ViewSonic LS740HD 5000 Lumens 1080p Laser Projector with 1.3x Optical Zoom, H/V Keystone, 4 Corner Adjustment, and 360 Degrees Projection for Auditorium, Conference Room and Education

This is sold as a conference, large room projector, that should be super bright. For the price tag, I rolled the dice and replaced my original Optoma Dlp/bulb home Theater projector and hoped for the best.Excellent decision for me. There may be some Home Theater idealists that would challenge the color rendering, but it super, again for the price point.Pros: Laser, Quiet, Doesn't get hot, SUPER bright, I watched 2001: A Space Odyssey in the middle of the day... it was perfect. Lots of tweakable settings: Manual AND digital zoom, digital keystone correction, pre settings: Living Room, Cinema, Presentation, etc.Cons: no lens shift, go to projector central and use the "Throw Distance Calculator", it's designed to be stationary once in place, the power cord, is a "Laptop" style, wall plug goes into power brick, power brick proprietary cable connection to projector.The Cons would never stop me from purchasing again, I can detect no coloring problems in the renderings, I am running a 25' hdmi cable, no jumping or dropped frames.Excellent entry level home theater projector.

Very pleased so far. Installation was simple. Projects very large image. The manual zoom did not reduce the image enough to fit our screen. Fortunately there is an electronic zoom in the settings that reduced the image to fit. The keystone settings worked very well. There are other, typical projector settings to refine things further. The picture is very sharp, clear and bright. And NO bulb to overheat and burn out. All of that was what I wanted. For a laser projector, the price was very good as well.

This should be a 5 star projector but here is why I give 4 star review.The LS740HD has a glitch that causes it to randomly flash orange. This would happen several times a day. I called Viewsonic support and got through immediately with no wait.They suggested I return the unit. They gave me the option to exchange with them or with Amazon.I chose to return with Amazon, and I purchased a new one. The new one does the same thing but not as often. I have changed HDMI cables and power sources. All drivers are updated on PC’s connecting to projector and it still does this. I have 2 other projectors that do not do this using the same setup.The problem is not bad enough to return the second projector.The projector is small, quiet (on Eco or =<80% power), has good color, contrast and sharpness. Bright enough on Eco to view in moderately lit room. The projector runs very cool compared to my bulb projectors. At first, I thought that the proprietary power brick was a negative but now I view it as a positive. The brick gets as hot as the projector. By not having the power adapter built into the projector, the projector can be smaller and run cooler extending the life of the projector.It looks like my refund will take about a month. That is a long time to have $1200 dollars tied up.

The projector is quite bright! with natural light from the window, I can watch movie with high quality picture. It has good flexibility in terms of distance to the screen.Absolutely good value for money.

I use this for slides - not movies. This replaced a good projector that wasn't quite bright enough for a large classroom. It's bright enough, especially in its price range, and it's almost silent. It also has almost no warmup time - probably because it's laser versus bulb. It does not get very hot. It doesn't auto focus but the focus adjustment is easy and the zoom has a pretty good range. It can be set for front or rear and table or ceiling projection.

Great new generation laser HD - great pic and the build last forever / I hope

We used this projector in a dimly lit room tonight at a guild meeting. The brightness was fantastic. The committee had it set up and working in minutes. We will have to research how to make adjustments to the hue and saturation of the images, the color is off, but I'm sure there is a way. A great improvement over our old projector.

I was trying to buy a projector that had great image and under 1k. I am happy with my choose, this projector has great image and it is really bright. During the day I don’t have to close my windows because the brightness can handle it.