Challenge the living room overlord Optoma ultra-throw TV Ultra S5 evaluation

Television has always been the overlord of the family's living room. The Chinese people's living room must have a television to be considered. With the pursuit of large screens and immersive sensations, the restrictions on the size and price of television have brought limitations to the user experience. TVs with 80 and 100 inches or more are less likely to be selected. If you want to experience an ultra-large 100-inch TV, you have to pay 50 times more than 10 times or even dozens of times. In recent years, the rise of laser and hyper-projection TV can perfectly solve the large-screen demand in the living room. In April of this year's Shanghai International Advanced HIFI Demonstration Conference (SIAV), Optoma's new generation of ultra-supervision TV Ultra S5 (EH1319UST) unveiled, as an upgraded version of Ultra S3, has been upgraded in terms of intelligence and functionality At present, this machine has also come to our hands. After using it for some time, we share with you the real feelings of use.
What is hyper-projection TV?
The essence of a super-projection TV is a cinema TV that uses ultra-short-focus projection technology. In principle, it is the same as a projector. It is a reflective type that projects images or video onto a curtain within a certain physical distance.
The reason why the TV is called is because it is closer to the TV in terms of the experience. For example, it can be placed on a TV cabinet in close proximity to a TV. It comes with a smart operating system and is usually used with anti-glare screens. It can be said that the hyper-projection TV uses projection technology to realize the TV experience.

Appearance first look at the design, Optoma ultra-throw TV Ultra S5 to pearl white and silver gray color, with all kinds of home style match.

As a 1080P-resolution home computer, it is not expected to be lighter, and the volume of 384.54x310.10x99mm is also very small. It does not take up space and is convenient to carry.
The middle part of the striped grid design gives the whole machine a sense of agility, consistent with the side of the thermal grille.

One hundred meters large screen just 60cm home ultra-short focus is very practical as a super-projection TV, which means that Ultra S5 has ultra-short focus characteristics (we put the lens projection ratio is less than 0.4 is called ultra-short focus). The projection ratio of the Ultra S5 is only 0.25:1, and the projected 100-inch screen size only requires a projection distance of about 60cm. Note that the distance from the tail is less than the actual distance from the wall.
The benefits of ultra-short focus are self-evident, you can put it on the TV cabinet like a TV set, not far behind the sofa. Moreover, people in the body and at home will not be obstructed when watching. More importantly, saving space, even if it is "dwelling," you can project a large screen in a small room. You can enjoy the shock of the big picture without going to the theater.
Optoma ultra-throw TV Ultra S5 focus button on the bottom of the machine, pull the button to adjust the focus.

The detachable daily maintenance of the filter does not require the largest natural enemy of the projector is dust, although the home machine is far from the engineering machine, business school machine is subject to more dust threats, but it is also inevitable. Dust usually causes problems such as overheating of the projector, lower brightness, etc. Sending repairs is usually done after simple cleaning. It can be used as usual.
Normal projectors clean the dust and need to disassemble the housing, but Optoma Ultra S5 provides a very convenient design, and its dust filter can be quickly removed from the side of the machine. Two detachable screens are designed on the side. One is pulled out from the back and one is lifted from the bottom. It is easy to operate.
With a vacuum cleaner or water wash it is easy to clean, the filter uses a 3M, very dense, filter effect is guaranteed.
In addition, this machine also has a filter replacement cleaning automatic reminder function, record the filter time, prompts the user to replace and clean the filter, to prevent the filter from accumulating too much dust to affect the projector.
Although such dust-proof measures are not as good as maintenance-free laser projectors, they are a very user-friendly and economical design for household light bulbs.

3500 lumens without fear of ambient light Ordinary projector, put in an effective shading room, can play the best image display quality. As an ultra-throw TV placed in the living room, Optoma Ultra S5 is obviously facing more environmental light challenges. We all know that the higher the number of lumens, the stronger the ambient light resistance of the projector and the brighter and clearer the picture. For home computers, it is generally recommended to select 2000 to 3,000 lumens, while the Ultramax SLR Ultra 5 reaches 3,500 lumens, which is about 40% higher than ordinary home projectors.
With the ultra-thin 100-inch screen, whether it is day or night, do not pull the curtains, and say goodbye to the traditional living room's "black theater." Due to the fact that we do not have a matching light-resistant screen, proof shooting was performed on an ordinary white screen. Under the circumstances of opening two dome lamps in the room, the brightness of the screen was not significantly affected and the brightness of the screen was reduced. No whitening and color deviations occurred.

