OptomaUHZ35ST 3500-Lumen UHD 4K Short-Throw Laser Projector - White

Projector was easy to set up and has a fantastic picture. Especially like the 4k for watching football.

After paying $2700 in January 2024, I returned this projector for the following reasons:1) When using this projector as a computer monitor, text is very clear and detailed in the center of the image, but is fuzzy on the perimeter.2) This projector has no built in "smart features".One of the trade-offs when selecting a projector with a short throw lens is that the image will be a little distorted at the perimeter. This is barely noticeable when watching a movie, but it becomes more noticeable when gaming, and nearly intolerable when using this projector as a computer monitor. Buyers should give adequate consideration to how they plan to use the projector, and how the lens distorts the image, before purchasing a short throw or ultra-short throw projector.After purchasing this projector for $2700, I began comparing this projector to others in the market and determined there was not enough value to keep it. Thus, I wasn't surprised when the price dropped to $2100 two weeks after my purchase.Apart from the cost, the lack of smart features, and the lack of detail on the perimeter, this is an awesome projector. Having a very bright image makes it suitable for daytime use, including rooms that have moderate amounts of ambient light. The size and weight of the projector makes it very portable. The laser light source should provide many years, if not decades, of daily use with minimal degradation in brightness and color. However, at a $2700 price point, this projector is definitely not the best overall value in 2024. Even at $2100, I cannot recommend it for the reasons cited above.

Bought for a golf simulator. Works perfect.

I very much regret buying this now.The first problem I noticed right away is that the fan is super loud, constantly buzzing away. It's way louder than my many years old Optoma UHD60 that I replaced with this UHZ35.The second issue is that it can't focus the entire screen, with about 1/3 of the display or more always being blurry. That's super annoying too, as the fact that my UHD60 had gotten much worse about blurriness around the edges was a key reason I was replacing it.The most annoying this I ran into , though, is that they claim it supports 3D, but after 4 hours so far troubleshooting it, as someone extremely tech savvy (I program video games professionally), this projector does not actually support 3D in any meaningful way. 3D was a key feature I was using to select this projector, and it seems it be all marketing lies.The projector UI just stubbornly has the "3D" setting visible, yet disabled, providing no clues as to why.Based on my research, apparently it only can do so from a 1080p signal...and Windows cannot send it anything lower than 4k as the "active signal mode", regardless of whether you set the display resolution in Windows to 1080p. If there's no way to get a 1080p signal to this projector from Windows and the projector can't display 3D without that...it's not really 3D capable.

Right after 1 year warranty expired, my projector started having dead pixels. I paid almost $4,000 for this unit new and a 1 year warranty is garbage considering how much I paid and that his is one of Optoma's top of the line units. Optoma support said they have had issues with the chip and dead pixels and I would have to pay to send my projector in, pay an evaluation fee and the chip is $500 just by itself. What kind of support is this??? It's obvious this unit is suffering from some major issue that is not a user-end-caused problem. Optoma does not stand behind their customers. A good company would ask me to ship this to them and would gladly take care of it at no charge considering it's an internal engineering issue that I am sure other units are experiencing. This was my 4th Optoma projector but I will never buy another one from Optoma again. Buyer BEWARE!!! I am so frustrated and disappointed in Optoma. My projector looks like it has chickenpox.