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Practical portable theatre with fantastic picture and compatibility
By petah on Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2025
Affordable portable theatre. Power on, attach source(s) select cinema mode for picture. I have designated tvs for both bedroom and living room surround systems, but wanted a screen to match the sound (living room is a circa 2013 55” lg3d tv and 3dsurround system still holding on looking and sounding great, (6” sub shakes the house, I don’t understand it, but it does) and bedroom has a polk magnifi max (1st gen with satellite speakers, and the base is unrelenting with the 10” sub, heard the magnifi max system has improved) all I do is unplug the tv from either system and plug this projector into the tv HDMI on the receiver/sound bar) in the bedroom I installed a manual 110” elite screens pulldown (priced at about $113) in living I use an outdoor portable elite screens yard master type screen by Jwsit (120”), will probably get something a little sleeker and portable for the living room. I needed portability and short throw so I first tried the $1200 optoma gt2000hdr short throw, which oddly struggled to find the source and also was grayish blue regardless of picture mode when it finally recognized the source, could’ve been a lemon, but I had read of similar complaints after researching. Both viewing areas and constraints require short throw for portability and placement. Yes I could go standard or long but I don’t want a projector suspended above my head as I sleep and I love the versitility and compatibility. It is as described, I do full optical zoom to attain ~100” at about 5’ projection distance. I am pleased.
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Great picture quality, but stopped working
By AKMD on Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2022
I admit that I don’t know much about projectors, so take this with a grain of salt. I wanted a short throw projector to show outdoor movies by the pool. I set it up so that the projector is in the pool shed, protected from wind and water and kids, rear projecting so that we can watch even while in the pool. Sounds cool, right? Well, we tested the concept with a friend’s projector and besides the smaller picture, worked great. Got the BenQ thinking we could recreate the experience. The picture quality was great, but with several problems. It was hard to adjust the image so that it was straight. There is no Bluetooth capability but I see that in this price range a short throw projector won’t have Bluetooth. We got a Bluetooth adaptor to plug into the projector to use our outdoor speakers, but it wouldn’t work with the projector. The last straw was when we tried movie night again, using the same Fire Stick we used the 1st time, and the projector just kept saying there was no signal, using either HDMI port. So over an $800 product that didn’t do all that we needed and only worked once. BenQ customer service on live chat couldn’t help me. Returning it.
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