Hellopi314
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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 inches, and costs $5,999. That is not a projector you carry to a friend's house. That is a projector you move twice and then leave on the shelf.
What makes it interesting is the hardware sitting under the lifestyle badge. Seventeen-element all-glass lens, motorized 2.38x optical zoom, motorized focus, lens shift with 130% vertical and 46% horizontal range, and a seven-step manual iris. Those are proper installation features, the kind you normally only get on something you bolt to a ceiling. Throw ratio runs 0.84-2.0:1 for images from 60 to 300 inches. Hisense also went with liquid cooling, which tells you how much heat a dual RGB laser engine specified at 6,000 ANSI lumens is throwing off.
The part I keep tripping over is the imager. Native 1080p DLP with four-phase pixel shifting, at six grand. Hisense quotes 118% of BT.2020 and the HDR support runs to Dolby Vision, HDR10+, HDR10 and HLG, so colour and HDR are covered properly. But two HDMI 2.1 ports and one 2.0 on a 2026 flagship, plus a shifted 1080p chip, is a lot to swallow at that price when the chassis is clearly built for a permanent install anyway.
So who is this actually for? Someone who wants a ceiling-grade lens without the ceiling-grade commitment, I think. Has anyone here seen one lit up in person?
What makes it interesting is the hardware sitting under the lifestyle badge. Seventeen-element all-glass lens, motorized 2.38x optical zoom, motorized focus, lens shift with 130% vertical and 46% horizontal range, and a seven-step manual iris. Those are proper installation features, the kind you normally only get on something you bolt to a ceiling. Throw ratio runs 0.84-2.0:1 for images from 60 to 300 inches. Hisense also went with liquid cooling, which tells you how much heat a dual RGB laser engine specified at 6,000 ANSI lumens is throwing off.
The part I keep tripping over is the imager. Native 1080p DLP with four-phase pixel shifting, at six grand. Hisense quotes 118% of BT.2020 and the HDR support runs to Dolby Vision, HDR10+, HDR10 and HLG, so colour and HDR are covered properly. But two HDMI 2.1 ports and one 2.0 on a 2026 flagship, plus a shifted 1080p chip, is a lot to swallow at that price when the chassis is clearly built for a permanent install anyway.
So who is this actually for? Someone who wants a ceiling-grade lens without the ceiling-grade commitment, I think. Has anyone here seen one lit up in person?
