laser projector

JVC is taking the DLA-NZ900 and DLA-NZ800 to CEDIA in Denver from 1 to 4 September, and the framing of the announcement is the part I keep re-reading. The pitch is that great home theatre performance goes beyond brightness and needs contrast, colour and resolution balanced together. Which is...

Two projectors that launched at the same UK money and could not be aimed at more different rooms. The XW5000ES came out in 2022 at 5,999 pounds and has since been seen as low as 4,249, while the UHZ78LV is newer, sits at full price, and is not scheduled for the US at all. On paper the Optoma...

Someone over on r/hometheater picked up a TK710 as a straight 4K upgrade, noticed the menu mentioning 3D, and went down the rabbit hole with the Shrek 3D set and a pair of DLP glasses. Their reference point was an old Sony 3D TV from the PS3 era, which they rated as okay. The projector...

Richer Sounds has the Sony Bravia Projector 8, the VPL-XW6100ES, down from 15,999 to 11,499 pounds. That's a 4,500 pound saving on a projector that won a What Hi-Fi award in the over-10,000 category, and it's roughly 30 per cent off a machine that hasn't been on sale that long. You need to be a...

Somebody posted their room over on the hometheater sub and the gear list held my attention longer than the photos did. Nexigo Aurora Pro Mk2 UST throwing at a 120-inch Fresnel screen, an Onkyo RZ30 running it, Shield TV as the source, and two height speakers just went in after the ceiling and...

Christie has the CP4415m-RGBH at CEDIA in Denver, and the part that got my attention is not the 15,000 lumens. It is that a projector already installed in commercial cinemas is being pitched at residential rooms. The RGBH family turned up in late 2025 as a cinema product and nothing about it was...

Hisense is selling the XR10 as a lifestyle projector and at $5,999 it has quietly turned into something else. The spec sheet reads like a proper home theater unit: a 17-element all-glass lens, motorized zoom, motorized focus and motorized lens shift at plus/minus 130 percent vertical and...

Al Griffin's review of the XR10 has been sitting in my tabs all morning because I cannot decide whether this thing is brilliant or slightly ridiculous. Hisense is calling it a lifestyle projector, the same bucket as the C2 Ultra and M2 Pro, but it weighs 23.4 pounds, measures 11.5 x 10.7 x 8.4...

Read through the full W5850 review and the two figures that stuck with me are not the ones in the marketing. First, measured peak white came in just under 200 nits, against a manufacturer rating of 2,600 ANSI lumens. That is not a knock on it. On a properly light-controlled screen 200 nits is...

The W5850 review is out and the interesting part is the throw. BenQ rates the lens at 1-1.6:1 with motorised zoom, focus and shift, and the reviewer notes it will fill a 200-inch screen from 14.5 feet where the older W5800 needed 22 feet for the same picture. Shift range is quoted at plus or...

There is a UHZ65 in the classifieds at $2,000 or nearest offer. Bought in 2022, roughly 3,000 light-source hours on it, and the seller notes it is rated for up to 20,000, originally sold around $5,000 and still goes for about $4,000 new. On paper that reads as fifteen percent used and a half...

The spec that actually matters on the BenQ W5850 is not the 2,600 lumens, it is the throw. A 120-inch diagonal from less than nine feet is the number that decides whether a projector works in a real house. Loads of people have the wall for a big screen and nowhere sensible to put a long-throw...

Valerion has pushed its Anti-RBE processing out to the rest of the premium long-throw range, so VisionMaster Pro, Pro 2, StreamMaster Plus and Plus 2 all get it at no cost. It needs the latest Android software plus a DLP software upgrade underneath, so it is not a one-tap thing. The feature...

ProjectorCentral has a case study on Batbox, a baseball XR venue that puts real bats and balls against projected pitchers with live ball tracking. They opened their flagship in Dallas, they are aiming at weekly installs and 100 simulators inside a year, and they standardised on the BenQ LK935 4K...

ZDNET refreshed its big-screen TV roundup this week and the framing has shifted in a way worth noticing. It is no longer 85 inches at the top of the chart. There are 98-inch classes from several brands, 115-inch sets, and reference to 130-inch panels existing. The cinema-sized television is now...

So the PX4 Pro is finally in stores after that teaser back in December, and the number that jumped out at me is the price. $3,999.99, roughly a thousand over what the PX3-Pro was going for. For that you get 3,500 ANSI lumens instead of 3,000, 118% BT.2020 coverage, Delta E rated at 0.9 or lower...

Panasonic's projector arm is sponsoring the first six of these things. Illumibot calls the vehicle an IllumiBeast, it is a Cybertruck kitted out for projection mapping, and each one carries a PT-MZ20K under the MEVIX banner: 20,000 lumens, 3LCD, laser, WUXGA. Read that spec line again. WUXGA...

Disney has announced a certification called Infinity Vision for premium large format screens. As far as I can tell the bar is three things: a large screen, laser projection, immersive audio. That's it. I haven't seen a published brightness spec, a contrast floor, a minimum screen dimension in...

ProjectorCentral has a good breakdown of what Texas Instruments is doing to the actual mirrors, and it is more interesting than the usual chip refresh. The line most of us have seen already is the High Efficiency Pixel design in XGIMI's Titan, a 0.78-inch device with 9-micron mirrors doing...

XGIMI opened orders on the TITAN Noir series back in April and I still keep coming back to the spec sheet. The Max is the one people care about: up to 7,000 ISO lumens, an RGB triple-laser engine, IMAX Enhanced alongside Dolby Vision and HDR10+, a claimed Delta E of 0.8 with 110% BT.2020...