Any Sony fanatics with the necessary readies to afford a VW100 – including its potentially stratospheric running costs – can buy one safe in the knowledge that they'll be blown away by what it's capable of. But although its colours are slightly more natural at times, overall we can't honestly say that the VW100 outperforms JVC's DLA-HD1. In fact we'd probably say that thanks to its more emphatic and natural black level response, the HD1 marginally outperforms the VW100 – a fact which inevitably makes the VW100's considerably higher asking price a little hard to swallow.
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