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The brightest ultra short throw projector you can buy for a room with the lights on, and a good gaming projector, but its gray-ish blacks, single-laser gamut and missing eARC make it the wrong pick for a dark home theater or a lossless Atmos setup.
3-chip 3LCD ultra short-throw design, 4K PRO-UHD by pixel-shift resolution enhancement, at a maximum resolution of 3840 x 2160
4,000 lumens of color brightness (IDMS 15.4) and 4,000 lumens of white brightness (ISO 21118), equal because the 3-chip engine outputs color and white light at the same level
Throw ratio 0.16 to 0.40, so an image up to 150 inches from a few inches off the wall
A bright 3LCD ultra short throw for a living room with the lights on and a viewer who sees rainbows on DLP. Skip it for a dark home theater, where triple laser sets pull ahead, or for a screen past 120 inches or a 4K 120Hz console, which the Grand Plus handles.
3-chip 3LCD ultra short throw laser projector, native 1080p panels with 4K PRO-UHD pixel shift to a maximum resolution of 3840 x 2160
3,600 lumens of color brightness (IDMS 15.4) and 3,600 lumens of white brightness (ISO 21118)
Picture sizes from 60 to 120 inches; throw ratio 0.25 at Wide and 0.62 at Tele, by digital zoom
The brightest ultra short throw projector on our shelf, reaching its 5,000 lumen rating only at laser level 10, in its brightest modes, with Devialet 6.2.2 sound and four HDMI inputs, for a living room that never goes dark. Skip it if you watch with the lights off, or if DLP rainbows bother you: three instrumented reviewers saw them.
5000 ANSI Lumens brightness from a red, green and blue triple laser light source
A triple laser UST for a room you can darken: it measured past its own contrast rating and needed little correction in Theater mode. Skip it if a console at 60Hz is the main source, because it has no VRR and its successor does.
Red + Green + Blue Trichroma Laser light source
3000 ANSI Lumen brightness and 3000:1 native contrast
A quiet ultra short throw projector for an evening living room, and the build Amazon sells finally runs Google TV with licensed Netflix. Skip it if you watch dark films, notice DLP rainbows or game at 120Hz, and know that XGIMI is already taking reservations for the AURA 3.
UST laser projector, DLP with a 0.47 in DMD, 3840 x 2160 standard resolution
2300 ISO Lumens, measured to ISO 21118 in Performance Mode
The ultra short throw projector to buy if you game on it: three HDMI 2.1 inputs, VRR, and lag under 10 ms at 60Hz on PCMag's tester from Game Mode alone. Leave its Enhanced Black Level off for HDR, skip it if you watch 3D, and plan on 120 to 130 inches rather than the 200 AWOL rates it for.
3300 ISO lumen brightness from an RGB triple pure laser light source with no color wheel
0.2:1 throw ratio, projecting 80 to 200 inch images
6000:1 native contrast with iris, 60000:1 with EBL
