4K Sony VW 1000 first short Test

i got today one of the first sony vw1000 (a real production unit!)and take a first look.




i cant do a full test as my time i can spend is very little at this moment
but i will measure later tonight at least lumen as you may know that sony
always say that the first demo units are not have the light out the
real production units will have.
sony promise to me around 2000 lumen but dont tell me at d 65 or at native color without any calibration.
seeing the unit with lamp mode high no iris on and color to d 65 i am
sure it have more lumen than the early samples (1450 lumen).
may in the 1800 lumen range at d 65 but lets see.....

cr. in this mode also seems good colors looks good as well.

so very first impressions are good all over more later in some hours.
it will be a long night very possible

it gets late but i have some numbers.

the unit has at high lamp mode (very quiet) no iris at all
contrast at full 100 (no clipping) with d 65 color and lens to the adjust to the biggest
picture it can do with oppo bd player in 2d and 1 hour at the lamp

1920 center lumen!!!

when you select that the 1920x1080 24p signal was scale up to
full wide of the panel the vw 1000 offers

2064 center lumen!!!

i see not any problem by using the scale mode to fill the full panel.
not any bug that i can see.

the lens is very very good at least at the position i select (max big picture).
very sharp and it show the pixels when you go to the screen.
no chromatic bugs in the corners no other issues what a good lens!

i try also the reality creation and when i switch it on you can see that the picture gets much better.
you can adjust than there the level of resolution and noise reduction.
i adjust all to minimum.
as the picture is still at min. a bit to sharp i adjust the general sharpness to 0.
but even than it was for my taste to sharp so i take the oppo adjustments and i found
with -10 sharpness a very nice way to further decrease the picture enhancement
to a level i like it.
that together with the big improvement when you adjust reality creation gives a very nice bug free picture that i like a lot and with this adjustments it looks very good
and naturally and very good.

the other important point are the cr. number that are discussed here at avs
like the lumen number a lot.

i found with open iris max. light out at d 65 with biggest picture from the lens

11050:1 cr.

you need to know that my numbers when i compare it with other people numbers are always a
bit low so i expect even higher numbers from other people that this pr. have native.

all above was at color space rec 709 and color temperature d65.
i am not sure if its really necessary to further calibrate the colors as they looks to me
right out the box very good.

this pr. is a big positive surprise as it have the lumen at d 65 sony promise
(2000 lumen) and the cr. native was with my measurements at over 11000:1 native
also very nice if you think about how bright the unit is.

when you thing that this is a true 4k pr. with native 4096x2160 almost
9 mil. pixel and the lumen and the cr. this pr. is a very good deal if you can afford it.

in 2 days i will have a computer here with the first gc that outputs true 4k via the
hdmi output.
lets see how good the still pictures with 4.27 times the resolution full hd have will looks....
and 3d as well.

but i can say today this is a very very good pr.

congratulation sony!!!