Best Buys – Audio & AV

SONY VPL-VW550ES

While we are seeing clever ways to achieve Ultra High Definition projection by the superpositioning of multiple images of lesser resolution, there is one company for whose projection no such complexities are required — Sony. And this is not only true UHD, but also true 4K, by which we mean that the horizontal resolution is 4096 pixels, actually rather more than Ultra High Definition’s 3840 pixels. If you’re using the projector in some kind of professional capacity connected to a computer, you’ll probably want the full pixel count. For home cinema, you should stick with the 3840 pixels across. Those pixels are native to the SXRD (‘Silicon X-tal Reflective Display’) panels within, with three 0.74-inch SXRD

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