The VPL-XW5000ES is a watershed moment for not just Sony’s projection business but the home cinema world in general. Why? Because it’s the cheapest truly native 4K laser projector the home cinema world has ever seen.
The word ‘native’ is doing some heavy lifting there, to be clear. There are a number of DLP laser projectors priced lower than the Sony that would claim, with the support of the Consumer Technology Association in the US, to be 4K projectors despite having to use ‘double flashing’ technology to achieve a 4K image rather than carrying native 3840x2160 arrays of DLP’s digital mirror devices.
