Very nice actually , not muted at all, very natural. So many projectors that I have seen, have blown out colours and oversaturated colours for HDR. It doesn’t look natural. This one feels like Rec709 colours but has that depth and richness. And the specular highlights are very good . Deep and inky
It’s exactly my expectations of HDR done right . Skin tones , skies, gold all look very natural. No eye fatigue . (Very important IMO)
actually I liked how they implement the iris mode from 1-10, instead of using dynamic iris. The dynamic iris option is like within the movie, u will suddenly see the brightness adjusted , dark bright dark bright, sometimes during the movie, can be very distracting.
This fixed iris mode instead, allows you to adjust from 1-10, and it stays. if you want maximum pop and brightnesss, can push for the high 10. Or medium at 5 or for purists probably 2
The overall brilliance. Dimming of the overall image. There is nothing wrong. In fact, this is tone mapping at work here. HDfury Vertex 2 did an overall good job. But you can see it sacrifice overall brightness abit.
It does approx 115 nits brightest. Damn bright when projected on 135”. What u guys are seeing is actually toned down version. As it is too bright, I switched to energy saving mode “maximum”, reduces light output .
Initially was on energy saving minimum, after watching, we get eye fatigue. Not good for the eyes long run. But pictures look great, popping and bright, but eyes sore. So have to be careful there with amount of light output . It’s like the OLED light feature
The other mode is the Iris mode, when wide opened, it is brighter too. But this mode, affects colour temperature at the same time, whilst energy saving mode doesn’t
The overall HDR picture mode has been calibrated to about 41 nits. Just nice I find. Deep blacks and no lost of shadow details. Looks very natural and no eye fatigue
This is always a good sign that you have managed to control stray lights well to really “earn” it. More often than not, when projecting an image beyond 120", many projectors tends to struggle with brightness and have to cranked up the IRIS to its maximum or use high output. But in the case of laser projector, user can choose to control the “intensity” of the laser illumination.
That’s one of the traits of laser projection in the past. I still recalled Sony VW5000ES with an iris shearing brightness when I auditioned it at Sound Decisions many years ago during launch. But now, most laser projection brightness has toned down to acceptable 2,000 plus lumens akin to a lamp based projector which is suitable for near distance home viewing.
Ya exactly like how desray has described, laser illumination. That’s a nice way to describe it
When we have so much light through to the entire 135” screen, it’s just too painful for the eyes, after a few minutes you will feel it
We can increase this to preference, but have to be careful with eyesight in the long run.
So I had to tone it down to exactly 5 + use energy saving mode to maximum to reach a comfortable level and balanced RGB throughout 5-100% greyscale
That’s also a good sign with energy saving mode, the lifespan of the PJ is extended as well. But seriously , 20k hours maintenance free, not sure when I can hit even 5k hours
I actually saw someone selling it at carousel for $5.8 new. I got mine at $6k new. Arghh… would have waited if I had known… but that’s ok. No choice, already bought .
Isn’t it funny when we come to think of it…Of the 2 (Movie vs Documentary industry) actually, advocated HDR? It almost always documentary or stock footages from TV manufacturers that got the most intoxicating HDR presentation. Movies, its a 50-50. Good ones are hard to come by and its done right, it is really good. Oft times, we hear the term, “Director’s intent”…by that it could mean a variety of things - ranging from the use of a heavy green hue like in Matrix to sepia tone in 300 and the list goes on. If HDR is anything to go by, it will shine when the colors are neutral like what we see in “nature” and that is why, it always fascinating to see HDR doen right in a nature’s documentary…
Those documentary are really good. Planet earth, tiny worlds, BBC, our worlds, so so good, educational, beautiful, good narrator as well to sum it all up, brilliant !
Another disadvantage of the pj is it doesn’t support 3D. But I’m not sure if it’s a disadvantage, I personally don’t quite like 3D. It’s nice for 5-10mins, after that u get a bit dizzy… lol
So ya, that’s about the only disadvantage I can find on this PJ now
The above picture was taken with iris lowered to 2, for deeper blacks. We can see how inky the beetle looks
Some reviews online says blacks are poor, totally not true. Deep and nice as far as my measurements go and viewing on screen confirms it
Superb dynamic range from whitest whites and blackest blacks, totally jaw dropping stuff
Actually my Sony still support 3D…I’m surprised to learn that your LG didn’t support because DLP is STILL the best for 3D because it can support higher refresh rate which minimize “ghosting” (parallax error). Furthermore, DLP-Link for 3D has been proven to be the best compared to other technology. It is a waste that your LG didn’t support it since 3D needs plenty of light output and laser has it.
3D if done right can be rather convincing and nice like Avatar. But many movies after Avatar did not do 3D right by the book…most just ride on the wave of 3D craze after Avatar and do what we called “3D post-processing” where the results didn’t turn out that well…akin to poor Dolby Atmos mix - some good, some bad…but if done right, it is pretty “convincing”.
And yes, many TV manufacturers have had announced their intention to drop 3D from their flagship TV moving forward…so I’m wondering what and how James Cameron will react to this move by the TV manufacturers since his Avatar series (comprised of 3 movies iirc) is currently in production…if only movie theaters are showing 3D and home consumers will no longer able to do that because TV manufacturers have decided to drop the tech. Who knows, James Cameron may have something up his sleeve this time or the new Avatar will “resurrect” 3D all over again? Just like vinyl?
Documentary is like always having nicer colours compared to movie. Now I really understand why LG (considering cost and pic quality) is a VFM pj to get and bro Ronlidoq is so happy about it. Cos I’m as glad as him hahaha
You can get the spectra cal C6 HDR meter from calman and the LG calman software. If you can share with friends, then calibrate and pass on the meter to the next person. That way you can save some cost buying the meter. U can also use it to calibrate, manually for other monitors etc
Then follow the workflow from calman, here explained clearly how to do it
A bit time consuming but this is the fastest way to get very accurate pics
The calibration technique for HDR is the best I have seen, don’t need any lumagen or HD fury unless u need to spoof for LLDV
Stick to the calibration workflow then turn on dynamic tone mapping post calibration
