Sony Bravia VPL-VW85 SXRD Digital Projector
October 29, 2009 | Digital Projector, Sony | 4 CommentsWhile Sony was probably chuffed to receive a well-deserved badge Recommended for its VPL-HW15 recently, the thought may also crossed his mind that the quality of the HW15 served for less than two Grand could make the £ 5000 mark VPL -VW85 we are considering today difficult to sell.
Especially since last year’s predecessor VW85, the VW80 has failed to fully convince us that it was worth the extra cost over predecessor, HW15 The HW10. Then again, given that the VW85 arrives in our test labs fresh from winning a projector Best European Imaging and Sound Association (EISA), price, maybe Sony just decided to respond to critical year past and really do a number on his latest step-up SXRD projector.
SXRD, if you’re not familiar with it, is exclusive projection technology from Sony, and is, like JVC D-ILA system, a spin-off ‘liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) technology . Home-Grown Sony SXRD chip offers several advantages claimed over standard LCOS chips. First, they are exceptionally small, which allows small Pitch – which should help produce a brighter, clearer image without structure of the visible image.
Secondly, since the liquid crystal layer on a chip SXRD is exceptionally thin, it can respond more quickly to changes in image content, providing potentially significant advantages when it comes to show fast movement. In fact, one of the main reasons for the VW85 three price increases in the large-HW15 is the use of one of the top frame of Sony, technology panels 3SXRD. These double the number of images displayed on the screen per second compared to the HW15, which we hope for even greater reductions in Judder and blur.[via trustedreviews]
