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I’ve owned this projector for nearly 6 months and I am pleased. I upgraded from a 42″ rear projection television only capable of standard definition. I’m fairly impressed with it’s durability, I say this because I live in Sicily and the power-grid isn’t the most reliable thing in the world and it still manages to function with no issues whatsoever.

It has a lot of options in the menu for tweaking the display settings for your preference. It has a clear image, as opposed to a lot of TV’s I’d see with problems like over-sharpening the image. It certainly works best in a dark room, but still manages display surprisingly well with high ambient light situations. It’s difficult to think of anything wrong with this projector considering what I upgraded from. I’m certain there are better, but for the price range of ~$1000 it is a great deal. Hopefully in the next 5 years 4k Projectors won’t cost 15-20 grand. That will be the next upgrade I suppose.

We received this recently, and after testing it out we’re very happy with the picture, menus, noise level, and brightness, particularly for the price. We test drove a video in 1080p on the projector, and it’s great, so probably good for home theater use. That said, we’re using it as a work projector most of the time. If you’re just doing PowerPoint, probably not necessary. As a collaborative tool, though, particularly in productivity apps like Excel, the 1920×1080 is very helpful.

Customer “technical” support/service is poor. They didn’t know their product, so when trying to troubleshoot the problems with keyboard emulation/control through the USB cable, they were unable to be of any help (quick summary–the functions are not working, so am currently unable to use the remote to change slides, for example. Suspect driver issue with Windows 7 and Macs, which were both tested. Function not that important, anyway, just an extra feature). The simple solution of course is to simply pass me through to an engineer who knows the product, but that didn’t appear to occur to them. Perhaps this is a problem with native English? Seems to be an issue with technical support these days more than desired.

If it weren’t for poor customer support related to keyboard emulation problems, I’d give it 5 stars.

this thing definitely exceeds expectations. The picture is great during the day with daylight shining on the screen. And at night, even better. In the dark amazing! The network monitoring software is pretty useful to see the lamp life, but with 6000 hours, I think its gonna take a while. Pretty fast start-up time, good remote, with built in laser pointer. lots of hdmi!

I am very happy with my purchase. I work in the AV industry, so I play with many much more expensive and much higher quality projectors. For the price this one is a great buy. Very sharp and bright I do not even use it on the brightest setting. Blacks are good. The fan is noticeable if you are right next to it or under it.(Reason for my 4 stars) Mine is ceiling mounted and my favorite seat is right under it. Its Not enough to gripe about. I hope it lasts because I like it.

I will update this review after 6 months with the product.

Initial impressions: Beyond expectations. Wow! Silent operation. Functions well. VERY happy that I didn’t settle for 720p!

I use my projector as purely a TV replacement for my living room, displaying the HTPC or Xbox360 via HDMI. I project a 97″ image at 11.5′ from the ceiling onto a wall painted with Behr Silverscreen. Even with a lot of ambient light, including ambient sunlight (though UV window film), the picture is bright and viewable. Of course, as you subtract ambient light, the picture just gets phenomenally better as blacks quickly deepen and colours come alive and pop.

Functionality wise, this unit is very simple. Everything is well laid out and it responds well to the remote (same exact remote as my previous Viewsonic PJ766D). Power-on and warm-up to full brightness takes between 15-30 seconds, I’d guestimate. Source changes are very fast. HDCP handshake seems to work perfectly. Default brightness is set to “normal”. “Boost” isn’t a whole bunch of extra light, but it is noticeable if you see the mode change. This projector is QUIET. It has three big fans that move a bunch of air and a ton of heat, but it is just plain silent at any distance.

This unit has really good black levels for an entry level 1080p crossover projector. Colours are bright, vibrant, and appear to be very correct right out of the box; I won’t be tweaking any colours until I repaint my wall with RS-MaxxMudd. I’m sure there is always something better to be had, but this is great! Minimal/virtually no rainbow effect, even if you try to force seeing it, thanks to the new 6 (or 7?) segment colour wheel instead of my old PJ766D that had a 4 colour wheel.

Resolution is, as expected, fantastic! Wonderful. Out of this world. It took a little bit of back and forth to get the focus *just* right (having a helper is vital!), but once it’s there, you can literally see a strand of hair on someone’s head while sitting on the couch directly under the projector (11 feet). You can see that people actually have pores from that distance. Dirt and sand are no longer just abstract definitions for that muddy-brown or detail-less tan looking stuff that people walk on or waft through the air. Small, passive ‘actors’ in the environment come alive when you step up to 1080p and have native content to display on it. Even 720p native content looks fantastic. I only suspect sharpness will improve once I sand my wall and have a smooth surface to deal project on to.

2 HDMI and 1 VGA are really the only inputs worth discussing in this day in age. I use both HDMI ports via 25′ BlueRigger cables, which work flawlessly (the cables and ports) for HDCP handshake with Blu Ray movies from the HTPC. I would have liked to see the VGA port swapped out for a DVI-D or another HDMI port, or another digital option for connectivity such as DisplayPort.

Note: The BlueRigger cables I mentioned are very high quality, have a nice, soft flexible jacket that makes it very easy to route things and you also won’t be fighting a thick, heavy cable that is trying to pull your projector out of alignment while it tries to coil back up. And you can’t beat the price; I got 25′ cables for $13 per here on Amazon. Try finding a 3′ cable in retail stores for less than $15 or $20 and you’ll find out what a great deal cables on Amazon is.

Pros: Everything. Brightness, contrast, black levels, colours, resolution, long lamp life, ease of lamp change, HDCP compliance, QUIET! Responsive remote.
Cons: A little larger than I had expected, but I just didn’t do my homework on dimensions. So, not really a con.

As I noted at the start, I’ll follow up after 6 months with the product. By which time it’ll be even more obsolete than it is already, but at least it should be lower in price and more available to people who want one, so maybe my update will help someone.

I have had this projector for four weeks and it works like a champ. The noise level is average, but everything else about the projector is top notch. My image is 129″ diagonal and the 1080p/1080i image is crystal clear. If ceiling mounting be sure to have the projector properly centered as it does not come with lens shift. Comparing to other projectors in this price range it is hard to beat with the number of lumens, lamp life, and the length of the warranty.

picture quality is great. good brightness even in ambient light of sunshine.
Speaker Sound has bass too as it is coming out of woofer.
i love this product

I must admit, the quality of the product is superb, no wonder so many European people purchased it, me being one.
After two months research I decided to purchase this Vivitek projector.
I am pretty happy with this product, the only issue I have is the remote control, it runs the batteries within an hour and it gets pretty hot in the opposite side of where the remote control keys are. I have to either exchange it or create my own remote control…
I gave 5 stars cause indeed it is a great product.

I purchased this for use at a company I was working for (they paid for it of course) to use in a conference room. Absolutely great picture quality, 1080p resolution is very useful and helps future-proof the projector. Came with all the ports we needed, and was incredibly bright! I was expecting to have to dim the lights and close some windows (very well lit room), but the projector put off enough light that all this was just optional in the end. I would recommend this projector to anyone. The black levels were very impressive for such a bright projector as well.

Simply, easy to use, wonderful colors, good price/value ratio, enough bright for a 20 m2 screen projection.
Amazon shipping system is very fast (2 days to Europe).