CinemaX P2

Got this last year after a lot of research and focus on the negative reviews, so had some idea of pros and cons and limitations going in. Getting the picture to fit on the screen was a challenge, had to buy furniture that was only 12" from surface to floor. The grid with the corner handles is your friend for fine adjustments. Picture quality is very good, brightness and black levels are really good (I have a Samsung HDTV and this projector beats that all the way on black levels, not quite OLED TV level black colors but still really good). The interface and app support are klunky but manageable. I use a Roku for streaming so all my remote use is on the Roku, I only use the device remote to turn it on. If you don't get 4K quality check your connection speed (if it's not fast enough you can't even choose the HDR modes - they are grayed out). I use the browser in the app section to check download speeds. Sound quality from the built in speakers is also very good. They missed some design cues - the legend/symbols over the LED lights on the device are impossible to make out. But after all of that, it was really delivering great picture quality and sound for an immersive experience. Then I downloaded a firmware upgrade and it said applying update and went dark - I had no idea what was going on except one of the LEDs was red. Left it overnight, and tried to restart the following morning and it would not restart. Called customer service and received a bin file (with same upgrade) that I put on a thumb drive and plugged it in to the projector. It still wouldn't work, the LEDs came on and flashed and then went to steady red. Sent it to them and they said the equivalent of the motherboard was not working. So I am getting a new projector now. Kevin Mackie was excellent, courteous and professional in handling my request from start to finish. Can't say enough good things about him. I will update this review once I get the new one and get to enjoy it for a bit longer. 6/19 - Update I have had the new replacement for a while now, really happy with this purchase. The picture is stunning in my set up dark walls, no/very low natural light. I have a purchased a custom made cover as well, you will need that if your projector sits out in the open (costs about $30). 5 stars from me

This product was purchased after a lot of research considering the cost of such high end projectors. Boy, I cannot believe my research was so poor that I relied on sites that glorified this absolutely atrocious garbage of a product. Too bad that they discontinued this product because they knew what they made otherwise the trashing would be more wide scale. The product was purchased in December 2021 and was sparsely used. The 1st year was mostly flawless viewing but had some UX challenges. The early part 2nd quarter of the 2nd year is when the problems started, things like talking long time to start, auto-restart, system crash, sudden changes in color on screen being the most prominent ones. 10 days before the warranty expired, they system completely broke down. Calling and emailing Optoma support was not by any means a walk in the park. They made it sound like they are doing me a favor in supporting the device despite still being under warranty. After the pity-repair, I got my device delivered back to me and sees to work well for a grand total of 10-days. Same problems from before started to resurface, while the support team would hesitate to say what was wrong to begin with. All-in-all this product is by far the worst tech device I’ve ever invested in. I’ll never buy a Optoma product ever. Poor product and poor support is such an understatement!!!!

UPDATE: with my CLR screen from elite screens this thing is totally changed. I was skeptical so spending another 1500 on a screen but it made all the difference. Light or dark I love watching it. I often actually prefer watching at night with a lamp on which amazes me. In short with the right screen 5 stars, without 3 stars. I wasn't sure what to expect for my first UST projector, but the p2 so far has been a good experience overall. I'm pretty picky with image quality and was on the fence for weeks about a 77 OLED vs the projector. I'm using a matte white screen with 1.2 gain atm until my CLR screen arrives so I'm holding off on final judgement. In the dark room environment I'm generally pleased with it and there are definitely scenes where it's stunning and HDR comes to life. Shows like Emily in Paris really highlight it's stong output and HDR. In daylight or low lighting it's pretty much a non starter with my white screen. Just not though light to create enough contrast. However, I'm just not quite sold on its black level performance. Maybe due to my white screen, but when I'm seeing scenes with a pretty flat contrast variance, like in doors with lights, it can take on a muddy washed out look. Surprisingly in very dark mostly black scenes I tend to be less bothered. No gaming yet so will defer judgement on lag. The software that comes with it is a joke so get a fire stick and don't bother complaining. The speaker is actually quite impressive and has been a real delighter, though don't plan to use it long term. Better than any LCD TV I had. Overall I'll defer final call until my Aeon Starbright 120 inch screen arrives. From everything I researched it's pretty much required to get the right contrast levels. I'm a little nervous as to what it may do to the brightness though with a 0.6 gain. For the record I did try a CineGray screen as well with not not much luck. It did improve contrast over white but ended up feeling too dark. Lastly in terms space configuration, be sure to have about 32 inches of tv stand depth. I have it running on the floor atm. Considering the screen is projected 12 inches above the projector for a 120 inch screen, your rather limited on console height unless you want your screen very high on the wall. Couple that with center channel placement and you definitely have some critical problem solving at hand. Will update and add video once the CLR arrives.

