FS: 61" JVC D-ILA HDTV Calibrated!
I'm selling my living room TV. It's the JVC HD-61Z886, 61" LCOS HDTV. The website for the specs are here:
http://www.jvc.ca/en/consumer/archiv...odel=HD-61Z886
I'm selling this because I'm upgrading to the 70" version of the same TV. There's simply too many people over on hockey nights, and I need to move up so I can have people around the corners and get the same viewing experience as the guy in the middle.
I've owned many TV's, and this is by far my favorite. The room it sits in faces about 14 windows (not kidding haha) and is constantly bombarded by the sun. This is the ONLY TV, after trying about 8 different models, that you can still see with the sun shining DIRECTLY onto the screen. It's a bright motherfucker! The only downside to this brightness is that at night, it's tough to watch with all the lights off. You'll be crying after about half an hour from eye strain, so you HAVE to watch this TV at night with surrounding lights on. This TV is perfect for people who want a huge TV in a bright room, but didn't consider rear projection because they can't be viewed with too much sun. You get brightness that surpasses most flat panels, and a good price/size/performance ratio of rear projection.
Here's a review of the TV when it first came out.
http://www.hometheatermag.com/rearpr...ontvs/1204jvc/
As with all the other TV's I've sold, this TV has been white balanced and calibrated by me (costs about $700 to do all the inputs by a ISF tech), so plug in any source and it'll look amazing. The perceived contrast ratio on this TV isn't as rich as the SXRD, it sits somewhere between the Sony LCD rear projections and the SXRD (closer to the SXRD).When I fired up the HD-61Z575, the first thing I noticed was the blinding light. Searing a 16:9 box into your retinas seems to be the HD-61Z575's primary goal. After a brief setup process, this TV measured 166 foot-lamberts. To put that in perspective, movies at your local theater are around 15 ft-L (if you're lucky), and a bright direct-view TV could be upwards of 50 ft-L. Even some of the brighter microdisplays barely break 100 ft-L. And, because LCOS doesn't burn-in like plasma or CRT, it can do 166 ft-L all day long every day until you need to replace the bulb.
What can you do with this much light? You can use the HD-61Z575 as a flashlight. It only weighs 98 pounds, so shining it around isn't too difficult if you work out, as I do. Try doing that with a 61-inch plasma. (The last one of those we had in for review weighed almost as much as I do. I lied about working out.) The end result of having the light output of an arc welder is a contrast ratio that's pretty good for a microdisplay.
Asking price on this TV is $2200. Taking my time selling this, cuz the 70" is on backorder right now.
Pics of the beast. Excuse the blurryness, didn't have a tripod haha. Colors are actually more vivid than the pics, camera just can't capture how it looks accurately.
Scene from Kill Bill
HD Hockey (Flames @ Coyotes)
Pic with flash so you can see what TV physically looks like
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