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 is

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 today—levels, it could be argued, that were driven by Sony's own extremely competitive pricing, especially on the $

? 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 projector...

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 hig...

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

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 are presenting the projector bearer for the Japanese company. If we were to define a word in this model, without doubt ...

The worst:

High consumption, mainly motivated by the powerful lamp included. In addition, this implies a high detail warming rather than inside the team but that expels air from the outside

This masterpiece combines the best of advanced features impressive Qualia 004 model, which many joys has given Sony, and the excellent design of the previous model, the VPL-VW100. Also on this occasion there is a system of 3

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

Excellent black level with excellent detail in shaded areas

Very high price