I’ve never called mine a dedicated room. But it is seperate to the main living room and is light controlled with dark grey walls and a black ceiling. And it’s dedicated to movie watching and music listening if that’s what a dedicated room is.
JVC owners are a very passionate bunch - and I expect that I will join them again when the new range comes out
however there is a reason why Epson has sold a gazillion of these things - they are really good
from the use you are describing it sounds like the Epson may well be the way to go
and once you see the image current PJ's throw you will watch a lot more than a movie a week I will bet - I have 1800 hours on my 9300W in just under 2 years and still love the picture produced
I'm sure most of us would like a JVC, but they've priced themselves out of any potential upgrade for me. Not quite sure why they decided to go down this route over the last few years. Wasn't the X35 £3k. They sold well at the time. Now they have nothing in this price range. Strange decision.
the sound side of my kit wasn't cheap but tends to get upgraded pretty infrequently so for the usage represents good value for money taking into account residual value
display side is a lot more pricy and prone to more frequent change - hoping the next PJ will last longer than my usual 2 year cycle especially at the price of the new JVC range - by the time I sell the 9300W I suspect I will be at 75p per hour but I cant say I have or will ever again thought of "valuing" AV kit that way
Yeah I know what you mean. A bit like you I've managed to keep my PJ a lot longer than anything else. I'm not going to waste my money on small incremental improvements that each year seems to bring. It's getting close now though as I reckon the 9400 would be a (hopefully) noticeable upgrade.
Yeah I know what you mean. A bit like you I've managed to keep my PJ a lot longer than anything else. I'm not going to waste my money on small incremental improvements that each year seems to bring. It's getting close now though as I reckon the 9400 would be a (hopefully) noticeable upgrade.
Yep, pretty similar to me. I don’t change my displays that often, even the main TV.
It’s a good calculation for me so I can work out how much use I actually get. And spending 5k to watch one movie a week just doesn’t cut it.
you need to use the PJ for more than 1 movie a week
I am admittedly very sad but I use my Epson for blurays, sport on TV, Netflix and amazon so henc15+ hours a week use on average
in my view would be a bit of a wasted opportunity to buy a PJ as good as the 9400 (based on my experience with the 9300) and restrict your pleasure to 1 movie a week
Saying one movie per week is the easiest way to guess the use. Sometimes more, sometimes less. I’ve recently signed up to Netflix so it may well get a little more use. Not enough to spend around 5k though.
Just realised that I havn’t watched a movie since around May time. I put this down to the good, hot weather and barbecues. And these past 6 weeks or so I’ve had nothing to sit on