JVC HD250 – Review Summary-2

JVC DLA-HD250 Projector - The Bottom Line

JVC DLA-HD250 Brightness

Very typical for an LCoS projector, the HD250 offers up a calibrated 650 lumens at midpoint on the zoom (more if placed closer, less from further – see the Performance page for details).

Placement flexibility is excellent, close to the best. the 2:1 zoom should work in just about every room. The only real limitation is that some projectors have a little more vertical lens shift. Only a very few projectors, like the Panasonic PT-AE4000 and the Epson projectors have a bit more vertical lens shift. JVC, though motorizes theirs, for convenience (lens shift as well as zoom and focus). By comparison, most projectors with lens shift, tend to have manual shift. As to zoom and focus about half of the home theater projectors sold out there have those motorized.

Fancy features:

The JVC DLA-HD250 projector has a decent, but not extensive feature set once you get pasted the fully motorized lens features. It does have a detail enhancement feature, but, as noted, lacks the Creative Frame Interpolation (CFI) that JVC’s higher end models have. The HD250 relies on Silicon Optix’ Reon-VX image processing, which is clean and highly regarded. It is used by the other JVC’s and many other fine projectors from other brands, including Epson and Mitsubishi. No issues there

The very bottom line:

The JVC HD250 is a great value, and for that we offer our Hot Product Award. This JVC is the first one ever, affordable enough to compete in our $2000 – $3500 Class, for Best In Class award. (Those will be out late August 2011.)

The JVC will be one of the most expensive in that class, but also definitely one of the best.

My original RS1 – the true forefather of the HD250, was almost $8000. I sold mine (cheap at the time) with over 2000 hours on it, for almost $3000. Today, you can buy a slightly updated version, so to speak, brand new, with a warranty, for the same price!