![]() ![]() But there you go.Īnother significant feature of the 65DS8DDJ is its DynaPix HD processing. Given the superb native contrast performance of JVC’s HD1 front projector, it seems strange to me that you should have to mess about with dimming the screen’s brightness in this rear pro incarnation. There is a slight catch with this contrast ratio, though, in that it’s only derived with the assistance of a manual iris adjustment, so that you can dim the picture to obtain a better black level. However, things perk up considerably with the discovery that the TV’s native resolution is a full HD 1,920 x 1,080, while its claimed contrast ratio is a more than respectable 10,000:1. Instead you have to set your Blu-ray player to convert its images to 1080p/60/50 for output. What’s more, these HDMIs are built to the v1.2 spec rather than the more recent v1.3, and so can’t handle the Deep Color enhanced picture format now output by a handful of devices – including, ironically, two of JVC’s own camcorders, the Everio HD5 and HD6.Įven more upsetting, the TV can’t read 1080p/24 feeds via its HDMIs, meaning the TV can’t accept the purest form of video output possible from the majority of today’s Blu-ray players. Having built the 65DS8DDJ up so nicely, though, I have to now immediately report a disappointment with the set’s connectivity: the presence of just two HDMIs. And in the ‘size matters’ world of home cinema, that argument surely still carries plenty of weight. In other words, unless you go the fiddly, hard to accommodate route of a front projector system, there’s simply no other way to get 65 inches of pictures into your living room without spending vast amounts of cash. For it’s in the combination of a vast screen size and low price (relative to what you’d pay for a similarly large flat TV) that the greatest continuing appeal of rear projection lies. And the particular digital technology inside the 65DS8DDJ is JVC’s own ‘D-ILA’ system.Įssentially a high-resolution refinement of Liquid Crystal on Silicon technology, D-ILA has delivered some sensational results in recent JVC front projectors (the DLA-HD1 and DLA-HD100), so we have very high hopes for what it might accomplish in this rear pro incarnation – especially since we gather the projector inside is essentially a tweaked HD1.īefore we start to get into the real nitty gritty of what makes the 65DS8DDJ ‘tick’, it’s worth pausing here for a moment to reflect on a couple more rather key up-front points: the TV’s 65in screen size, and its £2000 price. Now everything is digital, with no ‘convergence’ issues to worry about. What’s more, you can even get a very tasteful floorstand for the set that gives the impression that it’s hanging in mid air – an effect that actually fools your eyes into thinking you’re looking at a flat TV, not a rear pro model.Īnother big improvement for today’s rear projection models is that they no longer use the old CRT technology, which tended to have real problems when it came to correctly converging the separate red, green and blue elements of the image. For as well as being much slimmer than old rear projection TVs, the 65DS8DDJ is also much more glamorous, featuring an incredibly small (barely 1cm) bezel around the entire screen acreage, and wearing a nice modern-looking silver and black finish along the bottom. If when you think of rear projection TVs you conjure up images of those dismal black plastic hulks at your local pub in the late 1980s, with their murky picture quality, you’ll be pleased to know that things have moved on apace in the rear pro world. To reinforce this point, JVC actually does a wall mount kit for the 65DS8DDJ! All you need is a bunch of very willing mates to help, and the small matter of a wall able to handle the TV’s substantial 66kg weight. For in fact its butt-end only sticks out 29.5cm – a measurement that’s really not as far as you’d expect from the 10-14cm depths most ‘normal’ flat TVs still employ. While this fact inevitably makes the 65DS8DDJ fatter than any slim TV around, you might be surprised to find how little fatter it is, if you see what I mean. For not only is this 65in monster not one of JVC’s new ‘Super Slim’ flat TVs, it’s not even a flat TV! Rather, it belongs to that nearly extinct breed of TV known as ‘the rear projector’… With everyone’s attentions turning inexorably towards exceptional slimness in the TV world right now, JVC’s HD-65DS8DDJ is about as untrendy as it’s possible to get.
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