Best Home Theater Projectors Compete at VE Shootout. Find out Who Won.

BTW, apparently lasers do dim, but much more gradually than halogen and other incandescent bulbs used in traditional projectors. Many projector makers claim their laser-powered projectors will still be at around 70% brightness after 20,000 hours of use. So at that point, a recalibration would be in order but performance on most projectors would still be pretty good (assuming the rest of the unit holds up as well as the lasers do).

Excellent review. Well done. Trouble is when it comes to black levels the scores don’t properly match actual performance. It depends on the scene chosen especially when dealing with base-black levels. At 2022 MWAVE event, the Sony 7000 couldn’t show the base-black level that JVC NZ8 did. The SONY was essentially blank (solid black with no highlight detail at all.) As was explained by a Sony projector engineer who was commenting, they still had some tweaking to do for the next set of projectors or for a firmware update. See the Shane Lee VLOG to see it in real-time at that event as I did. Meanwhile, an excellent overview as I watched live too via Shane Lee. Waiting on Sony to fix base-black before I splurge on my next Sony projector upgrade. Hopefully, Sony will give me a reason to do this soon?

Sorry, the MWAVE event was shown live via Stop The FOMO vlog.

I turned this off about half way through after three false statements. Three strikes you’re out. 1) 4050UB and 5050UB better than cheap 4K laser, (unless you are not talking about LS12000, this is false) 2) 8K source input isn’t allowed on JVC, 3) NZ8 is closer to NZ9 than NZ7. I’ve been around all these projectors multiple times. I certainly do not agree with these statements.

Correction, the JVC NZ Series both 2.1 HDMI inputs DO accept 8K/60p and 4K/120p signals. Your statement is Wrong.

Hi Mates,
Congrats on good work 👏👏👏
Not much really good content about projectors at YT.

After seeing Your review I know, that I'm gonno get Sony VPL-XW5000ES.
Can You advise me some kind of good value motorized 150" screen for it?

These actual scores and breakdown show a much different story than is being presented on YT as JVC is being hailed as the king of projectors. As mentioned the 6000ES is much closer to the NZ8 than the NZ7. The NP5 is a great bulb based projector but interesting to see the NZ7 doesn’t seem to keep up with it in terms of overall score. The NZ8 is really in the 15k and above category for me which puts it out of reach. That said, the 5000ES and 6000ES are the two projectors I am leaning to in the lower priced tiers.

Jvc is the best

Value Electronic reviews are super biased!

Yes because I always watch movies by whipping my head back and forth violently… 😏