XGIMI HORIZON Ultra 4K Projector, Dolby Vision, 2300 ISO Lumens, 2 x 12W Harman Kardon Speakers, Home Theater Projector with WiFi and Bluetooth, Dual Light, Active 3D, 200"

After a somewhat convoluted setup process, and getting used to some system-related integration quirks, I got this rather plain looking box up and running in my home theater, primarily powered by my Apple TV 4K... and was sufficiently blown away. A "DolbyVision" notification flashed on the screen, letting me know that the viewing mode would be modified, and after some time of viewing, I realized I was hopelessly addicted. I was literally not prepared for how good the image was going to look on my 100-inch screen. The last time I remembered seeing a projected image that clear was a special digital screening of "The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug" at a movie theater. It was as if I was watching the output of a digitally shot video file directly from the server. I browsed through several other films in my Apple TV library, and I almost broke it with so much jumping around from movie to movie that they wouldn't start up anymore (I must have overloaded the streaming capabilities of my router). Fortunately a quick shut down and restart remedied the issue, and I proceeded with more caution going forward. I will mention (and your mileage may vary, depending on your home setup), that I ran into some glitches in the process of making my upgraded theater system run more smoothly. Since my media sources are channeled through my Onkyo receiver and out to the projector, I had to be mindful of the behavior of my HDMI data integration. When I start up my Apple TV 4K box, it automatically powers up both the receiver and the projector. After a brief appearance of the Google Play interface (the projector's native operating system). HDMI takes over, does a brief search, and switches to Apple TV, which becomes the primary media source. For awhile, my Sony Blu-Ray player also switched on automatically, and the HDMI in turn switched over to the Blu-Ray as media source, which was annoying until I discovered how to disable that function in the player's settings. Suffice to say, this has been a good education for me in HDMI dataflow! I can now watch Blu-Rays by switching it over manually, and they look almost as wonderful as the streamed DolbyVision output from my Apple TV 4K. One of the features that exceeded my expectations (aside from the astounding image quality) is the manual keystone adjustment. Since my setup dictates I keep my projector on a stand, one thing that was problematic with my previous projector was having to leave the stand in the middle of the floor at a fixed distance from the screen, and it was never 100% fit into the viewing area. With the XGIMI HORIZON Ultra's manual keystone capabilities, I can have the projector moved over against the wall, projecting from an angle, and can distort the image to fit perfectly on the screen by dragging the 4 corners of the projected image INDEPENDENTLY up, down, left, and right. You can also zoom in and out to refine the fit, after which the image auto-focuses itself using a projected pattern. No more tripping over the wide-legged projector stand, moving it back and forth into the room, and making endless adjustments that were never perfect. (I would install a ceiling mount, but I don't think my landlady would be thrilled about more holes in the ceiling and walls than I already have). A couple of minor complaints, nothing that would diminish my 5-star rating: I made a point of purchasing a projector that was 3D capable, and this one is, even though it's not overly emphasized in the product description. My complaint is the 3D mode has to be selected manually by opening a menu and choosing the proper method, which is kind of a hassle. I'm hoping a future firmware update from XGIMI will remedy that, since I can't imagine people having any use for multiple 3D modes other than one that utilizes active lenses. Also, you can only use lenses that were designed for this specific projector. I discovered other standard active lenses don't work... but when you get the right ones, it's worth the expense IMO. The other change I'd request would be the ability to deactivate the default Google Play/Android operating system that launches at startup, which (as an Apple user) I would never put to use. I also have Amazon Prime, which runs through my Apple TV 4K. How many operating systems can one need?? Aside from these trivial quibbles, I couldn't be happier with this addition to my home theater. I just wish I had more time to spend using it, more people around I could show it off to, and especially wish I didn't share a wall with a neighbor so I can crank up the volume on my Onkyo Dolby Atmos receiver without disrupting his life (he's a really nice guy, already tolerates me enough with my music practice). I honestly wasn't ready for how fantastic this projector would turn out to be, not to mention how smoothly it integrates with the rest of my setup.

I don't write a lot of reviews, but I felt compelled to write one on this product. First off, I have never owned a projector. I've always had a flat panel tv. Some of my friends have projectors set up in their homes, and they swear by it, so I thought it was a cool idea to try one in mine. After researching different brands, I settled on this product because it was loaded with so many features like 4K, Dolby Vision, Android TV, Google Voice, built in Harmon Kardon speakers, high lumens, etc. But the biggest deciding factor is that it was so much cheaper than other brands with similar features. (almost half the price!) I also liked that it was smaller and more sleek looking than other large bulky units I saw, which allows me to take it outside or travel with it, if I wanted. When it arrived, I was pleasantly surprised at the packaging. It had a very premium, luxury feel to it. The projector feel and look was much more sleek than I expected. A lot of thought and care went into the customer experience. The setup was super easy and literally took less than 5 min. All I had to do was plug it in, connect to wifi, and that was it! I had all the streaming apps at my fingertips. Where I became astonished, was the quality of the picture. I was expecting there to be some loss of definition in the image, but I couldn't believe how unbelievably great the picture was. It was better than my flat panel tv! The definition is so good that I can actually see the individual hair follicles on the actors skin! Are you kidding me??? I'm astonished at how amazing this product is. I'm astonished at how big of a screen I have now with such high definition and picture quality. I'm astonished that I didn't make this switch sooner!

