For some reason, the run up to Christmas looks like being the most prolific season of projector releases ever. We’ve already recently looked at new offerings from Epson (Epson EH-TW5500) and Vivitek (Vivitek H1080FD), while also piled up in our offices right now are two new projectors from Sony, one from BenQ, one from Optoma and one from Acer. Plus there are imminent new models from JVC and a whole slew of other Epsons all due to roll our way in the coming weeks. Sitting at the very top of our projector ‘to do’ pile, though, and so finding itself in the firing line today, happens to be Sony’s VPL-HW15 – a happy coincidence, actually, for oddly enough this is one of the new projectors that I’m most intrigued by.

Why my interest? First, it’s the first new projector for a surprisingly long time to showcase Sony’s proprietary LCOS-inspired SXRD technology. Second, while the model it succeeds, the HW10, was a very good projector for its money, the HW15 usurps it with a claimed contrast ratio of 60,000:1 that’s double the HW10’s contrast figure. Finally, on a more negative note, I have to say that part of my interest in the HW15 is inspired by the way the HW10 has been rather humbled in recent times during one or two head to head comparisons with new projectors from other brands – most notably Epson.

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