ViewSonic PJD7828HDL 3200 Lumens Full HD 1080p Shorter Throw Home Theater Projector with 3D DLP and HDMI

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Everything is great with this love the brightness, but the description is incorrect. Super Sized Movies and Games With a ***short throw lens***, this projector delivers huge images in modest-sized rooms. So whether you’re a movie buff or a casual gamer, this projector lets you go big at home. I have compared to my Optoma GT1080 Short Throw Gaming Projector which can do 111" screen at 4 feet. The ViewSonic 110" at 12-Feet. If you want a true short throw dont buy this one. If you dont care about the short throw then this projector is amazing.

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Well, finally got this projector after saving up for it which took me 9 months. For those of you who are debating between benq, optoma, or lcd projectors, i would say you will be happy with the brightness and color quality of this projector. I compared this projectors picture quality with that of Benq ht2050, and even though this projector is lot cheaper, it is no lesser in quality. For those of you debating between a 65 inches 4k tv or a projector, I would say that both have their own advantages, but having a movie theater in your house is only possible with projector. The short throw and zoom function is some features that I love. Movies look amazingly beautiful. The picture clarity and colors look better than IMAX in Bluray. I used to think that when 1080p was stretched to such large image, that the pixels would be large and noticeable. But it is hardly noticeable even when you sit two feet away from the screen. The DVDs look exactly like youre sitting at the movie theater and I have 120 inches diagonal image. Some people have had problems with hdmi cable nightmare or rainbow effect. I dont see any problems with port placements but I did notice rainbow effects because I wanted to notice them. My girlfrend does not notice it because she does not know that there is such thing as rainbow effects in the universe. Contrast and black depth is not 100 percent but I say its good enough for the price and does not deserve lesser stars. And one could use grey projector screen to increase blackness depth for dark images which I will definitely try in the future. The fan is large but very quiet and unnoticeable. Since there are very few or no video reviews on youtube, I am soon going to make and upload one (when I get my room clean). bye bye

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I may be the first to comment about this projector when bought refurbished. Although the refurbished projector at $441 seems directly from Viewsonic themselves, I would think twice before buying at that great price. This projector for the few minutes that it stayed on looked wonderful. My first time seeing a 1080p home theater projector in person so I was amazed, UNTIL It shuts off about 3-4 min after being powered on for the first time. Disappointed but I didnt panic I decided to call Viewsonic to see if they had some troubleshooting advice. Nope. "Plug it into another outlet, if that doesnt work call Amazon since you purchased from them".. So I did. Amazon is currently contacting Viewsonic (or whomever the 3rd party is) to rectify this issue. Well see what comes of this, but I figured more people should give their honest review of something. Every detail counts, it could truly save someone else their time, money, and high expectation for what seems to be a good deal on a somewhat highly reviewed budget projector. I will update....stay tuned.

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So this is a FANTASTIC projector for the price. At least I think it is... Its bright enough to see during the day unless you have a direct ray of sun hitting the screen. Lights in the room dont drown out the picture. Its clear and, at full size, you still cant really notice the pixels, unlike with my old projector. One thing to take note of... DO YOUR RESEARCH BEFORE YOU BUY! I saw that it was 3D capable and didnt dig any deeper into it knowing that most 3D capable tvs etc. these days are passive, not active. WELL! Turns out this one is ACTIVE, not passive... so those REALD 3D glasses from the movie theater wont work. Regardless, its a great projector. Ill still enjoy it... Ill just have to get some glasses thatll work with it. Update 04/29/19: so far it seems like the 3D capabilities of this are... less than. I got some glasses that have no problem linking up... but somethings pop out while others don’t. It almost seems like the wrong things are 3-D, so to speak. All I know is so far, my head just hurts from trying. Update 05/24/19: figured out the 3D. Wonderful. I couldn’t be happier.

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Incredible... Package arrived on time, and ready to go out of the box. I had this projector ceiling mounted and ready to go in about 20 minutes. About 15 minutes of fiddling with the focus, keystone, etc, and I had the picture set solidly on my 100 inch screen in the man-cave. The picture is absolutely awesome! This projector blows away my previous model (a discount Chinese made $200 variety). Even with ambient light in the room, the picture was bright, the colors are spot on, and surprisingly the built in speaker is actually pretty good! The built in sound may not be ideal for watching movies, but my surround sound fixes that... For watching football, it works great! Its plenty loud enough to enjoy. The picture is approximately four times the size of my 50 inch TV in the living room, so watching four games split screen is like watching on four full size TVs! Im usually pretty miserly with how I spend my money, but am convinced that this was worth the price!