Overall I do like this new XGIMI. It is very bright and sharp and a pleasing screen. The automatic Keystone feature works exceptionally well, especially after you get the projector set up the first time. I have accidentally moved the projector working with cords plugging into the back and it readjusted the keystone to fit the screen nicely. The one key feature failure is 3D playback. In searching through all of the streaming providers, YouTube was only one that had any 3D content (demos primarily) that would work on this projector. It had no movies that would play in 3D and I checked the other services and likewise they had no playable 3D content for this projector. I purchased a 3D movie on VUDU and try to play it on this projector to no avail. Vudu will not even present a 'watch' button to start the movie. After several text back and forth with their tech support, they simply said this projector was probably not compatible with 3D movies. They seemed quite uninterested in looking into this further so I suspect 3D support will not be forthcoming. I will likely keep this projector as I do like it but I am disappointed. I have not tried to play a 3D movie from a Blu-ray player so I don't know if this is an option but certainly streaming is not an option.

So far so good using with a standard projector floor rising screen with a 1.1 gain. For what its used for its perfectly fine and well suited in a small living room. I use a Roku Streaming Stick plug into it and have external speakers plugged in via the 3.5mm jack. Picture is clear no issues watching DolbyVision or any HD movies etc. Its used casually not a everyday thing. But when used its been performing well. We enjoy it alot for when guests come over or just a movie night to kick back and relax. Using the Roku stick 4K with Dolby Vision we watch pretty much ALL Streaming services with no issues. Hope this gives us continued joy over many years.

***Origional Review:*** I REALLY wanted to like this product. They took a success in the Horizon Pro and added Dolby Vision, Dual Light and the promise of much higher light output. I will say that the packaging was outstanding and the presentation was top notch but you buy a projector for the video quality and this has one major flaw. The projector forces you into Dolby Vision (a majority of quality streaming content is now Dolby Vision) and unfortunately the MEMC is disabled while utilizing Dolby Vision. I confirmed this with XGIMI as well to make sure I wasn't missing something. One of the major reasons for using XGIMI projectors is the smooth video output and that is just not possible with this projector. The auto keystone also didn't work as well as the Horizon Pro. All and all it is a quality made product but it is not able to perform at its most basic task. I also did a side by side comparrison with the Horizon Pro and for a significantly lower cost, the brightness and picture quality almost seemed identical (minus the lack of MEMC of course) The colors actually popped a bit more with the Pro, so I would suggest going that route even without the MEMC issue. I would avoid this product and go with the Horizon Pro until XGIMI can figure out something with the MEMC. ***In the image, Horizon Pro up top and Horizon Ultra below using very simliar settings*** ****UPDATE**** Xgimi has been great to work with and asked that I re-test the projector after they updated the firmware to enable their MEMC with Dolby Vision. I can report that they did add another option to enable to the custom setting to enable MEMC while viewing Dolby Vision content. It would have been nice for this to work with the DV Bright or Standard settings but this work around at least solves the basic problem. With the new testing of this device, additional problems were discovered and verified by Xgimi. There are major compatibility issues with major Apps like Disney+ and Prime that cause a buffering or "glitching" of the video that almost seems like there is a processing issue with the video. The brief hangups or pauses are extremely distracting. There is also audio sync issues that cause the dialog to not match the video. You would expect this with an external audio source and most AV receivers allow you to adjust this. There is no such adjustment with this for the Ultra and really there shouldn't be a sync issue for an all in one solution. The last issue discovered was the poor internet/wi-fi connectivity. When comparing the Ultra to the Pro and both models sitting side by side connected to the same network, the Ultra was a bar or two weaker in signal strength compared to the Horizon Pro. I'm not sure if that had any thing to do with the video and audio issues, but Xgimi was able to replicate the issue and assured me they were working to resolve the compatibility issues. As mentioned before, they have been very responsive and have shown a great interest in improving their new product but as it stands now, the Ultra just isn't a great option and not worth the expensive price tag. I will udpate again should this product change my mind.

I'm kinda blown away by this AMAZING projector. Not a fan of Android TV, but it's so much better than the other Android TV devices I used to try. The set-up of a projector could be such a pain, but with this one, you can literally just push a button and get it started. I only have this one day, and it has worked so well that I don't bother to adjust it anymore. The image quality is much much better than I thought, I knew those DLP projectors and worried about the contrast ratio. But I'm gonna say, you won't disappointed in REAL LIFE!!!! it's so Bright and Vivid image quality than anything i have ever seen, and use it with my APPLE TV just to bring the experience to NEXT LEVEL! Impressive speakers too, TV, and projectors's speakers are not usable, but this one can easily fill my entire room without any other devices. It's just a blessed!!! Another cool thing is the optical zoom!! It is more useful than I would expected, so easy to set up a perfect image now. I'm not a fan of digital zoom, it cuts the image quality so much, and I do think it's fair to require an optical zoom in nearly 2K devices, so nice work XGIMI!!!

