Sony VPL-VW40 Home Theater Projector Review – General Performance-5

As you can see the projector gets cooler (shift towards blue – higher numbers), as you move down from white to dark gray. The background color of the VW40 also exhibits a blue caste to its blackest blacks.

Since setting lamps on low power tends to shift their color temperature, I measured white – with all other settings the same – at low lamp. It was very close at 6773K.

After a grayscale calibration of the Cinema mode, I ended up with these settings:

In reality this still ended up with a touch too much green at times, be advised.

Still, the numbers were dramatically improved:

Now thats a nice tight set of measurements staying extremely close to the ideal 6500K.

For Standard mode, I only measured with the same settings that you see above for Cinema mode, in terms of Gain and Bias. This created results much better than, and very different from the defaults: Here’s the measurements after adjustment:

For the Dynamic mode, this time I created several custom settings, some are focused on getting the best picture out, others on maximum brightness.

Dynamic: Default settings: (way, way, too cool) – color temp defaults to high