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Sony Pearl VPL-VW50 1080p SXRD projector shown, dated and priced in Japan

by Richard Lawler posted Aug 30th 2006 at 10:33AM

LCDs and LCoS RPTVs weren't all Sony had to show off today, they also displayed the eagerly-awaited smaller, cheaper and more efficient followup to their Ruby VPL-VW100 front projector, the Pearl VPL-VW50. Featuring the same third-generation .61-inch microdisplay that powers the RPTVs, this 1080p projector comes with a 200-watt lamp producing 900 lumens of brightness, two HDMI inputs as well and one component input for all the 1920x1080 high definition content you can feed it. Speaking of 1080p inputs, via HDMI it is ready for 1080/60p, 1080/50p and 1080/24p so no matter what framerate your Blu-ray or HD DVD player of the future outputs 1080p this can handle it without a problem. You can project an image of up to 300-inches just like the Ruby with a maximum 15,000:1 contrast ratio. Unlike the Ruby the Pearl features none of Sony's Digital Reality Creation (DRC) technology to enhance the quality of non-1080p content, so the quality of the deinterlacing on these lower-quality sources remains to be seen. Ship date is October 20 with a price of 735,000 yen ($6,290.65 US) compared to the 1,365,000 yen ($11,682 US) of the Ruby.

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More info and pics of the Sony's 1080p Pearl projector

by Matt Burns posted Aug 10th 2006 at 10:49AM


We brook the story about the new Sony Pearl a few days ago but info was sketchy at best. We still haven't heard directly from Sony about it yet but apparently they held a press conference about the Pearl across the Pacific within the last 24 hours. Like we said we still don't have a lot of info but we thought that you would be interested to know that it does in fact sport a component input that wasn't mentioned in our last bit of leaked info. It also looks like it has a VGA port, RS 232 & S-Vid/composite input along with rear controls. The Pearl shares the same remote as the Ruby, but sheds the 400-watt Xenon bulb for a smaller, and cheaper, 200-watt lamp. Once we hear more about the unit, we will let you know.

[Thanks, zombieflanders]




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