Sony VPL-PHZ61

21:9 projection displays offer a new dimension of immersion and engagement across various applications, making them essential for those who seek to captivate, educate, and entertain. In addition to 16:10 and 16:9 aspect ratios, the VPL-PHZ61/51 will now also support the 21:9 aspect ratio with 2560×1080 signal input, allowing you to innovatively project ultra-wide hybrid meetings on larger screens that optimize the visual presence of remote participants.

When combined with the Ambiance functionality, hybrid meetings are further enhanced by optimizing brightness, color, and resolution, depending on the brightness of the conference room, making it easier than ever to see emotive expressions of remote meeting participants while displayed content is being shared.

Bold, rich color, even in brightly lit rooms
Even powerful projectors can suffer from washed-out image colors in strongly lit rooms. Exclusive to Sony, Bright View delivers high-impact imagery without sacrificing color. Newly improved Reality Creation ensures images, diagrams, and text look clear and sharp, even in bright conditions. Intelligent Settings with Ambiance matches projected images with your environment for an enhanced viewing experience. There’s even an ambient light sensor to measure room brightness.

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Clearer images and text
Reality Creation uses powerful algorithms that boost image resolution closer to 4K clarity. Reality Text improves visibility of characters: great for conference rooms, university seminar rooms and large classrooms.

Bright, beautiful colors
Bright View is Sony’s unique processing technology that brightens images while maintaining rich color – even in brightly lit business and educational environments.

Enhanced viewing experience
Intelligent Settings with Ambiance uses a built-in light sensor to measure room brightness, automatically adjusting Bright View mode, color gain, and Reality Creation to suit your presentation environment.

Enjoy optimum pictures while saving energy
The VPL-PHZ61/51 makes sound business sense, helping you reduce running costs in corporate and educational environments. A new Auto Light Output feature works in conjunction with Ambiance, optimizing image quality and maintaining high visibility while reducing power consumption.

4K 60P input support
Support for 4K 60P input signals makes life simpler when you’re using the VPL-PHZ61/51 in multi-screen set-ups with flat panel sub-screens. Just split the same 4K signal to drive all your displays, with no conversion needed. There’s also a high-performance image scaler that effortlessly converts 4K input signals to WUXGA resolution while achieving close to 4K image quality. Now optimized for 4K60P signals, Reality Creation is Sony’s unique picture enhancement feature that gives projected images even greater crispness and depth. There’s also support for devices with content protection such as 4K UHD players.

Smart, installation-friendly design
Enjoy flexible installation options with a generous +55% vertical lens shift range, making it easy to achieve perfectly proportioned pictures without long pole mounts or keystone correction when the projector's ceiling mounted. We've also widened the throw ratio range, simplifying replacement of a previously installed projector without the hassle of re-positioning an existing ceiling mount.

Brighter for longer with less maintenance
There’s plenty of innovation inside the VPL-PHZ61/51 to keep pictures looking clear and bright over the projector’s operational lifetime with minimal maintenance – in any environment.

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Designed with intelligence
Intelligent Settings simplifies installation and maximizes performance based on usage, image detail, color richness and fidelity, light output, cooling level, and output noise. The Meeting/Classroom function controls laser output to keep brightness as high as possible for years of real-world use.

Keep dust out of the picture
The laser light source is sealed to prevent dust accumulation and eliminate reduced brightness. The dedicated cooling duct structure for the projector’s 3LCD panels is covered with an air filter to prevent dust from entering.

Hassle-free filter care
Focus on great-looking images instead of time-consuming maintenance. The new dust filtration system makes changing filters a thing of the past for general use in classrooms and meeting rooms.* For heavier use in dusty environments, there’s a new clogging sensor to advise when filter cleaning is needed. *Dust density < 0.03mg/m3 and operating time < 10,500 hours. (1,500 hours/year over 7 years.)

Data Cloning
Settings for one projector can be copied to other projectors using a USB memory drive. This greatly simplifies installation and set-up of multiple projectors.

Auto Input Select
The Auto Input Select feature automatically selects an active signal input, so there’s no need to change input each time a device is connected to the projector.

Auto Power On
Connect the VPL-PHZ61/51 to a switched-on computer, and the projector turns on automatically without having to operate the power button.

