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Sony’s View On The Projector Screen

The Sony ChromaVue projector screen is the latest in high contrast technology allowing people who don’t normally have the option of viewing in a dark room a better image that is saturated with beautiful contrast. The reason why Sony wanted a high contrast screen is probably because they want to break through to a larger television market. Sony is trying to attack the market that doesn’t want to deal with watching TV in a room has no light.

The Sony HCS80 ChromaVue projector screen is a dark grey screen, opposed to what some people might think is a black screen. A white screen may reflect too much ambient light, and while the white screen is good for dark rooms, it does not function nearly as well when ambient light is present.

The Sony HCS80 is made in a fixed size of 80mm, so it is larger than your average TV set, but you are limited to keeping your projector image a certain size. The technology that the HCS80 uses is a pretty cool concept, built with many layers it is said to capture mostly the light that is being projected.

The HCS80 will only reflect red, blue, and green light, which all have distinct wavelengths. Ambient light, which consists of many different wavelengths, for the most part will be ignored by the screen allowing you watch during daylight hours and still have great contrast.

One slight problem with the concept behind the screen is that some projectors have colour enhanced capability allowing more than simply the RGB group to filter the image. Sony has produced this screen primarily for the VPL-HS51 projector since it relies on the RGB group but other projectors may also be used.

Projectors used with the HCS80 should probably contain UHP projector lamps as opposed to other varieties of projector lamps. The light that is produced by the UHP projector lamps is more conducive compared to Xenon lamps, so it is not recommended that you combine a projector with these alternative light sources.

The technology that Sony is working with needs to get a little bit better before consumers really get what they want. The screen is pretty good in an area that has small amounts of ambient light, but don’t think about opening the curtains full swing. The screen is only a small part of the equation and I think that the weight stands on the shoulders of the projector itself.

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