For the past 20 years, the TV has always been the core of everyone's living room, no matter how big the home is, the living room always has to put a TV to taste. However, with the increase of the living room area, the screen screen will also become larger, so in recent years, more and more users have chosen to use the projector as the picture core of the living room. But to be fair, as far as the technical indicators of home projection at that time were concerned, it was not realistic to replace the TV with projection, regardless of the brightness of the picture, color reproduction or display delay, the projector seemed to have a certain distance from the TV.
But in 2022, will projectors still be better than TVs? The latest flagship product, the Nut J10S, jointly developed by Nut Leica, reshaped my perception of home theater-level projection products as a high-end flagship projection product.
Projections can also show true colors
As a flagship product that reshapes everyone's perception of projection, the first thing nut J10S has to solve is the color problems that were common in projection products in the past. Unlike many people's imagination, the color of the projection screen is never the more vivid the better, and the accurate color and high degree of reduction are the criteria for judging the color of the picture. Leica's color tuning brings the high-resolution color display effect to the nut J10S.
"Making colors appear accurately" may sound simple, but for a product that projects brightness that is changing every second, it is never a simple task to ensure that every color can be projected normally at every brightness. To solve this problem, the nut and Leica teams worked together in multiple directions to design an extremely complex set of tuning methods to ensure the color effect of the nut J10S:
First of all, the color temperature of Leica's standard D65 color is set at the same level as the midday sun, which is the standard of 6500K. 6500K is also a commonly used standard value in film and television production, graphic design and other fields, as the standard color temperature of Leica color D65 can ensure that the subsequent color correction can stand on the same standard as the entire process of content creation, to avoid the occurrence of the foundation is not affected by all the situations.
Secondly, engineers will adopt the standard of Leica color science, and the standard of D65 is to modify the color space, dynamic range and other indicators of the nut J10S to meet the requirements of Leica color. Engineers then use Leica's standard color cards to accurately calibrate the nut J10S to ensure that the colors in the space are accurately mapped even after they are projected.
This is not all behind the nut J10S Leica standard D65 accurate color, in order to make the skin tone look more natural, the engineer also extracted a large number of character samples from the Leica database, so that the nut J10S can better show the natural skin tone in addition to accurately restoring the color.
However, considering that in some scenes, the "Leica standard" may appear a little faint, and the picture looks less eye-catching than the high-saturation picture, the Nut J10S has also specially prepared a more colorful "Leica vivid" color style, allowing users to freely choose between high-restoration film texture and bright picture.
The problem of color reproduction nut J10S is solved, so how to make the picture look more layered and can show more details? The nuts give a simple answer – HDR10+. In the past, projection products were limited by technology, and it was difficult to present a real HDR effect, either the dark details were covered by the overall high brightness, or the bright details turned gray in order to balance the low brightness.
In order to solve this problem, nut J10S chose to start from two different directions of software and hardware: software, nut J10S added support for 10bit color depth decoding to make colors look smoother. In terms of hardware, the powerful performance of the MT9669 chip also allows the Nut J10S to fully support the video input of HDR10+, improving the display effect of the projection from both directions of software and hardware.
So is there any scenario that reflects the strength of the Nut J10S in HDR? That's right, the AAA masterpieces on consoles are prime examples. In the past, it was actually not recommended to use projection to play games, on the one hand, the reason for the display delay, on the other hand, the reason for the HDR effect. In order to balance the brightness of the picture, projectors in the past tended to lose a large area of shadow detail.
However, with the high brightness of the nut J10S 2400 lumens and the blessing of HDR technology, this phenomenon did not occur. Even in dim scenes, there is a good distinction between the ground below, the enemies in front of you, and the fog in the distance, and the performance in the intense sports scene is very good. Coupled with the zonal contrast adjustment technology independently developed by nut J10S, the display effect will only be more natural and closer to the actual effect of the human eye.
Industry-leading flagship configuration
Now that we're talking about games, let's move on to the improvements the Nut J10S has made in terms of gameplay. First of all, the Nut J10S has obtained the official certification of the HDMI Association, and the two HDMI interfaces behind it are the latest HDMI 2.1 interfaces, which support 4K120Hz screen input, which can play the best picture effect when connecting to next-generation game consoles.
As for the display delay problem just mentioned, the Nut J10S is also cleverly resolved through a dedicated game mode. In the game mode, the Nut J10S will actively turn off the post-production effects such as MEMC motion compensation and screen noise reduction, so that the input device can output the picture as it is. This design allows the Nut J10S to achieve extremely low picture latency, with an average delay of less than 15ms between the input and output frames. Whether it's a shooter that is highly sensitive to latency or a racing game that requires a higher refresh rate, the Nut J10S is at ease.
In addition to the excellent core configuration, nut J10S in terms of wireless connectivity is very good, nut J10S is also the first projection product to support Wi-Fi 6 network connection, whether it is network video playback or mobile phone wireless screen projection, nut J10S can have a faster and more stable connection effect, used to play cloud games is also very suitable.
Chip + AI are two-pronged
Of course, the performance of the chip is not only reflected in the display effect of the nut J10S, even if it involves the user experience, the nut J10S also has a good performance. Different from other projectors, nut J10S is also equipped with a special independent graphics processing chip i-Chips, under the scheduling of the system, some of the basic functions involving graphic display, such as trapezoidal correction during ramping, and even the operation of the side projection 3D function, can be shunted to the independent i-Chips, thereby reducing the computing pressure of the projector CPU, thereby improving the overall display quality.
Seeing this, some people may wonder, is trapezoid correction not a basic function that all projections have? There is a saying that keystone correction is indeed the basic function of projection, but the automatic keystone correction function like the Nut J10S is really rare in projection products. First of all, the keystone correction of the nut J10S takes the senseless intelligence as the core, it does not need to play a test picture like the traditional projection, it can directly calibrate the picture put out by the camera, almost will not interrupt the user's viewing and game, and the sense of immersion is stronger.
Secondly, the Nut J10S also added the function of automatic obstacle avoidance 2.0. To put it simply, nut J10S can actively identify whether there are any obstacles in the released screen, and automatically bypass the obstacles by adjusting the size of the picture, providing users with a complete projection screen as much as possible without adjusting the placement position, and improving the overall user experience.
summary
Judging from the experience during this time, the Nut J10S is indeed different from the previous projection products. Flagship hardware configuration coupled with excellent software optimization and tuning really changed my perception and impression of projection products. With the cooperation of reasonable hardware and software, the projector can indeed provide high brightness, high color accuracy, and low latency pictures.
Through the in-depth cooperation of the two teams, the Nut J10S has successfully opened up a new path called color reproduction in the projection that only pursues the size of the picture. Thanks to Leica's standard D65 color model and the nut team's continuous efforts from R&D to production, the nut J10S has become a flagship product not to be missed by professional family audiences.
But on the other hand, the high requirements of the projector on the use environment are also the challenges that projection products must face. Taking the Nut J10S as an example, even if the brightness reaches a staggering 2400 ANSI lumens, the brand's recommended projection distance is still only 2-4 meters, and the brightness and clarity are lost at longer projection distances.
Nevertheless, the emergence of nut J10S does give many friends a good lesson, under the higher hardware investment, the display area is larger, the placement is more free, and the use of more flexible projections has the ability to replace traditional TVs. With the improvement of the competitiveness of projection products, we can also see more and more high-end home projection products in the future, and the future of projection products will only get better and better.