Sony's BRAVIA Projector 8 and Projector 9 Long Throw

[Robert Zohn]

Sony's new BRAVIA Projector 8, aka VPL-WX6100ES, and Projector 9, aka VPL-WX8100ES Long Throw projectors are scheduled to launch early November, 2024.

I enjoyed watching Sony's two new projectors at their CEDIA Demo rooms and speaking with the engineers and product management.

Sony will be giving us the BRAVIA Projector 8 and Projector 9 Long Throw projectors that were used at CEDIA for me to review and give them my feedback.

Here's the link to Sony's BRAVIA Projector 8 and Projector 9 webpages.

https://electronics.sony.com/tv-vide...s/p/vplxw6100b

https://electronics.sony.com/tv-vide...s/p/vplxw8100b

I also built our BRAVIA Projector 8 and Projector 9 webpages with additional information and I'm now working on building the.pdf spec. sheet.

 

[Robert Zohn]

 

[Robert Zohn]

Sony's New BRAVIA Projector 9, VPL-XW8100ES and the BRAVIA Projector 8, VPL-XW6100ES 4K HDR laser projectors are in the house!​

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Sony Lent Us BRAVIA Projector 9 & BRAVIA Projector 8 To Review!​

 

[Robert Zohn]

Here's a quick cell phone picture of a random image in our main showroom's theater demo room with Sony's new flagship BRAVIA Projector 9, VPL-XW8100ES projector.

The images look real to life with great detail and natural depth.

 

[Robert Zohn]

Check out our less than 13 minute in depth review of Sony's new VPL-XW-8100ES & VPL-XW6100ES projectors! We did this review with DeWayne Davis aka, D-Nice, and Tha VillaMan YouTube Channel owner.

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[Robert Zohn]

Shane Lee will be launching his Sony BRAVIA Projector 8 YouTube video review tomorrow, Monday, December 9. Here's his post on his YouTube Channel:

http://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxDNR5...4_LRpOnr9diHh2

 

[Robert Zohn]

Checkout Shane Lee's YouTube review of Sony's New BRAVIA Projector 8 projector!

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[Paul Hurt]

I've taken a bit of a leap into the dark (or the light) away from my NX7... I'm picking up a Sony XW6100 later this week. Found a great deal I couldn't pass up.

Bit concerned about only having five lens presets tho. I love my constant image height stuff, and now with IMAX to deal with as well, lets just say I use them up fast.

But more light output, and no bulb dimming over time...? It's a def thumbs up for that.

 

[Robert Zohn]

You will Love Sony's BRAVIA Projector 8, aka XW6100ES!

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[Paul Hurt]

It's here! I'll post some thoughts on it as soon as I find time to experiment. Similar specs to JVC (tho I don't have an NZ800 to compare it to), but I think Sony have a slightly different philosophy behind their software. Not saying better or worse, just different. Stand by.

 

[Paul Hurt]

Managed a quick play with the XW6100 and so far so good. I’ll have some actual opinions on it soon, once I find time to investigate more. But one immediate recommendation - make sure the projector isn’t crushing shadow details. Easily done. The default brightness setting just subtly crushed the blacks on mine. I was a bit concerned, until I made a tiny brightness tweak (from 50 to 53) and everything sprang to life, without affecting the deepest blacks. In this world of tone mapping and gamma choices and dynamic contrast enhancement, it’s easy to forget about the basics. Anyhow, enjoy these images.

 

[Todd Anderson]

OOOOOO>>>. Paul, you did it! Nice pull on the trigger! Did you sell your NX7, or are you feeling so guilty that it's going to stay ;-). Just kidding, of course.

Happy for you!

Looking forward to some of your thoughts as you get the projector more dialed in

 

[Paul Hurt]

Thanks Todd. The NX7 is still around for now. I will almost certainly sell it, but my plan is to compare and contrast the two first… you know, run a few side-by-side tests, do a visual comparison. I realise it’s not a fair fight, they’re not quite from equivalent sectors of the projector market, but assuming the Sony is “better” than the JVC, it’ll be interesting to see where and by how much.

The JVC does still kick , no doubt about it. I’ve never been unhappy with it, but for a couple of things I do - especially outdoor shows at larger screen sizes - I’m sure the extra brightness of the Sony will be helpful.

 

[Todd Anderson]

Just the power up, power down experience has gotta be refreshing!

Are you feeling like Sony's adaptive tone mapping is pretty good out of the box?

 

[Paul Hurt]

Just the power up, power down experience has gotta be refreshing!

Are you feeling like Sony's adaptive tone mapping is pretty good out of the box?

Yep, it looked very good just after dialling it in by eye. But of course, it goes pretty bright on a 135” screen, so it’s not frantically having to compensate for the limited peak brightness you get from projectors of old - the picture stays punchy and dynamic. I’ll try and suss out the differences between the tone mapping options - it’s not immediately obvious, they all look pretty good.

I didn’t quite feel like the deepest black level was as inky as the JVC, but once I’d got some shadow details back into it (brightness was too low at default) that stopped feeling like an issue. I think I was reacting more to the black (or dark grey!) crush, which gave you islands of very deep grey for shadows. Once the shadow detail was back that wasn’t an issue any more. The contrast and black level is still more impressive than most commercial cinemas or DLPs, etc. so it’s all good.

 

[Paul Hurt]

Oh I should also mention that I kinda preferred how it looked with almost all the “processing” switched off - so I defeated MotionFlow, sharpening (there’s two different kinds) was either off or at its near-lowest setting, noise reduction off… It just looked more natural like that, to me anyway. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, but there tends to be a lot of hype around those kind of features. Maybe they work for some people. I’ll be playing with it all a bit more later.

 

[Todd Anderson]

That’s always been my impression of Sony - though, as you point out, it’s all about finding the balance in the picture controls. Once you do, it’s going to look great.

I’m not one that loves frame interpolation… but, you’re right, some people love it!

I’d done the same as you… turned it off.