It's more like a commercial cinema than a home theater, but on this occasion the VPL-VW1000ES was positioned just six meters (20 feet) away from the screen, which ought to be achievable in an everyday type of mansion.

ENGADGET: This is what native 4K home cinema looks like on Sony's VPL-VW1000ES projector

The type of home also matters: A mansion will fetch more than an average middle-class house, although movies need a lot of those, too.

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