What They Say
At CES 2022, JVC announced a new ‘entry level’ D-ILA projector built around an LCOS device that has a wire grid polariser and achieving a native contrast of 40,000:1 and dynamic contrast of 400,000:1. The light source is a 265W UHP lamp to produce 1,900 Ansi lumens. The projector will be known as the Precision DLA-NP5 or the Reference Series DLA-RS1100, depending on the territory it’s sold in.
The projector is listed at $6,999 in the US and will go on sale in March.
What We Think
I suspect that few other projector brands would consider a $7,000 projector as ‘entry level’. It’s perhaps even more surprising that it’s a lamp-based unit at that price. I like the look of the images from JVC’s projectors and this unit might win some more fans for the technology which usually has a very smooth and ‘flim-like’ image. (BR)
