Of course if your panel alignment is very badly off, you may have to use it. While it might not be so obvious in certain scenes, it will be very obvious in others. It is important not to use panel alignment as it is a digital correction that will cut your resolution in some of the chroma / colour channels. More about this in much more detail here. So essentially the resolution is now around 1080p x 3 (remember that 4K is 1080p x 4). It made things quite a bit sharper and nuanced for UHD Blu Rays that had a 4K DI, and especially if they were mastered from an 8K source. So what Epson did was update the firmware to flash the panels in-between the two existing positions and improve fine detail and sharpness even more. This makes a huge difference in perceived sharpness compared to JVC’s 1080p to 4K e-shit for example (although it also impacts their 8K e-shift on their new projectors because of the native filtrate that’s present without shifting already). Also, since LCD pixels are smaller than say DLP or JVC’s DILA pixels, the pixels are more defined even when shifting them twice. The new processor allowed Epson to make pixel shifting a lot more precise, reduce blur and improve sharpness. I was specifically looking out for this change, because Epson included a custom pixel shifting processor in these new models. While Epson didn’t advertise it anywhere, they released a firmware late last year whereby they updated the pixel shifting in 24p material to flash the panels 3x as opposed to 2x. Tip 1A: Update Your Firmware – Pixel Shifting now shifts 3x There are many reviews online, so I wouldn’t want to repeat the same old here but I thought I’d share some tips and tricks for those that own this projector. In any case, the Epson has not skipped a beat and has been an absolute workhorse. Their second-gen native 4K units should behave better hopefully. This is not to say JVC isn’t trying to improve things, but switching to a first generation JVC in a new chassis is always risky – and in fact a lot of quality control issues have been reported for these new units through the dealers. Interestingly, support was great back in the UK and made up for the issues with quality control. I got fed up with JVC’s quality control and awful support in Australia. I have owned the TW9400 / UB6050 for the last two years after owning about 10 JVCs.
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