There aren't many active projector forums in the UK that I know of. You might have thought JVC would themselves keep a close eye on this one, or at least close enough not to post a video previously posted just a few posts up. Come on JVC, do more...
The Sony 760 has issues, panel uniformity being the most obvious (I gave it a bit of a harsh review here in order to steer people towards what to look for when buying). A poor machine will give quite a strong blotchy colour cast to black and white and desaturated images. There is scope for JVC to improve upon the Sony's performance, even if the 'headline' features such as resolution, contrast and brightness are similar.
The service hack for the Sony 760 addresses a problem which is visually similar but not otherwise related to the panel uniformity issue. I can't speak for other Sony projector models, my experience being with two 760's (one returned, the other accepted with reservation) and JVCs (which have shown excellent uniformity). I've uploaded an image - although it's not a quality screenshot, nonetheless it shows the green/magenta staining very much as it appears to the eye on grey (or desaturated) images from the PJ I returned.
Wow, that is bad! I have never seen such bad uniformity. Are they slapping these things together to meet demand (which is apparently high) or what? None of the projectors I owned have ever been like that. Do you have a picture of your current one for comparison?
I'll see if I can take something later half decent that isn't misleading. The replacement is better - the colour tinge to a desaturated image becomes apparent after looking at it for a while - just the way our brain works - rather than being obvious.
My advice is to turn the colour or saturation to zero in the menu, and watch some stuff (as though it were a black and white movie). If the tingeing is in your face, then it's a bad one. If it takes half a minute or so to be noticeable as your eye/brain adjusts, then that's liveable with, and if it stays black and white, then good stuff.
I wonder if it might be different this year. Stocks appear to be drying up already as some have mentioned; and you'd imagine once 4K cat is out of the bag they're going to struggle to sell anything older. I can't see that they're going to want to sell nothing for the next couple of months.November normally I think but will be a lot of demand if they are all new and 4K with normal JVC contrast levels
From memory November / December time.What time of the year do new JVC models usually become available? I am hoping to replace my HD990 early December.
Martin
This was posted on another forum:
Probably refers to the 4k eshift model (faux8K)
I wonder if that will also have a better lens than the 4K models. You need a better lens for an eshifted image over the native res, so the same rules would apply I would have thought, unless the 4K lenses are better than is needed for the 4K models and will be adequate for the eshift model.
Looking tentatively at changing to a 760 after my 550, but the uniformity on my 550 is great and I am now nervous I could get a 760 that does not match it.
A X5950 with Eshift6 rev99aagreed but if they re going to supply what could be very high demand world wide on an all new machine theyd better be making em now
but then again if there are no new X5900 being made what are they making now?
I do prefer laser to lamp,
Stick with your 550. The margin on the 760 is huge and prices will come down for similar machines. If you did take the plunge, insist on viewing it very carefully at the dealers. In particular, make sure that the service adjustment has been made. Check the quality of the optics and look for the uniformity issue. I would thoroughly recommend that you go to RickyJ. My dealer is decent enough, but in retrospect I'd have gone with someone who has greater interest and expertise.
Hi Gary, can I ask why this is? Is it the long steady light output or does it offer other PQ advantages?
Martin