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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 plus/minus 46 percent horizontal, a 7-step manual iris, 2.38x optical zoom and a 0.84-2.0:1 throw ratio covering 60 to 300 inches. That is installer hardware. Then it weighs 23.4 pounds and ships in a rolling case, which is where the portable framing starts wobbling.
Light engine is a dual RGB laser rated at 6,000 ANSI lumens with a claimed 118 percent of BT.2020, and there is liquid cooling in there to deal with the heat that implies. Worth noting the chip is a native 1080p DLP with four-phase pixel shifting, so 4K on the screen but not native 4K imaging. At six grand that will bother some buyers and not others. For what it is worth the four-phase shifters have generally held up better to my eyes than the two-phase ones at sane seating distances.
The HDR support is the genuinely unusual bit. Dolby Vision, HDR10+, HDR10 and HLG on one projector, which nearly nothing else in this space manages. Three HDMI inputs, two of them 2.1, one with eARC. Wi-Fi 7, VIDAA on board, a 31W 2.1 speaker system tuned by Devialet, 3D still supported.
What the spec sheet cannot tell me is what that manual iris costs you off the 6,000 lumen figure, because an iris exists to trade brightness for black level and nobody ever quotes both numbers together. Has anyone seen actual contrast measurements on this thing yet?
Light engine is a dual RGB laser rated at 6,000 ANSI lumens with a claimed 118 percent of BT.2020, and there is liquid cooling in there to deal with the heat that implies. Worth noting the chip is a native 1080p DLP with four-phase pixel shifting, so 4K on the screen but not native 4K imaging. At six grand that will bother some buyers and not others. For what it is worth the four-phase shifters have generally held up better to my eyes than the two-phase ones at sane seating distances.
The HDR support is the genuinely unusual bit. Dolby Vision, HDR10+, HDR10 and HLG on one projector, which nearly nothing else in this space manages. Three HDMI inputs, two of them 2.1, one with eARC. Wi-Fi 7, VIDAA on board, a 31W 2.1 speaker system tuned by Devialet, 3D still supported.
What the spec sheet cannot tell me is what that manual iris costs you off the 6,000 lumen figure, because an iris exists to trade brightness for black level and nobody ever quotes both numbers together. Has anyone seen actual contrast measurements on this thing yet?
