![]() ![]() DLP's greatest strength is its ability to create an ultra-sharp image with no hint of motion blur. 4K on a huge screen is what higher resolutions are made for. That's an impressive feat, and goes to show how much lasers are the next leap in projector technology that we've been hoping for. The LG does even better than the 3550i, while being as bright as the brightest projectors I've reviewed. The BenQ 3550i had excellent color, but it was super dim, compared to its competition. It delvers a wide color gamut in a way that's extremely difficult for color-wheel-based projectors to do. Those two lasers, plus the phosphor, also let the LG create some impressively rich and vibrant colors. But the LG does just about everything else so well that it can (almost) overcome this serious deficit. So you'd think the review would end here. I'm the first one to tell you that contrast ratio is the most important factor of overall picture quality. It was like a 100-meter dash against Usain Bolt except he had a head start and was racing me. The Sony was on another planet compared to the LG. This comparison test was the first time in a while I'd watched the Sony, which uses three liquid crystal on silicon ( LCOS, or SXRD in Sony parlance) chips, a technology known for its excellent contrast. You just can't get decent black levels out of it without dropping the entire light output of the projector, which doesn't actually help the contrast ratio, just makes dimmer. Side by side, the UHD30 at $2,000 less has more depth and looks less washed out, and that projector's contrast ratio could generously be called "OK." The first few days I had with the 810P I was constantly reaching for the remote, thinking I'd set the brightness control too high. Let me get this out of the way first: The LG's contrast ratio is bad. Otherwise anything you watch will appear cheaply dubbed, with the voices not matching the lips on screen at all. Or receiver (and let me be clear you should with any projector) it absolutely must have lip sync adjustment. If you're using an external speaker system like a You can adjust the audio timing in the menu, but this only addresses the projector's own internal speakers. One very strange problem you can't fix with any settings is the most egregious lip-sync delay I've seen on a display in a very long time. Feel free to join me down the rabbit hole in the Measurement Notes section at the end of the review. For example, Adaptive Contrast and Dynamic Contrast are in two different submenus, separate from the regular contrast setting. Submenus upon submenus, endless settings to adjust every aspect of performance, many of them confusing. The 810P has what could conservatively called a metric butt-ton of settings. It ends up being faster to use the traditional joypad and clicking through the menus.Īnd you're going to be clicking through a lot of menus. It's similar to LG's TVs in that a motion-sensitive cursor appears on screen at the slightest of touches. The 810P has one of the strangest remotes I've used with a projector. It also turns on and off far faster than most UHP-based projectors, which is a nice bonus. The light source in the 810P is rated for up to 20,000 hours, or about 14 years if you run it 4 hours a night. ![]() Color wheels are inherently inefficient, which is one of the reasons why lasers are great in projectors.Īnother benefit is that lasers last a lot longer than UHP lamps. Traditionally, DLP-based projectors separate these two things, with the lamp creating white light, and then color filters allowing some of that light to pass through to the screen, when needed. So not only are the lasers creating all the light you're seeing, but they're also creating the color. The blue laser, in addition to creating all the blue light, gets split and sends some of its light to a green phosphor. Lasers! Instead of a UHP lamp, like most projectors, the 810P has two lasers, one blue and one red. I was shocked something that's mostly empty space for bouncing light around weighs over 24 pounds. The case is about twice the size of lower-end projectors, and significantly heavier. As befitting a higher-end projector, the 810P has both horizontal and vertical lens shift. ![]()
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