JVC HD-ILA LCOS High Definition Television with D-ILA Chip Technology

There are two common high definition display formats: 720p and 1080p. For state-of-the-art high definition, 1080p is clearly the best choice.

Resolution can be measured in pixels, which are the individual dots in the picture. The majority of HD programming available today is broadcast in a resolution of 1080 pixels (vertical) by 1920 pixels (horizontal). In order to appreciate the incredible detail available from these programs, you need a display that can show you every pixel in the original broadcast. 1080p can do that. By comparison, with a 720p display, the picture must be resized, and approximately 50% of the original information in the broadcast is lost.

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Interesting fact - NASA chose JVC D-ILA technology for image analysis after a shuttle launch. The lack of pixel structure doesn't interfere with critical image analysis and provides no spatial dithering as in other technologies, so no artifacts are projected onto the display.

The JVC difference is our unique 3-Chip, LCoS design. LCoS chips are reflective, for the absolute best brightness and contrast in the industry. By using three of these chips, we eliminate the mechanical color wheel used by other competing 1080p manufacturers.

Furthermore, each chip has the full 1080 x 1920 resolution. That's two million pixels per chip, or six million pixels total in the JVC HD-ILA light engine. Other competing 1080p manufacturers create their picture with as little as one million pixels in their light engine. It's no wonder that so many leading publications rate JVC as the best 1080p projection TV available today.

An increasing number of source products (including Blu-ray Disc & HD-DVD) will offer the ability to output an HD signal with full 1080p resolution. The “p” refers to the fact that the signal is displayed as a series of complete progressive frames.

For '06, all JVC HD-ILA's include two 1080p compatible HDMI inputs which provide the highest quality all-digital connection for these sources.

For the purpose of broadcasting, the common signal format is 1080i. The “i” refers to the fact that the picture is split into interlaced fields. Each field contains 1/2 of the complete picture. The JVC HD-ILA display will seamlessly upconvert those signals for display at full 1080p.