JVC’s GD-463D10 vs Panasonic TC-P50VT25

[Michael Carn]

We're demo'ing JVC at the moment.

The JVC is a pleasure to look at and the passive glasses make the job a lot easier. The only issue I see at present is resolution. Because it presents half of each image at the same time.

Also wondering about the colour representation, how good is it? We haven't been able to get it calibrated yet.

Has anyone has been using it for colour grading 3D content and could provide some feedback?

Is it's worth the extra money over the new Panasonic?

We demo'ed the 15" TV Logic active monitor just released. It's good for in the field. But trying to grade with active glasses was a pain in the ass and the eyes.

The JVC is about US$7,000. The Panasonic $2,500. Is lack of eye strain and fumbling in the dark worth the difference??

[jonnycom]

Can the JVC do HIT for footage shot parallel? Basically slide one eye left or right to change the convergence point.

If doing anything professional you should be using passive. it's impossible to see anything in the room when you have active glasses on.

We use Hyundai 46" and are pretty happy with them. Both Sony and Panasonic have new passive monitors coming out and we will get a few of one of them just not sure which, guess we should look at the JVC as well.

[Michael Carn]

We're using Scratch to adjust the images. Putting it through the BlackMagic 3d Pro to the JVC.

Haven't had a look at if it can do HIT. Will do tomorrow. I would think you wouldn't want to change the way the images hit the screen on the monitor, but I suppose if the two streams coming into the TV are out then it could be helpful.

[Jeff Kilgroe]

I went with the 50" VT25 over the JVC. First of all, I'm glad I didn't buy the JVC 4 months ago when I made my decision. It has dropped in price by nearly $2200 since then and I expect it will continue to drop.

Personally, I couldn't stand the interlaced or alternating polarized lines for 3D. I had to be about 18ft away from the display to not be completely annoyed by them. Overall, the color rendition is good and I really liked the panel outside of that. I would prefer passive glasses over the active ones, but so far am happy with the VT25. I do however rarely use the glasses or 3D functionality at this point. Hopefully more this coming year.

@ jonny -- I really don't know of many displays or transcoding devices (saw your question in the Hi5 3D thread) that do HIT or can adjust convergence. The only time I can even imagine that being relevant is if you need to do a final tweak for a live show or something on a delivery end, such as if you're running live feeds for stereo to displays at a concert or something. Otherwise I would think you would be doing all the adjustments in your NLE, compositing and finishing software. The VT25 doesn't offer this, and to my knowledge, the JVC does not either.

[jonnycom]

HIT is necessary if you are shooting parallel and want to view on set. I believe the new Panasonic 25" can do it but am not sure if the Sony can. As we are shooting pretty much everything but slo-mo parallel I would like our small monitors to be able to do HIT. I will know more when my friends get back from IBC.

[jonnycom]

Also for on set the small 8" TransVideo anaglyph can do HIT but it cost as much as the Sony and Panasonic which are both 25" xpol's.

The consumer passive TV's are coming and at some point they will double the lines of the pola and get true 1080 out of them. I agree the half res does kinda suck. But we are putting together hundreds of hours of 3D and we need to monitor as we do fixes.

We do have a VT25 as well to check stuff going out. Remember the side by side is also half res and currently there is no way to master mega frame content as the authoring tools are not ready yet.