JVC RS4500 (native 4K laser projector)

[lygren]

Any comments on motion handling?

Has anybody hooked a computer up to theirs?  Would love to see a picture of white text on a black background.

I read Ekki stated motion handling was not as good on the Z1 as the RS600 so I have tried looking for it... I guess you´d need moving test patterns to make out any shortcomings, as it seems to handle motion quite well on movies. I am not a FI fan anyhow, and as such the 24fps stuttering is probably making it hard to evaluate the motion quality, but I have to say this does really not seem as much of a practical shortcoming as far as I am concerned at least.....

[AVSCraig]

I read Ekki stated motion handling was not as good on the Z1 as the RS600 so I have tried looking for it... I guess you´d need moving test patterns to make out any shortcomings, as it seems to handle motion quite well on movies. I am not a FI fan anyhow, and as such the 24fps stuttering is probably making it hard to evaluate the motion quality, but I have to say this does really not seem as much of a practical shortcoming as far as I am concerned at least.....

I don't watch too many test patterns. I don't mind CMD on low, so I will check this as soon as mine arrives.

[AVSCraig]

I read Ekki stated motion handling was not as good on the Z1 as the RS600 so I have tried looking for it... I guess you´d need moving test patterns to make out any shortcomings, as it seems to handle motion quite well on movies. I am not a FI fan anyhow, and as such the 24fps stuttering is probably making it hard to evaluate the motion quality, but I have to say this does really not seem as much of a practical shortcoming as far as I am concerned at least.....

Any more thoughts or observations? I'd like to be able to make my own observations, but I don't even have tracking yet on my projector. So I'm living vicariously through you ! Maybe I'll watch The Wave on my RS4500 and see how it compares to watching it on my RS600.

[AVSCraig]

My RS4500 should arrive tomorrow or Friday from what I've been told - just in time for a rainy weekend install !

[lygren]

Any more thoughts or observations? I'd like to be able to make my own observations, but I don't even have tracking yet on my projector. So I'm living vicariously through you ! Maybe I'll watch The Wave on my RS4500 and see how it compares to watching it on my RS600.

Today I´ve been cutting V6 samples like crazy, heading to ISE this weekend and unfortunately very little time for further Z1 reviewing... Still, I can´t help paying it some quick visits, and today the last Transformers movie was playing - still in "RS600 vs Z1 / RS4500"-mode. This movie is typically oversaturated and grained, and I really see how the added light output from the RS4500 makes for a very nice added punch compared to the RS600. Colors are very nicely saturated, and grain is more visible on the RS4500 - which is what they´re supposed to be on this particular movie. I´d say the Z1 is fully capable of lighting the 14 ft screen, and while the RS600 actually also does an OK job in such regards, when you´ve seen the light - so to speak - you wouldn´t want to go back. You´re in for a treat!!

[AVSCraig]

Today I´ve been cutting V6 samples like crazy, heading to ISE this weekend and unfortunately very little time for further Z1 reviewing... Still, I can´t help paying it some quick visits, and today the last Transformers movie was playing - still in "RS600 vs Z1 / RS4500"-mode. This movie is typically oversaturated and grained, and I really see how the added light output from the RS4500 makes for a very nice added punch compared to the RS600. Colors are very nicely saturated, and grain is more visible on the RS4500 - which is what they´re supposed to be on this particular movie. I´d say the Z1 is fully capable of lighting the 14 ft screen, and while the RS600 actually also does an OK job in such regards, when you´ve seen the light - so to speak - you wouldn´t want to go back. You´re in for a treat!!

Good thing my wife doesn't read here, because while she is gone this weekend, not only am I going to install the RS4500, I think I'll paint a couple of walls with the Roscoe Super Concentrated Velour Black paint that's coming today, and move the seating ever so closer to the screen ! 

[AVSMike]

Good thing my wife doesn't read here, because while she is gone this weekend, not only am I going to install the RS4500, I think I'll paint a couple of walls with the Roscoe Super Concentrated Velour Black paint that's coming today, and move the seating ever so closer to the screen ! 

Be sure and rub out the old marks in the carpet, where the seats were sitting.

[TonyD]

Expecting delivery tomorrow on my RS4500. Looking forward to it. Will post some impressions.

[AVSCraig]

Expecting delivery tomorrow on my RS4500. Looking forward to it. Will post some impressions.

Same here - the freight company called that is delivering it - " a 97 lb. electrical appliance " they called it . Between 2 and 5 pm Pacific !

[AVSCraig]

Expecting delivery tomorrow on my RS4500. Looking forward to it. Will post some impressions.

It is like " expecting delivery " of a new baby ( projector baby that is ) !   

[AVSMike]

Same here - the freight company called that is delivering it - " a 97 lb. electrical appliance " they called it . Between 2 and 5 pm Pacific !

Hope they know it is a 35K electrical appliance and not a small cast iron stove.
Like Craig, mine shipped 72 hours ago, but I do not know when it is being delivered yet. Mine has to travel a lot farther than Craig's.

[DavidHir]

Good thing my wife doesn't read here, because while she is gone this weekend, not only am I going to install the RS4500, I think I'll paint a couple of walls with the Roscoe Super Concentrated Velour Black paint that's coming today, and move the seating ever so closer to the screen ! 

I did my whole room in it - awesome paint and Chad is always very impressed with it when he comes out.

[AVSCraig]

I did my whole room in it - awesome paint and Chad is always very impressed with it when he comes out.

What ratio did you mix it at ? 1:1 ?

[DavidHir]

What ratio did you mix it at ? 1:1 ?

You can mix it 1:1, but I didn't mix it.  It's a tad darker on the wall if you don't, but I only needed about 3.5 gallons for my room.

[AVSCraig]

You can mix it 1:1, but I didn't mix it.  It's a tad darker on the wall if you don't, but I only needed about 3.5 gallons for my room.

It's strange that I have read people complaining about how this paint goes on the wall if they didn't thin it a little, so maybe I'll go 1 part paint to .75 parts water and see how that works !