This is the projector to get if you want/need a long throw projector that supports Dolby Vision. The picture is incredible and you can really dial it in manually or automatically for the lighting and screen type you have. It’s 5 stars if you won’t use a receiver, a universal remote, or any advanced home automation. If not overly technical, ignore the rest of this review :) I knocked off 2 stars because it took me a tremendous amount of time to get this integrated in my theater. Here’s a list of the challenges I needed to overcome: 1) The device powers on by listening for a BLE advertising broadcast that is sent when you press power on the remote. Reverse engineering this and getting a Pi to send it was no cakewalk. But it works. As a side note I needed to move my automation server from Mac to Pi/Linux because Apple doesn’t let you change the manufacturer bit on BLE broadcasts from their hardware. 2) CEC seemingly must be disabled with a hardware adaptor and not just in settings. There appears to be non-standard polling issues that cause the receiver to lose state resulting in the projector’s hdmi input spinner randomly until everything in the chain resyncs. This happens even with CEC disabled. But throwing an adaptor on stopped this. And like many devices, it doesn’t play nice with AppleTV’s CEC bugs. 3) If you don’t plan on using the built in googletv, there is no way to set it to default to last input or a specify a default. So you must either use a smart remote that supports macros or have a server that supports GoogleTV integration. I use openHAB. Then you program something like home, up x 3, right x 4, select x 2 to navigate to the input menu and select an hdmi input. If it weren’t for the picture quality or lack of other options I would have returned this after a few hours of tinkering. If you don’t have complex needs or like a challenging tech project you should buy this. Otherwise keep waiting or bite the bullet and redo your wiring for a short throw.

Just got this projector a couple of days ago. With it all set up and aligned to my screen (easier to do on a coffee table versus a ceiling mount for sure), I'm very pleased with it for the sale price. Also, I really lucked out on the height of the coffee table with the relation of the projector to the screen. I'm coming from an Optoma UHD51A. (History - an Optoma HD33 way back in the day and before that various Panasonic, Samsung and Mitsubishi rear projection DLP TVs). Just to say I already know all of the pros & cons of DLP very well. Right out of the box: System Update V3.22.314 From the start, I felt right at 'home'. Brightness is about the same or better than the UHD51A to my eyes. Focus is sharp across the entire screen, uniformity is great, and the colors really pop. Now I finally have Dolby Vision to go along with my Dolby Atmos audio after many, many years without. I have now taken down the Optoma and the 2 mounts I had in the ceiling. The light border (when not using Keystone Correction) is well within the black felt border of my screen. The UHD51A's was far outside it. I will not miss having to change out lamps for sure. I was finally able to center my screen to the wall it's on which is nice too. Didn't really make too many settings adjustments. Turned the volume all the way down (no way I found to disable it completely). The speakers sounded good but I'll only every be using the HDMI 1 input. Also, no way I could find to have Android TV go to HDMI 1 automatically after booting up. I'm not using eARC. Within the Dolby Vision settings a selected a 130" screen with 1 gain. I haven't felt a real need to changing any of the IRIS or Picture settings so far with the content I watch and with the room conditions I have. Also, I switched to Dolby Custom to turn off the Motion Smoothing. I could post screen shots, but they would all look good. Every 4K HDR great looking YouTube video I've ever played to evaluate a display ALL look great. About the best compliment I could give this or any projector at this price & performance level is that it produces the best (Dolby Vision in the case) image possible and it looks great. Sure, my MiniLED TVs can blow it out of the water, but they aren't 135". But taking the image in context of DLP and its environment, I'm blown away with how great it looks overall. Dark horror movies not withstanding of course. :) My primary sources with this projector: onn. 4k Pro Google TV, Fire TV Cube 3 and Apple TV 4K (all 'locked' to always HDR - Dolby Vision) and a Nintendo Switch - looks good at 1080p. The power brick is pretty huge.

Great quality product, one of the best projectors I have used till now.

Excellent!

Acaba de llegar el proyector, la verdad me sorprendió todo, desde la caja, el empaque y la calidad de los materiales. Al conectarlo la verdad me lleve una grata sorpresa. Creo que el Android TV que viene incorporado en el proyector no le ayuda mucho y no le podrías sacar todo el jugo que tiene, yo lo conecte a mi AVR Onkyo y a una smart box 4k HDR y saque lo mejor del proyector, junto al audio de mi sistema de sonido Onkyo fue de lo mejor. Creo que sí solo quieres ponerlo como una TV normal sin un sistema de audio o un AVR no le veo caso, creo que una pantalla te dará más por tu dinero, pero si ya tienes todo el sistema y quieres tener un cine en casa, es un exelente producto.

todo como lo describen

Très bon projecteur plus que mes attende