What Hi-Fi?

Sony VPL-VW870ES

Projector

£25,000

FOR

• Beautiful colour palette
• Excellent details in dark and light areas
• True sense of picture depth

AGAINST

• Intensity of blacks not up to top TV standards
• No 3D glasses included
• Cheaper in-house competition

VERDICT

The VPL-VW870ES’s high-end picture quality comes at a high price compared with the competition both outside and inside of Sony’s 4K projector line-up

“The snow has such differentiation that you can begin to appreciate why the Inuits have so many words for the stuff”

long-lasting performance – those are the promises Sony makes about its VPL-VW870ES 4K projector. With an SXRD chip at its core, the

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