JVC v3.50 firmware

[AVSCraig]

The auto aspect ratio feature on the Lumagen is slick with a scope screen - although the HDR dynamic tone mapping is the real meat and potatoes.  

[Barry]

I have the new 3.52 firmware And I have had it for a week. My Macintosh 170 and my Apple tv Among other components had trouble with the handshake. That is I got nothing on the screen. Macintosh did upgrade their firmware and then we called JVC and they sent over the beta version. Finally, The components are linked. The only problem I have had, on one occasion, what is my Verizon cable did not link. I then went to HDMI 2 On the projector and then immediately returned it to HDMI one and the picture came back. Again they told us this was the beta version and I suggest that if you are not having trouble with your handshaking not to bother

[Franin]

Ive asked before in the other thread but no luck. Ive reached around 1000 hrs and have had no issues with Theatre Optimiser Mid until now. We watched the SW AOTC Ep 2 and there is a scene where Anakin and Padme are in the lake house at night. That scene was quite Dark I noticed it straight away there was an issue. I reverted back to Auto ( 5 steps ) and it was fine. I tried again this time with the matrix ( The deja vu scene The Cat ) and once they start running upstairs it was quite dark. When I reverted to Auto it was perfect. I remember both of these scenes and they were never that dark. My son even noted it as well. Any ideas why that would be the case ?
Personally I believe they should not have a selection in TO ( Low Mid or High ) it should of just been TO where you put in your details and it works within the range between high and low. Who knows maybe next update. For now Im going to have to rely on the metadata and use Auto which I find the 5 steps does a much better job than the previous 3.
Im hoping at the end of the year Im able to purchase a Lumagen, 🤞

[DLCPhoto]

Ive asked before in the other thread but no luck. Ive reached around 1000 hrs and have had no issues with Theatre Optimiser Mid until now. We watched the SW AOTC Ep 2 and there is a scene where Anakin and Padme are in the lake house at night. That scene was quite Dark I noticed it straight away there was an issue. I reverted back to Auto ( 5 steps ) and it was fine. I tried again this time with the matrix ( The deja vu scene The Cat ) and once they start running upstairs it was quite dark. When I reverted to Auto it was perfect. I remember both of these scenes and they were never that dark. My son even noted it as well. Any ideas why that would be the case ?
Personally I believe they should not have a selection in TO ( Low Mid or High ) it should of just been TO where you put in your details and it works within the range between high and low. Who knows maybe next update. For now Im going to have to rely on the metadata and use Auto which I find the 5 steps does a much better job than the previous 3.
Im hoping at the end of the year Im able to purchase a Lumagen, 🤞

I think you're seeing an example of where the basically quite good DTM of the JVC's will fall short in some situations.  I found the same thing on my NX7 (although that was with pre-TO firmware) on a regular basis, and while the overall performance of JVC's DTM was quite good, I was frustrated knowing that some movies and/or scenes would benefit from tinkering with settings.

This is one of the reasons I ended up getting the madVR Envy (in addition to needing/wanting the Aspect Ratio control, especially helpful with the DCR A-Lens in use as well).  It handles everything I've thrown at it so far extremely well, and I no longer feel the need to 'tinker' with the settings.  I just sit back and watch the show.  The Lumagen would provide a similar benefit, but after due consideration, I opted to go the Envy route.

[Franin]

I think you're seeing an example of where the basically quite good DTM of the JVC's will fall short in some situations.  I found the same thing on my NX7 (although that was with pre-TO firmware) on a regular basis, and while the overall performance of JVC's DTM was quite good, I was frustrated knowing that some movies and/or scenes would benefit from tinkering with settings.

This is one of the reasons I ended up getting the madVR Envy (in addition to needing/wanting the Aspect Ratio control, especially helpful with the DCR A-Lens in use as well).  It handles everything I've thrown at it so far extremely well, and I no longer feel the need to 'tinker' with the settings.  I just sit back and watch the show.  The Lumagen would provide a similar benefit, but after due consideration, I opted to go the Envy route.

I’ll have to agree. I guess will see if  JVC can do another update to improve what they have especially with the TO. But what they have is still okay just requires some tweaking.

I’m hoping to get a lumagen at the of end of year. I’ve read nothing but good things about the tone mapping and other features

[AVSCraig]

I’ll have to agree. I guess will see if  JVC can do another update to improve what they have especially with the TO. But what they have is still okay just requires some tweaking.

I’m hoping to get a lumagen at the of end of year. I’ve read nothing but good things about the tone mapping and other features

I've been extremely pleased with the Lumagen tone mapping. And other features. 

[Franin]

Tonight I did some more testing with Theatre Optimiser and I’ve been using scene by scene. Anyway I changed it back to Frame by Frame and  the scenes I had issues with were perfect. So scene by scene with TO can cause issues. How and why ? Who knows. I was kinda bothered by it to be honest I didn’t think between those two settings it did anything but looks like it does.