Hisense XR10 Smart Projector Review: RGB-Powered Wonder

Vivid and superb colors. Exceeds the latest colour gamut spec. Great for gaming. Easy setup. Adjustable iris for dialing successful airy control.

Did not execute arsenic good successful a agleam room. Voice power is lacking. Some tonal saltation issues.

RGB backlighting is the hottest caller tech successful the satellite of televisions, bringing brighter and much colorful images to the satellite of LED screens. And now, projectors are pursuing suit.

The Hisense XR10 is 1 specified projector, rated astatine 6,000 lumens of brightness, with a jaw-dropping 6,000:1 for autochthonal opposition ratio, and it adjacent comes with an adjustable iris for customizable aperture. Whether it genuinely creates a consciousness of wonderment connected movie night, however, whitethorn beryllium greatly connected your contented choices.

Welcome to My Testing Room

The XR10 is simply a beast. I felt a flimsy pinch successful my backmost arsenic I heaved it retired of the included lawsuit and plopped it onto a array successful my projector room. At 23.4 pounds, it's nary gag to lug around, adjacent compared to the 18-pound Titan Noir Max. I liked the design, though, since it’s conscionable 1 acheronian metallic cube with a bronze faceplate connected the front. The 4 tiny feet connected the bottommost are to marque micro adjustments to find the cleanable angle. Quite a fewer projectors I’ve tested precocious lone person beforehand feet, truthful it’s useful to beryllium capable to marque much tallness adjustments. Projectors with longer feet similar the Titan Noir Max, however, allowed maine to presumption that projector astatine much of a broadside space and past set the feet.

Auto-keystoning is simply a good creation with immoderate projector models, including connected the lower-cost BenQ TK705STi projector I’m investigating now. With the XR10, though, the setup process is straightforward successful that the projector tin representation the projected representation to your screen. That worked astir of the clip but required immoderate manual tweaks for size and focus. The keystoning connected the Epson Lifestudio Grand Plus projector took a batch much effort and time.

One melodramatic quality betwixt the XR10 and the Titan Noir Max is that Hisense runs connected the VIDAA OS, which Hisense developed astir 2014. It’s acquainted to maine due to the fact that it’s the aforesaid OS utilized connected the Leica Cine Play 1 projector but is usually lone recovered connected Hisense projectors. I didn’t caput excessively overmuch that the Titan doesn’t adjacent person a built-in OS due to the fact that you tin easy adhd a Google TV streamer oregon an Amazon Fire TV Stick for astir $50.

The XR10 setup took lone 10 minutes, which included some installing a fewer apps and mounting the keystone and focus. Like the Leica software, the 1 missing app present was Fandango astatine Home, which I often usage to bargain and rent early-release movies.

Both the automated representation power options and precocious settings worked arsenic intended. For example, I recovered the Enhanced representation mode mounting to enactment perfectly good for astir of my trial scenarios. That’s a stark departure from RGB TVs similar the LG Micro RGB Evo, which necessitate much customizations to amended brightness, colour quality, and contrast.

An absorbing plan prime connected the XR10 was to usage liquid cooling to negociate heat. The XR10 stayed mostly quiescent during my investigating window, adjacent though there’s inactive a instrumentality and it tin beryllium a spot loud. Some projector fans are truthful large they distract from the movie you’re watching, but not this one. The built-in talker is large and clear, an antithetic perk since truthful galore projectors person lame audio.

For inputs, the XR10 has 3 HDMI ports, but lone 2 of them tally astatine the faster HDMI 2.1 spec. Also, the mediate HDMI larboard is for eARC passthrough audio. I experienced rather a fewer issues with the eARC larboard utilizing an Onkyo TX-RZ50 AV Receiver, specified arsenic dropped audio, achromatic surface flashes, and different glitches. (Hisense is looking into this issue.) The XR10 has an Ethernet larboard for a wired connection, 2 USB ports, and some a integer optical and 3.5-mm port. Wi-Fi 7 enactment adds immoderate large compatibility and reliability, positive a speedy connection.

I felt the XR10 distant was conscionable OK. It’s a small engaged and has excessively galore buttons (including 3 conscionable for controlling the settings). That tin marque it a spot confusing to use. That said, I liked that determination are dedicated buttons for brightness crossed from the measurement buttons. The Home fastener is centered and casual to find. It’s besides backlit, truthful you won’t fumble for buttons successful a acheronian room.

Striving for Color Perfection

The examination to the Xgimi Titan Noir Max makes a batch of consciousness if you’re looking for a vivid location cinema experience. While the Titan Noir Max did trial retired amended connected galore of my benchmarks for representation quality, the Hisense XR10 is simply a amazingly adept challenger.

The XR10 hits 118 percent of the BT.2020 colour gamut, which exceeds the fashionable Titan Noir Max (at 110 percent of the spec). A cardinal quality betwixt the Hisense XR10 and the Xgimi Titan Noir Max is that the XR10 does not set the iris connected the fly, whereas the Titan adjusts arsenic you ticker a movie, TV show, oregon play a game. However, the XR10 supports 7 antithetic levels of iris control, which manages however airy is fto in. That affects however acheronian scenes appear, successful particular. Some of the iris and representation prime settings are a spot buried successful the menus, but they decidedly helped.

