Sony has new projectors?

[Luke Friend]

Just watched this video and was surprised to see they came out with new projectors. Looks like some major improvements. Maybe this will lower the price of the current 6000 model into my budget https://youtu.be/wU7Go8LJByM

 

[Grant Anderson]

Not too surprising. Right on schedule actually. CEDIA is this week. And the last time that the big 3 (Sony, JVC, Epson) refreshed their projectors was 2022.

So they have all been refreshing their projectors recently. The JVC NZ800 and NZ900 are already out. And the NZ700 was just shown at CEDIA as well. Epson announced their new gen of projectors a couple weeks ago. Sony was the only one left.

u/Alternative-Book-986 , if your plan is to get a discounted 6000ES, you should reach out to a few Sony projection dealers and keep tabs on pricing. As the 6100ES makes its way into distribution channels, dealers will start dropping pricing on the 6000ES to get rid of existing inventory. But the price will only drop for so long before they disappear entirely. So don't hold out too long.

I tried to warn people on this sub about this with the JVC NZ8 when the NZ800 came out. Some of them listened and got a good deal. Others did not and missed out. The NZ8 dropped from 16K to 12K. And then from 12K to 10K. Finally, by the end, some people were getting them for as little as $8500. But you had to pull the trigger when you found a deal, you couldn't dawdle around and "consider it" for a while.

I was sending people deals for $9K NZ8s. These same people would pass on it, and then message me back 2 days later asking me what they should buy. Well too bad. That was your shot. It's gone now. Enjoy spending $16K on a NZ800.

[Betster56]

The analysis I have seen on other fora is that the SONY announcements were a disappointment is that there was nothing new in the less than $10K category whereas JVC has 2 new entries in that price range. The new higher end SONYs are credited with having very low latency making it great for serious gamers, but still don't have dynamic or adaptive tone mapping and still are behind JVC on lack of banding, contrast ratio and black levels, especially the 1 bright pixel test. So it is JVC for movies and TV and SONY for games. BTW, I own an NZ800 and am very happy with it. My prior projector was an NX7 and prior to that a SONY 385ES.