HORIZON Pro

Think of not only gaming, HDR, lumens shmumens but maintanance as well. if you buy a projector as per your example - prepare to replace the lamp every 1-2 years depending on screen time. I'd steer you toward LCD or laser projectors. I personally have XGIMI Horizon Pro 4K Projector, 2200 ANSI Lumens, it has gaming mode and ultra fast gaming modes. with these projectors the screentime untill issues is 30k, lamp 15k. At the same time I never owned a laser projector but I believe these are best for short throw distances. P.S. the XGIMI recently released a new projector and I heard people praising it. as for myself - I have this projector for 2 years and 0 issues the only inconvinience I got is that I can't just install steam remote play onto the projector, I believe that's due to it having 2 separate boards one for android and second for projection which is responsible for gaming at low latency quoted 18ms so HDMI gaming only, the other possible inconvinience would be netflix app not available but I love my jellyfin, cloudstream apps and to read r/Piracy they got some fun articles there. [https://a.co/d/hxJRcfE](https://a.co/d/hxJRcfE) \- here's the new version, it's way under your budget and I guess covers all of the things.

Depends on the size screen youre tryig to have. I disagree with other commenter on projectors. they arent hard to set up, they are easier to move, and if you want a large screen way outpace an oled, because pricing gets high for big OLED tvs and the bigger they are, the more stationary they becime. A decent 4k projector starts around $1000 you can get a 65inch oled for that price. If youre going to be using a projector at 80inch screensize or smaller, get an oled in your price range, the image quality of oled is unparalleled, But if yiu want 80inches or bigger projectors are awesome, and most play 3d too. However these days you can get a 77inch oled for $1500, so not a huge difference,and high end projectors will cost at least 2x that. I have a 42inch c2 oled in my bedroom, a xgimi 1080p projector casting about 75-80inchs in there as well that only cost $200 and I use both alot depending on what im watching and lighting conditions. In my family room I have a 42 inch cheap 4k tv, and the xgimi horizon s pro (about $1200 when i bought it) 2024 model 4k projector casting about 120inch screen. I never even turn on the 42inch in the family room, the projector is just so captivating because the size, and while image quality is less than that of an OLED, its still beautiful and 3d movies that size are fun to watch as an added bonus. Gaming on a huge screen is also just a lot of fun. Bright light and basically all projectors become bad, so if you have no control over lighting and watch a lot during the day, a projector is no good. Like everything, there are positives and negatives to both.

I would look up the xgimi h2. You can pick that up second hand or pretty much new for less or you could pick up a second hand horizon pro 4k. In Spain I’ve seen them used but in good condition for around €590. We’ve had our h2 for almost 7 years and it’s still going well as our main tv. We have a few dead pixels so considering upgrading later this year to a 4k model.

Part of the issue is streaming options that can be remedied by apple tv. Dolby vision/HDR are good. I was hoping XGIMI to have some sort of update similar tl Valerion (Anti RBE, enhanced black levels, get rid of the purple hue on super dark scenes, enhance black levels not just for max level etc.) I don't count on them anymore and you shouldn't. Xgimi only cares about fixing those for new lineups. It is a shame that the only reasonably priced high lumen lense shift projector should suffer form bad customer experience. I like it as is but I cannot recommend it to anyone before warning them.

For 150-250 inch I rather go with Pro model at least. It is always on sale and I got mine at $1800 (currently $1900) you need more lumens with larger screens and not perfect light conditions plus the base model doesn't have the red lense which means it is a bit less sharp. Keep in mind that XGIMI is notorious for bad customer service and not updating the firmware so the projector you see is what you get hence do not count on any software improvements

Less than 1 year ago I bought the xgimi Horizon Pro 4K, was super impressed by build quality and thought it‘s a good start. ($1100) also the picture quality was OK. I would like to upgrade to an even better image. -hisense C2 ($2200) -JMGO N1S Ultimate ($2200) -BenQ TK710 / TK710STI ($1500 / $1800) -BenQ X3000i ($2300) Or wait for the Xgimi Horizon 20 / pro ($unknown as not available yet) Use: 80% movies/shows and 20% gaming in the future (GTA). Which one would you get? Will the horizon 20 pro be similar to the x3000i? Or is a BenQ TK710/sti an upgrade enough?

I had the same situation and went for the xgimi horizon pro 4k 1 year ago. It‘s been an amazing starter projector for me. Now I am looking to buy either the 20 base or 20 pro. I can recommend xgimi.

Xgimi horizon pro 4k. Been using this for 2 years and loved it. No complaints and amazing 4k quality for the price.

For the price, yes. Go for it!!!

It's great for the price.