One illustration of galore moves I tested is Awake connected Netflix, which I usage to trial opposition and brightness. The movie is shockingly acheronian successful galore scenes, since the crippled revolves astir radical not being capable to sleep. It looked conscionable astir cleanable successful my windowless investigating room, showing a country wherever the main quality rides a motorcycle with bully colour and vibrant tones. Keep successful caput that low-end projectors and fund televisions render this country arsenic acheronian grey successful astir scenes. I could inactive spot a feline successful a bluish garment that looked a spot acheronian connected the Titan Noir Max.

Because the XR10 exceeds the BT.2020 colour gamut, I tested 2 movies that should look phenomenal (because they besides conscionable that spec). Both Inside Out and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 made each of the purples, reds, and yellows popular successful a mode that justifies the XR10’s precocious price. Guardians has an explosive opening country with an alien that filled the surface with color. Meanwhile, the colors successful Inside Out looked vibrant, including a rusty acheronian reddish that’s often hard to render.

Here’s different revealing trial result: Some of the dimly lit opening scenes successful the movie The Creator connected the Fandango astatine Home app are hard to render. A predawn country often looks similar mush connected midrange projectors and televisions. On the XR10, the rocky cliffs astatine the formation person some item and texture, and there’s a bully bluish tint to the sky. On soldiers astatine the beach, you tin spot shadiness details connected their wetsuits that look excessively bland connected different projectors.

I saved immoderate of the much method benchmarks utilizing the Spears & Munsil discs for last, partially due to the fact that it’s a spot of a mixed bag. Real-world movie and TV amusement investigating looked phenomenal, but the method tests were not rather arsenic convincing. Skin code tests had immoderate fantabulous tonal variation, but couldn’t rather lucifer the LG Micro RGB TV oregon the Titan Noir Max.

A demo reel I watched did look unthinkable successful astir each segment, but a country showing achromatic mist implicit a achromatic upland had a flimsy blurriness compared to the LG Micro RGB Evo and the Leica Cine Play 1. Equally so, a yellowish angiosperm country and acheronian trees connected a acheronian inheritance did not look arsenic realistic. Still, greenish writer down a obstruction that often looks brownish connected midrange projectors, the colors of a sunset, a reddish cactus, and a steam from a blistery outpouring each looked amazing.

One of the XR10's biggest struggles is with daytime viewing successful a agleam room. Even though Hisense includes immoderate connection astir opening the shades connected their website, the world is that respective movies looked a spot excessively dim with the brightness cranked up. I watched a fewer episodes of Blue Lights connected the Britbox app and it looked excessively washed retired and grey astatine times. This is existent of respective different high-end projectors, though, including the Leica Cine Play 1.

Making Games Pop

I switched to video games, sports, and quality broadcasts and kept seeing vivid and superb colors, since the XR10 does specified an admirable occupation of rendering colors connected a large screen.

On an Xbox Series X, playing Senua's Saga: Hellblade II, I noticed the opposition was conscionable astir perfect, showing h2o connected the main characters’ arms and connected the rocks successful a realistic and convincing way. Nothing looked washed retired oregon unrealistic successful those scenes. In Forza Horizon 6, connected some Xbox and a PC, a fewer nighttime races successful wintertime looked stunningly real, with snowfall falling connected the roadworthy and h2o collecting successful a realistic way. A achromatic BMW M4 looked crisp, perfectly clear, but not overly bright, making it look similar the car was sitting close successful beforehand of me.

I loved however the role-playing crippled Crimson Desert looked truthful vivid connected the large surface arsenic well, but adjacent much truthful however the 240-Hz refresh complaint (at 1080p) made each controller question consciousness close and immediate, giving maine a flimsy borderline implicit yet different brag successful the game. The XR10 switches to a debased latency mode and offers immoderate gaming show perks automatically.

An absorbing find with a quality broadcast I viewed is that the colors were not arsenic eye-popping arsenic immoderate of the high-end projectors I’ve mentioned, but that was a bonus. I adjusted the iris a spot for much of a midrange aperture and the brightness and opposition looked much subdued without arsenic overmuch colour blooming. The broadcaster connected CNN didn’t look similar an histrion successful a movie. A World Cup lucifer I watched looked crisp and sharp, showing a agleam greenish transportation that wasn’t glaring.

For dependable control, the VIDAA operating strategy is not precisely cutting-edge. I was capable to set immoderate projector settings by voice, but erstwhile I asked to summation the brightness, the projector showed maine movie suggestions instead. At times, a text-only effect from the AI wasn’t that helpful. I searched by dependable for which app is showing the movie Carrie and conscionable saw a statement of the movie instead. I similar Alexa+ oregon Google Gemini implementations connected projectors by far.

In the end, the Hisense XR10 fits nicely successful the precocious echelon of location cinema projectors and impressed maine rather a spot during astir of my tests. It’s a somewhat little susceptible exemplary than the Xgimi Titan Noir Max erstwhile you truly dive into the benchmarks, but for galore of the movies and shows I tested, the 2 projectors are successful the aforesaid league. I ended up liking the dynamic iris connected the Titan, but XR10 is simply a top-notch performer arsenic agelong arsenic you debar a precise agleam room.