I have had the Formovie Theater for almost a week now and already put many hours in front of the screen playing movies, sports, and video games on my PS5. I find myself migrating to my home theater in the basement more than my 85 inch Samsung Q90A now recently relocated to the family room. No regret making the purchase. Absolutely love it and would buy from ProjectorScreen.com (great service, sooner than expected delivery) and Formovie (great product) again. However, I also realize there are some minor cons since its early days for the UST market, but it just make me more excited for the future of these projectors.
Pros:
- Buy a nice screen, sound bar (w/ sub and rear speakers), and some comfortable recliners and you will truly feel like you are in a high-end Movie Theater.
- Picture quality exceeds expectations. It is crisp and relatively easy to calibrate. Love that it had manual knobs on the sides of the unit to give the projector a slight tilt to offset some of the keystone effect and square up the image physically vs digitally.
- Picture is massive and truly makes the viewing experience more immersive.
Cons (-1 Star):
- You are sacrificing picture if you choose to project on the wall, which may appear slightly washed out, vs buying a nice UST ALR screen. However, picture was still good.
- No Netflix on the OS. I actually love the built in Android OS and found it to be very snappy compared to a Fire Stick. However, you'll need the Fire Stick if you want Netflix (for now).
- Remote is not back-lit. Not the end of the world, but isn't this a premium projector? I think this is an easy fix in the future.
- When projecting onto a screen there is a ghost outside the border (almost the opposite of a shadow based on ambient light coming out of the projector lens. If I push the projector close to the screen I can remove the ghost, but at the expense of my picture not filling out my entire screen. I think this might be why some premium ALR screens come with LED strip lights to help mitigate the effect.
- Built in sound was decent, but you really need to invest in a good surround sound system to get the most out of this.
- As expected with projectors, there is some minor video game latency. Enough to notice, but not enough to move the PS5 back to the Samsung QLED.