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The German price ladder for the C3 family runs 1,699, 2,299, 2,999 and 3,999 euros, and the jump worth paying attention to is the first one, not the last. All four are RGB triple-laser DLP boxes with 4K, Dolby Vision, HDR10+, HLG, IMAX Enhanced and 3D, rated for 65 to 300 inch images, and they're on sale now in Germany. The base C3 is the one Hisense showed at the start of the year; the Pro, Ultra and Ultra Max are the newer, more upmarket-looking siblings.
What the extra 600 euros buys on the Pro is the stuff that actually changes daily use: optical lens shift (the base model has none), a seven-step iris, zoom going from 1.3x to 1.67x, and the Devialet-tuned 56 W system with a built-in sub instead of the 20 W JBL setup. Brightness only moves from 2,500 to 3,000 ANSI lumens. If your table or shelf is not dead centre on the screen, lens shift alone is worth it, because the alternative is digital keystone and the softness that comes with it.
The contrast figures need reading carefully. The base C3 is listed at 2,000:1 and the Pro at 5,000:1 with the iris, so that second number is a dynamic figure, not native. Both are well within normal DLP territory. Gaming is also less exciting than the 240 Hz headline: that's 2K only, and 4K tops out at 60 Hz across the range. The three upper models claim up to 1 ms input lag; the base C3 is listed at 20 ms or under.
The Ultra (4,000 lumens) and Ultra Max (5,000 lumens, 2.0x zoom) are for rooms you cannot properly darken. Everything runs VIDAA, two HDMI 2.1 with one eARC. For most living rooms the Pro is the C3 to buy, and the Ultra Max only makes sense if the curtains are never going to be fully closed.
What the extra 600 euros buys on the Pro is the stuff that actually changes daily use: optical lens shift (the base model has none), a seven-step iris, zoom going from 1.3x to 1.67x, and the Devialet-tuned 56 W system with a built-in sub instead of the 20 W JBL setup. Brightness only moves from 2,500 to 3,000 ANSI lumens. If your table or shelf is not dead centre on the screen, lens shift alone is worth it, because the alternative is digital keystone and the softness that comes with it.
The contrast figures need reading carefully. The base C3 is listed at 2,000:1 and the Pro at 5,000:1 with the iris, so that second number is a dynamic figure, not native. Both are well within normal DLP territory. Gaming is also less exciting than the 240 Hz headline: that's 2K only, and 4K tops out at 60 Hz across the range. The three upper models claim up to 1 ms input lag; the base C3 is listed at 20 ms or under.
The Ultra (4,000 lumens) and Ultra Max (5,000 lumens, 2.0x zoom) are for rooms you cannot properly darken. Everything runs VIDAA, two HDMI 2.1 with one eARC. For most living rooms the Pro is the C3 to buy, and the Ultra Max only makes sense if the curtains are never going to be fully closed.
