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Projectors => Premium Projectors => Topic started by: AVSMike on February 22, 2017, 01:25:48 PM
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A great opportunity to listen to several experts in the AV industry. Also the chance to see some of the latest products. Free registration until 2/28/17. $25 after the 28th and $50 at the door. Locations and dates:
March 11th & 12th
1 to 6PM
Denver Tech Center Marriott
4900 S. Syracuse Street
Denver, CO 80237
March 18th
1 to 6PM
Colorado Springs Marriott
5580 Tech Center Drive
Colorado Springs, CO 80919
Speakers
Chris Deutsch with JVC
Gregg Loewen with Lion Audio & Video
John Schuermann with The Screening Room
Brad Waite with The Screening Room
Kris Deering with Sound & Vision
Topics of discussion:
Decoding jargon: UHD, HDR, 4K, WCG
Projectors vs. flat panels
Choosing the right screen
How to get rid of black bars on movies
Speakers / room acoustics
Audio myth busting - science vs. snake oil
All about immersive audio (Atmos, DTS-X, Auro)
Proper room layout and seating distances
Registration e-mail: seminar@thescreeningroomav.com
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Hello all, and thanks Mike for posting info about the event! Here are more details on the Colorado Home Theater Seminars, described above.
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We have created a landing page with full details on guest speakers and presentation topics, with links for registration here:
http://www.thescreeningroomav.com/home-theater-seminars-spring-2017.html (http://www.thescreeningroomav.com/home-theater-seminars-spring-2017.html)
We have also created a Facebook event registration page here:
https://www.facebook.com/thescreeningroomav/app/467671603304208/ (https://www.facebook.com/thescreeningroomav/app/467671603304208/)
Our goal is to make this a FUN and INTERACTIVE event, NOT a dry and boring lecture.
PRODUCTS ON DISPLAY / AVAILABLE FOR DEMO
JVC DLA-RS4500 – the world’s first THX Certified Laser 4K HDR Projector
JVC DLA-RS620 – 4K E-Shift HDR projector with the industry’s best native contrast ratio
Stewart 2.35:1 Industry Reference StudioTek130 and 16:9 Phantom High Ambient Light Rejecting Screens
JBL Synthesis M2 Studio Monitors
JBL Synthesis S2S-EX Subwoofers
JBL Synthesis SDA8300 and SDA4600 amplifiers
Revel F208 Performa3 Tower Speakers
Revel C208 Performa3 Center Speaker
Revel M106 Bookshelf Speakers
Anthem AVM60 ATMOS Surround Processor
Anthem MRX720 ATMOS Surround Receiver
Oppo UDP203 UHD Blu-ray Player
Emotiva XPA3 amplifier
More detail on our presenters:
Chris Deutsch
Chris Deutsch is National Product & Training manager for JVC, as well as West Coast Accounts Sales Manager for the Projector category. He has been with JVC for 27 years. Over the years, home theater projectors have become his passion, and he travels coast to coast working with JVC distributors, dealers and end users.
Gregg Loewen
President of Lion Audio Video Consultants and Video Standards Instructor for THX Ltd. Lion AV consulted extensively with THX to design the THX Video Calibration Program, with Gregg being the worldwide instructor. Gregg has consulted with: Atlantic Technology, Outlaw Audio, 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros., Widescreen Review, Optoma, Pioneer, JVC, Panasonic, LG Electronics, Epson, SpectraCal, Consumer Reports, and THX Ltd. Gregg has personally performed more than 4,000 calibrations over the past 16 years!
John Schuermann
John has been intensely involved in both the professional and consumer audio / video worlds since the mid-1980s, as a filmmaker, sound designer, film composer, and home theater engineer. From 2008 - 2012 John was VP of Sales and Marketing for Panamorph and was responsible for training A/V dealers around the world about film aspect ratios and proper display of film formats in home theater environments. From 2012 forward,John worked closely with major Hollywood studios and various major consumer electronics manufacturers to add enhancements and improvements to UHD (Ultra High Definition) delivery formats and standards.