Precise color reproduction The optical performance of the cinema-like picture perception host uses the Texas Instruments DLP projection technology, the latest 0.65-inch 1080P DMD chip, true 1920 x 1080 resolution, 3500 ANSI lumens brightness, and 20,000:1 contrast ratio.
Support the latest HDMI1.4a Blu-ray 3D format, can be used with 3D Blu-ray player, 4K HD player, XBoxOne, PS4 various types of playback sources, wear 3D shutter glasses to enjoy 3D high-definition large screen, Fun 3D games. With a new generation of 144Hz, it has a stronger refresh rate and reduces the fatigue of watching 3D videos.
Hardware performance, Ultra S5 upgrade equipped with a MSTar TV chip, this commonly used in TV processing chip can better analyze the presentation image color, effectively improve the fluency of the picture.
How does the picture quality behave? We play high-definition pictures and videos and record with SLR cameras. In order to avoid the input signal deviation as much as possible, we chose the open Boer Q10 Plus Blu-ray HDD player. As an old brand that has been deeply cultivating the audio and video industry for 10 years, this player has reached a top level in all aspects. Including support for native Blu-ray navigation, support for 4K HDR, support for 10Bit source decoding, there is a huge increase in resolution, color depth, color gamut, contrast and number of frames, you can restore the maximum precision of the video content, to ensure the accuracy of the output signal.
First look at the performance of color. Since this is a traditional light bulb light source machine, it also maintains the warm characteristic of the light bulb in terms of color rendering, which is quite a cinematic feeling.
(Note: Due to the limitation of the camera lens, there will be a certain dark corner around the screen, which is caused by non-overcast TV)
From these three main colors of red, green and blue screen images, Optoma ultra-throw TV Ultra S5 in the performance of the color is accurately restored as the first goal, which is common with some Japanese manufacturers in high-end aircraft The pursuit of more brilliant colors is different. For me personally, I prefer real restoration. Although brighter and more appealing to the eye, in some scenes it will color and cause distortion.
After reading a large number of test samples, if you want to summarize the performance of the Ultra S5, you can use "real, translucent, comfortable" to summarize. Ample amount of lumens ensures that the picture is very bright, but not dazzling. In fact, the brightness of the home machine is not as bright as possible, but also need to take into account the comfort of the human eye. The Ultra S5 personally feels impeccable in terms of comfort. In addition to the natural advantages of reflexology, the overall softness of the screen makes the eyes look tired for a long time. This is not a lot of projectors that I reviewed. see.
Let's look at the performance of the video.
This is a group of screen shots in 1080P “Western World”. Both the big scenes and the details of people are very real and they have a good look and feel.
To say that the greatest weakness in image quality performance is 1080P resolution. After the popularity of TV in 4K, for a home projector with a larger screen, higher definition will undoubtedly show more picture details. Looking closely at the Ultra S5's screen, you can still see the graininess. Of course, for the 100-inch screen, it's impossible to take a closer look. After TI introduced miniaturized 4K DLP chips, it is only a matter of time before home projectors will spread 4K.
While playing the video, we also experienced the sound quality of this machine. The built-in 16W speaker sound is very loud, enough to cover the size of the home living room, although not enough to rival the external soundbar, but not enough external audio is also sufficient to save space.

The ease of use of the intelligent system is greatly improved Compared to the previous products, the Ultra S5 Ultra Video TV equipped with an intelligent system, wired / wireless networking is very convenient, all kinds of APP can be directly from the mobile phone to the smart screen, based on the Android platform The openness, S5 supports users to install more personalized features, without worrying about third-party device compatibility.
Nowadays, many people like to chase after the iPad, but the size of the iPad screen is limited. At this time, the UltraS5 Airplay function comes in handy. A finger stroke can be directly transmitted from the iPad to the projector to achieve wireless video and audio projection, large screen and easy to use both, it is a living room cinematic weapon.
Support vertical/horizontal trapezoidal correction: -5% ~ +5% adjustable, user-friendly adjustment; also can adjust the corners, eliminate distortion or deflection of the image machine easy to install.
Ultra S5 also supports U disk direct reading function, can be directly connected to the U disk, and directly inside the office files, photos, videos and other direct projection.
As a "TV," content is an important point. The Ultra S5 is equipped with a CIBN broadcast control platform. Film and TV drama resources are quite comprehensive. There is "super clear" on the picture quality. The interface design is also very user-friendly, and it is similar to the ordinary TV operation.

Noise performance: It has always been quiet, after all, it is a projector. Noise performance is a concern for many people. During this period of experience, I had almost forgotten to measure the number of decibels, because there was almost no noise during the use. The loudest sound is when it is turned on, and it has been very quiet during use.
We measured a noise of 36.5 dB after the machine lasted for one and a half hours, which was only 6.5 dB higher than a quiet room sound. Only when you are close enough to hear the sound, such noise performance is very satisfying.
In terms of heat, the outlet temperature is 56.6°C and it feels warm; the air inlet is only 21.7°C.
Summarizing the big screen is the current trend of “TV”. At this point, Optoma’s ultra-throw TV has apparently taken the lead. For Ultra S5, the pursuit of accurate color reproduction, high brightness and no fear of ambient light, plus ultra-short focal point to facilitate the installation of the location, the smart system to improve the user experience, Ultra S5 made a super-strength with strength The model of television. No slick head, low-key and pragmatic, but at the same time deep in strength, challenge the dominance of the living room of traditional TV, Ultra S5 apparently has won.

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