Sony VPL-VW500ES Product Sheet

VPL-VW500ES

4K Home Cinema

projector – more

than 4x the quality

• 4K resolution: 4096 x 2160

• Dynamic contrast ratio:
200,000:1

• Brightness: 1,700 ANSI lumens

• Compact and functional
design

VPL-VW500ES
a breathtaking
4K home cinema
experience

of Full HD

Shaped by our professional
cinema expertise

With decades of experience
developing technology for the

Key Features At a glance

big screen, we’ve packed
major innovations into the
VPL-VW500ES:

Reality Creation our Super
Resolution upscaler. Enjoy
your existing Full HD Blu-ray™
collection, transformed for an
exceptional 4K experience –
even in 3D.

Advanced native 4K
SXRD panels produce an

ultra-smooth, native 4K by
dramatically reducing the
space between pixels.

TRILUMINOS Display technology

produces a much broader
colour range, reproducing
more tones and textures than
a standard projector system
for greater purity, depth and
realism.

Enjoy your favourite movies in astonishing 4K detail

Imagine the fully immersive cinematic quality of 4K in your own
home. Our VPL-VW500ES home cinema projector gives you a
4096 x 2160 resolution picture, over four times better than Full HD.
It’s just like being at the movies.

The exceptionally high dynamic contrast ratio of 200,000:1 with
1,700 ANSI lumens brightness produces stunning detail and rich,
faithful colour – even in well-lit rooms.

Get the very best from your
2D and 3D discs

While more and more native 4K material
is becoming available, the VPL-VW500ES
uses our Reality Creation technology to
upscale Full HD content for an incredible
4K experience. This Super Resolution
feature means you’ll get the very best
from your current Blu-ray Disc™ library,
with fuller colour, greater clarity and more
impact than ever before.

Compact and user-friendly

The VPL-VW500ES is easy to operate, with
a variety of control modes so you get
the very best picture, whatever you’re
watching. With a smaller optical engine
than our leading 4K projector, the
VPL-VW1000ES, its compact design also
offers even greater flexibility for installation.

4K native resolution:
over 4x better than Full HD

No compromises: the VPL-VW500ES
provides 4096 x 2160 4K resolution (the
DCI standard in digital cinemas). We
used our professional cinema expertise
to develop 4K SXRD panels and
produce a 4K native picture with no
artificial enhancement of pixels.

Full HD 4K

Ultra high contrast ratio
and brightness

Drawing on optical technology
developed for the VPL-VW1000ES,
we’ve achieved both high brightness
(1,700 ANSI lumens) and high
contrast (200,000:1 dynamic
contrast ratio) in the VPL-VW500ES.
So, you’ll see crystal-clear, bright,
detail-packed images – even in well-

Liquid crystal

Alignment layer

Pixel pad

lit rooms.

Advanced SXRD panels

4K digital drive panels minimise the
space between pixels in every frame
with an incredible response rate of

2.5-milliseconds. That’s much faster,
and more stable, than an LCD TV
and produces ultra-smooth, dot-free
pictures with natural, fluid movement

4K home cinema projector with 1,700 ASI lumens brightness and 200,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio

– whatever the action.

Scattered light diminishes black levels High contrast and high reflectivity

Full HD

1920 x 1080
(2.1 million pixels)

Conventional panel

Incident light

Reflective light

Bevelled corner Elimination of

Contact divot

4K

4096 x 2160
(8.8 million pixels)

Incident light

bevelled corners

New SXRD™

Reflective light

Elimination of
contact divots

Simulated images

TRILUMINOS Display

The VPL-VW500’s optical engine
and SXRD panels incorporate our
TRILUMINOS Display technology to
produce a much broader colour
range, reproducing more tones and
textures than a standard projector
system. The result is greater purity,
depth and realism.

New Motionflow

We’ve enhanced our Motionflow
technology. ‘Combination’ mode
uses our ‘Film Projection’ and ‘Motion
Enhancer’, adding frames to reduce
blur and maintain brightness in
thrilling, fast-moving scenes. Cinema
purists can choose ‘True Cinema’
to retain the original 24 frames per
second.

Simulated images

Simulated images

Without Motionflow With Motionflow

Simulated images