Sony VPL-VW200

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