Brad Waite
Brad has been engaged in a number of aspects of both professional and consumer audio and video for nearly three decades. He is a member of the CEA (Consumer Electronics Association) and SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers). Brad was the founder and lead engineer for a respected home theater design and installation company with a national impact. His passion for making the application of technology approachable to non-tech-savvy clients led to numerous lectures and educational seminars. Previously, Brad was an early adopter of computer-generated imagery (CGI), long before the industry as we know it today existed.
Kris Deering
As well as being the Tech Editor and Lead Writer for Sound and Vision magazine, Kris Deering is also an Acoustics Engineer for the US Government and a popular and respected contributor to many popular home theater forums. Kris’s reviews of projectors, screens and electronics are considered by many to be definitive. In addition to his work at Sound and Vision, Kris has also contributed to Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity and other home theater / hi fi publications.
Thanks all and hope to see you at the event!
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Happy to announce another special guest at the seminar - Robert Keeler, VP of Sales with Stewart Filmscreen, who will be at our Denver events :)
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Very cool. I am just a couple hours away and I am hoping to make this event.
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Very cool. I am just a couple hours away and I am hoping to make this event.
Should be a good event, Chris. Also a good opportunity to see the RS4500.
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Hope to see any of you guys there! I will be arriving the day before and will do my best to ensure both the RS4500 and RS620 look their best. I know I've been to plenty of demos where I felt they weren't performing at their full capability, I'll be doing my best to ensure that won't be the case this time around!! Should be a lot of fun.
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Wish I could make it. It sounds like a VERY interesting event!
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Hope to see any of you guys there! I will be arriving the day before and will do my best to ensure both the RS4500 and RS620 look their best. I know I've been to plenty of demos where I felt they weren't performing at their full capability, I'll be doing my best to ensure that won't be the case this time around!! Should be a lot of fun.
I assume you will be running stock HDR curve and not custom curve on either machine?
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I assume you will be running stock HDR curve and not custom curve on either machine?
I am planning on doing custom curves on both of them. It will all depend on the screens/rooms used, but I plan on making them both look their best. Probably won't have a linker to use, so no DI, but see no reason not to use a custom HDR curve to match the setup.
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Very cool. I am just a couple hours away and I am hoping to make this event.
Cool! Here is a direct link for registration:
http://www.eventbee.com/v/tsrav
Free registration ends tomorrow night :)
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The RS4500 will be on a 153" 2.40:1 StudioTek130, and the RS620 will be on a 135" 16:9 Stewart Phantom.
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Is the RS620 being shown in a room/theater with ambient light? I'm just curious as to why it's being shown with that screen material.
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Is the RS620 being shown in a room/theater with ambient light? I'm just curious as to why it's being shown with that screen material.
The room has light colored walls and ceiling, but primarily we just want to show what a high ambient light rejecting screen can do. The Phantom is a new material and Stewart would like everyone to see it.
After being in the front projection business for 14 years - as a dealer as well as VP of Sales and Marketing for Panamorph for 4 of those years - I can say that only about 20% of the home theaters I've seen are really ideal for a screen like, say, a Studiotek 100. Media rooms are very popular these days, and a Phantom can be ideal for those kinds of applications.
Plus we'll have our StudioTek130 on display in the other room. We'll also have screen samples of just about every screen material known to humankind :)
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Hello all!
Due to some technical difficulties with the Facebook ticket registration tab not working properly on mobile devices, we've extended free registration through March 3, 2017 Here is the direct link to the registration page:
http://www.eventbee.com/v/tsrav
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Looking forward to meeting everyone!
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I suggest a drawing for the RS4500. :)
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Can it be a crude line drawing with pencil? ;)
Reminder everyone - TODAY is the last chance to register for free at the Seminar - no more extensions! Ticket price is $10 per person starting tomorrow. Here is the direct registration link - http://www.eventbee.com/v/tsrav - and here is the updated event flyer with details:
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Hello all! Here is our tentative schedule for the main Home Theater Seminar room at our Denver events, March 11 and 12, 1 - 6 pm. Please keep in mind this is tentative and may change. Also please keep in mind that there will be a separate "breakout" room without a set schedule you can visit any time during the 1 - 6 pm show hours.
