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LG HAS been at the vanguard in manufacturing “smart” projectors—models that, like more traditional offerings, sit at the back of the room and beam images to a separate screen, but also provide the streaming and voice control features you’d find in any smart OLED or LCD flat-panel TV. In 2021 we reviewed the company’s HU810PW ($2,999), a singlechip (0.47-inch) DLP projector that delivered 4K images via pixel-shifting. Now, we have that model’s sibling, the HU710PW, a similarly featured projector that arrives with a lower 2,000 ANSI lumens brightness spec, but also a lower price ($2,499 MSRP).
A key difference between last year’s model and the new HU710PW is the latter’s use of a hybrid LED/laser light source (a single laser to generate green plus individual LED light sources for red and blue). This new design yields notably lower light output than the earlier LG projector (no surprise given the specs), but nearly as impressive color performance: LG cites 94 percent DCI-P3 coverage for the HU710PW, and my measurements confirmed that number almost exactly. Light source life, meanwhile, is specified as 20,000 hours when used in full brightness mode.
LG’s HU710PW supports both the HDR10 and Hybrid Log Gamma high dynamic range formats. The projector
