JVC - DLA-NZ7

Since you can control the light in your room I would get a 130” screen and a JVC true 4K projector 📽️ and you will have a true great home theater.

I have this and love it, but I think the newer line (NZ500-NZ900) has lower input lag. Gaming is fine on the NZ7 but improved on the newer units.

Other option could be a JVC NZ7, previous generation. Unlike the newest generation NZ700, they did support 3D, 8K eShift and 4K120. One of my distributor still shows it as available.

Nice! I don’t even have the NZ7, just the lamp version and even that is good.

People pay professionals good money to help them with answers to your questions. Equipment choice alone is barely half the equation. Good design and good integration are critical to achieving high performance. This isn’t something you should just freestyle, as there are many tradeoffs to manage based on your subjective preferences. Design informs equipment choice. It’s an iterative process as you converge on design and equipment choice simultaneously. Long throw projectors generally offer better image quality than UST at the same price point. UST are nice if you’re worried about people casting shadows or if this is a general entertainment space hosting karaoke night and dance parties. If it’s just for watching motion pictures while seated then get a long throw projector. For $5k I’d try to score a deal on a B-stock Sony VPL-XW5000ES or a lightly used JVC D-ILA projector, preferably with laser light source but if you’d rather spend less then a bulb is fine. You can find some screaming deals if you don’t mind bulbs and fake 4K pixel-shifting. If your viewing distance is >10ft then it shouldn’t matter. https://www.avsforum.com/forums/front-projector.252/ Fixed screens are cheaper than motorized screens. Acoustically transparent screens are nice because you can place the LCR speakers behind the screen, which not only looks better but sounds better. But this is also where you need to be careful as there is interaction between viewing angles/ screen size and speaker positions and seating distance. All have to be in harmony. Woven screens usually look and sound better than perforated screens, but this depends on the exact screen material, budget, viewing distance and preference. Like I said, there’s lots of tradeoffs to manage. I’d recommend minimum 7.1.4 speaker configuration, even if you have to built it in stages as funds allow. My preference in that size room is 9.1.6 but that’s going to break your budget in terms of AV processor capability, speaker count and amplification requirements. You’ll want a minimum of two subwoofers. What exactly do you mean by “sound conditioning is already taken care of?”

Black level champ, it's lcos jvc.

So with JVC you have last gen from “worst“ to best: NZ7; NZ8; NZ9 current gen NZ800; NZ900 I personally have the NZ7 and it’s amazing (I do have a Lumagen Radiance Pro on top of it though). Of course the others are a little better but diminishing returns are real. Just compare them and see what you want.. you probably could get some good deals for second hand or demo units for the last gen. Screen I would look at Stewart Filmscreens and Seymour Screen Excellence. Those are the common ones for higher end home theaters.

JVC and Sony are the only native 4K options under $100K. Sony is by far the best for gaming with a sub 12ms input lag and excellent all round performance. The JVC can be better for Blu-ray, especially if you’re hiring a 1st class calibrator. However, I find most prefer the well rounded performance of the Sony. The new Bravia 7 (XW5100) has become my favorite bang for the buck projector.

Used JVC NZ 7 can be found for around 6k, if you want something that is also useble at day time then epson ls12000.

If that starguard service plan doesn't include reprogramming or debugging issues with the remote, I'd say nay. Oh and projector calibration. Otherwise, everything seems pretty reasonable. It's really just that projector and screen driving up costs. Unless you're simply way more of a videophile than an audiophile, I'm not sure I'd ever recommend spending such a huge chuck on the video side of things. Btw, I spent $500 on a silver ticket screen to pair with my ~$9k MSRP JVC NZ7 and I'm blown away by how good it looks. Just FYI. If you're wanting to cut costs, getting a cheaper screen is a good way to go about that.