Projector Reviews
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Large Venue
The Epson PowerLite L890E pushes the envelope at both ends with extreme economy and the latest technological advances. Its 8,000 lumens, 3LCD technology, and native WUXGA resolution with UHD pixel shifting, is suitable for multiple applications
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Large Venue
Undercutting the competition by at least a thousand dollars, Sharp XP-P721Q-W has inaugurated the era of the inexpensive medium-sized venue projector with more than 7,000 lumens available and able to fill a screen with 4K imaging.
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Home Theater
2025 Highly RecommendedThe Epson QS100 is a new addition to Epson's Q Series line of high-lumen output projectors. While it doesn't replace the LS800 UST and will live alongside it, it does offer greater refinement and enhanced functionality for custom installed systems.
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MSRP: $279
Home Theater
The Wanbo Vali 1 is a smart l080p lifestyle projector with Android 11.0 TV and a Game Mode, its auto setup features and 200-degree gimbal stand delivering good audio-visuals for those looking for the big screen experience on a low budget.
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Conference Room
Stripped down to the essentials, simplicity is the watchword for Sharp's XP-M401H-W projector. At $1,269 it may not have networking or the latest 4K emulation but the HD projector shines brightly and is small and quick to set up.
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$1,058
Conference Room
The InFocus IN1028SL conference room laser projector increases light output to a dynamic 5,000 lumens and includes a legacy video port for those with older technology.
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Home Theater
The BenQ W2720i 4LED projector delivers a great all-around viewing experience with excellent gaming performance and color accuracy. It's a strong choice for someone looking for an entry into home theater projection.
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Portable
The Yaber T2 Plus Keith Haring Special Edition is a portable projector with artwork by the legendary 1980s pop artist Keith Haring and excellent JBL speakers. This projector is best suited to backyard movie nights and fully darkened spaces.
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Home Theater
2025 Highly RecommendedThe Hisense C2 Ultra is a smart laser projector Designed for Xbox with IMAX Enhanced visuals, capable of delivering suitable gaming performance and big-screen, cinematic immersion to meet the needs of both gamers and movie enthusiasts alike.
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Home Theater
The XGIMI Horizon S Max features the updated Dual Light 2.0 triple-laser light source and 3,100 ISO lumens, delivering impressive color performance in a versatile lifestyle design with an integrated gimbal stand.
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Home Theater
2025 Editor's ChoiceThe QL7000 is Epson's flagship model in the new home theater Q series. It offers a highly versatile, high-lumen output solution while maintaining the performance and quality that users have come to expect from Epson.
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Home Theater
2025 Editor's ChoiceThe Philips GamePix 900 gaming projector is designed for serious players, offering low input lag, high refresh rate capabilities, and an immersive 4K experience.
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Large Venue
The Barco I600 projector sets the pace for medium- to large-size venue projectors by combining innovative projection technologies from the past five years with a unique touchscreen dashboard that puts everything at your fingertips.
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Home Theater
2025 Highly RecommendedThe Valerion VisionMaster Pro 2 is an impressive projector that delivers a lot of performance at an excellent price with rare and generally well-performing features for a projector in this class and price range.
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Home Theater
CEDIA Best of Show 2024The Samsung Premiere LPU9D replaces the LS9T, building on the same design and similar performance while offering one of the most robust and feature-rich UST projectors available.
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Home Theater
The JMGO N1S Ultimate features a unique integrated gimbal design, offering a similar feature set to its siblings but provides increased light output, making it ideal for users with larger screens.
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Portable
The XGIMI MoGo 3 Pro is a compact, portable lifestyle projector with a multi-angle base and auto setup features, Google TV OS with Netflix support. The MoGo 3 Pro is a good option for kids, college students, and adults alike.
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Conference Room
The Ricoh UHL3660 is a 6,500 lumen ultra-short throw laser projector that produces large, exceptionally bright 4K images that won't blind the presenter and is suitable for conference rooms, classrooms, houses of worship, lecture halls, and beyond.
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Home Theater
2025 Highly RecommendedThe BenQ TK710 is an outstanding gaming laser projector with exceptional input latency, making it a winning choice for modern gamers seeking a big-screen experience.
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Home Theater
2024 Editor's ChoiceThe Epson QB1000 provides users with high-lumen output to fill large screens with impressive HDR and excellent color reproduction, all while maintaining the performance standards Epson is known for.
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Home Theater
The Dangbei Mars PRO 2 offers viewers a bright and cinematic immersive experience, including an authorized Netflix app and HDR10+ support, at a very reasonable price.
