XGIMI HORIZON Ultra 4K Laser Dolby Vision Smart Home Theater Projector

Okay, this is a 4k Projector reviewed by What Hifi back in 2023 at a price of £1700, they gave it 4 stars, and now are saying at the sale price of £800/£900 is the deal for the ages. WIth it's on board auto setups and auto focus this will blow any projector out of the park at £1000 price. To be picky, if you were to compare at the £1500 price you'd need another makes projector side by side to see any true comparisions and this will still hold it's own. It's a projector, the Blacks/contrast are what I'd expect and never tv standard, this is more than adequate For some reason reviewer are using this as the must sell point which is just wrong as there is nothing wrong with it, but it is a projector and will never be a tv..but is very close in Projector worlds. I have just replaced my Epson EH-TW7000 4k with this and sold the Epson, so I will have a far better comparison experince than most.. The colours are striking and 4k content is crystal with colors so striking that are a pleasure! If you move this around then it'll set up autmatically and such it's great to have the auto everything setups.. I have set this into a permanent location and now have it pretty much dialled in so here are my tips for a permanent set up: 1. The auto keystone can set the picture where it is needed but can have large areas of wasted display overshoots. I tend to use the zoom and manual key stone using "restore" to fill the display picture for full screen viewing area, with no overshoot of light outside picture area. I also turned off "auto key stone at power on" as you'll have to faff with this again to setup you permanent screen. Leave the Autofocus on at power up on. I've turned off the Wall colour adjustment as it's in a permanent position that I don't need and is manually dialed in. 2. I don't use the apps, they are permanently in Dolby Vision/HDR with some series content poor with a low level colour display using dolbyvision (althouth movies tend to be better). Instead, I use a 4k Fire stick max and turn the HDR off on the fire stick for straight 4k signal, as the fire stick is bad at HDR/dolby vision greying out the colors on projectors. The 4k pictue is then stunning. This was similar with the Epson 4k. This may be why some are experiencing low blacks etc. I can't find a way to turn the dolby vision off on it's own apps but I haven't had this long. 3. Turn off "Motion compensation", and turn Noise reduction to either auto or Medium produces a much better film like picture and not "video" look. 4. Set "picture " to custom, bright to 51, Iris enhnce to 8 or 9, Contrast to 51, leave colour as standard, but you may need to back the reds off if desired in custom area. There are a ton of adjustments that are best left for permanent set ups. 5. Using a Sony UBP-x700 4k player turn the dolby vision/hdr "on", this handles the hdr/dolby vision much better than the apps/fire stick and the projectors own apps. The picture generally is far better on movies than series, but $K discs are amazing as is upscaling of bluray to Doldy vision. I cannot notice any Rainbow on this which is great. I used to have a Benqw1070 that I did notice occasioinally but zoned out of this. Any projector needs to have a decent time to set up, it is far easier to achieve the deisred picture when permanently placed, Otherwise the auto set up versatility for moving around is great for casual viewing or portability. I'd have liked some preset saving options for differnt viewing content, but its quick to use the adjustments, as my wife rolls her eyes! I hope that helps!

So I did A LOT of research before I settled on the Horizon Ultra. After many videos and written reviews I finally took the plunge and we are so glad we did. We didn't want a big tv dominating a room and so a projector seemed like the best option. It's a big thing but very smart and the moving lens protector means that you wouldn't know what it was until it turns on. It's incredibly bright and it colour corrects to each wall colour. It's bright even when there's lots of light in the room too. We use it for gaming, movies and TV and love the frame rates it offers. It was very easy to set up and having android installed on it meant that we can access all the normal apps from the projector itself without adding in additional inputs. Its speaker is also fantastic, loud and crisp and clear. We regularly stream to the projector from our phones too which works seamlessly. Honestly, I can't fault it.

