A PX3-Pro on a 120-inch Vividstorm, and a 65-inch TV still kept for daytime

[DealsFishman]

The most honest detail in this build is the one that gets mentioned last. Somebody posted their first UST setup over on the projectors board, PX3-Pro into a 120-inch Vividstorm S Pro electric tab-tensioned floor screen, sitting in a Vividstorm Monte Carlo cabinet, with a Samsung HW-Q990F on audio and a Shield Pro, Series X and Switch 2 feeding it. They say the PX3-Pro handles their living room well even with a fair bit of ambient light, and works for both online multiplayer and films. And then, almost as an aside, there is still an older 65-inch Samsung in the room for daytime and casual viewing.

That second TV is the thing nobody puts in the UST sales pitch, and I think it should be. A tri-laser UST into a good floor-rising ALR screen genuinely will hold up with the curtains open, in the sense that you can see everything and enjoy it. It is not the same as a panel at midday and never will be, because the screen is still reflecting whatever the room throws at it. Keeping a TV for breakfast news is not an admission of failure, it is what a lot of us actually end up doing.

The other thing worth noting is that the screen and the cabinet in that list are not accessories, they are a serious chunk of the budget. People price a UST and then discover the ALR floor screen doubles it.

For anyone running a UST as their only display, how long did you last before a second screen appeared in the room?

 

[Bobwang]

Two years UST only here and no second TV. But my living room has one small window facing north, which is cheating and I know it.

 

[nINEY]

The floor-rising screen is the whole trick. On a fixed frame with the same projector the ambient light performance is not remotely comparable.

 

[EmmaEvans]

Q990F under a UST is a good pairing. Wireless sub means one less cable run behind a cabinet that already has too many.

 

[Bruce33]

Went the other way. Sold the UST after eighteen months and bought a 85 inch mini LED. The setup fiddling every time the cabinet got nudged wore me down.

 

[Gene]

Nobody warns you about the geometry. Move that cabinet two centimetres and you are back in the alignment menu.

 

[Carl B]

PX3-Pro is a lot of projector for the money and Hisense have been sensible about firmware on it, which is not something I would have said about them three years ago.