JVC DLA-HD1 Digital Projector - 700 lm

by JVC

Product Details

• Item Weight: 33 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 33 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000RO5JG4
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #309,962 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 25, 2007

Product Description

Introducing the world's first native 15,000:1 Contrast Ratio D-ILA Front Projector. The DLA-HD1 brings Full HD to your home with the industry's highest native contrast ratio. The "native" means that it does not rely on an iris mechanism to maximize contrast depending on the average brightness of one scene. This technical slight of hand employed on other projectors, effectively changes overall luminosity, so that blacks are slightly bleached in bright scenes, while light colors appear duller in dark scenes. There is neither an iris mechanism nor a compromise in the DLA-HD1 projector. D-ILA is a mature technology, perfected by JVC, which can reproduce the brightest, most vivid colors simultaneously with the subtlest shadows, down to the deepest, truest blacks. Only D-ILA can reproduce in full the rich image information contained in a high definition source, be it broadcast or optical disk

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars High Marks for JVC, What an awesome product the DLA-HD1, January 28, 2008

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K. Gross (Columbus OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: JVC DLA-HD1 Digital Projector - 700 lm (Electronics)

My family is in agreement, This projector is awesome. It delivers everything promised. Black levels are great. Picture is bright and crisp, especially with the Sony Blu-Ray player. This projector is a technological breakthrough to reproduce the picture and contrast of film cinema. We use in a controlled theater environment and it provides stunning performance. Although we are not video geeks, we appreciate fine filmmaking and this projector delivers the resuls we were looking for, although it is a bit expensive. After viewing for a couple of weeks, we are completely satisfied we went with the extra expense of this model.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible projector!, December 29, 2008

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Herbert A. Lane II (Memphis, IN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: JVC DLA-HD1 Digital Projector - 700 lm (Electronics)

I have been watching different content on this projector for a few weeks now. I paired it with a high contrast gray screen to improve blacks. The first few weeks, I watched standard def TV, HDTV, and DVD's. Obviously, the HD material looked great and even the DVD's had a nice look.

I finally added a Samsung BD-P2500 1080p Blu-ray Disc Player and grabbed The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe [Blu-ray], Speed Racer (Three-Disc Special Edition + Digital Copy) [Blu-ray], and Iron Man (Ultimate Two-Disc Edition + BD Live) [Blu-ray].

Speed Racer is full of color and apt to test the color gamut of most projectors. Red is one of the hardest colors to reproduce and this projector did an outstanding job.

Narnia has an incredible full spectrum of white snow and black and dark gray mountainous areas at the same time stretching the native contrast ratios. I could not have been more impressed being able to see fluctuations in the snow as well as detail in outcroppings of stone.

Iron Man is full of dark scenes and helps to separate the adequate from the amazing when you can see full detail in these clips. It makes me anxious to watch Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy [Blu-ray] in the near future.

I like the range of movement on the lens but the thumb controls for that are loose but since it is more of a "set and forget" type of item, I'm not worried. The added feature of front mounted air intake AND exhaust is a nice touch for those using enclosures.

I fully recommend this projector to anyone that enjoys watching movies. It might be a little overkill for watching TV right now but as the price keeps coming down, there isn't much reason to look elsewhere.