I had a mogo 2 pro for the bedroom, just trying the technology really and was impressed with that so I tried the halo plus in the living room, with a proper screen and although it was brighter it just wasn’t bright enough (bigger room and distance to screen), so I returned it and went for the Ultra - difference was like night and day. So much brighter that it doesn’t seem like it’s being projected, it feels more like your just watching a really big tv. Very quiet too. The auto framing and focus stuff is good but I just set it up once in the corner of the room and turned all that off so it stays set, it’s fairly substantial and is something you want in one place. Picture quality is great. Sound very decent, but I did cable the sound through to my sound bar set up, mostly to get the sound up where my screen is but also to get the improvement in sound; doing that gives a theatre like sound that matches the picture. DVD works great too although as there are only 2 hdmi sockets and one is being used for sound setup, the other had to be shared between my dvd and Apple TV using a switching device I got off Amazon. 3d movies work well but you do need a different set of glasses from those you might have for your tv - 2 different systems I guess. The Xgimi ones work well, just a bit fiddly to get everything synced up initially. Enjoyable watching anything on this; tv shows now look like movies, and football matches look great. Worth waiting for a discounted price, as it drops quite a bit during Black Friday or other sale events. Even discounted it’s an expensive option but if you want to go big and have a bright high quality picture I think this is the way to do it. But get a decent screen as well - motorised with a remote control makes like a lot easier. When you drop the screen down and get this working it does make visitors jaws dop!

What an amazing piece of equipment. Firstly if like me you have a temporary setup with a foldaway screen which comes out as needed, then this is absolutely the projector for you. It finds the screen itself, uses optical zoom to fill the screen (as opposed to digital which loses picture quality) then allows you manual keystone correction if needed. The 4K picture quality is stunning. Great in daytime light but as with all projectors it really comes into its own in a darkened room. The settings are all super easy. It detects Dolby Vision and HDR itself and adjusts settings automatically. For the few of us who love 3D Blu-rays the 3D is absolutely excellent and easy to set up. Plays 4K UHD files from a USB stick and even from an external hard drive but will also stream them perfectly from a PC or Laptop using Plex. I got this at the Black Friday price of just over fifteen hundred and it's worth every penny. Don't hesitate. Also with my setup the projector is right next to my head and is virtually silent. With TV or a film on I can't hear the fan at all. Update: I've had this projector eight months now and cannot fault it! It's array of settings are fantastic for getting the best picture. I have a temporary setup but mostly end up leaving my 100" screen up and using this as my TV evening and daytime. 4K UHD films look incredible on this. It's very rare to find a tech item which after eight months you still don't have any cons about.

I’ve had numerous projectors over the years, including some of the really cheap ones you see on here. However, the last one I had was an xgimi polar z1 and that’s still a cracking projector, so when I saw the horizon ultra 4k on sale for £750 i hit buy as i had been researching it for a while but couldn’t justify the cost. Right now I’ve had this for 6 months and it’s replaced my old xgimi projector. The pros: Incredibly bright image It’s 4k Good colours and hdr support Low latency for gaming Decent sound The cons: Very slow OS, not buggy so much as laggy Poor contrast, compared to how vivid the colours are the blacks are terrible, more a murky grey. Auto keystone isn’t great, my projector is static it doesn’t move on a mount, but the auto keystone is always a tad off whenever it’s activated. Its super bright mode is really really loud. Switch that on and all you can hear are the fans over the speakers. Right if you read this you may think I’m unhappy with it, I’m not its picture is great even if I’d like more contrast. Is it worth the 1600 full price? No for that money look at a dangbei or Hisense, and if I’m honest had I the money I’d have gone that direction, this is worth the £750 I paid though. If you can find this on sale it’s a good deal but not at full whack.

