Fans of Pioneer’s highly acclaimed Kuro plasma will be chomping at the bit to see how the company’s new projector bearing the same branding will perform.
Pioneer showed off its new Kuro KRF-9000FD theater projector today at the High End trade show in Munich, Germany. The LCoS (liquid crystal on silicon) projector provides for the full HD 1920 x 1080 resolution, and a nice little contrast ratio of 30,000:1, for starters.
You’ll have some leeway placing the KRF-9000FD in your setup too, with lens shift capabilities that include 80 percent vertical and 34 percent horizontal adjustments.
The projector will produce images up to 14.5 by 8 feet, and there’s a 2x zoom lens for your smaller theater rooms.
Unfortunately there’s no news about a U.S. launch date, but the Kuro projector will be available in Europe next month for 8,000 euros (a little over $12,000 USD).
Via: Electronista
Wow! First it was rebadged Panasonics and now its going to be a rebadged JVC.
I suppose next it will be farming out their AV Receiver business to Yamaha. That would be a no-brainer for them as Yamaha also makes use of amber displays.
I don’t understand why someone would pay twice as much for even 10% or 20% better at the rate this stuff is changing, assuming it’s even better than the JVC at all.
At $12k pioneer will probably end up having panasonic make there projectos in a few yrs.
Why cant they just stick with plasma and try to bring there prices down!!
Yes, it’s already well-known to be based upon the RS2/HD100, but that doesn’t mean it will be exactly the same machine with a simple rebadge or firmware change. To give just one one example, Pio may specify different colour filters to fix the well-known over-saturated colours issue that spoils the JVC version for many people. They may also use a different processing system. I don’t know any specific, just pointing out that just because chassis is the same doesn’t mean the picture will be.
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First Dreamvision, now Pioneer......hopefully Pioneer will at least do something to make the unit different from the JVC.
Besides charging more that is......Dreamvision might get annoy if they just copy them.