JVC DLA-RS1000/N5 & RS2000/NX7 Owners Thread

[AVSMike]

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[aadrt76]

I am no owner yet but would like the expert opinion on what I could get. 

I have a dedicated home theater and my first ever projector is the JVC 4910 that I currently have for about 4 years. 

I am wondering if I should jump to 4K with the new projectors that just came out. 

1. My screen is a 235, Da-lite HD Pro 1.3

2. My viewing distance is about 13 feet 

3. Will be moving to the Panasonic 820 

Based on this what is you recommendation of 1. Keep the 4910 2. NX5 or 3. NX7. 

I don’t want to go to NX7 if it really won’t help me much with my situation and also really don’t want to move up from 4910 if my conditions won’t show anything significant. 

Any help here would be very much appreciated. Is there any missing info that I failed to provide? 

[Dylan Seeger]

I guess it depends on what you plan on watching. If you plan on watching a lot of 4K content, then the N7 makes a lot of sense. It should be a nice step up over the RS4910. More brightness, sharpness, color capabilities and it natively supports HDR.

[aadrt76]

I guess it depends on what you plan on watching. If you plan on watching a lot of 4K content, then the N7 makes a lot of sense. It should be a nice step up over the RS4910. More brightness, sharpness, color capabilities and it natively supports HDR.

Thanks Dylan for a quick reply. All I watch is movies and nothing else on in my theater. If I get a new JVC the. I would certainly go for UHD player 4K Apple TV etc. with that and my screen size and view distance do you think the NX5 would be sufficient? If the NX7 won’t do much for my situation then I don’t want to go that route. Thanks once again !

[AVSMike]

I am no owner yet but would like the expert opinion on what I could get.

I have a dedicated home theater and my first ever projector is the JVC 4910 that I currently have for about 4 years.

I am wondering if I should jump to 4K with the new projectors that just came out.

1. My screen is a 235, Da-lite HD Pro 1.3

2. My viewing distance is about 13 feet

3. Will be moving to the Panasonic 820

Based on this what is you recommendation of 1. Keep the 4910 2. NX5 or 3. NX7.

I don’t want to go to NX7 if it really won’t help me much with my situation and also really don’t want to move up from 4910 if my conditions won’t show anything significant.

Any help here would be very much appreciated. Is there any missing info that I failed to provide?

What size is your screen? I also shot you an email.

[aadrt76]

What size is your screen? I also shot you an email.

Sorry. I have a da-lite 235 screen HD Pro 1.3 which is 133”. 

[AVSMike]

Sorry. I have a da-lite 235 screen HD Pro 1.3 which is 133”.

Okay, the 16:9 area based on full width of your screen is 58.43SF. So with your current projector, with a new lamp was able to give you a max brightness around 22FL. A new RS1000/2000 would be able to give you a max brightness around 36FL. Based on your screen size and gain, I would look at the RS2000. You would be able to use the DCI P3 color filter and HDR tone mapping to get a superior image over the RS1000. 

[aadrt76]

Okay, the 16:9 area based on full width of your screen is 58.43SF. So with your current projector, with a new lamp was able to give you a max brightness around 22FL. A new RS1000/2000 would be able to give you a max brightness around 36FL. Based on your screen size and gain, I would look at the RS2000. You would be able to use the DCI P3 color filter and HDR tone mapping to get a superior image over the RS1000.

Thank you so much Mike. Learnt one more information today. I will contact you regarding purchase. Appreciate the help from this forum. 

[AVSMike]

Thank you so much Mike. Learnt one more information today. I will contact you regarding purchase. Appreciate the help from this forum.

You are welcome. Let me know if you have any other questions.

[Sparky]

Does anyone know if JVC is conservative with their projector calculator recommendations?

I have an NX-5 coming in tomorrow and at my throw distance it says I can get up to 100" screen in a 2.35:1 AR, at a 132" throw distance.  

I was hoping to get a 110" screen for this projector (Stewart ST130 1.3g @ 110", 2:35:1 AR).  

My RS420 and 520 had no problem filing up my 110" 16:9 screen.   

[Manni]

Hi Sparky,

The new models have 4K panels, so I wouldn’t expect more than the specs, that are given when using the whole panel, not just the UHD part of it.

So depending on whether you want to use UHD or 4K, I wouldn’t get a larger screen until you can see what you can fill with your new unit, especially if you need some amount of lens shift in both directions.

Also there is unit to unit variation, so the specs are probably on the safe side.

I guess you’ll see when you get your N5 in...

[Dylan Seeger]

I talked about this in my review. The throw ratio with consumer video content (HDTV and blu-ray) will actually be ~6.5% less on these new JVCs due to the native 4K (not UHD) panels being wider. So you'll always have black bars on the sides of the image. You'll need to zoom out just a bit more so those black bars spill over the sides of your screen.

[Sparky]

Now that the NX5 is up in my HT I can clearly see that I cannot go any larger than my 100" screen at my 133" throw distance, the 520 would give me about 110".  I am really impressed with the overall size of these new models.  

Manni, I will be doing what you do an have manual masking for my scope movies.    

[Barry]

I have a barand new JVC 3000 and have followed this thread, we have the same instruction booklet. Thanks, very intersting.

[tebling]

First post on this forum, and thanks to Dylan am now a member of the RS2000 club!  It replaces our much loved RS4910.

(copy paste from my post to the "other" forum)

There were no problems that I could spot during setup and installation, which was easy with the Chief mount. Convergence was only off by 1 pixel in red. I have a Panasonic UB820, and for the HDR profile I decided to first try Kris Deering's recommendation (from his NX9 review) of using the "double tone mapping" (HDR optimizer on + HDR gamma on the projector) as opposed to using the Panasonic color profile.

I won't be writing an in depth review now, but it clearly outperforms the RS4910 in brightness, color, detail, and motion. I haven't used it enough to notice any difference in contrast. Watched some HDR scenes from GotG 2, Wonder Woman, and The Greatest Showman. Everything looked far better than my attempts at UHD content on the 4910 with SDR2020 from the 820, custom gamma curves, and the HDFury Vertex. So nice to have a video chain that finally Just Works! SDR also looked fantastic, watching an episode of BBC's Frozen Planet.

Question regarding automatic switching of profiles based on HDR / SDR: if the projector is still on the HDR profile when shut down, should it automatically return to the SDR profile when powered back up given SDR content?  I've only tested once, but this didn't happen (the projector was still in the HDR profile from the last session, despite receiving SDR content).  I'm wondering if I need to keep my HDFury Vertex just for more reliable profile switching.

In any case, I'm incredibly pleased with the projector based on the limited time I've had with it so far! I feel like I need to re-watch all my UHDs now