I Got a Laser TV And I’m Never Going Back

when it comes to really big images big

TVs are the way to go they have

excellent image quality but after about

85 inches like this they get insanely

expensive for home theaters we've been

using projectors like this one for years

now and they have awesome pictures but

they work best in the dark and there's a

couple of other downfalls that you'll

see as well that's why we're moving on

to something called laser TV once you've

had a laser TV I got to tell you you're

not going to want to go back

I mentioned that there are three

downfalls of traditional projectors and

one of them you're seeing right now I've

got all the lights off and really

anything that gets in between the

projector and the screen is going to

cast a shadow on the screen I can't

actually there it is I can't actually

see the camera unless I cover up the

projector because you're going to get

blinded if you walk in front of this

thing it's just how it is not to mention

the fact that having a projector that's

many feet away about 14 feet away in my

case from the screen means that you've

got to find a way to run power and an

HDMI cable most likely to the projector

now I finished my basement myself and so

I ran a channel there knowing that that

would be an issue and so that actually

works out great but most of the time you

don't have that luxury or at least a lot

of the time now the second thing you'll

notice is contrast okay check this out

Alexa turn on basement lights

all right you're going to see that the

picture just got super washed out so a

lot of your darks just aren't dark

anymore this is a nice screen I've used

some very specific projector material

here that is decent quality and then

I've got a fantastic projector to

produce an image on that but you'll see

that the difference between having the

lights on and having the lights off is

huge you're going to lose your colors

you're going to lose your contrast your

darks won't be dark and then the overall

experience is just a lot worse when

you've got the lights on that right

there is the third issue I don't know if

you can make that out but it says it's

time to replace your lamp please contact

your Epson projector reseller or visit

epson.com to purchase and to me that's

pretty annoying because I don't want to

have to pay for a new lamp every year or

two and in fact I've had this projector

for less than four years now it's been

about three and a half years and in that

time after about 18 months I got this

message and it started to Flicker and

die and I had to replace that lamp and

it cost anywhere from about 80 to 200

it's a little bit of a process it's just

maintenance to that you don't want to

have to deal with and now here we are

three and a half years in and I'm

dealing with this again all three of

those issues that I just mentioned

aren't really an issue when it comes to

having a TV this is an 85 inch TV and

it's one of the cheapest ones I could

find I paid 15.99 for this one so it's a

pretty good deal and the image is

stunning it looks really good but it's

not the same as the higher end TVs but

still looks fantastic I did a quick

search and tried to find out how much

the cost is per diagonal inch of TV

right now at the very bottom of the

barrel the cheapest TVs you can get the

biggest one I could find out there

that's actually commercially available

is 110 inches that one costs 13 599

dollars making it

123.62 cents per inch now what if you

want to go bigger than that well it's

really not an option as far as the

consumer market right now I can't go buy

a 150 inch or 123 inch TV it's just not

available at this time maybe it will be

in the future but projectors are really

your only option at this point for a

really large screen like that for a home

theater as I mentioned in the beginning

this is where laser TVs really shine now

the term laser TV is actually a bit of a

misnomer because it's not a TV per se

this is actually made up of two

components pretty much every time you've

got an ultra short throw projector right

here and that's one that sits really

close to the screen in fact this one is

maybe about 14 inches away from the

screen and it's currently projecting a

123 inch image up onto this screen which

uses a technology called ambient light

rejection this is super cool stuff this

is not a traditional projector screen it

has a little bit of cool Cutting Edge

technology built right in there that you

can't really see with your naked eye if

we look up really close at this screen

you'll see that it's basically got a

Sawtooth pattern so at the top of each

little Ridge there is a little shelf or

a ledge that's horizontal what that does

is that takes any light that's coming

from overhead and you'll notice I've got

all the lights on in here right now then

it's going to actually just reflect that

back up or just absorb that essentially

so that when you're sitting down you're

not going to see that which is really

cool now on the other side the bottom

here you've got this little ledge and

that's what's going to take the image

from a lower light source like this the

projector so anything that's shining up

on it and reflect that back at the

