Sony VPL-Qualia-004 Product Sheet

From conception through design and manufacture, QUALIAt products are born to serve a single purpose: to
create extraordinary sensory experiences capable of evoking powerful emotional response. This world beyond
compromise comes brilliantly to life through the breathtaking innovation of QUALIA 004. The projector creates
images of startling clarity, depth and color–quality usually reserved for motion picture screening rooms. A superb
application of breakthrough technologies, QUALIA 004 delivers optimized projection quality for all video sources,
including cable and satellite, as well as full resolution for High Definition.

SXRD

Silicon Crystal (X-Tal) Reflective Display Screen Door Effect in a 100-inch picture

1. Microscopic 9 µm pixels achieve full
HDTV resolution (1920 H x 1080 V).

2. Small inter-pixel spacing (0.35 µm)
for high fill factor (92%), no visible
screen door effect.

3. Narrow Liquid Crystal layer (1.5-

2.0 µm) without spacers achieves
fast 5 msec. response.

4. Vertically-aligned Liquid Crystal
(normally black) for superb 3000:1
contrast ratio (panel only).

5. Inorganic Alignment Layer for
extended operating life.

Aluminum Reflective
Layer Glass Substrate
Silicon Backplane

Transmissive LCD panel
1366 x 768 pixels
Panel Fill Factor 50%

SXRD panel
1920 x 1080 pixels
Panel Fill Factor 92%

MOTION PICTURE FILM QUALITY IMAGES / Sony’s Silicon Crystal Reflective Display (SXRDt) technology was
designed to perform like 35 mm movie film. QUALIA 004 has virtually vanquished the “screen door effect” (the
obscuring of images due to the areas that surround each pixel) by using small, inter-pixel spacing. While most
projectors use defocusing to lessen the effect, the SXRD actually makes the space between the pixels smaller. The
result is a tremendous increase in clarity.