Sony VPL-VW200 Expert Reviews

Sony's 2007 flagship front projector, the VPL-VW200, uses the company's variant of LCoS, called SXRD, and like most high-end projectors, it features a native resolution of 1080p. Those specs and jargon may well impress your buddies, but the real story ...

This projector has exceptional color fidelity. It produces a deep shade of black with excellent shadow detail. It also has a superb feature package, including panel alignment and blacking, and it has solid connectivity

Expensive ; some loss of resolution because of the scaler ; MotionFlow dejudder processing creates artifacts and makes film look more like video ; no horizontal lens shift

Although it certainly costs more than most of the 1080p competition, the SXRD-based Sony VPL-VW200 delivers one of the best pictures of any projector we've tested.

No one imagined two years ago that the cost of acquiring a high quality 1080p projector would drop to the levels many of them sell for todaylevels, it could be argued, that were driven by Sony's own extremely competitive pricing, especially on the $5K ...

? Pristine sharpness and natural detail, ? Color is as accurate as it gets, ? Very good black level and contrast ratio with the manual iris, ? Super quiet

? Advanced (auto) Iris produces incredible peak contrast numbers, but with brightness compression and some noticeable pumping, ? Adequately bright, but the maximum light output may not be sufficient for very large screens, ? Expensive in today's ...

s The Sony VPL-VW200 is ready to compete. It offers superb performance, together with an exceptional set of features. Some of these are best left off, but others can provide genuine picture improvements

Sony has delivered near perfection with the VPL-VW200's colour production. It's the most colour-accurate projector for its price range, adds some flexible setup features and it looks great hanging from the ceiling. This projector is absolutely the new ...

Deep shades of black with excellent shadow detail ; feature package includes panel alignment and blacking ; solid connectivity

Expensive ; some loss of resolution because of the scaler ; MotionFlow dejudder processing creates artefacts and makes film look more like video ; no horizontal lens shift

Although it certainly costs more than most of the 1080p competition, the SXRD-based Sony VPL-VW200 delivers one of the best pictures of any projector we've tested

Despite delivering impressively bright while retaining good black levels, the Sony VW200 runs remarkably quietly

HDMI v1.3 connectivity ; Exceptionally quiet ; Good, basic image quality

Too many of its features seem to make pictures worse rather than better

Especially when you can get JVC's superior HD100 for considerably less

If you've got money to burn, Sony's VPL-VW200 projector will happily lighten your wallet or purse.

In most ways the VW200 is a really excellent performer, and the scope of its ambition is truly breathtaking. Yet somehow, with JVC's stunning and actually very similar HD100 model (look for a review of this in the coming days) available for under -5k, ...

Although it certainly costs more than most of the 1080p competition, the SXRD-based Sony VPL-VW200 delivers one of the best pictures of any projector we've tested.

Exceptional color fidelity ; deep black with excellent shadow detail ; superb feature package ; includes panel alignment and blacking ; solid connectivity

Expensive ; some loss of resolution because of the scalar ; MotionFlow anti-judder processing creates artifacts and makes film look more like video ; no horizontal lens shift

In the grand tradition of Sony's upper-end SXRD projectors, the VPL-VW200 has a sleek, high-tech industrial design that should appeal to just about everyone. To our eyes, it's the most attractive projector since the days of the Ferrari-inspired, ...

This projector has exceptional color fidelity. It produces a deep shade of black with excellent shadow detail. It also has a superb feature package, including panel alignment and blacking, and it has solid connectivity

Expensive ; some loss of resolution because of the scaler ; MotionFlow dejudder processing creates artifacts and makes film look more like video ; no horizontal lens shift

Although it certainly costs more than most of the 1080p competition, the SXRD-based Sony VPL-VW200 delivers one of the best pictures of any projector we've tested.

We present you the projector of the Japanese flag. If we were to define this model in a word, no doubt ...

Worst :

high consumption, especially due to the powerful lamp included. Moreover, this detail implies a rather high heat inside the machine that expels air to the outside

This masterpiece combines the best features advanced impressive Qualia 004 model, which has given so much joy to Sony, and the excellent design of the previous model, The VPL-VW100. Also at this time we have implemented a system of 3 SXRD panels, as you m...

The VPL-VW200 will cost significantly more than most 1080p projectors, but the Sony SXRD-basiserte provides the best image quality, so far a projector in the present test could .

excellent black levels with excellent detail in shadow areas, functions for panel orientation and blanking, numerous connectivity options

very high price, scaling causes resolution loss, unusable flow motion video processing, no horizontal Lens Shift

The joy at this projector, with its outstanding features excellent detail and his presentation is limited only by the high price .