Sony Electronics’ two newest WUXGA 3LCD laser projectors, the VPL-FHZ85 and VPL-FHZ80, combine high brightness, installation flexibility and advanced operational capabilities. These new models are a reliable option for a wide range of corporate, education, House of Worship and e-sports applications.

The VPL-FHZ85 and VPL-FHZ80 incorporate a number of features focused on image quality.  The projectors offer high brightness – the VPL-FHZ85 offers 7,300 lumens and the VPL-FHZ80 offers 6,000 lumens to accommodate demanding lighting conditions and environments. Utilizing Sony’s Reality Creation real-time signal processing, mapping and analysis technology, the projectors produce crisp and clear pictures, for effective presentations and displays.  Additionally, both new models support 4K 60P input for compatibility with 4K video sources. Sony’s proprietary Reality Creation technology enhances the overall sharpness, resolution and quality of projected images, regardless of whether it’s pictures, graphs or text. The projectors’ new Reality Text feature improves text-based presentation materials by providing clearer letters and lines with enhanced legibility.

The projectors also feature advanced Intelligent Settings, which optimize images based on the environment. The addition of customized Bright View functionality enables colors to accurately maintain their contrast, even in brightly lit rooms.  The new Ambiance feature automatically measures the room’s brightness using an ambient light sensor, and further calibrates the Bright View, color gain and Reality Creation settings accordingly.  Additionally, the new models offer an automated filter cleaning system and an efficient cooling system to ensure long-term, reliable and low-maintenance operation.

The VPL-FHZ85 and VPL-FHZ80 can accommodate a range of lenses and enable a wide vertical lens shift, at 70% and also offer a variety of mounting configurations. Their installation flexibility is enhanced by a USB power supply for wireless presentations, auto power on capabilities, auto input selection and a data cloning feature that allows a user to copy a projector’s settings onto a USB drive for easy replication to additional projectors.

The new projectors will be available in January 2022.

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