Sony VPL AW10 - LCD projector - 1300 ANSI lumens - 1280 x 720 - widescreen - High Definition
Everything about the 'BRAVIA' AW-Series is designed to make it easy to choose and easy to use.The AW-10 projector supports Sony 24p True Cinema, enabling playback of films at the original cinematic 24 frames per second, completely eliminating the speed and soundtrack distortion present in conventional cinema-to-digital conversion.While this will please the Home Theater enthusiasts in the family, everybody will appreciate the exceptionally bright picture rated at up to 1300 lumens. Thanks to the extra brightness the 'BRAVIA' AW-Series copes much better with ambient light in the typical living room than traditional projectors, so there's no need for dark drapes and a lighting blackout to enjoy the fun.
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Sony VPL AW10 - LCD projector - 1300 ANSI lumens - 1280 x 720 - widescreen - High Definition Reviews
+ quieter. Neither tv will perform great in a bright room, so both of these are really best suited for rooms where you can control the light. yesterday, $[.]. - more screen door effect.
+ colors are more saturated. I actually liked the HC1500 a lot, but ended up keeping this SONY VLPAW10 for a number of reasons. This isn't a review so much as a comparison between 3 Chip LCD and SINGLE CHIP DLP (which tend to be in the same price range). The problem is that the colors are therefore being created via an optical illusion, which for some people creates a "rainbow" effect where they see color rainbows in the white areas of the image.
It's very pronounced when there are credit rolls at the end of movies, or any other times there are high contrast black/white (or light/dark) areas. When they tilt, they send light to the screen, when they don't tilt, the light stays in the projector. In terms of the saturation, if you're watching DVD movies, then I think you'll prefer the LCD since it creates more natural colors. It does not work as well to watch sports or news or other material that has lots of CG text up on the screen. Ordered this one from amazon and put them side by side.
It's not perfect, but for my needs it beats the Mitsubishi. + about half the physical size of the SONY. I originally purchased the Mitsubishi HC1500 DLP projector, but had some problems with it. I use it mostly to watch movies, so don't mind the less saturated and brilliant colors. + no rainbow effect. They are not as bright and brilliant as the DLP images because the light is going through the panels, and not being reflected by mirrors which create more direct light. So time your purchase carefully.
Advantages. (in this case it's a 7 segment red-green-blue-white-red-green-blue wheel. - has an air filter than needs to be changed periodically. There are such things as 3 chip DLP projectors that don't need the color wheels and don't create this effect, but they aren't even close to being in the sub $[.]. - colors are less saturated. In a certain percentage of cases, the rainbow effect causes headaches and eyestrain It did so for me. Yes the image is more soft, but this looks more like a projected image in a movie theater, and this is the effect I'm going for when watching movies on my projector, so it works great. + Image is brighter.
- potential for rainbow effect. (google "DLP rainbow effect" if you don't believe me. The only problem with this setup is that there's no color (just the white light is being directed) so the color needs to be introduced by spinning a color wheel in front of the chip. I had to change cables to get this to work. In terms of the "screen door" effect, I find this is minimized by defocusing the image just a hair. + can throw larger image from shorter distance. Disadvantages.
- Much larger than the mitsubishi. The DLP is better for watching HDTV shows where the colors really pop (like CSI Miami). Three chip LCD screens actually have 3 panels (red green and blue) so they don't need the spinning color wheel, they just project the light through the panels, and the colors line up on the screen if calibrated properly. - HDMI input on the rear has a bezel around it that will make it impossible for some of the cables with thicker ends to fit in. + no need for air filter. today.).
Here's the comparison. But I see it go up and down on an almost weekly basis. + less screen door effect. It's not perfect, and in some areas underperforms the DLP. One last note, if you decide to buy it, the price of the sony does fluctuate on Amazon wildly ($[.]. Single chip DLP projectors create images by having a "chip" filled with thousands of tiny mirrors (1 per pixel on the screen) that can tilt up and down.
Disadvantages. Advantages. The Mitsubishi HC-1500 (1 chip DLP). So that's the background, here are the results of my side by side tests (accompanied by the media manager for a major lecture hall at an Ivy League university) who is a specialist in these kinds of things (I myself teach video production, so have some expertise here as well).
Some ways to mitigate the SONY's disadvantages:. I went with the SONY. CONCLUSION. - Bulb not as bright, need darker room. - noisy (the spinning wheel makes a high pitched whine which is louder and more annoying than the fan). The LCD projectors also need more space between the pixels than DLP, and this ends up giving you a more visible "screen door"effect where you can actually see the faint black lines of the pixel grid if you sit close enough to the screen (as if you were looking through a door or window with an insect screen on it, hence the term "screen door". The SONY VLPAW-10 (3 chip LCD).
This ends up creating wonderfully bright and brilliant images. - If you have a small room, you may not be able to fill a large projector screen with an image because this projector cannot throw a large image from as short a distance as the sony. I know there are a lot of die hard fans of the HC1500 and I'm sorry - but this is a fair assessment of my needs. price range (they start at SEVERAL thousand dollars).
No great, but a good buy. There is considerable display "bleeding" at the bottom of the screen. 2. 1. No veritical or horizontal lense shift. However, there are some shortcomings:. This is a very nice projector for the money.
It has vertical keystone adjustment. However, it is very close to staight vertical line on both sides, but close attention will show some curve. Below the screen there is light, but no picture. Overall a good buy for the money. It isn't too distracting, I'm just a perfectionist. This makes it a PITA to get perfectly aligned on the screen. 3.
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