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Incredible Performance and Value in a Small Form Factor
By John Wesley Hester on Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2025
Just got this projector a couple of days ago. With it all set up and aligned to my screen (easier to do on a coffee table versus a ceiling mount for sure), I'm very pleased with it for the sale price. Also, I really lucked out on the height of the coffee table with the relation of the projector to the screen. I'm coming from an Optoma UHD51A. (History - an Optoma HD33 way back in the day and before that various Panasonic, Samsung and Mitsubishi rear projection DLP TVs). Just to say I already know all of the pros & cons of DLP very well. Right out of the box: System Update V3.22.314 From the start, I felt right at 'home'. Brightness is about the same or better than the UHD51A to my eyes. Focus is sharp across the entire screen, uniformity is great, and the colors really pop. Now I finally have Dolby Vision to go along with my Dolby Atmos audio after many, many years without. I have now taken down the Optoma and the 2 mounts I had in the ceiling. The light border (when not using Keystone Correction) is well within the black felt border of my screen. The UHD51A's was far outside it. I will not miss having to change out lamps for sure. I was finally able to center my screen to the wall it's on which is nice too. Didn't really make too many settings adjustments. Turned the volume all the way down (no way I found to disable it completely). The speakers sounded good but I'll only every be using the HDMI 1 input. Also, no way I could find to have Android TV go to HDMI 1 automatically after booting up. I'm not using eARC. Within the Dolby Vision settings a selected a 130" screen with 1 gain. I haven't felt a real need to changing any of the IRIS or Picture settings so far with the content I watch and with the room conditions I have. Also, I switched to Dolby Custom to turn off the Motion Smoothing. I could post screen shots, but they would all look good. Every 4K HDR great looking YouTube video I've ever played to evaluate a display ALL look great. About the best compliment I could give this or any projector at this price & performance level is that it produces the best (Dolby Vision in the case) image possible and it looks great. Sure, my MiniLED TVs can blow it out of the water, but they aren't 135". But taking the image in context of DLP and its environment, I'm blown away with how great it looks overall. Dark horror movies not withstanding of course. :) My primary sources with this projector: onn. 4k Pro Google TV, Fire TV Cube 3 and Apple TV 4K (all 'locked' to always HDR - Dolby Vision) and a Nintendo Switch - looks good at 1080p. The power brick is pretty huge.
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***UPDATE*** Great Idea but poor execution. Edit: New Problems discovered, doesn't work.
By Aaron on Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2023
***Origional Review:*** I REALLY wanted to like this product. They took a success in the Horizon Pro and added Dolby Vision, Dual Light and the promise of much higher light output. I will say that the packaging was outstanding and the presentation was top notch but you buy a projector for the video quality and this has one major flaw. The projector forces you into Dolby Vision (a majority of quality streaming content is now Dolby Vision) and unfortunately the MEMC is disabled while utilizing Dolby Vision. I confirmed this with XGIMI as well to make sure I wasn't missing something. One of the major reasons for using XGIMI projectors is the smooth video output and that is just not possible with this projector. The auto keystone also didn't work as well as the Horizon Pro. All and all it is a quality made product but it is not able to perform at its most basic task. I also did a side by side comparrison with the Horizon Pro and for a significantly lower cost, the brightness and picture quality almost seemed identical (minus the lack of MEMC of course) The colors actually popped a bit more with the Pro, so I would suggest going that route even without the MEMC issue. I would avoid this product and go with the Horizon Pro until XGIMI can figure out something with the MEMC. ***In the image, Horizon Pro up top and Horizon Ultra below using very simliar settings*** ****UPDATE**** Xgimi has been great to work with and asked that I re-test the projector after they updated the firmware to enable their MEMC with Dolby Vision. I can report that they did add another option to enable to the custom setting to enable MEMC while viewing Dolby Vision content. It would have been nice for this to work with the DV Bright or Standard settings but this work around at least solves the basic problem. With the new testing of this device, additional problems were discovered and verified by Xgimi. There are major compatibility issues with major Apps like Disney+ and Prime that cause a buffering or "glitching" of the video that almost seems like there is a processing issue with the video. The brief hangups or pauses are extremely distracting. There is also audio sync issues that cause the dialog to not match the video. You would expect this with an external audio source and most AV receivers allow you to adjust this. There is no such adjustment with this for the Ultra and really there shouldn't be a sync issue for an all in one solution. The last issue discovered was the poor internet/wi-fi connectivity. When comparing the Ultra to the Pro and both models sitting side by side connected to the same network, the Ultra was a bar or two weaker in signal strength compared to the Horizon Pro. I'm not sure if that had any thing to do with the video and audio issues, but Xgimi was able to replicate the issue and assured me they were working to resolve the compatibility issues. As mentioned before, they have been very responsive and have shown a great interest in improving their new product but as it stands now, the Ultra just isn't a great option and not worth the expensive price tag. I will udpate again should this product change my mind.
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