review: sony vpl-vw200 is the projector to beat - best projector for classroom

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Sony 2007 flagship front projector VPL-
The VW200 uses the company's LCoS variant, called s, with most high-
It has a local resolution of 1080 p.
These specs and terms may impress your friends, but the real story is in the picture. The VPL-
Most VW200 colors-
The exact front projector we see is priced at less than $30,000, and in overall image accuracy, it can basically smoke in or near the price range.
Sony must have listened to our constant complaints about inaccurate primary and primary colors as the company is doing almost perfect in this regard.
The unit also adds some very flexible setup features and looks great hanging from the ceiling.
In this article, Sony VPL-
VW200 is the new high-
End the projector beat.
In the grand tradition of Sony's upper tiers
High-end SRX projector, VPL-
VW200 with smooth, high
Technology industry design should attract everyone.
In our view, this is the most attractive projector since the Ferrari era.
Inspiration, Pinafarina-
Vidikron CRT chassis is designed.
Sony's finish is metallic gray with a black accent on the top and bottom, and from the front, the cabinets remind us of our eyes.
The design of the Sony remote control is equally impressive.
It looks like its weight is 10 pounds, giving a sense of superior building quality, which is no different from the weight of the projector itself being 44 pounds.
Remove the full backlight and quickly adjust in the dark.
Internal menu system with the original 1080 p X-ray projector Qualia 004 and its smaller former Brother VPL-VW100.
We found it easy to navigate and we liked the set of pages arranged vertically. The VPL-
Many useful features are loaded with the VW200--
Some you need to be warned not to use.
With its panel adjustment feature, Sony gets unofficial "best of the year feature" in the projector category, which allows you to move the LCoS panel to improve alignment, it's like putting three of the CRT guns together.
This is the most comprehensive feature of its kind, and it even includes an area option that lets you adjust the red and blue anomalies around your screen.
Another good option for the CRT projector era, even in the most expensive fixed projector era, is rare
The Pixel projector is the blanking function to eliminate excessive injection (
Leaks beyond the boundaries of the screen area itself)
On the edge of the picture.
We were a little disappointed with VPL-
The VW200 is missing a horizontal lens shift, but it does have a vertical lens shift relative to the screen to help with the installation of the projector.
Sony offers a common array of selectable image modes and color temperature.
Modes include dynamic mode, standard mode and cinema mode, while color templates include high, medium and low modes, each with independent grayscale control.
The cinema black Pro function controls Iris settings, auto 1, Auto 2, manual and off.
We like Off best because it provides plenty of light output and the black is stable ---
As the content of the picture changes, the automatic mode will change the black level.
In the expert settings, you will find the movie mode of 2: 3 Pull
Down, it should be set to "on" and gamma correction, we turned off gamma correction for the best gamma curve.
We also recommend that you turn off two suspicious features.
The first one is RCP (
Real color processing)
In our experience, it was originally designed as a color management system but never worked well.
In fact, this feature doesn't even need to be included because VPL-
In normal color space settings, the VW200 is very close to the HDTV standard.
The second is MotionFlow, which is the name of Sony's 120Hz video processing.
In our view, MotionFlow creates enough problems that it just needs to be ignored;
See the performance section for more information.
The connection is quite comprehensive for the front projector.
Two HDMI inputs are the most important video connections, followed by separate component video inputs. A single S-
Video and a composite video input will be used for traditional laser discs, VHS and S-VHS sources.
And a 15-
Pin VGA input and RS for computer connection-
232 Port for control touch
Panel programming.
The Ethernet port marked as the network completes the connection.
In terms of overall image quality, Sony's VPL-
VW200 is undoubtedly the best projector in its class.
Most notably, compared to earlier VPL, the company did a fantastic job of significantly improving color accuracy
The VW100 and VW200 show the most accurate colors we can see from almost any projector, except for the ultra-highEnd the Runco unit.
Sony is not perfect, of course;
We want to see the company improve on the video.
The treatment scheme, as well as enabling the VW200 to fully resolve the 1080 p source without any loss, but to be fair, almost everything we see in the market shows the same
So far, $15,000 doesn't give you a better performance. -
To do this, you need to spend about twice or more.
What we call "color precision" refers to the combination of color decoding, grayscale tracking, and primary and secondary colors themselves.
Sony's color decoding is in stock
On, the grayscale tracking is very good, but what we are most satisfied with is the accuracy of all six primary and secondary colors.
While not perfect, they are close enough to the hd TV standard and we don't think it is necessary to make any improvements.
We are very skeptical about whether, without some very expensive testing equipment, anyone, or even experienced professionals, can see that they are not perfect. White-
Field uniformity, this could be three-
Chip projector, also looks good on Sony.
The scene about blue light at the beginning of chapter 5 --
The ray version of the Italian work, the crew celebrate in the snow
The capping of the Austrian Alps is a good test.
The snow does have some small color spots. -
It's red on it.
Right, specifically--
But this is subtle and not distracting.
Carl Zeiss lens on VPL
VW200 is also from VPL-
Especially after the adjustments we mentioned, the VW100 is much better aligned with the panel.
When measuring 1080 p and 1080i at the HDMI input at the same time, the amplitude dropped a little, indicating a slight decrease in resolution due to internal scaling.
The same thing can be seen on the hd dvd version of the Silicon Optix HQV test disk.
Although this is not a major blow, performance in this area may improve.
It is worth noting that Sony has passed two Resolution Loss tests for HQV, indicating that
The partition of 1080i material.
With the Iris off, we're at 80-inch-
Wide Stewart Greyhawk screen.
That said, 400-
The watt xenon lamp in the projector can't output more light as we expected, so there is a limit on the size of the largest screen.
The auto iris mode is a little bit brighter, but you don't want to use them because the level of black will change during flight and we find that the change is clearly visible and distracting, as the content of the picture changes. Blu-
On VPL, ray and hd dvd discs look greatVW200.
Chapter 4 and Chapter 5 of the excellent transfer of Italian work on Blu-ray
Ray looks great and the color saturation and accuracy are very good.
We also made the hd dvd version of Batman and started looking at some dark material.
When young Bruce Wayne fell into the cave, the scene from the beginning showed the outstanding Black
Level performance.
In the same chapter, when the adult Wayne is finally locked in a cell in China, the dark part of the wall is filled with shadow details.
Overall, black people look rich on Sony.
In order to test MotionFlow 120Hz video processing, we are in Blu-
Light transfer of the deceased
The low and high Motionflow changed the look of the pan across the counter, from movie to cartoon.
In chapter 5 of his Italian work, when Mark Valberg got engaged, serious artwork appeared on his face.
These two scenes are enough to convince us to set this hyped video feature to "off" with VPL"VW200. E-
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