1:00 - Introduction: What we will cover, introduce special guests Kris Deering of Sound and Vision and Gregg Loewen of Lion AV / THX
1:10 - Quick "Teaser" Demo of JVC DLA-RS4500, Stewart StudioTek 130, and JBL Synthesis sound system
1:15 - Introduction: Chris Deutsch of JVC - products on display
1:20 - Introduction: Robert Keeler of Stewart Filmscreen - products on display
1:25 - Brad and John of The Screening Room highlight audio products in both rooms supplied by JBL, Revel and Anthem
1:30 - JVC and Video Presentation #1 JVC projector technology, UHD, WCG, 4K
1:55 - UHD Demo
2:00 - BREAK
2:05 - Projectors vs. flat panels, more discussion of the latest video technologies
2:25 - How to get rid of black bars - aspect ratios
2:40 - Immersive Audio - Atmos, DTS-X, Auro - intro to JBL Synthesis and Revel
2:55 - Scope / 2.35:1 and Immersive Audio Demo
3:00 BREAK
3:05 Stewart Filmscreen and the big screen experience
3:10 Choosing the right screen material for the room and projector
3:25 Science vs. Snake Oil, plus discussion of the research undertaken by Dr. Floyd Toole and Dr. Sean Olive
3:45 Audio Demos / discussion
3:50 Home Theater Room Layout 1 - Video
4:00 BREAK
4:05 Home Theater Room Layout 2 - Audio
4:15 THX Video Calibration / Calibration - Gregg Loewen
4:35 Demos - UHD, Immersive Audio, Blu-ray
4:50 BREAK
5:00 Panel Discussion / Q&A, with Kris Deering (Sound and Vision), Gregg Loewen (THX), Chris Deutsch (JVC), Robert Keeler (Stewart Filmscreen), plus John Schuermann and Brad Waite of The Screening Room
6:00 End Credits roll :)
Main Seminar Room Equipment list:
JVC DLA-RS4500 THX Certified True 4K HDR Projector
Stewart Filmscreen 153" 2.35:1 StudioTek 130 Screen
Three JBL M2 Master Reference Monitors (LCR)
Four JBL LSR708i Master Reference Monitors (Side and Rear Surround)
Four Revel C763L Atmos Certified In-Ceiling Speakers (Height Channels)
Two JBL S2S-EX 15" subwoofers
Anthem AVM60 Pre-Amp Processor
Three JBL Synthesis SDA4600 amps
One JBL Synthesis SDA8300 amp
Oppo UDP203 UHD Blu-Ray Player
Kaleidescape Media Server
"Breakout Room" Equipment list (open for demos / discussion during show hours):
JVC DLA-RS620 Projector
Stewart Filmscreen 135" 16:9 PHANTOM High Ambient Light Rejecting Screen
Revel F208 Tower Speakers
Revel C208 Center Speaker
Revel M106 Bookshelf / Surround Speakers
Revel B112 Subwoofer
Anthem MRX720 Atmos Receiver
Emotiva XPA3 Amplifier
Please contact us directly at seminar@thescreeningroomav.com with any questions. Thanks!
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How many folks are signed up ?
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Right now close to one hundred, spread over the three different days. Saturday the 11th is getting prettty close to full, but we still have decent availability for Sunday the 12th and Saturday the 18th (Colorado Springs).
Thanks for asking!
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Be nice to get more opinions on the 4500, from people that have actually seen it in action, rather than just reading specs. :)
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Be nice to get more opinions on the 4500, from people that have actually seen it in action, rather than just reading specs. :)
Yeah, I know there were several that showed up that said they heard about the show from this Forum, so it would be nice if they would post a thought or two :)
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For anyone who missed the event don't forget that we have an additional seminar planned for this Saturday, March 18, in Colorado Springs. While the overall seminar schedule will be the same, this time we will have the JVC DLA-RS4500 and DLA-RS620 JVC projectors (and screens from Stewart) in the same room. Same is true for the Revel F208 / C208 / M106 surround system and JBL M2 / LSR708i / S2S-EX / C763L Atmos system. The Colorado Springs event will be from 1-6 pm at the Colorado Springs Marriott, 5580 Tech Center Dr, Colorado Springs, CO 80919. Chris Deutsch from JVC and Gregg Loewen from THX will be special presenters.
