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[bbar]

Re E-shift - does this mean if one zooms and needs to re-focus that one needs to go into service menu each time and turn off e-shift?

[Owen]

Turning off E-shift allows the pixel structure to become visible making focusing easier.

[oztheatre]

Owen, on 22 April 2012 - 08:12 PM, said:

Turning off E-shift allows the pixel structure to become visible making focusing easier.

Focusing would be much easier if they numbered it! Like sharpness. realise each focus will be different according to throw, but at least with it being numbered you have reference point and know where the sweet spot is rather than messing around with it each time. Then again most are set and forget, mine gets changed all the time though.

[Owen]

Numbering would make it easy to return to a given setting, but in place of that a test disk is an option.
Some projectors hold focus remarkably well over a substantial zoom range so it may not be a significant issue

[Azz123]

I picked up my X70 Tuesday night, and got to watch a variety of content in 2D yesterday. BR, 1080p24 MKV, and some record FTA.
Throw distance is 6.45m in a 7.67m room which at this stage is only affected by minimal daylight. Evening it's effectively 100% light controlled.
Projecting on to a 150" 2.35:1 ScreenTechnics ElectriCinema motorised screen.

I've been using the zoom and lens memory function to handle swapping between 16:9 and 2.35:1 and with the memory it just makes it so easy.
Havent tried turning off the 4k eshift and comparing on vs. off - zooming for 2.35:1 with the eshift on the image is in my opinion superb. At this stage I've taken all thoughts of getting a lens off the table, it's just not required for the quality of image that I'm getting from a 1080p source.

Over on AVS there was several that suggested to run the X70 in THX mode out of the box for the first couple of hundred hours and this is what I've done - I'm extremely happy with the picture.

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Az that's excellent to hear. I was wondering too what thx mode was like on the jvc x7090 as very natural and pretty close to calibration on the epson. Good to hear out of box very good for you as well.

Excellent zooming is working for you to save cost / need of a lens.

Fantastic to hear have pj up and going. And with screen technics electricinema too I should compare notes offline how your finding it.

[Azz123]

Hi Al
Always good to hear from you and always happy to swap notes.

[blybo]

Anybody got some up to date pricing on these? SWMBO is softening her "we only replace broken equipment" stance on the projector... I'm not getting too excited yet as we would preferably like to redeem rewards for Hardley Norman or Dick Smith vouchers to make the purchase.

Is there a draught on stock? Or a new version around the corner worth waiting for