"4K Display at home is still years away..."

[Mark Phelan]

I heard they were way more than that.

Well if you include the stand, that tacks on an extra $50,000.00. But I hear it also lays the monitor flat, which I guess means it could double as a dinner table as well.

[Drew Baird]

I want to go to there....

+1

Very nice reference!

[Peter Chang]

I'm still more concerned about how the projectors reproduce dynamic range. 4K is meaningless unless it also handles black detail, contrast, good grayscale, accurate color, and all the other aspects of picture quality. The "K" is only one small part of picture quality.

The Sony VW-1000 handles all of that with aplomb.

"Given a good 1920 x 1080 HD source, the projector produced some of the best 2D images I’ve yet seen."
http://www.hometheater.com/content/s...rd-projector-0
Measured Full-On/Full-Off Contrast Ratio: 152,000:1 (compare to 3,000:1 or less in your typical commercial cinema projector)


"There have been three times in my life that I saw a projected image from a home theater unit that left me grasping for superlatives. The initial experience was in the late 1980s the first time I saw a CRT projector fed by a laser disc source projected onto a 60" screen, which at the time seemed enormous. The second time experience was when I saw my first high-definition 3-chip DLP, the SIM2 C3X at CEDIA several years ago. The third time was the other day when I spent 20 or 30 minutes watching Blu-ray (2D and 3D) on the Sony VPL-VW1000ES... I found the image absolutely seductive. Going into the evaluation, because I had never seen much benefit to upscaling DVDs to 1080p, I was skeptical about the ability of a 4K projector to improve upon 2K Blu-ray. I was wrong. The image had a subtle but unmistakable added solidity and great depth. But what was most appealing to me was the color performance, which offered deep, rich, and vibrant colors without a hint of oversaturation."
http://www.chromapure.com/newgear_sony4k.asp

[Peter Chang]

How did you drive the Sony display? It supports single HDMI 4k @ 24p or QuadHD @ 30p.

PC with ATI/AMD Radeon 7970 4K Cineform 4:4:4 AVI over HDMI, 4K at 24p.

[Mark Toia]

I just got projector wood!

oh and buy the way Tom... Great job!

Oh really? Because here's a photo of a 4K screening of "TimeScapes" at my friend Peter Chang's house the other night, using the new Sony 4K home projector....

[Hrvoje Simic]

Measured Full-On/Full-Off Contrast Ratio: 152,000:1 (compare to 3,000:1 or less in your typical commercial cinema projector)

"Dynamic iris" doesn't count.

[Ryan Farnes]

I'll swing by Best Buy and get a setup like that for my Mom this weekend.

[Tom Lowe]

It's coming my friends!!

[Jeff Kilgroe]

I'll swing by Best Buy and get a setup like that for my Mom this weekend.

My local Best Buy is taking pre-orders for two different 4K TV models.... Just sayin'

[C.H.Haskell]

Looks freaking incredible, even form an iphone pic!