Since last year, Sony has successively launched a series of native 4K home projectors, and continues to serve as the leader in the 4K market. At the same time, Sony has not forgotten to consolidate its position in the HD market. After all, it will take time for home 4K to be fully popular. It is still the biggest sales volume at present, and it is the most cost-effective model.
During the SIAV2018 (Shanghai International Advanced HI-FI Demo Conference), Sony released the new 1080P resolution projectors VPL-HW49 and VPL-HW69, which were upgraded versions of the VPL-HW48 and VPL-HW68 respectively. Appearance, brightness remained unchanged, Mainly brings two new features: New real-world authoring features and new gamma curve settings, to further enhance the color reproduction. Price of 14,999 yuan and 1,999 yuan, respectively, listed in June this year.
The live demonstration machine is the VPL-HW49, so come to talk about the simple experience of this machine. Before, we have already reviewed the VPL-HW48. For more details, please click here.
We used to call the VPL-HW48 this machine a 'million-dollar HD God' because it almost achieved the best color tuning in this price segment HD model, the most solid black level performance and the smoothest motion picture. What is the performance of the upgraded VPL-HW49?
Let's look at a group of screen shots. The screen shots are not post-processed. What you see now can basically represent the actual demonstration of the scene.
In terms of color, at the first glance you will know that Sony is very familiar with the style, stable and solid, natural color transition, no color does not overflow, the feeling is very natural and comfortable. This comfort, or from the real, you will feel The picture that comes is the appearance of the reality, but it has not been processed.
The sushi in the first picture, the dark red transition of the fillets, the white rice mixed with granules, and the tray with the wooden texture underneath, the color reduction is extremely true, and the texture of various food tableware is accurately reflected. 3. Sigh the great advantage of three-chip SXRD projector in terms of color.
Since it is consistent with Sony's professional digital cinema projectors, it adopts self-developed SXRD chips across the board, so this makes the VPL-HW49 project a high-contrast picture. From the above picture, you can see how deep the black level performance is, with almost black The background blends in. However, because the brightness is only about 1800 lumens, in order to achieve a perfect black level performance, it is necessary to add a curtain with a gain and shading the projection environment.
The 'true creation' function has always been an important weapon for Sony projectors to improve the picture quality performance, especially in reducing noise and enhancing details. The basic principle of this function is: Relying on Sony's powerful image database, real-time input of the image source Analysis, frame-by-frame comparison and identification in the database, so as to optimize the texture of the original image signal, restore the details of the image data lost in the editing and transmission.
The new 'real creation' function is one of the key functions of the VPL-HW49 upgrade. Compared with the past, it has been greatly improved, and the fineness of the picture has been improved again. The hairline on the screen and the skin texture are not increased without increasing the noise. The characterization of lawns, tree skins, etc., has become clearer and more detailed.
'Real Creation' feature open
'Real creation' feature
With the “Real Creation” function enabled, the overall picture change at first glance is not obvious, but when you look at the big picture, you can see that the beards of the characters are more prominent and distinct, and there is a sense of rooting. This is the enhancement and improvement of the details of the picture. .
Gamma 7
Gamma 8
Added 'Gama 7' curve tuning, focusing on improving the color of the face, skin and other parts in moderate brightness, to get a more accurate and natural reduction. Compared with the performance of gamma 7 and gamma 8, the former undoubtedly showed better The facial color transition, more natural and more three-dimensional.
Both projectors use a long-lasting bulb light source, which can provide up to 6000 hours of lamp life depending on the environment and mode of use.
VPL-HW49's buttons and interfaces are concentrated on the right side of the fuselage, including the power button, menu, navigation keys and other common functions.
Interface, 2 HDMI interfaces, 1 USB interface, 1 VGA-in interface, 1 infrared trigger input.
The VPL-HW49 also has a white exterior appearance besides the black appearance. We finally saw the color change in the Sony Home HD model (before the 4K home machine appeared white for the first time), and it was even more wild in the living room.