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I purchased this projector primarily to watch content using a Raspberry Pi 3 running RetroPi and Kodi. I also have a Chromecast plugged into the hidden HDMI 2 slot--which is awesome for watching Netflix and Youtube from a phone or tablet. Overall I am content with this thing, but not totally happy. There are a few key annoyances that you should know before buying. Heres what I mean.... The good: * Very bright. Usable even during the day in a room with direct sunlight. * Great color--for the price. Movies, tv, and video games look great. Still looks good projected directly on an off-white wall. * Light weight * I LOVE the hidden compartment on the side. This is where I hide the Chromecast. The bad: * Audio quality. I thought this wouldnt matter because I intended to use great quality powered speakers via the audio out port. However, it turns out that the audio chipset has lots of noise and narrow spectrum. Even when you plug in decent headphones directly into the projector, mid-range and bass are totally lacking and there is consistent hissing and crackle. Its like listening to a phone on speaker playing in the next room over with the door closed. Audio is basically unusable and youll want to pick up an HDMI audio splitter or feed the HDMI through your amp first so that you can bypass the projectors audio all together. Im bummed that Viewsonic didnt add a better ($10) DAC chip. Forget about using Chromecast or Firestick if you expect decent audio. * Short Throw is not short at all. This might be a marketing error or Amazon product configuration snafu--who knows. At maximum zoom, the projector appears to be a 1:1 throw ratio. In other words, at 88" from the screen, the projector produces an image approximately 87" diagonal (~76" wide by ~43" tall). * Fan noise: its louder than I expected, and its pretty annoying. I have no way of measuring this, but it makes more noise than my PC. * Rainbow effect. I didnt even know what this was, but have started seeing it frequently. I will probably get a 3LCD projector when its time to replace this one. * USB Power: It has two HDMI ports, and next to each one is a USB port. However, ONLY ONE USB PORT IS POWERED AT A TIME. You can change what is powered using the system menus. If you have USB-powered devices in each port, to switch between devices you must not only switch inputs, but also which USB port is powered. If I were looking for a new projector, I would seriously consider one of the slightly less-bright 3LCD projectors from Epson that get great reviews. I cant tell for sure, but I would gamble on them having better sound and USB power.

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I was torn, all the projectors in this price range get favorable revues, but this one won out due to the zoom range available. I have it ceiling mounted 10 ft from the 100inch screen and it fills it out perfectly, corner to corner. The keystone correction is clunky, the steps between adjustments is way too big, so you will need a height adjustable ceiling mount (or height adjustable screen) to get this right (or a lot of luck), but this machine allows you to zoom way in and I could replace that 100 inch screen with a 120 and this puppy will fill it up without moving the ceiling mount. Cool. Picture is great, colors pretty vibrant and bright enough for a reasonably lit up room, so no complaints. Well one complaint, like so many other devices these days the idiots in the "user friendliness" department decided that we need a flashing blue light to tell us that the projector is turned off. Not a nice steady mellow amber light but a bright blue, annoying, light up the room with a blue strobe effect in the dark, light. Cmon people, I think we can tell whether or not a 3000 lumen projector is turned on or off without the flashing blue light. So get out yer electrical tape, it time to ugly up your pretty machine if this sort of think drives you nuts.

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The good: Competitively priced, excellent brightness and color accuracy. Supports 3d with optional DLP link glasses. Normal throw with an optical zoom that will get you to 1:1. Eco mode still works great with a fair amount of ambient light and brings fan noise to normal levels while retaining good color. The bad: No optical keystone correction, no built-in playerdecoder, you will have connect to something that can render the video, a bit louder than most at this price point. Its DLP so rainbow effect will happen if you are prone to seeing it. The ugly: nothing I got this as I have decent number of 3d movies and you cant buy a 3d TV anymore my old one died. The great news is even with my old laptop with HDMI 1.3 I still send the video to the projector and manual sync the projector to the format and get very good almost theater quality 3d effect. Its night and day better than any 3d TV could do. The only down side for me is the DLP projection method, I see the rainbow effect but I knew that going in. If you have a limit space the 1:1 throw is great and 10 equal 10 wide image and can be backed off to ~1:47 if you need a smaller screen which is typical for normal throw. The trade off is no optical keystone correction. My mount hangs a min of about 12" and that would put the imagine about 12" off the floor with the projector level. So I needed to angle it up forcing me to use digital correction but the image quality is still very good. Work out well if you plan on setting it on a table though.

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Very pleased with my purchase of this. Did my homework, read a bunch of reviews and looked at different projectors. This one clearly seems to have the most bang for the buck. Great brightness. Good bulb life. And lots of different inputs for every type of video you might need. Short throw distance allowed me to mount this very close to the ceiling and out of the way of fixtures making the installation very clean and efficient. I am using this to throw a 12 foot diagonal display and it works great. My only criticism is there isnt a side-to-side adjustment, so you basically have to center the projector on the horizontal axis of the area youre projecting to.

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This review is for the ViewSonic PJD7828HDL. I originally bought a BenQ HT2050A. The Benq wasn’t very bright and the screen uniformity was terrible, even at its peak brightness the whites were more like greys. This projector works phenomenal with rooms with ambient light. This wasn’t a concern for me really as I have a dedicated room for the projector, but is nice if I wanted to keep the lights on, even in either eco or smart eco it is plenty bright with rooms with ambient light. The colors really do pop like an led tv. And in some instances replace a tv, which in my case it did. The colors aren’t washed out and even the blacks are near black on my DIY screen. I will admit when I first bought it I was a little hesitant because trying to find actual reviews tied to this projector was hard as there aren’t very many. This is a great item for any home theater. I don’t use the internal speaker so I won’t speak on that, but the only con I could possibly think of would be the fan noise it is a lot more noticeable the then Benq, but it’s 1000 lumens brighter so I feel there has to be some give and take when it comes to brightness which is why I didn’t knock a star as the picture makes up for it and I do have a full blown home theater audio setup so it drowns the fan noise out. The picture I added was of Jurassic world which looks phenomenal on here through blu Ray.

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