OPTOMA TECHNOLOGY GT1080Darbee 1080p 3000 Lumens 3D DLP Short Throw Gaming Projector, White

Great projector overall. For everyday news/sports and other tv stuff that doesnt really matter if you can see a perfectly pristine picture like a tv, this projector shines even with a room lit up all the way and the lights positioned around 5 feet in front of it. In the dark, the projector is AMAZING, it takes some personal tuning while though the presets are ok, tuning individual colors help makes things pop the way the best tvs could. THE ONKY NEGATIVE THING: And the reason it got 4/5 The Darbee setting casts a shadow to text on screen, the higher you turn it up, the worse it gets. Yes you can see some "pop" to the image quality with it on, its nominal at best. My recommendation, keep darbee off, tweak contrast, color, color matching, etc. and youll get the best picture this projector can offer. It may be as good to look at the earlier/cheaper model that doesnt have darbee, because in the end it just felt gimmicky. But if you want the extra lumens to make this a living room daily driver and low latency, those are perfectly reasonable reasons to choose this model over the last, even if darbee is not. Otherwise, everything Ive thrown at this projector it handles beautifully and there isnt no comparison to watching a movie in pitch black, with a 110" screen and the settings tweaked to the best potential, you wont be disappointed

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The projector is overall nice but some features cause issues. Good + Picture is nice 1080p. 4k on projector screen does not make a big difference so I wanted to stay with 1080p. + I read elsewhere that short throw projectors does not work as well using acoustic transparent screen - I saw no issues, the picture looks sharp. + I am not using its speakers. The sound does come out of it but I am using my receiver to support the 7.1 setup. + Added to harmony hub remote, and it can turn the projector on/off with the rest of the system. + HDMI CEC does turn the receiver on/off when the projector is turned on/off but I am not using this feature. + 3D works well. + You cant hear the fan over the sound of your home theater system. Bad - I right and left of the screen can be adjusted with image shift, keystone correction, etc but not the top or bottom. I found it very hard to mount the projector to form a straight rectangle. I got it just right, some image still spills on my black screen border so you cant really see it. I tried for like 2 days adjusting/moving the projector on the celling which 12 holes to fill now (not a big deal if I could get it right). It looks decent but right side of the picture is still slightly smaller from the left side. Adjusting it more was making one side not fill the whole screen. You cant see it always but its more visible on images where there are horizontal lines/black bars on top/bottom. Those settings to adjust the top and bottom would have made this job much easier. - Adding on to the above the 3D picture disables all image adjustments like keystone correction. I did not know about this before and as soon as I started watching a 3D movie, the image spills outside my screen. Maybe 3D is the same for other projectors too but a warning in instructions would have been nice. Overall I like it and I will keep it but I have to put one in the friends house I might look at a different projector - even sacrificing the "short-throw" aspect of it which might be causing some of the issues mentioned above.

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