Display System 3LCD system
Display Device Size of Effective Display Area
0.64” (16.3 mm) x 3 BrightEra LCD Panel, Aspect ratio: 16:10
Number of Pixels 6,912,000 (1920 x 1200 x 3) pixels
Projection Lens
Focus : Manual
Zoom : Manual (Approx. x 1.6)
Lens shift
Manual, Vertical –35% to +55%, Horizontal: +/–15%
Throw Ratio
1.23: 1 to 1.97: 1

Light Source : Laser diode

Screen Size
1.02 m to 7.62 m (40 in to 300 in) (measured diagonally)
Light Output
Mode: Standard
6,400 lm*2 / 7,000 lm (Center)
Mode: Middle
4,700 lm
Mode: Low
-
Color Light Output
Mode: Standard
6,400lm
Mode: Middle
4,700 lm
Mode: Low
-
Contrast Ratio (full white / full black)
∞:1

Displayable Scanning Frequency
Horizontal
15 kHz to 92 kHz
Vertical
24 Hz to 92 Hz
Keystone Correction (Max.)
Keystone Correction (Max.)
Horizontal: +/-30 degrees
Vertical: +/-30 degrees
Accepted Signal Resolution

Computer Signal Input
Maximum signal resolution: 1920 x 1200*4
Video Signal Input
NTSC, PAL, SECAM, 480/60i, 576/50i, 480/60p, 576/50p, 720/60p, 720/50p, 1080/60i, 1080/50i, 1080/60p, 1080/50p, 3840/60p, 3840/30p, 3840/25p, 3840/24p, 4096/60p, 4096/30p, 4096/25p, 4096/24p

INPUT / OUTPUT
INPUT A
RGB / Y PB PR input connector: Mini D-sub 15 pin (female)
Audio input connector: Stereo mini jack
INPUT B
HDMI input connector: HDMI 19-pin, Digital RGB/Y PB PR, HDCP support
Audio input connector: HDMI audio support
INPUT C
HDMI input connector: HDMI 19-pin, Digital RGB/Y PB PR, HDCP support
Audio input connector: HDMI audio support
INPUT D
HDBaseT interface connector: RJ45, 4 play (Video, Audio, LAN, Control)
VIDEO IN
Video input connector: Phono jack (Composite)
Audio input connector: Shared with INPUT A
OUTPUT
Audio output connector: Stereo mini jack
REMOTE
D-sub 9-pin (male) / RS232C
LAN
RJ45, 10BASE-T / 100BASE-TX
USB
TYPE-A x 1 (for F/W update), TYPEA for Power supply
Speaker
Speaker
16 W

OSD Languages
27-language (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Russian, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Thai, Arabic ,Turkish, Polish, Vietnamese, Farsi, Finnish, Indonesian, Hungarian, Greek, Czech, Slovak, Romanian)
Acoustic noise (Mode: Standard / Middle) *1
Acoustic noise (Mode: Standard / Middle) *1
37 dB / 34 dB
Operating Temperature / Operating Humidity
Operating Temperature / Operating Humidity
0°C to 40°C (32°F to 104°F) / 20% to 80% (no condensation)
Storage Temperature / Storage Humidity
Storage Temperature / Storage Humidity
-10°C to +60°C (14°F to +140°F) / 20% to 80% (no condensation)

Power Requirements
AC 100 V to 240 V, 4.7 A to 2.0 A, 50 Hz/60 Hz
Power Consumption
AC 100 V to 120 V
463 W
AC 220 V to 240 V
434 W
Power Consumption (Standby Mode)
AC 100 V to 120 V
0.5 W (when “Standby mode” is set to “Low”)
AC 220 V to 240 V
0.5 W (when “Standby mode” is set to “Low”)
Power Consumption (Networked Standby Mode)
AC 100 V to 120 V
1 W (LAN), 21 W (ALL Terminals and Networks Connected / exclude USB Device and speaker off, when “Standby Mode” is set to “Standard”)
AC 220 V to 240 V
1 W (LAN), 21 W (ALL Terminals and Networks Connected / exclude USB Device and speaker off, when “Standby Mode” is set to “Standard”)
Standby Mode / Networked Standby Mode Activated
Standby Mode / Networked Standby Mode Activated
Approx. 2 Minutes

Dimensions (W x H x D) (without dust filter, protrusions)
Dimensions (W x H x D) (without dust filter, protrusions)
Approx. 422 x 100 x 333 mm (16 5/8 x 3 15/16 x 13 1/8 inches)
Dimensions (W x H x D)
Dimensions (W x H x D)
Approx. 422 x 129 x 338 mm (16 5/8 x 5 3/32 x 13 5/16 inches)
Mass
Approx. 7.0 kg (15 lb)

Supplied Accessories
RM-PJ8 Remote Commander