Ceiling mounted with a throw distance of around 13ft 4in, 150inch screen.
I'm not a projector expert, learning from folks here as I read posts. But I used the projector for a lot of 4k gaming, and during daytime TK700 was really struggling with contrast with dark scenes. I have blackout curtains but sometimes too lazy to draw all of them, since the setup is in the living room with many windows. With ht4550i, contrast is much better. When I upgraded, the TK700 only had 500 lamp hours, so no degradation.
Other than the contrast, TK700 was pretty good in general, but the lens shift, build in Android TV, and faster starting time of ht4550i are also very nice to have.
If you have ambient light, TK700 is not going to be super great with dark scenes in movies. Ht4550i will be slightly better, but can't compare with TVs. At night without any ambient light, both are great.
It is the same for the TK710 successor, I’ve turned HDR off. My understanding is that they don’t have the brightness nor the color range to profit from HDR. Interestingly even the blacks looked better in SDR.
I have a TK700 and can attest that your picture is an accurate representation of what it would look like with the level of light in that room with a grey screen (the color of the bottom of the screen under the icons in your picture). So you gotta decide if that's good enough for you.
A projector marketed for gaming can still be good for movies.
I have a Benq TK700 which is a 'gaming' projector but it still fulfills all my needs when it comes to picture quality and when playing side-scrollers on switch or BG3 on pc.
I got a super cheap (and super dim) 1080p projector off of Amazon that I used for a few years. It was not great, but I was always planning on upgrading at some point. I recently upgraded to a TK700 for ~$900. It's 4K and not short throw, but it's great for me.
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