viewer it's pretty cool technology and

again it's so finite and so small that

you can't see any of this at all this is

rated for at least 4K if not more and

this particular screen right here

actually rejects over 90 percent of the

light from overhead remember how I was

talking about lamp life being an issue

with my older projectors well that's not

an issue with laser projectors this is

really cool stuff the lamp life on this

one is rated for 20 000 hours and if

you're asking how much that is just to

kind of put that in perspective you

could play games and watch movies for

eight hours a day for 13 years in a row

before you ran out of lamp life on this

thing so I don't think you're gonna have

to worry about it that is pretty cool

you can see on this high quality white

screen here exactly how bad this does

with contrast during the day especially

compared to the ambient light rejecting

aeon CLR it's really kind of a night and

day difference here so we've covered why

a laser TV setup is Superior in just

about every way to a traditional

projector and Screen we've also

addressed the fact that you'd pay like

two gazillion dollars to try to get a TV

that's anywhere near this big but why

did I pick this particular projector in

this particular screen so not long ago a

couple of companies got together and

they took 14 different laser TV setups

14 different Ultra short throw

projectors and put them one against The

Other Side by Side brought in a bunch of

experts to try to say which one do you

like best and you guessed it it's this

one now you've probably never even heard

of this brand and it's called for movie

and the actual model of the projector is

called theater so it's for movie theater

as the brand and model of this

particular setup now that said this was

pitted against LG Samsung Hisense and a

bunch of other brands and this thing

crushed them all that's pretty cool I

was pretty impressed when I saw that now

when I found out that four movie had the

best rated Ultra short throw projector

available today as confirmed by multiple

experts I reached out to them to see if

I could get one of these projectors in

my hands to try this out so full

transparency here they did send this

projector to me at no charge and that's

one of the things you know I shamelessly

leverage as much as I can to try to get

some free stuff when I'm doing these

videos because you know why wouldn't I

so the projector screen itself is from a

company called Elite screens and if

you've been on Amazon looking for

screens you've probably seen these guys

they're huge they have branches all over

the place and they do an awesome job so

I worked with one of their professionals

there to try to figure out what is the

best screen that I can get to go with

the 4 movie theater projector what's

best for Ultra short throw and we talked

about a few different things but one of

them was you want a fixed frame thing

you don't want something that's going to

move in any way you want it to be

totally stationary and totally stable

all the time and then this little bezel

does a couple of things one it kind of

makes it look like a giant TV which I

think is really fun and then two it

makes it so that there's a little bit of

bleed area so if the screen goes off

onto that it absorbs that light and

keeps that nice crisp and sharp edge

which I love the other thing that I love

about this is as you can see what's

going on right behind me here is it

comes with a LED light kit and that can

be running constantly or turn it on or

off whatever you want but it's a

high-end set of LED strips that go back

there and you can put these things

together yourself in just a couple of

hours and it looks really good when it's

done so this combination right here in

my opinion is the ultimate setup that

you can get for a laser TV because this

projector has an ultra short throw is

competing with traditional TVs it's got

all of the inputs and features that you

would expect so if you're wondering

about price the cost for this whole

setup right here is about fifty five

hundred dollars right now now that is

not cheap I'll fully admit that is not

in the same price range as a smaller TV

for example but it's way better than

anything you're going to get if you're

trying to buy a 98 or 110 inch TV or

anything like that and it's got the

image both during the day with the

lights on and at night with the lights

off that's going to be better than just

about anything you find out there and

that's why I love this setup there are

cheaper projectors out there that are

Ultra short throughout there are cheaper

screens out there but if you want the

really good stuff this is it so I'll put

links in the description below if you

want to check those out as I mentioned

in the beginning now that we've been

using this setup for a little while I am

not going back I don't need my

projectors anymore so I'm going to have

a Epson home Cinema 4010 for sale it's

really just no contest this is the way

to go this particular video is one of

many that we've done covering topics

around home theater so if you want to

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see more I'm Nils with learn to DIY

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