(LCoS) projector is the hottest 1080p front projector on the market at
this time. At under $7,000 the RS1 competes neck and neck with the Sony
VPL-VW100 also nicknamed the Ruby. The feature package on the RS1 is
comprehensive, and there are some unique set-up features that will aid
in the ease of set-up and optimization of the picture. Rated at a very
conservative 700 ANSI lumens, the RS1’s 200-watt UHP lamp has enough
light output to drive screen sizes up to about 100 inches wide,
depending on the screen material used. Sleek and elegant-looking, the
RS1 will easily integrate into family rooms, living rooms, and of
course will easily disappear on the ceiling of a dedicated home
theater. While not completely perfect, the RS1 does have much to
recommend it in terms of picture quality.
Design
The RS1 is one ...
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Monday, 01 January 2007
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Written by
Jerry Del Colliano
Introduction
In
the last year, I took on the costly and often frustrating process of
adding on 850 square feet to my relatively small 1,500-square-foot 1959
“post and beam” home in Los Angeles. The process amazingly and
unexpectedly included no less than $75,000 in cement to make sure a
modest two-story addition wouldn’t come crumbling down if, or should I
say when, the Earth starts a-rocking and rolling. The overall design of
the addition features a master bedroom and master bath cantilevered
over a light-controlled, purpose-built, stadium seating-based theater
with a 16x9 screen from Stewart, fabric walls, acoustical treatments
from RPG and beyond. While working on the design of my theater with
Beverly Hills-based installation and design firm Simply Home
Entertainment, I sold off my trusty JVC Professional DLA-HS2U
projector, tore out my existing theater in what was always supposed to
be my living room and headed toward what I would call the Dark Ages ...
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Saturday, 01 October 2005
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Written by
Jeremy R. Kipnis
Introduction
Now that the market is heating up with respect to HDTV, and people’s
attention is being drawn to the highest ASTC-approved HDTV resolution
of 1920 x 1080p and the best way to display it, only JVC and Sony have
come to market so far with commercial designs worthy of re-mortgaging
your house. DLP 2K products are currently only beginning to be
available at Texas Instruments-equipped movie theaters around the
world, and LCD 2K products simply have not been very inspiring up to
this point. JVC has, of course, been offering its LCOS (Liquid Crystal
On Silicon) variation, D-ILA (Directdrive Image Light Amplifier), since
1998, but only recently have they offered a projector with a trio of
1920 x 1080p panels.
JVC’s D-ILA HD2K System ($19,995 MSRP) comes with a
slide projector-sized light engine (created by JVC, measuring 11-3/4 x
5-1/4 x 14-3/16 inches), which has a black plastic exterior with manual
zoom and focus ...
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Thursday, 01 September 2005
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Written by
Jerry Del Colliano
History
Since the first days of commercially available digital projectors, I
have been a convert. A mere four years ago, I owned an older Sony
seven-inch CRT video projector paired with the all-time classic video
processor, the Faroudja LD100. The picture looked smooth and film-like.
It also had no brightness, barely being able to light up a 100-inch 4:3
Stewart Filmscreen StudioTek 130 screen, and switching inputs was a
nightmare. Working on the projector required a professional technician,
which means that in order to keep the sucker converged, I needed a trip
from Dr. Feelgood every three to four months. While having a big screen
to watch hockey games was cool, the work needed to get such a video
picture was trying, to say the least.
All of this changed in 2002, when I invested in a
Madrigal Imaging MPD-1 video processor from Madrigal (parent company of
Mark Levinson, Lexicon and Proceed). The projector ...
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