back when the sony playstation was hot stuff only one person i knew had a big
screen tv the screen size was just under 50 inches
it took up half their living room and it weighed as much as the country squire
now with a projector you can get a much bigger screen size out of something you
can carry under your ARM but not everybody's into the washed out
instagram filter over all of their movies could there be a solution
introducing the dell s718 ql the world's
first high brightness 4k uhd ultra short
throw laser projector the mass drop and
sennheiser hd6xx open back headphones are available now for only 199.99 us
check them out at the link below
we have never reviewed a laser projector before and that's because up until now
their prices have been so high that they were only used in premium large format
applications i mean now this one is still six thousand
dollars but when you're talking about high-end installations that is getting
pretty close to mainstream prosumer i
mean consider that an 82-inch 4k HDR tv
would run you about 5 grand and that sony's groundbreaking short throw laser
projector debuted at 50 grand
so the s718 ql i'm just going to call it
kylo ren looks pretty good by comparison it
projects much brighter images up to 130
inches while also overcoming many of the installation headaches of traditional
projectors you see because kylo is an
ultra short throw model his lens can generate a 100 inch image from just 15
inches away so you can just chuck him on a normal tv stand for a normal looking
living room no matter what the dimensions of your room are plus you
don't have to worry about people blocking the shot or presenters getting
blinded
guess i won't be needing these
okay so projectors are cool short throw projectors are even cooler
but why pay more for laser well there are actually a lot of reasons starting
with brightness conventional lamp projectors shine a
single white light at a spinning color wheel which separates the light into the
desired colors unfortunately this means that about 80
percent of the light from the bulb is actually wasted and ends up being
diverted or blocked at any given time by
contrast laser projectors emit light using lasers
that switch rapidly on and off as needed
this allows them to power on instantly because lasers have no warm-up time it
allows them to take the same amount of power from the wall but shine much more
brightly up to 5 000 lumens in this case
and it even contributes to lower black levels because they don't have a bunch
of diverted white light bouncing around inside the projector giving the dark
areas of the scene an lcd-like glow
now to be clear it's a very different technology but the
result ends up more similar to OLED in
the sense that black areas get very little to no illumination at all
so all of this culminates then in kylo not just managing to look good even in a
lit room but also support HDR content
while doing it still not seeing the big picture
because laser projectors don't have a super hot light bulb inside you won't
hear as much fan noise while watching a movie kylo here operates at around 36
decibels even quieter in eco mode and the laser
system is rated for twenty thousand hours of use which is a far cry from the
three thousand hours of a typical bulb so that's nearly a decade of screen time
even at 40 hours a week but
alas not all laser projectors are created
equal dell was able to hit this price point because kylo here doesn't have
dedicated lasers for rg and b
instead he's got an array of blue lasers which like many lamp projectors still
rely on spinning color wheels one of the biggest downsides to this approach then
is something called the rainbow effect which is most noticeable when you move
your eyes quickly around on the screen some people don't notice it or care
about it but others will find it bothersome with some people even
complaining that even when they're staring in one spot it can make them
feel sick as for the experience of using this one
though honestly everyone who saw it including brandon was really impressed
by the contrast of the image even at 100 inches in a lit room and how subtle the
rainbow effect was as for gaming it should serve console gamers just fine
but if you're used to playing competitive shooters with a mouse and
keyboard the input lag might be less than ideal
so this is a really different generation of projectors one with the advantages that
they've always held and without many of
the disadvantages that have made them hard to recommend for all but the
biggest cinema nerds with dedicated
theater rooms with blackout blinds in the past
and it'll even look good in your living room i mean we've obviously been teasing
dell about the look of it but the industrial design is pretty clean with a
mix of matte and glossy black on top and a brushed metal motif on a completely
unbranded front which we really appreciated now
i was personally a little disappointed at the lack of displayport inputs
because we're kind of all pc dorks around here but overall it's got a
pretty solid mix of i o as well including the ability to connect it to
wireless speakers over bluetooth if the dual six watt integrated speakers aren't
enough for you or even operate without a pc because it can accept network sources
a capability that i plan to use for remote employee motivation
so time to buy then well if you've got six g's burning a
hole in your pocket then sure i mean 10-bit color HDR there's nothing else
quite like it on the market right now but there's still some room for
improvement right now smart tv like functionality like plex or netflix will
require a separate box like a roku or an apple tv and
actually it's pretty awesome um i don't know maybe future ones will be cheaper
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