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Home Theater
2024 Highly RecommendedEpson's EpiqVision Mini EF22 is a compact, portable projector with Google TV and auto-setup that is easy to use and offers solid picture quality and sound.
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Home Theater
The Formovie Theater Premium boasts excellent contrast and some enhancements over the highly-regarded Formovie Theater, but it has some quirky issues and falls short of its predecessor on color accuracy.
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Home Theater
2024 Highly RecommendedThe Anker Nebula Cosmos 4K SE is a portable projector with a hybrid laser/LED light engine that delivers good out-of-the-box accuracy with 1,800 lumens of brightness and great-sounding audio.
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Home Theater
2024 Editor's ChoiceThe DLA-NZ500 brings a laser light engine and more compact chassis to JVC's entry-level native 4K D-ILA projector, and delivers the solid performance we've come to expect from the brand while maintaining a $5,999 price point.
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Home Theater
Though its not without its caveats, including less-than-stellar out-of-box accuracy and a potentially misleading "peak lumens" brightness spec, AWOL Vision's LTV-2500 is a solid entry-level UST projector with premium features.
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Conference Room
The Optoma ZH450ST is a compact, short-throw laser projector. While it fell well short of its 4,200 ANSI lumen claim, it remains a solid choice for classrooms and boardrooms, and thanks to its low input lag, golf simulators.
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Large Venue
The Panasonic PT-REQ15 is a 15K lumen, single-chip DLP projector that uses pixel-shifting to achieve a 4K image onscreen.
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Home Theater
2024 Editor's ChoiceThe Hisense PX3-PRO is one of the best living room UST's we've tested, performing well for both movies and gaming, thanks in part to being the first RGB laser projector with the Designed for Xbox designation.
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Conference Room
The BenQ LH650 hits the sweet spot for a general purpose projector, with light output of almost 4,000 ANSI lumens, both HDMI and USB-C alternate mode video inputs, and a clever Smart ECO 2.0 mode that shaves power use but not brightness.
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Home Theater
2024 Editor's ChoiceSony's just announced Bravia Projector 9 (VPL-XW8100ES) replaces their premium VPL-XW7000ES LCoS-based SXRD projector, bringing new refinements that include enhanced HDR and 4K/120Hz gaming with low input lag. Here's our early review.
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Large Venue
2024 Editor's ChoiceAs a premium home theater projector, the Christie M 4K15 RGB delivers impressive 14,000-lumen light output, excellent BT.2020 gamut coverage, and superb contrast when mated with a Christie Ultra High Contrast lens.
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Home Theater
2024 Highly RecommendedThough underpowered with only 500 ANSI lumens, the LG CineBeam Q HU710PB is a well built, portable 4K laser projector offering wide color gamut and LG's excellent webOS streaming platform.
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Conference Room
The ViewSonic LS711HD is a 1080p laser short-throw projector that delivers serious brightness in a compact, lightweight case for an inexpensive price, albeit at the cost of some key features like networking and 4K compliance.
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Home Theater
The BenQ X300G is a 4K DLP short-throw projector with a long-life LED light engine, a strong focus on gaming features, and a surprisingly compact form factor.
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Conference Room
The Epson PowerLite 810E is a bright business and education UST laser projector capable of more than 5,000 ISO lumens. Add in some conferencing features, such as 21:9 support for Teams and a unique Face Brightening mode, and it's a good value, too.
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Home Theater
The ViewSonic LX700-4K is a gaming-first 4K laser projector that carries the Designed for Xbox certification. It lacks the last word in color accuracy but its low input lag guarantees an immersive and competitive bigscreen gaming experience.
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Home Theater
2024 Highly RecommendedBenQ's new flagship home theater projector, the W5800, is a bright, color-accurate projector that offers a viable alternative in the entry-level high-end projector segment.
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Home Theater
2024 Editor's ChoiceThe DLA-NZ900, JVC's new flagship home theater projector, will replace the highly regarded NZ-9 while building on its excellence with, among other changes, a Gen3 D-ILA chipset for better contrast and increased sharpness.
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Large Venue
Sharp NEC's PA1705UL 3LCD laser projector is a 16,000 ANSI lumen powerhouse that offers high brightness and the robust PA series feature set in the same footprint as the brand's earlier 10,000-lumen model.
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Home Theater
2024 Highly RecommendedThe 1080p BenQ HT2060 4LED projector offers good performance for its price, including low-latency gaming. It's a nice option for prospective buyers looking to enter the world of projection or upgrade from an aging lamp model.
