Sony VPL-VW270ES (VW295ES) 4K Projector Review 

I technically don't even own a TV either, haha. I'm watching on a monitor.

@@CaveyMoth Same. Monitor, no TV but getting the Sony A9 in the Spring.

Vincent is here to make you want to own one.

man crush

Whoops sorry 675ES.

Me too !

Did you get it calibrated yet? I have the 65 calibrated and I'm also curious to hear his calibration thoughts.

How do you like your 295es?

I had for one week jvc N5. and returned , after sony hw45es it was very bad in resolution and color acuracy. i prefer sony. jvc had of course better black, nice colors, but lack of resolution (like washed out picture, maybe internal processing problem) was big no no for me,SDR picture was totaly tragic and "Dry" , for example. water was not wet, and sony have wet water effect !!! also car painting and lackier is visible on sony, and on jvc it was just paint, no lackier. Now im looking to purchase sony 270 or 570 , still deciding.

@@vismantasbagdonas4699 something was wrong there, possible a foulty unit, that N5 is much better than your 45 es in every aspect, especially in resolution and detail

@@georgepopescu1327 i now using jvc N7. with this model is everything perfect specialy after calibration ;) sony now is outsider ;) maybe my N5 was faulty.and for example Jvc with madvr +radeon gpu is superb. for example nvidia colors are washed out... but in forums i found many people have problems with nvidia gpus color quality, also frame rate not hold 23.976.. but radeon does absolutly perfect 23.976 hz and perfect colors.

@@vismantasbagdonas4699 the only difference between N5 and N7 is native contrast, which, on N7 is significantly higher, but you need a dark room to take advantage of that. Again, something was wrong there, either from source or the projector was faulty.

There is allready review about that modell like 6+ months ago

plastic lens on a 5000 $ projector? :))))

Jack Buser any update on this issue?

No update but this has kept me from buying this projector. Vincent did you ever solve the posterization issue?

yes of course. .he has so much power over Sony lmao

@@shaundavidssd you my friend are a troll

Same as last year. JVC is deeper.

@@hdtvtesthi, picture quality vs samsung q70 qled tv? thanks in advance

Yes, I'm also waiting. I have the tv and got it professionally calibrated but curious to hear his input.

I was waiting for a good line in the middle or the end and I left disappointed

Me

Nicedude, go to hell

@@jackryder6732 Hell is waiting for you in 4K

That's caused by our camera frame rate mismatch with the projector's.

@@hdtvtest How can there be a mismatch if the film that's projected and the camera run @24 fps (as RU-vid stats for nerds shows)? Do you refer to the possible 23.976 vs 24 fps difference?

@@maricallo6143 because if smoothening was turned on it's 96fps vs 24fps ;-)

@@stefanlasser6535 Vincent dislikes motion smoothing, so it's most likely frame tripling :-)...

I really hope it is 2160p, or your money are wasted! One thing is input-resolution, another is output-resolution which always should be fixed at the native resolution of your projector...

You need to align the projector lense with the wall. Your projector is pointing up slightly

@@DarrenBoxhall THANK YOU SO MUCH DARREN.

@@toosweet241 no problem. You need to ensure its pointing perfectly square with the wall. Yours will be pointing up, making the screen trapezoidal, and wider at top

@@DarrenBoxhall HOW DID YOU KNOW, EXACTLY, THANK YOU

the lack of Iris makes this Sony projector very hard to calibrate corectly

@@georgepopescu1327 yeah and now Sony has the 325es to replace it.

@@percybedford6266 i don't belive that one has iris either. It is very important couse otherwise you might not be able to calibrate it properly for dark rooms or batcaves.

@@georgepopescu1327 you are correct, it doesn't have an iris.

@@percybedford6266 i don't know the prices in USA but if they are close, JVC N5/RS1000 is a much better projector alltogether

@Parental Guardian I actually think it's the term "extra" that would denote extra or more beans ;-)

He thought he was getting extra beans. FML did anyone go to school here

Yes, we covered 3D support at 09:20.

Yes, we covered 3D support at 09:20.

