wilson-bentley
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4,500 lumens on a mid-tier Horizon sounds like a big jump until you notice the unit is CVIA, the Chinese rating, not ISO. The new model is the Horizon 30 Pro High Brightness Edition, sold at home as the RS30 Pro High Brightness Edition, and for now it is a China-only launch. The German write-up that picked it up converts the Chinese price to about 1,155 euros and expects Europe to pay more if it ever comes over.
Within the range it sits oddly. The regular Pro is rated 3,200 CVIA lumens, this one 4,500, and the Pro Max stops at 4,100, so the brighter Pro now out-specs the model above it. The Max and Ultra still sit higher in the lineup. Native contrast is quoted at 4,000:1. Resolution is 4K via pixel shifting, almost certainly from a 1080p chip at this price, and the HDR list includes HLG, HDR10, HDR10+ and Dolby Vision, with the usual caveat that a projector cannot dim parts of the image the way a TV can.
The hardware list is genuinely generous for the money: variable aperture from f/2.0 to f/5.0, optical zoom quoted as 1.2x or 1.5x, vertical and horizontal lens shift, the gimbal stand with 360 degrees of rotation and 135 degrees of tilt, 98 percent of BT.2020 claimed, IMAX Enhanced, 120Hz with ALLM and VRR including FreeSync Premium, and 24W of Harman Kardon speakers.
What I would want before getting excited is an ISO figure. CVIA and ISO do not convert cleanly, and nobody should line this up against the 6,000 ISO lumen claim from the international Horizon 30 launch as if the units match. The aperture range also suggests the 4,500 figure is measured wide open, which is exactly where contrast is weakest.
Does a brighter Pro make the Pro Max pointless, or is XGIMI quietly trimming the range before a global release?
Within the range it sits oddly. The regular Pro is rated 3,200 CVIA lumens, this one 4,500, and the Pro Max stops at 4,100, so the brighter Pro now out-specs the model above it. The Max and Ultra still sit higher in the lineup. Native contrast is quoted at 4,000:1. Resolution is 4K via pixel shifting, almost certainly from a 1080p chip at this price, and the HDR list includes HLG, HDR10, HDR10+ and Dolby Vision, with the usual caveat that a projector cannot dim parts of the image the way a TV can.
The hardware list is genuinely generous for the money: variable aperture from f/2.0 to f/5.0, optical zoom quoted as 1.2x or 1.5x, vertical and horizontal lens shift, the gimbal stand with 360 degrees of rotation and 135 degrees of tilt, 98 percent of BT.2020 claimed, IMAX Enhanced, 120Hz with ALLM and VRR including FreeSync Premium, and 24W of Harman Kardon speakers.
What I would want before getting excited is an ISO figure. CVIA and ISO do not convert cleanly, and nobody should line this up against the 6,000 ISO lumen claim from the international Horizon 30 launch as if the units match. The aperture range also suggests the 4,500 figure is measured wide open, which is exactly where contrast is weakest.
Does a brighter Pro make the Pro Max pointless, or is XGIMI quietly trimming the range before a global release?
