kenshingintoki
Distinguished Member
What do you guys think are the next moves for the big 3; Epson, Sony and JVC? I think the projector landscape is going to get pretty exciting. LG and Samsung are now getting involved. LG's first showing of a projector is no slouch feature wise outside of the exclusion of 3D which for many would be a deal breaker. Samsung and LG otherwise are bringing all the bells and whistles re: lumen output and usability.
I really hope this year and next year there is a focus on lumen output for HDR performance and maybe some HDMI 2.1 future proofing (although I'm not completely sold this will be possible by release date).
My personal want list are:
JVC: higher lumen output, approaching 2000-2200 lumens, for better HDR performance, HDMI 2.1 if they want to do that.. and otherwise business as usual; I doubt they'll make their throw distance etc. more versatile.
Epson: DTM. again a lumen boost to match the LG would be nice, an improvement on contrast and blacks (!!!) please!; again I doubt this.
Sony: I have no hopes for them other than rehashing old products
My fear for JVC are they don't improve lumen count. I know they did it with the X5000 series so I'd love for them to do it again, to be able to support bigger screen sizes.
My fear for Epson is they will re-has and release the 9400 just with DTM. As a previous owner of the 9400, the 9300 and 9400 are ridiculously close that I struggle to call it a proper upgrade outside of 18gbps and a HDR slider. I'd like to see actual improvement to technology but not holding my breath.
I really hope this year and next year there is a focus on lumen output for HDR performance and maybe some HDMI 2.1 future proofing (although I'm not completely sold this will be possible by release date).
My personal want list are:
JVC: higher lumen output, approaching 2000-2200 lumens, for better HDR performance, HDMI 2.1 if they want to do that.. and otherwise business as usual; I doubt they'll make their throw distance etc. more versatile.
Epson: DTM. again a lumen boost to match the LG would be nice, an improvement on contrast and blacks (!!!) please!; again I doubt this.
Sony: I have no hopes for them other than rehashing old products
My fear for JVC are they don't improve lumen count. I know they did it with the X5000 series so I'd love for them to do it again, to be able to support bigger screen sizes.
My fear for Epson is they will re-has and release the 9400 just with DTM. As a previous owner of the 9400, the 9300 and 9400 are ridiculously close that I struggle to call it a proper upgrade outside of 18gbps and a HDR slider. I'd like to see actual improvement to technology but not holding my breath.