I bought this when it was on sale for under $3k, so the few issues I have with it are not show stoppers. It's a major upgrade from my old Mitsubishi 73" DLP HDTV, as I paired this with an Akia 103" screen, and it is fantastic! For the layout of my house where I cannot have a dedicated home theater room, these new UST projectors is just the technology I needed. The few small issues that keep me from giving this a full 5 stars: 1. Only 3 HDMI inputs (old tv had 4) 2. No mute button on the remote 3. Smartfit App didn't work for me 4. Built-in media player doesn't support DTS audio, only AC3 5. Network streaming is glitchy/hit-or-miss 6. Remote lacks button for quick input switching After using it for about a couple of weeks, these issues are all that really annoyed me enough to point out in this review. The pros: 1. Super bright picture (careful not to look into it while tinkering with cabling in the back!) 2. Manual adjustment when Smartfit didn't work was actually not too bad, just have to be patient. I recommend physically adjusting it first as much as possible (adjusting feet height, horizontal position from screen) before going into the geometric adjustment menu 3. Built-in media player smoothly plays from the USB port, including 4K movies, but again, only AC3 audio 4. Built-in speakers for normal TV viewing sound good I picked this projector over others that are well reviewed mainly because Optoma is a well known brand in the home theater projector market for a long time. Hopefully it was the right choice and will last a long time.

WOW 👏 😮 👏 😮 👏 😮 👏 😮 PICTURE QUALITY IS OUTSTANDING COLORS 10 BIT HDR It was pretty hard to set up, but once I got to the geometric settings and was able to manually configure it, I was good to go. Go to menu arrow over to geometric section and you will figure it out. Gaming good for almost anything like racing, fighting games, Rpgs, adventure games. Fps shooters though, if you got a TV or monitor use that for online pvp but it can be done on this, its a little sluggish nut keep in mind I play on a 120hz gsync monitor for shooters in online pvp. But the gaming experience is pretty good. GREAT BLACK LEVELS, and I have a lg c9 oled so yes this projector has good blacks and I know the difference. My preferred settings for movies Set your streaming device to 4k 30 hz (only way to get 10 bit color) Display mode cinema Color temp cool Dynamic black 1 Color level 10 If your debating optoma p2 vs vava Go with the optoma if you got the extra 500$ Better for gaming Better color wheel Better picture quality Best projector i have owned period.

Used this exact model for over 5yrs now and it’s still one of the best purchases I have ever made.

UPDATE 1/2022: Exactly A year after purchase the projector finally crapped out. Projector was stuck on the boot screen is boot screen and would not power on. I sent it in and although it was repaired quicklyDocumentation included with the repaired projector stated that I only had a 90 day warranty going forward. So so halfway through a 2 year warranty the projector needs repairs needs repairs and they charge you to ship it and then reduce the warranty you originally paid for. This might be some of the worst customer service from any consumer electronics company I've ever run into. ORIGINAL: have never purchased an optoma projector before and I likely wont ever again. Since the original launch of the P1 this line has had problems. With the release of the P2 all the color wheel issues were supposed to be solved and maybe they were however they didnt fix the EDID and HDMI handshake issues even to this day. This is all well documented on AVS forums people have had warranty swaps with shipping at their own cost and none of these issues have been resolved for anyone. We keep being told the FW update will fix but on the most recently released pro these issues are still a problem. So three different SKUs with issues from the original release in 2019 HAVE NOT BEEN FIXED. This thing sometimes even has problems resizing an image IN ITS OWN OS with no devices attached. Id be surprised if there isnt a class action against Optoma since im out of the return window and Optoma is alseep at the wheel Im likely going have to hope Amex takes the time to see the ineptitude of the this company and its release of these UST projectors to give me my money back. I will be switching to either the HiSense or the Epson LS500 which is now cheaper than any of the variants of the CinemaX.

