Sony VPL-VW85 Leaflet

The BRAVIA VPL-VW85 home cinema projector is designed to impress the serious 

home cinema enthusiast due to the wide of array of Sony’s innovative technologies 

contained within it. This projector features Sony’s SXRD (Silicon X-tal Reflective 

Display) panel technology that delivers exquisitely fine-grained 1080p Full HD 

for a truly cinematic experience. Furthermore, the innate high contrast of SXRD 

technology is leveraged by Sony’s new Advanced Iris 3

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 system to enable this 

projector to produce a super-high native contrast ratio of up to 120,000:1.

This projector also incorporates Sony’s innovative Motionflow

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 Dark Frame Insertion 

system which makes motion much smoother with a method called Double Speed 

Processing. Eight-stage real-time signal processing by Sony’s BRAVIA ENGINE 2 

ensures outstanding colour and visibly superior overall image quality.

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Cinema Projector.

Home Cinema Projector 

This feature allows films to be watched as 

intended by the director for the big screen, 

at 24 frames per second.

Projects crisp and beautiful full 1080p HD 

images right to every corner of the screen.

Flexible user setting for picture quality.

Opens automatically when the projector 

powers on, then closes up again. 

Allows you to adjust the hue of a specific 

colour without changing the whole image.

 

 The Advanced Iris 3 contrast 

enhancement works like the human 

eye, responding dynamically to the 

level of light in each scene, always 

selecting the optimum contrast. With 

a very high range of 120,000:1, 

Advanced Iris 3 can bring out the 

detail in darker sequences and 

prevent bright scenes from looking 

washed out.

 

 

This technology brings fast-paced, 

cinematic action to your home. 

Motionflow with Dark Frame Insertion 

technology makes motion much 

smoother through a method called 

Double Speed Processing. This 

innovative process creates and inserts 

artificial frames, first comparing key 

visual factors on successive frames 

– for example the position of a car 

hubcap – then calculating the split 

second of ‘missing’ action. The 

optional insertion of darkened frames 

heightens the contrast and eliminates 

any judder – by allowing the eye to 

naturally blend one frame into the 

next. This action mimics that of actual 

movie projection.

 

 

With three of Sony’s 1920 x 1080 SXRD 

panels at the heart of this projector, 

a consistently superior image is 

produced across the entire screen. 

The unique combination of three 

separate panels of 1920 x 1080 

resolution (one each for red, green 

and blue) means that SXRD can 

deliver over 6.2 million pixels. SXRD 

provides film-quality smoothness 

by minimizing the space between 

pixels (0.25µm) for smooth and 

dot-less pictures.

In Cinema Mode, films can be viewed 

as close to the original director’s cut 

as possible, reproducing details such 

as natural skin tone, lighting, colour, 

and contrast.    

The unique BRAVIA ENGINE 2 delivers 

vibrant colours and exceptional 

image quality.

 

 It consists of eight separate stages of 

image enhancement – carried out in 

real time – each has a specialised 

function. Together they generate a 

picture that is optimised in every way, 

from the accuracy of the contrast to 

the precision of the colour 

reproduction.

The panel alignment function allows 

users to select R (Red) or B (Blue) to 

make adjustments based on G 

(Green), and to adjust the horizontal 

and vertical direction by shifting a full 

image or each zone from 16x9 points 

of each colour, achieving the 

perfect colour registration of the 

projected images.

The VPL-VW85 has a “Anamorphic 

zoom” mode in the wide modes to 

enjoy wider aspect ratio. With this 

mode, it is possible to create a full 

2.35:1 image just like a movie theatre 

when using a commercially available 

anamorphic lens.