Optoma ZW400 WXGA Professional Laser Projector | Compact Design & Bright 4000 lumens | DuraCore Laser Technology, Up to 30,000 Hours | Network Control | 4K HDR Input | Quiet Operation

We had a very specific need with a large venue screen (18ft width) that needed a very short throw so that speakers could walk in front of the screen without casting a shadow. There was only a hand full of projectors that met our criteria and the Optima ZH406ST (ST for short throw) was the least expensive. The next projector up was brighter and had a shorter throw, but was twice as expensive. Very pleased with the purchase.

For the price, the overall performance cant be beat. When calibrated/adjusted for best picture, brightness is less than claimed, but still bright. Color saturation and gamut could be better, but that is what you get with an RGBY color wheel, despite laser light source. Its not at all bad, but you can get better performance for less money with an RGBRGB color wheel, albeit with a significant sacrifice of brightness. Whites are very good, black level is decent, and of course DLP does motion better than any other consumer display technology. 3D capability is a bonus. Happily illuminates a 1.0 gain, 180 inch matte white screen in darkness. Bottom line is, at this level of light output with a laser light source, I dont know that you can do any better at this price.

Explain to me, how a projector 11.5 feet from the screen has that size of the image?? Amazon description (Standard Throw Projection: Project a 120 image from 12′ 2 – 19′ 6″ away) Info from the Optoma tool to measure distance website doesn’t match whatever I am getting at home. Customer service was nice but could not really explain why that size of the image and he suggested me to zoom the image if I have to zoom on that projector, knowing the distance it is from the screen I would rather not to have a projector like that, and I am not asking for a 300-inch image on a distance of 11.5 inches. This is the second Optoma projector I got in less than a month and honestly, I am very disappointed. With tax and warranty, it was almost $1800 UPDATE PROJECTOR IS LEAKING LIGHT ON THE CEILING