However, LG has some ideas about how a picture should look that often get incredibly distracting. Making that image look great is easy with the focus wheel and 4-, 9-, or 15-point keystone adjustment. I felt like I could reach out and snatch one of the chin hairs right off Duke Leto Atreides in Dune. Shutting out all ambient light just drives the experience home even further.Īll that light and color is matched with exceptional visual clarity, and the benefits of a 4K picture make all the more sense when it's stretched out to 100-plus inches. The bright spots in the visuals are matched with a strong enough contrast ratio to create the perception of darkness even if the projection surface isn’t actually that dark. Viewing cinematic content calls for some ambient light mitigation, but even just dimming the lights at night is enough to make for a downright luscious, colorful image. While the nature of a projector rules out wanting to use it in a bright room for some media, this projector doesn’t struggle in the slightest with presenting a bright picture for content like cartoons or sitcoms even when we haven’t done anything to cut down on ambient light. With a 3,700 ANSI Lumen brightness coming from a three-laser light engine, this projector absolutely crushes it with bright, colorful pictures. Select Filmmaker mode for best picturesĪt $6,000, the LG HU915QE can’t afford to be a slouch when it comes to image quality, and it isn’t.(Image credit: Future) LG Cinebeam HU915QE review: picture quality The LG Cinebeam HU915QE has a good look and connection options, but at this price we wish it had a lens cover. The motion controls of the remote can be a bit obnoxious - it’s not super accurate - but the remote lighting up its buttons whenever it moves is handy in a home theater that’s liable to have the lights dimmed. LG advertises pairing the projector with a duo of LG Bluetooth speakers to create a surround setup, but we were unable to test this.Ĭontrolling the TV is easy with the same webOS as found on LG’s TVs and the same Magic Remote. The projector also offers Bluetooth, optical digital audio, and HDMI eARC for connecting to external audio sources. The projector’s built-in speaker system delivers 2.2 channels at 40W, pumping out enough sound to readily overwhelm a 200 sq.ft. It’s almost baffling how many standard projectors have covers for their lenses, meanwhile UST projectors, with their lens glass just asking to gather dust, lack covers. One thing we still regret not seeing on this (and many other UST projectors) is any sort of lens cover. It provides focus adjustment that’s much quicker and easier than Hisense PX1 Pro, another UST with adjustable focus, which handles it electronically. A rather large, manual focus wheel hides under a panel on the top of the projector. While some UST projectors have a fixed focus, such as the Hisense L9G, the LG HU915QE supports projecting an image from 90 to 120 inches in size. Despite being a bigger UST projector, the LG HU915QE is diminutive next to the 100-inch TVs it's competing with, and at just 26.9 pounds, it’s infinitely easier to move around. The LG HU915QE is on the larger side of the USTs we’ve tested, measuring 26.8 inches wide and 13.7 inches deep (a touch larger than the Hisense L9G) but is just 5 inches tall. However, the white top is a magnet for smudges, smears, and anything that can make it look discolored. Sitting at the front of the room, it has to put a little extra effort into style, and it has a retro sort of chic to it with a tweed-like front cover over the speakers, and a nearly perfectly rectangular design. The LG Cinebeam HU915QE joins the fleet of high-quality UST (ultra short throw) projectors hitting the market lately with a wonderful marriage of built-in speakers, a smart operating system, and a big image all coming from a small box that can live at the front of the living room instead of at the back. Ultra-short throw makes 100-inch image at 3.9 inches. (Image credit: Future) LG Cinebeam HU915QE review: design and features The LG Cinebeam HU915QE comes with the same Magic Remote control used with the company's smart TVs.
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