ViewSonic PS502X 4000 Lumens XGA HDMI Short Throw Projector for Education and Office

Love this projector. Used it at a wedding reception. And now it's my gaming screen in the family room. The short throw gives me a 120 inch wide screen at 5 feet away. Clear and Bright.

Using it for a golf simulator in a reasonably dark pole barn and it works great. Definitely the most cost effective option out there for a new one. Doesn't like lights directly shined into the projection area, but for a budget solution it's perfect for my use.

It took a while and with some help to put it in the English language but once it was we mapped our house and put our decorations through it and it is awesome . I play it for Christmas every night.

Let's start with the good. This is a good projector for many things. I think for basic projection, displays, meetings, lectures, in a controlled environment, very good. This is a very close projector and requires very little distance between it and the screen. You can get a very large display with very little distance and it works well. The picture is clear, focus is excellent and most of the automated features work well. It is bright enough to see even in a room lit by lamps but I wouldn't try it in a sunlit room. The darker the environment the better. There is a wide variety of inputs so you can use almost any video source you like.It is small, reasonably lightweight and compact. All cables can be disconnected so if you got a small storage bag or box, it would be very portable.Now for the bad. The menu is a little difficult to navigate and although you can get to all parts of the menu without the remote control it is not easy. It is a bit noisy, there is a fan that has to run to cool the bulb and that fan is not very quiet. The noise is enough that it can be distracting. The design is such that the projector really works best if it is at the same height as the bottom or top of the screen you are using. If you try to put it more toward the middle top to bottom, you can adjust the picture but it doesn't really work very well. I tried rear projection and it does work but it's not as effective, there tends to be a bright spot in the screen where the projector is located.All in all. I think it's a good value for the money, the picture quality is good for what it is and in most cases for most uses it will get the job done. I would say that for home use where space is limited, it could be a good projector for video but probably not so good for gaming. For use as a display for lectures or presentations, it would be adequate and would give good color and graphics if used with a good screen or white wall.

Great quality. Easy plug in and play. However now a days HDMI cable should replace svga.

This projector is exactly what I needed and it outperforms my expectations.

For a short throw it still needed to be far away.

Love these projectors! I use two of them to project images during concerts. They travel a lot and hold up well. Very short throw distance and easy to adjust keystone and size of image.