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hi there David Katz Mara here from CNET and in front of me is the most expensive and also the nicest projector we've ever tested here this is the JVC dla X 700 R this is the second most expensive JVC projector for 2013 2014 it uses the company's new Egypt dila chips all that stuff as a mouthful so we'll start at the beginning this is not a 4k projector unlike some competing Sony units which are even more expensive than this one it uses JVC's egypt technology which takes the 1080p native pixels inside this projector shifts them slightly to improve picture density all things consider we didn't really consider that part of its technology all that impressive we'll get to that in a little bit but still it's an excellent projector overall feature wise it includes JVC's patented suite of excellent on-screen adjustments you can go and use the remote control to tweak stuff like lens shift all the other focus and zoom that you need to do to set up the projector so setup was really easy another thing I really appreciate it was the quietness of this projector it's really silent when it's running unless you're using the high lamp mode which most people in a home theater situation aren't going to want to use the projector can of course accommodate anamorphic lenses if you need to and it has lens memories to work with those lenses and get everything set up again in a pro level pretty much as good as you can expect this projector is THX certified it also has ISF modes so if you have a calibrator coming over which I definitely recommend with a projector that's expensive he or she should be able to get the ultimate picture quality again with your dedicated screen and dedicated room of course that's a downside of a projector like this you're going to need to buy a relatively nice screen to keep up with it and also have a completely dark room to get the best picture quality out of it once you do that the picture is superb this projector is definitely better than the step-down JVC that we looked at the X 35 although it's not leaps and bounds better the black levels are a little bit darker the one thing this does a little bit better than that projector is it gets the brights brighter so you get an even more punch in contrast despite keeping those excellent really deep black levels which again are as good or better than any projector we've ever seen combine that with the excellent color on this projector and you get really an eye-popping superb picture that's the equal of pretty much any other display technology out there except for maybe OLED we mention at the top where every shift really isn't a great improvement it does increase pixel fill so if you stand really close to the screen you won't see pixel edges if you turn it on but most people aren't going to sit close enough to actually appreciate it on the downside we did see a couple extra artifacts introduced by e-shift so I think that real video quality sticklers are one I'm going to keep it turned off on the flip side it doesn't have all the resolution that we'd expect from a 4k projector of course it doesn't have all the pixels either so again if you're going to invest in a projector this expensive you might want to know that the 4k projectors which a little bit more expensive even than this are going to give you better detail of course you'll only get that extra detail with 4k sources which at the moment are incredibly rare and of course there's no guarantee of those projections are going to match this JVC when it comes to black levels in color which are much more important than resolution anyway even on extremely large screen despite its expense over this projector does not include 3d capability in the box you're going to need to buy a separate emitter which is 99 bucks as well as separate glasses JVC's are pretty expensive at about 150 but this actually works with other third-party glasses that cost a little as 20 bucks as you can see the 3d emitter attaches right to the back of the projector here there's also two HDMI inputs rs-232 and Ethernet for mode control so beyond all those details the real takeaway here is this projector is superb it has excellent picture quality and that's really what you want to get if you're going to spend this kind of money of course if you don't want to spend this kind of money the step-down JVC projector is extremely good as well and again an extremely good value with less than half the price that's a quick look at JVC's dla X 700 our projector I'm David cat smart from Cena you