Hisense - C1 Laser Mini Projector

I’ve had the Hisense C1 for about a year and a half and it’s been excellent. Specs-wise I’m guessing the offering from XGIMI is pretty similar, I was deciding between them myself. Truthfully I think they’re probably all comparable, I don’t think you’d hate any of them unless you saw them side by side with another.

This, i think they are around 700usd refurbished now, awesome deal, love my c1.

I would get the very well reviewed C1, but be aware, they are tough to position perfectly for a screen since they have no lens shift and no zoom. But, the fixed optics allows it to really deliver on image quality. So, that's where I'd lean.

The BenQ HT2060 is the newer version of the HT2050a, and is the best looking 1080p projector on the market. It is bright, and has a sharp image. It's great for home theater. The Hisense C1 is nice, but it has no zoom, so you must be very careful about how you place it in your room.

Nebula and Xgimi mogo2 are objectively worse than HT2050A. Horizon ultra gets much brighter, but the contrast is bad and black are really lifted. If horizon ultra is in your budget then I'd choose the refurbished hisense c1 over that. The improvement of HT2050A over the nebula or mogo2 is going to be much more dramatic than the improvement of c1 over HT2050A though.

\+1 for the Epson HC3800 (= EH-TW7100 here in Europe). Brightness is fine, noise is acceptable and for me the two most important factors are: large lens-shift range (I can shelf-mount the projector close to the top of the screen's height) and the 3LCD technology is completely free of the rainbow effect (as it turned out, I'm super sensitive to RBE: I got a headache after watching a show on the Hisense C1...) I bought and returned 3 other projectors this Christmas until I settled with this (BenQ W1800i: too noisy, Hisense C1: unbearable RBE, Epson HC3700: contrast was not enough for me - the 3800 is just slightly better but it's now in the acceptable range). https://preview.redd.it/d7e7z1jll1re1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b3e5b5b141b0481ce25d12c38a9b34b708259b5b

At $500-600 yes, but $900 you can find refurbished Hisense C1 on eBay for that price, far better. Triple laser, better contrast and colors, not far off in brightness.

I had/have the Benq w1070. It really is a great projector, I recently wanted to upgrade and first bought the Dangbei Mars pro, and honestly I didn't like the colors and everything. I think 4K is overrated. Then I bought the Hisense C1S (in my country it appears as Vidda C1S) so I thought it was worth the upgrade. But it's not like it's twice as good as the image.

I have a c1, I project onto a bared painted wall and even in ambient light, it’s very bright. I even turn the laser luminance down. Sure daylight it’s washy but I don’t use it during the day.  Considering how big the image gets and how close I sit in my apt, I don’t think I would want brighter 

I recommend the Hisense C1 laser TriChroma 4k reconditioned or second-hand market 🤚

I’ve got the Hisense C1 and it’s awesome for the price. But having said that, I’ve not had a lamp one but laser seems to be the future