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The Sony Grand Wega...
Out of the box.
The VPL-HS51 Front Projector
Go to the movies. The movie projector shines
a bright light through the celluloid film. A lens enlarges the
picture and shines on a screen. The beauty of the Sony Grand
Wega is that it works the same way. Instead of film, LCD panels
are used producing an ultra sharp filmlike picture.
LCD Projection
TV. This new design is made possible by a new projection
TV technology... LCD (Liquid Crystal Display). Three .875 inch
LCD panels create the red, green, and blue colors for the picture.
Sony's proprietary light engine sends light through these LCD
panels to recreate a full color picture.
Conventional picture tube TVs have 3 electron beams that must
perfectly align with color phosphors on the screen after passing
through a metal mask. Big screen projection TVs produce the picture
with 3 separate tubes. These tubes can't occupy the same physical
space, so the red and blue tube picture is distorted to line
up with the green. This is called convergence. If convergence
isn't perfect you get an out of focus picture that lacks detail.
Fixed
pixel display.
Each pixel of the LCD Grand Wega is
always perfectly aligned with every other pixel and never needs
convergence. The LCDs are fixed in permanent alignment at the
factory. There is no misconvergence. This fixed pixel display
is almost photographic like sharpness, especially in High Definition.
Native resolution of the Sony 42 and 50 inch is 1280 by 720 pixels.
Ultra
filmlike realism. Two dichroic
mirrors separate the light into red, green and blue which is
channeled through the fixed LCD panels. Then a dichroic prism
recombines the red, green, and blue light which is projected
on the screen as one full color picture, instead 3 different
pictures that need to be converged as in conventional big screens.
No burn. No
wear. Since the light is produced by a halogen light
bulb, not by
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highly energized phosphors on the screen,
there is never any burn in. This can be a problem with video
games left on pause and bright logos with conventional tube TVs,
CRT rear projection sets and plasma TVs. There is also no wear.
The phosphors on regular picture tubes are slowing wearing out
and the picture becomes less bright. Not so with LCD. Replace
the bulb and your set is as bright and vivid as it was the day
it was new.
Replacing the halogen light in a Sony Grand
Wega is very easy and does not require technical service personal.
It can be done by you at home in just a few minutes.
HDMI Interface. Movies
broadcast in High Definition have been limited, because Hollywood
is worried about pristine digital copies being made of their
intellectual properties. The TV industry, along with the computer
industry and Hollywood studios have agreed on a new interface
between digital tuners, HD cable boxes, and this new standard
is called HDMI. The new Sony Grand Wegas include this new interface
so they will be ready for what comes in the future. HDMI stands
for High Definition Multimedia Intgerface and sends audio too.
Computer
Monitor. Take your computer, PC
or Mac, and plug in this Sony Grand Wega and you have a giant
high resolution computer screen. No adaptor are needed just a
cable.
VPL-HS51
Sony List $3499
39 3/8in wide 28 1/2in h 14 1/8in d 61 lbs
If
you demand better ... annnouncing the VPLVW100
SXRD
Front Projector
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