JVC has announced a new firmware update for the JVC NZ800 and NZ900 DILA projectors coming in October 2025 with the following additional features:
- New Frame Adapt Vivid HDR picture mode that improves contrast, highlight and near-black contrast.
- A new Highlight Color Control feature, which allows for enhancement of colour in high-brightness content, where tone-mapping tends to de-saturate colours. This sounds like JVC’s take on Sony’s colour enhancer.
- A new MPC control called “Smoother”, which helps to eliminate banding artefacts. JVC has already updated MPC with better control of sharpness versus noise in their previous point update, but hoping they have worked on this more in this iteration. We will see when we test the new firmware.
- Auto Low Latency Mode: the projector will automatically go into game / low-latency mode when it detects a game console or PC that sends the ALLM signal. However, some features will be disabled in this mode. So you might want to turn this off if you prefer to have laser dimming or frame adapt on while gaming.
- We are promised some advanced calibration controls and a memory function that allows us to call up these more advanced settings easily. Really looking forward to this feature, and it’s something we did ask JVC to introduce while reviewing the NZ800 projector. Hopefully there are some new goodies in there.
It sounds like JVC has listened to a lot of the feedback from the NZ800 review, and in fact sent us the brochures as a response to the direct engineering feedback we gave. Thank you JVC for continuously improving the platform and the products in the field.
Brochures attached below.
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Would this update have any benefit to those using a MadVR Envy Extreme processor?
If you’re not using MPC and Frame Adapt at all, and won’t be gaming on the projector, then maybe not. However, it’s way too early to tell. There might be other changes under the hood we don’t know yet.
The more interesting question is whether this update is good enough to make the Envy redundant for some setups. The answer is again possibly yes.