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"INCREDIBLE picture" on by rbmphoto
Pros: Picture quality
Cons: fan noise, slow to change inputs
Summary: What an incredible picture! Have had two rear projection Mitsubishi's over last 20+ years along w/ several tube versions, and planned (in fact purchased) to buy a 2007 65" Mitsubishi, but before I left the store realized that the JVC had a better (clearer, crisper, more detailed) picture. Mitsubishi has warm rich colors but suffers in side by side comparison. Returned/exchanged M for JVC and am thrilled. Plasma like picture, only rivaled by Sony.
Negatives are fan noise, slowness between inputs and the inability to save sceen settings for individual inputs.
What a sleeper!!! NO one will have a better picture w/out plasma... And this from a comfirmed Mitz fan.Updated
Loved the jvc, but bothered by fan noise which my wife didn't even notice. Traded in for a Sony 60A2000- what a mistake!!! THe majic of the JVC was gone, replaced by grainy, uninvolving picture, and this after extensive adjustments.
The got Sony XBR2, magic is back! JVC a 9, Sony a 10. Buy XBR2 if possible, if not, get JVC - not A2000. XBR2 and 61FN share common involving liquid magical picture, A2000 line may share some of the XBR technology, but not the wonderful picture. Love the JVC, do think the XBR even better - do buy this tv over A2000, you will not regret.Updated
Due to fan noise (which did not bother my wife a bit) swapped for a Sony 60A2000, what a mistake! Went from involving JVC picture to grainy uninvolving Sony A2000. Immediately swapped for Sony XBR2, the migic is back. Sony XBR2 a 10, JVC a 9, Sony A2000 a 5 or 60. Bets tv the XBR2, best value the JVC, both have involving liquid, datailed picture that makes you just want to sit there and go "wow" - Sony A2000 does not have that "wow" factor. If you can afford, and space permits, get XBR2, if not JVC 61FN shares magic. -
"Doesn't scale well with PC" on by VMJB
Pros: Beautiful picture. Does well with everything except PC. Upconverting DVD players scale perfectly.
Cons: 1920X1080 on a PC is scaled slightly outside the boundaries, losing the outer borders including START button and systray. This loss is equidistant all the way around. I have not tested with ATI or HDMI native card, only DVI->HDMI adapter.
Summary: I truly hate the fact that in order to see my entire desktop, I have to scale back the resolution to 1768 X 992. The picture suffers a bit from the drop and now I have an empty black border around 3 sides, though the top lines up to the edge correctly at this resolution. when trying to change aspect from the TV, you get the Ghostbusters "not allowed" symbol, so there is no way to change this via internal menu or nVidia scaling.
All reviewers must not have actually tried a PC at 1920 X 1080 as EVERY review states that it is capable, but no one said they actually did it. The VGA was used at lower resolution and looks terrible.
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"outstanding picture and sound!" on by conchyjoe7
Pros: picture and sound quality.
Cons: no independent settings for each input.
Summary: I've only had the set for 2 weeks, but I cannot imagine a better picture. LCos technology is IMHO the best at this time. JVC and Sony are the primary proponents of it, and they both make stellar units (Sony calls their iteration SXRD while JVC uses D-ILA). Despite CNET's take on the JVC sets, they are in the wide minority as The Perfect Vision uses the 70" version as their lab reference. This set has all the inputs one could normally want...2 1080p HDMI inputs along with a host of component, but the star of the show is the pic and sound quality which I find to be absolutely outstanding as well as all who have seen it. Of course it doesn't hurt to have the HD from DirecTv...Love it!
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"Tv came to me out of box/in rear of a van from a JVC service tech who stated it is new ." on by buckesduck
Pros: HD picture looks good.
Cons: Analog picture is poor/grainy/blurry. HD shows a little of that also. The remote is troublesome.
Summary: I am hoping that this TV is not the way all are. I hope it was damaged internally during shipping. It is my second JVC BIG SCREEN. Read my previous review on the hd 61g887. It was repaired 3 seperate times in 2 months.
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