Sony VPL-VW70 Home Theater Projector - First Look

UPDATE: The Sony VPL-VW70 Review has been posted.

Greetings all!

The VPL-VW70 supposedly replaced the VW60 at the end of last year, although VW60’s still seem to be available.   I’ve had the VPL-VW70 here for a couple of weeks now, and have logged a good 20 hours of viewing, almost all of it after Mike calibrated the projector.

Let’s start with what the Sony VPL-VW70 represents.  It is the big brother of the Sony VPL-HW10 which we reviewed back in December.  (Both projectors were announced at the same time, at CEDIA last September.)

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Epson Home Cinema 6500 UB - CFI - Creative Frame Interpolation Final

Greetings all,

OK, I’m a bit late on this one, but finally ready to put the CFI issue to rest.

For those new, I’ve written a number of blogs on creative frame interpolation, and some of the issues.  Of the four projectors we’ve seen with CFI, Epson had some problems, which have been discussed. Epson has just released their new firmware, to deal with the issues. This blog looks at the performance of the new firmware in terms of creative frame interpolation, and also talks about the process of upgrading.

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