JVC LX-NZ3 Review: The Sub-$4000 Laser Projector!

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If you have followed the video-world, you have probably heard a lot about the latest picture technology, HDR, and particularly, HDR10. HDR greatly improves color and contrast. The brighter parts of the picture become much brighter, while the shadow-details in blacks get even closer to real-life. Colors are also richer with more variants in color. This all sounds great, but there is a catch for front-projectors. The HDR-standard wants the display-device to be able to output at least 1000 Nits. In other words, the metadata in the video-feed expects the display to be able to get really bright. For flat-panel TV’s this is no problem, but most front-projectors can produce about a max of 200 Nits — far short of the 1000 Nit minimum. JVC developed a system they call Auto Tone Mapping, which looks at the incoming signal and makes adjustments so the picture is best-suited for a front-projector. This is the same technology they use in all of their high-end front-projectors, all the way up to their $30,000 model.

For those of you who are contemplating a do-it-yourself installation of the NZ3, you’ll be happy to know it’s also compact in size and fairly lightweight. It’s just a shade over 13 pounds and it’s about 16 inches wide by 13 inches long and almost 6 inches tall. Coming from a company that has installed thousands of front-projectors, we like the fact the NZ3 has a large amount of both horizontal and vertical lens shift. You do not have to worry about getting it precisely centered on your screen to less than an inch since you can easily dial it in if you get pretty close. Since this projector is so easy to physically install, we expect many people will do a D.I.Y. installation. For those who purchase their NZ3 from Audio Advice, we will send you our exclusive tips-and-tricks guide on how to get the best picture for your system. Some early laser-based front-projectors were pretty noisy to keep the light engine cool; this is not the case with the NZ3 at all. In Eco-mode, which for most rooms will give you plenty of light output, it is almost inaudible at 29db. Even in full-mode for maximum brightness, it is only 34db which is pretty astounding. The NZ3 has two HDMI inputs, but HDMI 1 is what you’ll want to use, since this is the one that supports HDCP2.2 and all of its wide range of colors up to 4k at 60P. You can control the NZ3 with its included remote and JVC also gives you an RS232 input for home automation control systems.

If you have an older projector and you’ve been thinking about getting a new 4K model, or if you are considering moving to the fun of big screen home theaters, you should definitely have the JVC-NZ3 on your list. It’s just simply amazing that you can get a laser light engine and JVC’s great HDR Auto Tone Mapping with the stunning image that the NZ3 produces for well under $4000. We hope this review has given you a better idea on how this new JVC front-projector might fit in with your home theater or media room!