For anyone who attended the Denver event on Saturday, we'd like to invite you back to the Colorado Springs event at no charge. We found out after checking a few sound anomalies during our Saturday session that the JBL M2 Master Studio Reference Monitors and S2S-EX subwoofers were mis-calibrated. If you’d like another chance to audition these amazing speakers, please feel free to attend our Colorado Springs event this Saturday. Again, not a sales event - this is educational only.
Thanks to our friends at AV Science Discussions for letting us post about this! Here is a direct link to our Facebook event page if you'd like to sign up: https://www.facebook.com/events/1671605399799663/
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Yeah, I know there were several that showed up that said they heard about the show from this Forum, so it would be nice if they would post a thought or two :)
Primarily wanting to see/evaluate the JVC RS-4500 in action, I flew from Nashville to Denver for last Sunday's seminar. Not residing in CO and since I already own a JVC RS-600, Anthem AVM-60 and Oppo 203, plus lots of other gear, I wasn't a potential new customer prospect for John Schurermann and Brad Waite of The Screening Room. If I did live in CO, I wouldn't hesitate to engage them to consult/evaluate/improve my present media room.
The event was absolutely phenomenal and far exceeded my expectations! The topics covered were thorough and excellent! I subscribe to all the major home theater/audio mag's and A/V Internet forums and I've read a lot of articles on the topics they covered. But for the first time, I "got" several concepts I had previously struggled with, because of the quality of the slides and the various speakers' skill and patience in explaining them. The seminar started at 1pm, was supposed to end at 6pm, but ran over to almost 7pm because of Q&A from us attendees. Of course, the A/V demonstrations were as awesome as one would expect.
If anyone can get to Colorado Springs for the 3rd event tomorrow, Sat March 18, by all means do it!
So I want to THANK all of the speakers for the generosity of this free event, which had to cost someone some significant coin to arrange and put on. I'm a hotel developer/operator myself so I know those terrific display rooms at the Denver Marriott Tech Center were not free. They had to have spent a lot of time to haul all that gear there, set it up and then have Kris Deering and associates fly in to calibrate it and then break it all down again.
Chris Cargen
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Thanks for the post. We talked about this projector back in September last year. I received my RS4500 about a month and half ago. As I told you on the other forum, you are welcome anytime, to see my 4500. That goes for anybody else that can get to south central Kentucky. :)
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Primarily wanting to see/evaluate the JVC RS-4500 in action, I flew from Nashville to Denver for last Sunday's seminar. Not residing in CO and since I already own a JVC RS-600, Anthem AVM-60 and Oppo 203, plus lots of other gear, I wasn't a potential new customer prospect for John Schurermann and Brad Waite of The Screening Room. If I did live in CO, I wouldn't hesitate to engage them to consult/evaluate/improve my present media room.
The event was absolutely phenomenal and far exceeded my expectations! The topics covered were thorough and excellent! I subscribe to all the major home theater/audio mag's and A/V Internet forums and I've read a lot of articles on the topics they covered. But for the first time, I "got" several concepts I had previously struggled with, because of the quality of the slides and the various speakers' skill and patience in explaining them. The seminar started at 1pm, was supposed to end at 6pm, but ran over to almost 7pm because of Q&A from us attendees. Of course, the A/V demonstrations were as awesome as one would expect.
If anyone can get to Colorado Springs for the 3rd event tomorrow, Sat March 18, by all means do it!
So I want to THANK all of the speakers for the generosity of this free event, which had to cost someone some significant coin to arrange and put on. I'm a hotel developer/operator myself so I know those terrific display rooms at the Denver Marriott Tech Center were not free. They had to have spent a lot of time to haul all that gear there, set it up and then have Kris Deering and associates fly in to calibrate it and then break it all down again.
Chris Cargen
Wow, thanks Chris - that means a lot! It was great to meet you, and fun to participate in all the great Q&A from the crowd :)
You're right - it wasn't a cheap event to put on! Thanks to JVC, Harman and Stewart for helping out with costs - and thanks to discuss.avscience for letting us write about it here!