Want The Best?

Here it is. One of the first affordable home theater HDTV front projectors. Featuring three SXRD micro-display panels and 1080p input to illuminate your viewing experience, this projector fully supports Full High Definition Television broadcasting (external tuner required, not included) and recorded media. Sony's Advanced Dynamic Iris brings you the highest contrast ratio available--15,000:1 (those three zeroes are no typo). An All Range Crisp Focus (ARC-F) lens, Real Color Processor (RCP) that further enhances colors and images, an ultra-quiet fan and an improved lamp life combined with a lightweight, versatile design and easy-to-use features help to create the ultimate home theater experience.

SXRD--Short Course

SXRD™ stands for Silicon X-tal Reflective Display, and X-tal stands for Crystal. Nifty, eh? Happily, the folks at Sony spend more effort developing amazing new technologies than they do concocting clever monikers for those technologies. SXRD is a new display technology developed by the television engineers at Sony to meet and exceed the demands of a High Definition image at its full 1080 line resolution. It is a 1920 x 1080p panel characterized by several key benefits--full HD resolution support, smooth film-like image with minimal screen door effects, fast response times (2.5 ms, rise and fall), high contrast ratios, and fantastically accurate color rendition. This projector uses three SXRD panels--one for each of the three additive primary colors. You buy this projector and guess where the Super Bowl Party is being held.

The Iris Is Also A Purple Flower

The latest evolution of Sony's Advanced Iris function uses algorithms designed to analyze the histogram of each picture along with nonlinear amplification to adjust the iris dynamically for its optimum opening. The result is a stunningly high contrast ratio of up to 15,000:1. Images in bright scenes are crisp and clear, and black levels in dark scenes are deep and detailed. An iris in a projector, as in a camera, as in the human eye, is an aperture within the lens that can be made larger or smaller. To reduce the light that passes through it, thereby darkening your dark colors, you close it down; to increase the light, and brighten your whites and colors, you open it up. Sony's Advanced Iris dynamically adjusts the iris to suit the scene. That is, it closes down automatically on dark scenes to provide darker blacks, and opens up on bright scenes to make optimum use of the projector's available light output. This is one smart projector.

I Can't Hear You!

A 200-watt Super High Pressure lamp provides equal brightness output levels for the three additive primary colors--red, green, and blue--used to create the trillions of colors that the VPLVW50 can deliver to your living room. Natural and accurate color is reproduced with the blackest black perceptible, bottomlessly-pure whites, and spectacular, life-like reds. The ultra quiet fan that cools the lamp registers only 22 dB, just above a human whisper. For the truly persnickety audiophile, the VPLVW50 provides plentiful light, and almost no sound. This is the quietest front projector you've never heard.

Included With Purchase

Remote control (RM-PJVW100), 2 AA Batteries for remote, AC cord, lens cap, CD-ROM (Image Director 2), and Instruction Manual.

Comparison Specifications

• SXRD Panels (0.61" x 3, 1920 x 1080 Pixels Each), 1080p Native Resolution (6,220,800 Total Pixels)
• Contrast Ratio: 3000-15,000:1 (In Advanced Iris Auto Mode), 3000:1 (Full On/Off)
• ARC-F (All Range Crisp Focus) Lens
• DRC (Digital Reality Creation) Presets: Modes 1 and 2
• Video Inputs: 2 HDMI, Component, S-Video, Composite, HD D-Sub 15 Pin For PC
• Projected Image Size: 40" to 300" (Measured Diagonally)
• 16:9 Aspect Ratio (Can Also Display 4:3 Format)
• 2.5 ms Response Time
• Ultra Quiet Cooling Fan (22 dB)
• 12-Bit Panel Driver Video Processor

Additional Specifications

• 200 Watt Super High Pressure Lamp
• Advanced Dynamic Iris 2 For Enhanced Contrast And Black Level (Auto, On, Off)
• 1.8x Motorized Zoom/Focus Lens (Standard-Throw)
• Real Color Processing Color Management System (User-Selectable 1, 2, 3, And Off)
• Ethernet Port
• Wide Mode (Full, Normal, Wide Zoom, Zoom)
• 12 Volt Mini-Jack Trigger
• 3D Comb Filter
• Film Mode
• Power Save Mode (On/Off)

Manufacturer Specifications

• Auto Input Search
• Picture Shift Function
• Test Pattern
• Image Flip (HV/H/V/Off)
• Lens Control (On/Off)
• Standby Mode
• Multiple Language Display (15 Languages)
• High Altitude Mode (On/Off)
• Vertical Keystone
• Illuminated Remote Control

Dimensional Specifications

• Dimensions: 15.55" W x 6.83" H x 18.56" D
• Weight: 24.25 lbs

Sony VPL-VW50 Warranty Details

Two-Years Parts And Labor (90 Days On Lamp)