So should the 820 have everything set to it’s defaults when connected to an N7?
If not what are the adjustments required?
Good evening,
@Spooksta,
I use madVR now. But below are some notes that should help you,
- Basic Luminance mode in the UB820 (same as High Luminance Projector mode in the UB9000). The downside to the new colour profiles is the high/ basic luminance one does not use the colour filter, so you lose some colour saturation. This was done for those that are really needing every lumen possible and cannot or did not want to take the luminance hit. If you wanted to take full advantage of the full gamut coverage and you only have the UB820, you can use either SDR2020 output, which still does a great job. Or, you can use the basic luminance projector mode and turn the JVC to its auto tone mapping. The result should be very similar since it will be tone mapping to a fixed 500 nits.
- The 350 nit option is used primarily for enhanced colours with the native 4K JVC projectors. For other projectors there's really no advantage in using it over the 500 nit setting. Note that your projector does not actually need to produce 500 nits (or even 350 nits) on your screen, as a "multiplier" of typically 4 or 5 are for projectors in a bat cave.
In summary, your options are as follows:
1. UB820 Basic Projector Display Type (500 nits) with JVC High Luminance Colour Profile (500 nits).
- Results in a brighter picture as the JVC Colour Filter is not used.
- Results in some loss of colour saturation because the filter is not used.
2. UB820 SDR/ BT2020 mode with JVC 2.4 Gamma.
- No loss of colour saturation.
3. UB820 Basic Projector Display Type (500 nits) with JVC Auto-Tone Mapping.
- No loss of colour saturation.
NOTE: the advantage of the UB9000 over the UB820 is that you can combine the 350 nit UB9000 Projector Display Type with the 350 nit JVC Colour Profile and retain full colour saturation since the Colour Filter is enabled.
I am not sure about using the 500 nit UB820 Display Type with the JVC 350 nit Colour Profile.
NOTE: with the Panasonic player set to HDR output and the Optimizer turned ON, you will be applying tone mapping in both the player and in the projector. The only way to avoid that is SDR/ BT2020 mode. So, it is personal preference on what you think is better:
1. Panasonic HDR mode with Optimizer turned ON + HDR Auto or Custom curve in projector.
2. Panasonic SDR/ BT2020 mode with Optimizer turned ON + Gamma 2.4 in projector - this is the equivalent to what I do in madVR.
Very best with it and have fun,
fallinlight