First the good: The picture was beautiful, and the projector was a breeze to set up. The bad: Both my wife and I noticed a strange rainbow effect that would appear surrounding bright objects in high contrast situations. After doing research online it seems this is supposed to be a super rare sensitivity (only 5-10% of the population), so it seems suspicious statistically speaking that it was very obvious to both my wife and I. If you turn on closed captioning then you see the rainbows almost 100% of the time as your eyes switch from the text to the images., Since I am hard of hearing this made watching shows extremely distracting. I tried tweaking settings like crazy to fix it, but nothing I did made a difference. After a couple of days of tweaking settings I noticed another problem. Sometimes when I would switch the display mode to anything other than Cinema I would see a weird flickering on any white object on the screen. This was beyond distracting, and it just looked horrible. Turning the device off and back on didn't seem to fix it. I had to do a factory reset. I contacted Optoma at this point to relay the problems, and that night I noticed a new issue. A vertical line split the screen right down the middle, and one half of the screen showed up slightly lighter than the other half. At this point I decided that enough was enough, and there was no getting around the fact that I had purchased a lemon, so I sent it back. I should mention that when I first turned on the projector it said that it had 40 light source hours already even though I have never used it. I don't know whether they snuck a refurbished unit on me, and just claimed it was new, or if that meant that Optoma had tested it for 40 hours. If it was the former then I don't appreciate the sneaky salesmanship. If it was the later then they need to hire new testers because the product quality was severely lacking. My advice is to avoid this projector like the plague. I'm only giving it two starts instead of one because without the numerous problems the picture was beautiful.

Upgraded to the Cinemax P2 from a nine year old Benq W1200 and the difference is remarkable! The brightness, colours, contrast, excellent focus uniformity and great HDR image just leap off the screen. So much detail and depth in 4K. HD cable tv is also incredibly sharp and clean. I found it relatively easy to set up as well. Took maybe about 2-3 min to align it perfectly, though I did it by eye and not any internal features. Excellent DLP motion smoothness, even without the need for Frame Interpolation. I’m projecting onto a basic grey screen in a dedicated basement rec room. The P2 is also near silent, another wonderful bonus. All in all I’m beyond thrilled! No worries about anybody walking in front of a ceiling mounted projector, or 4K HDMI issues with long run cables. Excellent warranty too. Highly recommend this OPTOMA!!

Likes: Picture quality Sound Colour Dislikes: Reliability I brought it to my country and used it for three days last year and I was so impressed. Then, I went back almost a year and it wouldn't work properly. After few seconds of switching it on, two LEDS will blink simultaneously and the projector stops working. I have been discussing the issue with a local rep for more than a month now with no clear picture of the solution. I bought the Wemax Nova 4K which works like a charm but not as good as the Optoma P2 IMO. But the Wemax is working and the Optoma is not!

the worst and ridiculous experience I have never had. Just received this P2 machine yesterday, and I quickly found a bright spot as the unit porjecting on the wall. Obviously, this could be something wrong with the lenses inside (broken). Additionally, there is skewed/wavy line on top of the image; regardless how hard I try, the issue persists, and not to mention half of the above image is blurry, apparently can't be focused. As I was trying to return the unit next day, I was told to pay for shiipong; no return label is provided (seriously, Amazon sent something broken to me, and I have to return by paying shipping??) Absolutely stay away from this machine, no worthy even buying, if I can give a minus, definitely minus numerous star.........what a nightmare !!!

After some research, I opted for this one over the VAVA equivalent, and so far I've been fairly impressed. The image quality is excellent and allows us to have the equivalent of a 100 inch screen in the basement media room. The sound quality is okay, but we opted to get a better Bose 700 soundbar anyway. Regardless, in combination with a Roku streaming stick that supports 4K, this setup works quite nicely as a home cinema and does everything we want for movies, shows, and video games.

Without the ALR screen I predicted this Optoma CineMax P2 to the wall, the film looks amazing and impressive quality! Unfortunately, I repackaged and returned it to Amazon for a full refund as the ALR screen costs more money and I give up. Someday, I will definitely purchase again in future.