ViewSonicLS740HD 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

Great projector for a golf simulator! Did a TON of research on various projectors on projector central and settled on this one because of where I needed to mount it on my ceiling in the garage. The image is great at 1080p on my impact screen, it's bright and can even see it with all my lights on, and it has 4 corner keystone adjustable so the image aligns perfectly to my screen. Highly recommend and IMHO this is the best value golf sim projector under $1k right now due to its brightness and laser light source which will last a long time and not require any bulb replacements.

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.

I had high hopes for this projector, even though its MSRP was a fraction (1/6) of the traditional DLP Christie projector it was replacing. The Christie was also rated for over 6000 lumens, more than the 5000 of this Viewsonic. However this projector is noticeably brighter and of similar image quality to the Christie at the same mounting position. This projector uses a less traditional mounting design, but we made it work. The RS232 also does not currently work with our Extron setup since we can not change the baud rate on the projector itself, since ViewSonic admits in the documentation that it will only accept one rate. Here is hoping we can change it on the Extron side. This projector also lacks direct HDBT support, but it is said to be rated for 24/7 operation, a feature we will be putting to the test at our college. The menu is also very basic, like their consumer models, which is a bit of a letdown. Normally, I would not consider Viewsonic for professional applications, but this is getting very close.

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.

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.

Very happy with the quality of this product. A great picture overall. After learning the capabilities of the adjustments I was able to size down the picture to my already very large screen.

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.

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.