Australian Projector Specialist
Upgrade your movie viewing experience
The Sony VPL-HW15 projector delivers the excitement and immediacy of HD to a new audience. It brings technologies capable of convincingly reproducing the cinematic experience within the reach of first time buyers of home cinema solutions.
Featuring a stylish design, triple-panel SXRD and 8-stage image processing by BRAVIA ENGINE 2™, the VPL-HW15 is fully loaded with the features you need to introduce a true HD cinematic viewing experience into your living room.
HighlightsThe Advanced Iris 3 contrast enhancement works like the human eye, responding dynamically to the level of light in each scene, always selecting the optimum contrast. With a high range of 60,000:1, Advanced Iris 3 can bring out the detail in darker sequences and prevent bright scenes from looking washed out.
Three panels -red, green and blue, ensuring optimum colour reproduction and resulting in over 6.2 million pixels, more then double the pixel count of 720p projectors. All in a panel size of 0.61-inch thanks to its super-fine panel micro-architecture with a pixel size of 7Um.
The unique BRAVIA ENGINE 2 delivers vibrant colours and exceptional image quality. It consists of eight separate stages of image enhancement - carried out in real time - each has a specialised function. Together they generate a picture that is optimised in every way, from the accuracy of the contrast to the precision of the colour reproduction.
The Sony VPL-HW15 is equipped with the All Range Crisp Focus (ARC-F) lens which has the necessary superior resolution and focus characteristics. The lens offers a 1.6x motorised zoom and both vertical (65%) and horizontal (25%) Lens Shift adjustment, making it easy to set the projector up and achieve a good picture in a variety of environments.
Bringing the VPL-HW15 even closer to the capabilities of the human eye is its support for x.v.Colour. x.v.Colour is based on xvYCC, a new international standard for video that defines a colour space nearly two times wider than the existing sRGB standard, making x.v.Colour literally more lifelike. Deep Colour™ boosts the number of colours available within the xvYCC colour space from millions to billions, further future-proofing the projector against developments in colour handling technology.
In the event that you do need to adjust screen colours, the perfect tool for the job is provided by Real Colour Processing. This allows you to adjust the hue of a specific colour without changing the whole image. So if something like skin tone needs tweaking, you can do it without altering the colour of the sky or the background of the scene.
The inclusion of twin connectors with HDMI™ technology opens up another dimension. It makes it possible to connect to video sources like Blu-ray Disc™ players which offer exact, 24 frame-per-second replication of the cinematic original. As the projector has the ’24p True Cinema’ function, it can display films exactly as they were first recorded.
With whisper-quiet fan noise, users can concentrate on a movie or game in a quiet environment without distraction.
BRAVIA Sync simplifies and enhances the home theatre experience. Through the control capabilities of HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface), the devices sync with one another for intuitive operations such as One Touch Play and System Stand-by.
A 2.5ms response time contributes to the overall impression of fluid, natural movement essential for a convincing recreation of the cinematic experience.
SXRD provides film-quality smoothness by minimising the space between pixels (0.35um) for smooth and dot-less pictures.
The manual lens shift helps ensure a quick and flexible set-up procedure, while all features offer a range of user-settings that are easily controlled with the supplied illuminated remote control and on-screen menus.
