Okay, here's the projector review
LG AU810PB 4K UHD Smart Dual Laser CineBeam Projector with CI Controls (Black) https://a.co/d/gAozlB4
First of all, let's get out of the way the fact that it's being thrown to a fabric stretched screen that has a window behind it and this screen does not have any black fabric on the back. I can see through the window behind it. It has blackout curtains so there's a line of light along all the edges.
All of that evaporates when the device is turned on. You have to strain your eyes hard to find that backlight.
The description says dual laser. That's because it handles two of the three colors natively. But then it shines one of those beams through something else that emits another laser light and covers RGB when it's done. So this is a true three laser RGB projection device.
I sat next to the guy who invented DLP chips on a flight from comdex. About 35 years ago. I think he worked for Texas instruments. The flight was from Vegas to Texas. He explained to me how DLP will revolutionize light projection of any sort. And DLP has for many years done just that. But now DLP is used to reflect the lasers as opposed to light beams and it's stunning.
The interface is kind of like my LG TV. The remote is definitely better. Same basic layout but now it glows when I move it and all the buttons are shaped nicely so I can figure it out by feel. The LG remote on the TV is dark and all the buttons feel the same.
The picture is just as good as my LG TV and I have the best. Yes, I splurged. Because I expect this laser projector to go in a different building when I get power to it. But until then it's staying in my living room.
A completely fills the wall with a quality visual experience that is just as good as the TV but better. It's better because of the size and it's better because the screen does not reflect light from the room. No glare. If you use this projector you can have TV quality of any size that could possibly fit your wall with absolutely no glare.
It's quiet. It's about 4 ft behind and above me right now and I almost can't hear it.
It does not care if you have light in the room. This is no longer the concept of different light beams and photons spinning around and activating your eyes the same way and therefore the TV projector gets faded out in a bright light room. Nope. It's just there. It doesn't matter if the room is dark or light. You can adjust all kinds of levels and you can move the projected space up down left right. But the key issue here is it doesn't look like a projector image. And the lights in the room won't glare on the screen if you leave them on.
Downside?
It's a laser. Do not walk into the path of the laser. If your couch and chair are set up in such a manner that when you walk into them, you have to cross the laser beam. Turn your head towards the screen. Drop your head down. Don't take a chance of burning out your eyeballs. I am so damn careful while walking around here when the projector is on. It's dangerous. I will create a drop shield in front of it for when I want to leave it on but run around the room and do stuff.
Sound has been an issue so I haven't posted about it for a bit until I got to what I consider a high level experience. It wants HDMI arc cables. Or at least my sound system does. My sound system as described above. So I waited for the cables to show up but I've got a 35 ft run I want to handle. And HDMI doesn't like that kind of distance. I called up the sound manufacturer and they told me to get a specific cable. Which does not work on default plugin after I fiddle around and I'll have to deal with tech support. But at that point I said screw it and connected to the sound system from the projector via Bluetooth.
This works just fine. The volume key on the projector coordinates with the sound system when connected via Bluetooth. Just like my phone. I doubt very much I will ever be able to tell a supposedly higher quality connection via HDMI versus this Bluetooth connection. But I have the 35 ft fiber cable ready to try next.
So then we kicked back and watched the season finale of The Boys. We've been waiting a week or two for this until I set all this stuff up. I initially said I was kind of wait for it to be dark but it never gets dark until 9:30 here and I already found out dark versus light really doesn't matter. So we kicked back. It was f****** amazing.
First of all, let's get out of the way the fact that it's being thrown to a fabric stretched screen that has a window behind it and this screen does not have any black fabric on the back. I can see through the window behind it. It has blackout curtains so there's a line of light along all the edges.
All of that evaporates when the device is turned on. You have to strain your eyes hard to find that backlight.
The description says dual laser. That's because it handles two of the three colors natively. But then it shines one of those beams through something else that emits another laser light and covers RGB when it's done. So this is a true three laser RGB projection device.
I sat next to the guy who invented DLP chips on a flight from comdex. About 35 years ago. I think he worked for Texas instruments. The flight was from Vegas to Texas. He explained to me how DLP will revolutionize light projection of any sort. And DLP has for many years done just that. But now DLP is used to reflect the lasers as opposed to light beams and it's stunning.
The interface is kind of like my LG TV. The remote is definitely better. Same basic layout but now it glows when I move it and all the buttons are shaped nicely so I can figure it out by feel. The LG remote on the TV is dark and all the buttons feel the same.
The picture is just as good as my LG TV and I have the best. Yes, I splurged. Because I expect this laser projector to go in a different building when I get power to it. But until then it's staying in my living room.
A completely fills the wall with a quality visual experience that is just as good as the TV but better. It's better because of the size and it's better because the screen does not reflect light from the room. No glare. If you use this projector you can have TV quality of any size that could possibly fit your wall with absolutely no glare.
It's quiet. It's about 4 ft behind and above me right now and I almost can't hear it.
It does not care if you have light in the room. This is no longer the concept of different light beams and photons spinning around and activating your eyes the same way and therefore the TV projector gets faded out in a bright light room. Nope. It's just there. It doesn't matter if the room is dark or light. You can adjust all kinds of levels and you can move the projected space up down left right. But the key issue here is it doesn't look like a projector image. And the lights in the room won't glare on the screen if you leave them on.
Downside?
It's a laser. Do not walk into the path of the laser. If your couch and chair are set up in such a manner that when you walk into them, you have to cross the laser beam. Turn your head towards the screen. Drop your head down. Don't take a chance of burning out your eyeballs. I am so damn careful while walking around here when the projector is on. It's dangerous. I will create a drop shield in front of it for when I want to leave it on but run around the room and do stuff.
Sound has been an issue so I haven't posted about it for a bit until I got to what I consider a high level experience. It wants HDMI arc cables. Or at least my sound system does. My sound system as described above. So I waited for the cables to show up but I've got a 35 ft run I want to handle. And HDMI doesn't like that kind of distance. I called up the sound manufacturer and they told me to get a specific cable. Which does not work on default plugin after I fiddle around and I'll have to deal with tech support. But at that point I said screw it and connected to the sound system from the projector via Bluetooth.
This works just fine. The volume key on the projector coordinates with the sound system when connected via Bluetooth. Just like my phone. I doubt very much I will ever be able to tell a supposedly higher quality connection via HDMI versus this Bluetooth connection. But I have the 35 ft fiber cable ready to try next.
So then we kicked back and watched the season finale of The Boys. We've been waiting a week or two for this until I set all this stuff up. I initially said I was kind of wait for it to be dark but it never gets dark until 9:30 here and I already found out dark versus light really doesn't matter. So we kicked back. It was f****** amazing.