My new Home Theater Projector - the JVC RS-10
It has been some time now since I have given away my Barco 801s Graphics and bought the JVC RS-10 projector. But I did not take the time to write about it on my blog up until now.
Why put away the Barco?
Well that is an easy question to answer; maintenance, performance, weight,size and noise.
Maintenance, because watching a movie on a barco just takes too much time. Every time you turn it on you need to wait a certain time before it is warmed up. Further, the CRT tubes 'drifted'. This means the convergence of the 3 tubes degraded over time and needed fine tuneing every once in a while.
Performance, because although the Barco supported resolutions up to 1920x1080 (which is full HD resolution) it was not able to give a picture which was full-hd worthy. It became a little fuzzy and stuff. True, the image was better than 1280x720. But it was no where near the crispness of Full HD. Further the light output of a Barco is relatively low. You realy need a light controlled room (fully dark:)) to enjoy the full potential of the Barco.
Last but not the least, weight, size and noise. The barco was not very small, light and silent. With 100cm x 60cm x 30cm it was not small. Weighing aproximately 70kg, it was not very light. And with all the 12cm fans in there, it was not very silent either...
The few things CRT's do have is superb color accuracy, long tube lifetime (10.000 hours vs 1000 hours) and great contrast ratio's. But once you have seen the pro's of the RS-10 they fade away real quick. Astonishing sharpness, near-crt black levels (35.000:1), leight weight and small dimensions realy made the choise easy.
Ultimately, the nw RS-10 delivers a realy great picture and gives astonishing performance. In a fully dark room and even in rooms with normal daylight (it does not perform well in direct sunlight though ;))
Conclusion: great projector!