The best home cinema of 2011: a round-up of 2011's best home cinema products from blu-ray systems to home cinema projectors.

Immaculate finish ; easy to set-up ; superbly clean, clear and involving images

Expensive ; lacks subtlety of very best

This is a sublime projector, but in terms of performance per pound, it’s not quite five-star stuff

Excellent picture ; Flexible lens system ; Extensive user parameters

MotionFlow technology might not appeal to all

Absolutely superb performance makes this projector very difficult to beat, and at a reasonable price too

Yes it's a hefty price tag, but for the serious Home Cinema lover, Sony's answer to JVC's D-ILA range provides excellent sharpness and colour authentication with increased smoothness and easy remote controlling.

Excellent

Ultra quiet running noise ; Excellent black levels ; Excellent out of the box results ; Reference calibrated greyscale ; Very good image accuracy to the standards ; Anamorphic lens option ; Good quality video processing for SD and HD material ; Good...

Motionflow interpolation system not ideal for use with 24fps material if you are after accuracy ; RCP is inaccurate and should be replaced with a better system ; Slight uniformity issues ; Gamma control should be in the projector

Excellent Color with particularly good skin tones (with a hint of too much red) ; Slightly above average brightness in "best" movie mode ; Superb black level performance ; Very good shadow detail performance ; If not using the dynamic iris, manual iris...

A relatively dim "brightest" mode, of 725 lumens means it can't deal with very much ambient light, at all ; Average sharpness (ok, that's more of a "typical" than a Con, but, sharpness is a big thing, for many, a key deciding factor ; Likely average to...

My last thoughts: Well, I'd rather have the VW85 over my RS20, if for no other reason, for the CFI for sports viewing. I'm even more intrigued, by JVC's DLA-RS35. The RS35 is essentially an VW85 with hand picked components and a higher level of quality...

Though expensive the Sony is a cost-effective way to create an impressive, large-screen experience.