LGCineBeam Q HU710PB, Small 4K Projector, 50-120 inch Screen size, RGB Laser, 500 ANSI Lumens, LG TV webOS 6.0, AirPlay, Screen Share, Bluetooth, 3W speaker, Auto Screen Adjustment

Just got this for £738. And I have to say it is incredible 10/10.Let's put the rumours straight about the negatives...- Noise of the fan isn't loud. You can't hear it when sound is playing on the screen. Or if you can, it's just a nice quiet hum.- Don't care about the speaker. It's meant to be used with a bluetooth speaker. Which it does perfectly in sync/no delay.- Don't care about no battery. If you want, plug a portable one in yourself and it'll work.- Don't care about lack of carry case. A nice-to-have but glad they didn't as that would have bumped the price up. There are lots of protective cases you could buy if you want one.- Don't care about 500 lumens. 500 lumens is perfect for dark-room viewing like a cinema [FYI: 3-18 lumens per square foot is the recommendation for movie watching, this projector can reach 20 lumens per square foot in the dark so it's perfect. Anymore and it'll strain your eyes. You only want more lumens if you want to watch day-time TV. But I can still watch a football game with a medium light on with this projector].- Don't care about only one HDMI, I use a bluetooth speaker so use that HDMI for Apple TV 4kK. Flawless. [Update March 2025: I bought two large HomePods. Now I get wireless stereo Dolby Atmos with my LG CineBeam Q. And I can't stop smiling. I also use HomePods during the day for radio and Dolby Atmos music WIN, WIN].- Remote works great. I don't need to awkwardly point it behind me at the projector for it to work. I point it at the screen. It works. If that is an issue for you buy a £19 LG magic remote, those connect and work on bluetooth. I use the Apple TV remote anyway.Positives...- Insane 4K picture. INSANE. Perfect. Magic. Huge.- TINY (like five CDs stuck together) and very cool form factor.- Has Web OS so very much like a TV OS and it's loaded with streaming apps including Netflix.- Wireless Dolby Atmos with Apple TV and two HomePodsTwo true negatives...- WebOS doesn't have UK apps like BBC iPlayer, ITVX, Channel 4. Hence why I have an Apple TV connected. Apple TV also does a much better job at upscaling all content to crisp 4K.- Remote doesn't allow voice commands (Apple TV does, so all good)One recommended adjustment..- HDR in 2025 for every TV can be iffy. Often dark scenes can be a touch too dark. This projector like all of them can have that issue. That's not the projector's fault it's the content and its static HDR Tone Map. Dolby Vision may help solve that as that has dynamic Tone Map for each dark/bright scene, but not much content is in Dolby Vision (you also have to pay more to stream in DV). Easy solution with the LG Cinebeam Q is to simply turn off HDR Tone Map if you're finding dark scenes are too dark i.e. The Studio on Apple TV is deliberately lit darkly for a moody old-skool cinema feel. Keep it on for everything else.Wish I bought one last year when it came out. But would have cost £1300. So can't complain.My total spend: £1,477 (£738 Cinebeam Q + £140 Apple TV 4K + £599 two large Apple HomePods)Buy one!

I bought the LG Cinebeam projector at the £650 price point for work purposes despite mixed reviews across the internet, as it ticked many of the boxes I needed.Despite seeing photos and videos on the web, it still managed to surprise me with how small it was, which makes it very portable - I previously had an Epsom TW7000, which is absolutely massive in comparison.One absolute must for me, that seems to be little commented about online, is that I needed a projector flexible enough to work at an angle rather than straight on, as that's where the power is located. I know from past experience with projectors that this can be hit and miss. The LG Cinebeam succeeds for me here, albeit I've pushed it to the limit by turning off the Auto Screen Adjustment in the Installation Wizard, which does look like a cool feature, and manually adjusted the image using the Keystone feature and fine tuning with the Edge Adjustment feature. The result is that I've managed to get a pretty big picture that isn't skewed, with the projector sat approximately 2.5m back from the wall and about 1m to the left of the left edge of the picture.I would echo others online in that the brightness isn't that bad during the daytime, and I'm projecting onto an off-white painted wall. Obviously it's much better at night, but it completely depends on your expectations. Personally in the day time I am resigned to the picture being a bit washed out.On the features side, Airplay was a must and works well. The integral speakers are much derided online, and it is very tinny so I've used a UE Boom external bluetooth speaker, but in a normal sized room and consideration for the neighbours, I didn't find the maximum volume of the integral speaker to be too quiet like some have suggested. I tested out a Playstation 5 with it and it works pretty well, with low noticeable latency to my untrained eye and sound (via bluetooth) that is in time with the picture. The only thing I'd say here is be careful about putting the Playstation into rest mode, as this seems to keep the projector also in standby mode of sorts, with the fan still going after thinking it was turned off.All in all, I've found the LG Cinebeam to exceed my expectations so far. The device itself and picture is very impressive, whilst an external speaker can be cheaply added and works seamlessly. My take home for others based on my experience is that its easy when shopping amongst lots of options to fixate on technical specifications, which although important when it comes to some features, can be a bit irrelevant if your expectations are fairly standard. This does everything I need it to, and with a little modification it does it very well. The price also dropped significantly between the reviews I had read (tested at £1300 I think) and me buying it, so I would also query whether or not some of the ratings I've seen online are as relevant given that they may have been reviewed at a much more premium price and higher set of expectations.

Nice and compact.However, inadequate brightness, the noisy fan, the cheap remote and and the brick of a transformer all betray its premium price.