VOLT14 that all depends on how many nits the movie was mastered to and the peak brightness of your tv. If you have a movie that was mastered to, let’s say, 4 thousand nits and your tv is one of those cheaper 4K “HDR” TVs with a peak brightness of 400 nits, then your movie would look very dark because it can’t reach a good level of the brightness the movie was mastered to. Try a Samsung Q9 or a Sony Z9 or an OLED (Oled can handle bright mastered movies even with its lower brightness because of the individual pixels being able to turn on and off individually, the issue is on dim lcd led TVs) and you’ll see how the details show no problem. Even though the oled would still look darker, but it would still give very good details. Hope that explains it.

@@MyReviews_karkan i have samsung nu8000. So, ok, TV cant pull off some peak brightness level. But how come regular blu ray is brighter?? why 4k cant be as bright as regular blu ray?

Here's a potential reason... HDR is meant to be watched in a very dark room: www.hdtvtest.co.uk/news/4k-vs-201604104279.htm

@@VOLT14 I have the same TV and it is only dark on HDR and I'm fine with it because I know my TV isnt able to pull that high brightness. And regular blurays and regular 4ks aren't mastered in high numbers of nits and dont require a lot of brightness so the TV does well on them. Its only dark on HDR.

@@VOLT14 read the article Vincent put the link for. increased luminance range is a major thing. Led TVs try so hard to dim the dark areas of the HDR movie and brighten up the bright areas without blowing out the details (but have not enough brightness to do so) which results in a dim movie. I guarantee you that if you watch an hdr movie on a samaung Q9 or a Z9D Sony you won't experience that dimness. I've seen it with my own eyes.

Mount the projector properly and this is not an issue

No Issues with my ceiling mount.

I would love to understand how this works. The projector is not on the horizontal centerline so there must be distortion. How do you adjust for that?

@@nickmk11 Calculate the amount of vertical or horizontal offset to use the lens shift capabilities of the projector. Use the right mount to drop the projector as needed and shoot square and level to the screen. Keystone correction destroys picture quality and cuts brightness so it should never be used

It's not hard. Lense shift and a mount that can be adjusted down as well. You never use Keystone, if you do, you don't care about image quality

Besides native 4K resolution, the Sony VW270 also offers excellent picture quality attributes of deep blacks (second only to the JVCs), highly accurate colours after calibration, superb motion handling and low input lag. "Disappointing" HDR performance: If you judge it by TV standards, even the £35,000 JVC Z1 delivers "disappointing" HDR. 4K HDR game banding: yes, we will feed this back to Sony, and hope it's just something wrong with our setup. Re Epson TW9400: we can't speculate on a projector without having tested it ourselves. Re JVC X7900: That's a one-year-old model that's not true 4K, with a retail price above £6000 at launch. Just like TVs, there is no perfect projector... every one has its own pros and cons. It's always easy to take pot shots at our reviews if you have not seen the projector(s) yourselves, especially if you're just going by what other people say. We always try to be fair and honest in our reviews, but thanks for your feedback.

@@hdtvtest It was not against your review or the projector, of course it's a good projector but this is now the 5th (?) gen 4k Sony projector, first was like 5 years ago and you would expect such a projector under 4000 by now, 5000 is a little bit steep for what it can offer, the 4K "tax" is too much, if someone can have 5000 then can have 6000 for projector too and the JVC N5 has more to offer than this Sony. I meant the HDR performance against others, Sony at this point should have similar Tone Mapping option like the JVC N series. And to quote you: " I would always choose contrast, colors over purely resolution", also you always choose by the current price, so the reduced price matters for the X7900 (although many stores still have the old price). So the e-shift models with better HDR performance and contrast for a cheaper price are better value. Sorry if my original post seemed like an attack, it wasn't, I'm one of the earliest subscriber here and fan of the website since 2007, I wasn't attacking you :)

What are you talking about? You clearly don’t have a clue... no one is taking about banding... do you just hear what you want to hear? Stop projecting your biased opinions and trying to distort the truth...

Fluterra what? Did you watched the video? There’s banding in 4K HDR games. In both Xbox One X and PS4 Pro.

@@hdtvtest Hey Vincent, what's the shortest distance recommended for projecting this model onto a 100" screen with a 2.35:1 cinema scope ? I'm wondering if 9 feet would be okay without a messy picture, thanks in advance👍

he was talking about native 4k projectors, those DLP cheap projectors use pixel shift, they don't have native 4k chip inside

who cares ? shit stirring muppet

@@shaundavidssdDoing him a favor because this guy is getting off talking shit. By the way, GFYS

Vincent's Q series reviews were spot on to me.