This is an awesome, super bright, 4K laser projector with 3D capability. And reasonably priced! Had some concerns before purchasing, and I suspect that many people probably have similar concerns.
Is it bright enough? We use projector in our living room, which has a lot of ambient light. There is conflicting information out there regarding the brightness of the projector, so I was not sure that this projector will offer a meaningful brightness update to our existing one, which is also a 4K projector with nice colors, but with only 2400 lumens. I was wrong! This projector is so bright, that I permanently set the brightness to 3 out of 10. As long I don't have all the blinds wide open at the same time, 3 is bright enough on our ALR screen. I suspect that many would find 3 too bright in the evening. The first photo shown here was when my son was playing video game on it, with all our ceiling lights turned on with full power and pointing towards the screen, and the projector's brightness set at 3. This shows you how bright this project is (having an ALR screen also helps!)
Does it suffer the dreaded "laser speckle" problem? I didn't even know what laser speckle problem was until I started searching for laser projectors. Some mentioned that it's worse with ALR screens. *Unfortunately*, that's exactly the type of screen we have. I was comforted by the fact that this projector claims to have eliminated >90% of the speckle problem, but I was still concerned that the remaining portion could be problematic. So far, I still don't quite know what exactly laser speckle problem is, because we haven’t experienced any on our ALR screen. To the four family members in our house, none of us could tell any difference between our old bulb projector and this new laser projector, as far as "speckle" is concerned. As a matter of fact, the picture looks gorgeous on our ALR screen!
DLP rainbow effect? Our old projector uses non-DLP tech so we didn't have any potential rainbow effect. So far, no one in our household has noticed any rainbow effect, or has felt uncomfortable watching shows for extended period. So we're very happy about that.
Now other aspects of the projector we really like –
The image is sharp; it's smart in many ways – it will automatically adjust the picture upside down when hanging from the ceiling; built-in Wi-Fi 6 is fast; it came with very decent speakers, so impressive that I don't turn on our AV system anymore when watching regular shows; it can adjust focus automatically; it has a screen auto-fitting feature, which makes screen adjustment super easy; the laser beam automatically shuts down when you walk in front of the projector. The project can play 3D discs (yeah!!), which I really, really appreciate. Watching 3D movies with this super bright projector is a treat. When my son plays games using the projector, he was pleasantly surprised that almost all feature boxes were checked, except for two associated with Dolby Vision, which this projector does not have.
Now the not so great – it doesn't have any lens shift, so the initial installation becomes vital if you don't want to lose too much picture quality (using digital keystone adjustment will cause loss of resolution). As a comparison, our old projector is much more forgiving with its horizonal and vertical lens shift. It would also be nice to have a lens cover. While having 3D capability is much appreciated, the 3D menu seams to be a little clunky. Shouldn't this smart projector be able to auto detect that 3D content is being played and know what type of 3D content is being played? I hope this will be addressed with a firmware update in the future.
Overall, a very satisfied customer.
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