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Used for: 1–3 months
Huge picture, small room, and no ceiling drilling required!
Used for: More than a year
Still the best thing we bought that year
Fan is audible when the room is silent
The telly never came back, and nobody in this house has asked for one!
Used for: 3–6 months
Bright enough for a lamp lit room
Auto keystone gets confused by a patterned wall
Evening viewing with a side lamp on is perfectly good, which is more than the last projector managed. The auto squaring needed help on our wallpaper, but the manual corners sorted that in a minute and four months on it has not shifted.
Used for: More than a year
Fan noise has got louder as it has aged
The picture is still very good and that is the only reason this is not lower. What has changed is the noise. It was quiet enough at the start; after a couple of years of use the fan has developed a note that sits right in the middle of the room, and in a quiet scene with no music behind it, it is the loudest thing in the house. Dust may well be the cause, and a blow through helped for a month or so before it came back.
Used for: 3–6 months
Console lag low enough for shooters
Playing on a wall sized image rather ruins going back to a monitor!
Used for: 3–6 months
Short throw makes an ordinary room work
The whole appeal is geometry: at 1.5 metres you get a picture that a long throw would want 4 metres for, so it sits on furniture that already existed instead of on a bracket. Placement is still fussy, mind, and there is very little zoom to play with, so the shelf ended up moving twice before it was right.
Used for: More than a year
Two summers of garden film nights and still going
Needs proper darkness outdoors, so you wait until late
It came into the house as a temporary fix for a dead telly and has quietly become the main way we watch anything. Indoors it lives on a low unit and throws about 100 inches at the chimney breast; outdoors it goes on the garden table with a sheet pegged to the fence. The outdoor lesson is patience. In June you are waiting until half nine before the picture really works, and an extension lead and a midge candle turn out to matter as much as the projector does. Once it is properly dark the results are ridiculous for the effort involved. Nothing has gone wrong in all that time beyond a filter clean.
Used for: 3–6 months
Close enough to the wall that nobody blocks the beam
Wants the curtains drawn on a summer evening
Sits on a shelf a few feet from the wall and fills it, which no long throw could ever do in here
Used for: More than a year
Reliable, bright and quick to set up
The remote batteries do not last
Every weekend for two years and it has not skipped once, which is all I ask of it
Used for: Less than a month
A hundred inches from a metre and a half back
The built in speaker is strictly a backup
Bought after the living room telly gave up in the middle of the football season, and the short throw is what makes it work in this room: a metre and a half from the wall on the sideboard we already owned, no ceiling mount, no cable across the floor. Gaming was the other reason. Through the console at 4K the lag is low enough that nothing feels different from playing on the telly, which I honestly did not expect from a projector at this money. The speaker in it is fine for the news and hopeless for anything else, so the old soundbar came back out of the cupboard on the first evening. Worth knowing before you assume it replaces everything in one go.