A lot of people are looking forward to Kris's hands on review. Not just the numbers, I am also very interested in his thoughts on the image, especially with HDR on his size screen.
I believe Kris has a 120" 1:78 Stewart ST100.
I have confirmed, the dynamic dimming feature was not shown Thursday, Friday or Saturday at CES. Laser dynamic dimming will make a difference and not just talking with fades to black.
Do you know if there is also a functioning mechanical iris like the current models in tandem with the laser modulation?Or is the mechanical iris fixed, but adjustable as an additional fine tune control over brightness only, such as -10 for hitting 16fl precisely, then the laser dimming is the only 'auto iris' type function after that point?If no mechanical auto iris, then contrast will not increase the lower the APL content is projected. That would be a slight shame.
Will this be available day 1 on production units when they arrive in the US?
Yes, it is part of the final firmware, but like the VW5000, I am sure that the RS4500 will get additional firmware updates to improve the projector, after shipping to owners.
This is great news Mike! Thank you. There's been quite a lot of conflicting information about this new projector on the various forums, and even some early AV magazine reviews (!) so I personally have mentally disregarded all of that and I am now simply waiting for Kris' review, including his what we can be absolutely sure will be accurate and reliable measurements of what we know for sure is the final production unit (go on say it SEEGS108 ), whereas the same cannot be said for sure about absolutely all other reported performance information to date, including not even just now at CES, and would like to helpfully recommend to anyone else who is concerned about things that they have read about this projector, that they might like to do so too... There's a ludicrous amount of conflicting information out there at the moment... It's not long to wait now, only a matter of days! Where even my own zero level of patience can extend to that! I alluded to this on another forum Mike, and you are absolutely correct here... It's worth mentioning that the SONY 5000ES took about 9 months worth of firmware updates to resolve all the issues at launch, and with this kind of early generation laser projection technology it should be expected that not everything will be absolutely perfect at launch, and there will be further enhancements to come via firmware updates. So excellent point Mike .
Maybe competitors are spreading fake news ! There are just too many pre - production models floating around. JVC should have spray painted " Pre - production " on the case, so there was no mistaking them for final production models!
I agree there's too much conflicting information out there at the moment and I think certain people have drawn conclusions too soon...
For those of us (including me) who don't have a "huge" screen, the brightness capabilities of the Z1 should be adequate.
I think you may be onto something there Craig, I could have sworn I saw "SPONSORED BY SONY" at the bottom of that German AV Magazine review of the JVC RS4500/Z1! IMO everything was fine until that German AV magazine review... That was the trigger here... And I have to say you can hardly blame everyone for reacting to that the way everyone did, what with it having the appearance of being a professional review in an AV magazine with lab data and thereby bona fide information relating to production units and authorised and approved by JVC... Where IMO magazine reviews should never be done with respect to a pre-production unit of any product in any industry, or at the very least make it extremely clear at the top of the 'review' that it's pre-production and hence not accurately representative of the finished product! Totally irresponsible if you ask me, but that's just my opinion Mike, you are a gentleman with respect to your glass-half-full perspective of the review, but IMO that is quite simply not a good review, but which is now understandable now that the whistle has been blown regarding it being a pre-production unit Indeed But playing Devil's Advocate here, given we are talking a whopping $35,000 is "ADEQUATE" really OK? Or would 'GOOD', 'VERY GOOD' or 'EXCELLENT' be more appropriate given the price tag? I can't answer that because IMO this is going to boil down to personal preference, and some peoples' personal preference might prefer the video performance of the new JVC RS620/9500 on 'non-huge' screens and save $25,000 in the process... Who knows? We were kind of hoping to be able to use the RS4500/Z1 projector for a very wide range of applications, including some outside-the-box-extraordinary-by-definition-type-applications involving "huge" 7 metre / 23 feet wide screens and the like, but we are now thinking that other possible solutions might be the better choice for these, such as for example using the new RS620/X9500, which is why I am very interested to see a side-by-side comparison versus the RS4500/Z1... I will be having many opportunities to see precisely this within the next few weeks or so, where I will be sure to post on here our findings, since I am sure others might find the comparison of interest... although we may not be the first to carry out such a direct comparison... But right now all I am thinking about is Kris' review... C'mon, c'mon!
Having owned a Sim Lumis - also a $ 35K projector, I can tell you that the Lumis wasn't any brighter than the the RS4500. But, no lamp dimming is a big plus in my book, as is the sharpness and clarity of a super good lens.
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