Let the fun begin. I guess it will soon be time to start the Official Sony VW200 thread. Who will be the first?

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Alan,
No homes for those boxes? :confused:

They are gone. We should see some feedback tomorrow or the weekend.

I have one on order - 'anticipation, antici-pay-ay-shun'.

I have one on order - 'anticipation, antici-pay-ay-shun'.

Looking forward to all the reports.

ca1ore, I hope you paid for overnight shipping! 8)

Please don't compare it to the VW60. I'm broke! :o

ca1ore, I hope you paid for overnight shipping! 8)

Well, not sure when I will actually get it. Figure they will be hard to come by for a bit , so maybe mid-Dec.

I am waiting for the VPL-VW300...

It's nice to know one of those is scheduled for delivery to me tomorrow... :eek: :)

How did you get into my basement Alan? :)

I am waiting for the VPL-VW300...

Why not the VW400 or VW500?

I suppose each person defines for themselves what constitutes 'good enough'. I am hoping that for me it will be the VW200 as I am tired of 'projector upgrade-itis' and would like to 'buy and hold' for a while.

I usually cant wait to hear the reports (I usually buy new projectors ASAP and was a former owner of the VW100), but for some reason I am not excited by this projector. Hope the initial reports are glowing because I am looking to upgrade again :)

I think the price is the problem. People expected it to be about the same as the original Ruby, or at least a huge improvment.

Alan is playing with his now and said it looks great...but he'll report more details soon.

I think the price is the problem. People expected it to be about the same as the original Ruby, or at least a huge improvment.

Alan is playing with his now and said it looks great...but he'll report more details soon.

The price is a big issue for me. If I am going to spend close to $15K I am going all the way and getting a 3 chip DLP. Plus I expect the performance to really blow away the VW60. Not sure if that is realistic or not?

It's $20K over here in Finland. The specs look interesting but it needs to be exceptionally good to justify the expense.

Holding my breath here waiting for some first impressions. Red to purple .... anyone!

The Sony site (not that one :) ) said expected next shipment 12/01 but that is more a computer generated guess than anything else).

Hmmnh! Thread is quiet - either not a lot of these in the country yet or the price is scaring most people off.

This thread is quiet because we have an official sticky thread for it... :)
Plus not many have shipped so far... I only know of one other owner besides myself and his name is Alan... :D

I saw Alan's last night. Nice unit.

Er...uh...his VW200!

Richard

Hmmnh! Thread is quiet - either not a lot of these in the country yet or the price is scaring most people off.

I think the later is more likely.

This thread is quiet because we have an official sticky thread for it... :)
Plus not many have shipped so far... I only know of one other owner besides myself and his name is Alan... :D

Ah yes, apparently I am blind - so won't be needing the VW200 after all :D

Also nice to see that you waffle as much as I do - could have sworn your last postion on this was that the VW60 was good enough and you were going to wait for the VW200 features to trickle down to the VW70 next year. Way to hold out mate!

I tried. But when I found out everyone wanted me to host the NFC, AFC (Championships) and the Superbowl this year I caved. :)

Plus when I had the oppurtunity to be one of (if not the first) to get it I decided to RUN intstead of WALK. I am glad I did. I truly feel like I am DONE for long while... ;)

Sounds awesome!

I am waiting for the VPL-VW300...

VPL-VW220, or 221... whatever it takes.

The price is a big issue for me. If I am going to spend close to $15K I am going all the way and getting a 3 chip DLP. Plus I expect the performance to really blow away the VW60. Not sure if that is realistic or not?

I can comment that in Alan's opinion it blows away the VW60. That is taking price out of the equation...considering it is 3x more, that makes it a tougher comparison...

I can comment that in Alan's opinion it blows away the VW60. That is taking price out of the equation...considering it is 3x more, that makes it a tougher comparison...

I realize Alan like's a few of the features of the 200 (I don't like Motionflow at least the way it is implemented on SXRD tv sets).

I want to see measurements compared to the VW60. I love reading reviews on this forum, but I prefer to see the actual numbers. It is very rare on this forum that a new PJ buyer has anything negative to say about their PJ.

Ok. It won't do 35 ft lamberts on an 8 ft wide 1.3 gain. Right Joe?. Does that suck or what?

On/off CR with auto iris in any mode is under 100,000! Boy does that suck. If I am going to spend over a grand on any projector it better do better than that.

And ANSI CR. Under 1000. WTF?

I give up. What is Sony thinking? Maybe if it only cost $699!. Just another foreign corporation ripping us good ole Americans off. Who do they think they are?