AWOL LTV-3500 Short Throw Projector Review: Bright but Expensive Leave a comment
However, that is the primary projector I’ve used the place I felt I did not want blackout curtains (or important modifications to my residence). During the day, I may placed on music movies or exhibits and nonetheless see what was taking place completely effectively. As night units in, the lighting naturally turns into good for a film night time, with an awesome display that nearly (nearly) makes going to a theater out of date.
I do want the projector supplied extra management over colour profiles and calibration. I usually watch content material through my PS5, and whereas the HDR Vivid preset labored finest with different units, I needed to change the projector to HDR Game to compensate for the PS5’s personal HDR colour calibrations, in any other case shiny scenes had been overwhelmingly blown out.
While there are just a few instruments to create customized HDR colour profiles, regulate white stability, or set colour correction, all of them contain relative fiddling, as an alternative of adjusting to a reference template (which, to be truthful, is fairly widespread for many TVs and projectors).
However, I used to be extra impressed with the instruments for aligning the body of the projector. A correction chart helps you bodily align the projector itself till a projected rectangle is in keeping with the display you are projecting onto. If you want extra changes after that, a guide correction software permits you to additional regulate the alignment within the software program.
And lastly, there is a focus software to regulate the motorized lens, in case the projector is out of focus. Mine got here centered simply wonderful once I set it up for a 120-inch display, but I did must refocus when decreasing the display and transferring the projector nearer to the wall to make a extra cheap 90-inch projection.
The Screen
The ALR display that AWOL additionally despatched for overview is a large profit—but it comes at a considerable price. Without bundles or gross sales, the 100-inch screen costs $1,100, whereas the 120-inch model–the one I examined—is a whopping $1,800. The costs for the screens alone rival the price of many TVs. But as soon as they’re arrange, it is exhausting to disclaim the distinction they make.
Setting up the display is an ordeal all by itself. The large 120-inch model is so large I needed to transfer furnishings simply to put it flat whereas attaching the body. The complete course of took a few hours, and it is positively finest to have no less than two folks to assist carry it onto the wall. It additionally required cautious measurements, not solely to ensure the display match on my wall and was mounted correctly, but additionally to ensure it was mounted excessive sufficient, and that the projector was far sufficient away from the wall to get the total 120-inch display.
Once mounted, the image high quality from the projector improved considerably. The ALR display is designed to replicate gentle from beneath, the place the projector sits, whereas rejecting gentle from above (reminiscent of overhead lights). In observe, it provides the picture a significantly better distinction ratio and offers a brighter image.
