VPL-VW870ES
At a glance
Home Cinema entertainment at
its very finest
• 4K resolution: 4096 x 2160
• High brightness 2,200 ANSI
lumens
• Up to 20,000 hours virtually
maintenance-free laser technology
• Dual Contrast engine for outstanding
black levels and contrast
• Futureproofed with support
for latest picture standards
• ARC-F all glass lens for
exceptional clarity
VPL-VW870ES 4K Home Cinema projector
Key features
Shaped by our professional
cinema expertise
There’s decades of Sony experience
in developing technology for the
big screen packed into all our home
cinema projectors:
4K native resolution
Enjoy uncompromised 4K images,
with no artificial pixel enhancement.
True 4K HDR
High Dynamic Range takes you closer
still to reality with higher contrast,
richer colours and a wider range of
brightness levels from deep, dark
blacks to bright, sparkling highlights.
Discover all the emotion of cinematic
entertainment in True 4K HDR
Experience the cinema-quality entertainment you’ve always dreamed of.
The beautifully styled VPL-VW870ES represents a new landmark in home cinema
technology, achieving extraordinary levels of picture performance.
The long-lasting laser light source delivers a powerful 2,200 lumen output for
exceptional images, even in larger home cinema rooms and well-lit living spaces.
Laser light levels are precisely controlled in real time, assuring truly spectacular
dynamic contrast range with the latest 4K HDR content, ensuring the most
accurate reproduction of the director’s vision.
Enjoy all your content in superior detail
The VPL-VW870ES features an ARC-F (All Range Crisp Focus) glass lens, ensuring
the highest quality image reproduction that reaches every corner of the screen.
Achieve complete clarity and focus with new Digital Focus Optimiser technology,
so you’ll never miss any detail.
Featuring the latest 4K processor for home cinema projectors, Reality Creation
technology analyses every object of the image while upscaling Full HD content
for an incredible 4K experience, so you’ll always get the best from your content
library, with extraordinary clarity, colour and contrast.
Reality Creation
Enjoy your existing Full HD
Blu-ray™ collection, upscaled for an
exceptional 4K experience – even in 3D.
Dual Contrast Engine
Dynamic laser control and Advanced
Iris technology.
ARC-F lens - All Range Crisp Focus Lens
Large
diameter
front Lens
18 piece all glass lens
VPL-VW870ES 4K Home Cinema projector
4K native resolution: over four times
more detail than Full HD
Don’t compromise with true 4K (4096 x 2160 pixel) resolution, the standard
used in the digital cinema industry. You’ll find the same SXRD panel technology
used in our professional projectors, producing 4K native pictures with no
artificial pixel enhancement.
Full HD
1920 x 1080 (2.1 million pixels)
4K
4096 x 2160 (8.8 million pixels)
Simulated images
Easy to install
and use
Remarkably compact and elegantly
styled, the VPL-VW870ES is beautifully
easy to operate with a choice of picture
modes for outstanding results with any
content. With generous connections
and interfaces, it also oers great
flexibility for smooth integration in any
AV entertainment set-up.
4K Motionflow
4K Motionflow cleverly adds extra
frames to reduce blur and maintain
brightness in thrilling, fast-moving
scenes such as 4K sporting events.
Cinema purists can choose
True Cinema mode to retain the
original 24 fps.
Advanced 4K SRXD Panels
The VPL-VW870ES automatically adjusts contrast for optimum picture quality by
analysing dark and light areas in every scene. Advanced SXRD panel technology
features a highly reflective liquid crystal layer and an alignment layer without
bevelled corners or contact divots, enabling an ultra-fast response rate of just
2.5 milliseconds. Space is minimised between adjacent pixels for dot-free pictures
with deep contrast.
Conventional SXRD
Incident light
Reflective light
Liquid crystal
Alignment layer
Pixel pad
Beveled corner Contact divot
Latest SXRD
Incident light
Elimination of
beveled corners
Higher contrast
Reflective light
Elimination of
contact divots
Without Motionflow
With Motionflow
Simulated images