I have used a JVC D-ILA projector for many years and the quality has obviously been extremely high, it goes along with the price. However, I was looking to upgrade to Laser source rather than Bulb and had more or less decided to buy a Sony VPL-XW5000ES which is fairly state of the art, and comes in at roughly £5,000. Then on Prime Day I happened to see this XGIMI Horizon Ultra for sale at a bargain basement price of £1,399. It seemed to tick all the boxes and had some great reviews, so I bought in on impulse. And boy is it impressive! The projector starts almost instantly, is effectively silent, all the adjustments are electronic ie you don't need to touch the projector to change the focus, keystone, zoom etc. Some such as the focus are automated, and almost instant. It's just beautiful to watch it do its stuff. The proof of the pudding though is in the eating, and the picture does not disappoint. It is superb. If I was being superb picky I'd say the Sony probably has more subtlety in the picture, but then it costs 4x as much! If you connect up an Nvidia Shield and fire up Netflix with a 4k Dolby Vision source you will not be disappointed! It is so impressive. This won't be good enough to watch in a brightly lit sunny room, but few people want to do that with a projector. If you're watching a film with shades/blinds down, or in the evening, this will give you a luscious picture that will beat any TV hands down (yes, I have several LG OLEDs and their picture is better, but they're not 120 inches wide!) I won't comment on the sound, I doubt anyone is going to buy this and use the built in sound for anything other than exceptional circumstances. I can't overstate how impressive this is, it is a tiny little box compared to the leviathans that Sony and JVS produce. No doubt some will quibble that this is Pixel Shifting, not true 4k, but I can't for the life of me tell the difference. Basically the world has moved on, you don't need to spend £5k+ to get a decent projector, you can if you want, but honestly you'd be wasting your money.

If you are sensitive to motion judder and dropped frames this is not the projector for you. Because this projector is fixed at 60hz (60 Frames per second) most content will have judder because our TV system is 50hz or streaming apps are 24 Hz. There is a judder smoothing software but it introduces strange artifacts like tearing or flickering and sudden jerking. All that said the picture is very bright and sharp and if you play something filmed at 60 FPS it stunning. The auto picture is meant to auto line up with screen but that didn't work for me and had to do it manually which is easy with all the manual adjustments available. I really wanted to keep this projector but just can't live with the juddery motion.

When you spend this kind of money on a projector, you expect a bit of premium flair. But XGIMI has gone absolutely full Hollywood with the HORIZON Ultra. It doesn't just sit on your table looking like a boring plastic box; it puts on a proper, sophisticated performance before you've even streamed a single frame. ​The unit itself is wrapped in a lovely, tactile leatherette finish, and it comes with a beautiful, all-metal remote control that feels delightfully heavy and incredibly responsive in the hand. But the real piece of design theatre happens when you flip the power switch. The motorized front panel slowly and smoothly glides downward to reveal the glorious laser lens hidden behind it. It is a ridiculously satisfying piece of engineering. It feels less like turning on a television and more like the grand unveiling of the next wonderful thing that will change your life forever—giving you that distinct feeling from those daytime window-cleaning adverts that screams, "You won't know how you lived without it!" ​And once that lens is revealed, the image quality is spectacular. The colors are vibrant, punchy, and saturated with life, while the 4K resolution is so crisp you can practically count the individual blades of grass on the screen. ​However, it isn't completely perfect. If there is a chink in its armor, it is the black levels. While the colors pop beautifully, the deep shadows and dark scenes don't quite achieve that ink-like, pitch-black darkness you might hope for. Instead, they look just a little bit washed out—a slightly dark grey rather than true, bottomless black. ​But frankly, when you look at the rest of the spec sheet, that is a very minor grumble. The value for money here is exceptional because XGIMI has crammed absolutely everything into this box. You get full Dolby Vision, booming Dolby Atmos sound, and a dedicated low-latency gaming mode that makes playing high-speed games feel incredibly fluid and lag-free. It even supports full 3D movies, assuming you are the sort of person who actually enjoys sitting in their living room wearing those entirely ridiculous 3D glasses. ​It is premium, it is packed with cutting-edge tech, and that motorized lens door alone is worth admission. If you want a proper, jaw-dropping home cinema experience, it is so, so worth it.