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Home Theater
2024 Highly RecommendedIt's got a few caveats, but the Optoma UHZ55 is a recommendable 4K laser home theater/gaming projector that offers solid performance and value.
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Home Theater
2024 Highly RecommendedThe Anker Mars 3 Air is a high-value 1080p LED portable projector that delivers 400 lumens of brightness in its brightest mode, and runs on the Google TV streaming platform that includes an authorized Netflix app, all for $600.
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Home Theater
2024 Editor's ChoiceLeica's Cine 1, derived from a premium Hisense RGB laser TV, claims the sharpest images we've seen from a UST projector thanks to Leica's lens pedigree.
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Conference Room
The ViewSonic LS740HD is a high-value 1080p laser projector for business and education environments that offers 5,000 ANSI lumens brightness at a price around $1,000.
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Portable
The ASUS ZenBeam Latte L2, a follow-up to the ZenBeam Latte L1, bumps up brightness and resolution and offers a nice mix of features and styling.
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Large Venue
Ricoh re-enters the North American market with a nearly 10,000 ANSI lumens projector at a competitive price, partly due to a cost-effective affixed lens.
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Home Theater
The Nomvdic P2000 offers striking design and an attractive price for an RGB UST, and it performs well in most respects. However, out-of-box color inaccuracy and ineffective adjustments for HDR may take it out of contention for some buyers.
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Portable
Optoma's ML1080ST is the most compact and portable projector we've seen to offer an RGB laser engine with full BT.2020 color gamut, making it a good choice for road warrior presentations, digital signage, and other applications where color counts.
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Large Venue
With its G50 Series, Barco has effectively downsized the case of its entry-level installation family while retaining high brightness potential, producing a mid-sized projector that can light up a large conference room, lecture hall or small church.
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$250
Pico
The AAXA P7+ is a highly portable 1080p pico projector that includes an Android-based OS for streaming from included apps such as Netflix, YouTube, Twitch, and Vimeo. While it's not very bright, it's good for mobile applications like camping.
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Conference Room
The Fujifilm FP-Z6000 is a 6,000 ANSI lumen laser projector that uses a unique ultra-short throw periscope lens, making it an ideal solution for setups that require significant placement flexibility.
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Home Theater
The Optoma UHZ35ST is a very capable, compact laser gaming projector with an easy-to-use, plug-and-play setup. But it's missing some key features when compared to similarly priced competitors.
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Home Theater
2023 Highly RecommendedAnker's Nebula Mars 3 is a high-performing portable projector uniquely equipped for the outdoors thanks to water-, dust- and drop-resistance, and a large built-in battery that doubles as a power bank.
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Home Theater
2023 Highly RecommendedThe BenQ X3100i is an update to the BenQ X3000i gaming projector released in 2022. It keeps the great gaming performance of its predecessor while upping the light output and adding a few game-centric features.
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Home Theater
The Epson LS650 sets itself apart with its simplicity. While it lacks calibration controls and some features, such as Dolby Vision support and a wide color gamut, it has high brightness and ease of use that should work well for everyday TV watchers.
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Home Theater
Infocomm Best of Show 2023ViewSonic's X2-4K is a gaming-forward, "Designed for Xbox" projector with a low latency that rivals TVs, is rated at 2,000 ANSI lumens, and handles home theater content admirably for $1,599.
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Conference Room
The BenQ LH730 1080p LED projector is a great option for school or businesses to use in the classrooms and conference rooms, with good light output and high value for its $1,299 price tag.
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Conference Room
The Epson PowerLite L260F is already an excellent deal at $1,535 on the street, but for schools enrolled in Epson's Brighter Futures program, it's a steal at $1,199. It outputs just over its 4,600 lumen rating, and includes Wi-Fi and a cable cover.
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Home Theater
It's not without its quirks, but the JMGO N1 Ultra is a unique and sophisticated 4K, RGB laser projector that offers good performance, though it needs calibration to achieve real color accuracy.
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Home Theater
The Formovie X5 is a portable 4K laser projector with attractive industrial design and a good price-to-performance ratio—though its current Chinese OS is a limitation.
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Large Venue
The first of LG's projectors to feature its commercial Signage webOS digital signage platform, the ProBeam BU70QGA is a surprisingly cost-effective 4K model with 7,000 ANSI lumens suitable for a wide range of venues and applications.
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Portable
2023 Highly RecommendedThe LG CineBeam PU700R is a smart lifestyle projector with an unusual spotlight form factor that calls to mind Samsung's Freestyle model, but it far outclasses that product with 4K resolution and a solid, 1,000 ANSI lumens of brightness.