Optoma GT2000HDR Ultra-Compact Short Throw Full HD Home Laser Projector

Firstly, I wanted to say that I was not compensated to write this review. It is simply the result of my good experience with this projector over the last month. Also, I’ve had experience with 2 pevious projectors, the most recent being the Optoma EH415ST (which is also a decent 1080p projector) and 2 projectors I tried and returned. I really just wanted better, more accurate color and a way to show my 3D collection. I was sold on the Optoma short throw set up. It works perfect for me as I move my projector around. It isn’t as finnicky as the Ultra Short Throw projectors. For those you need an absolutely flat, fixed screen because they show every little imperfection. Believe me I tried. This Optoma short throw of 100 inches at about 4 feet is thankfully, more forgiving. And lastly, I’m not a gamer so I can’t speak to the input lag and all that. But I imagine it would be a very good experience.Setting up: It’s pretty intuitive. I have yet to look at the manual or even the quick setup card. You turn it on, plug in your roku, firestick, bluray player or whatever in HDMI 1 and get familiar with settings you prefer. Pretty simple. Even a Caveman could do it. There was no substantial lens cap on mine. It came with a clam shell cover that was taped on.Remote: I got a small remote….like roku small with a lot of little buttons. Luckily, my old, larger remote works with this projector and is easier to work. You can buy these on amazon for a reasonable price.Brightness and Daylight viewing: Hey, it’s a laser light! It has a very long lifespan and It’s super bright. For me, it stays in ECO mode and I find myself turning down the brightness. I’m including a photo of the screen with a couple of window shades up. It will still produce a decent image. And you can adjust for this by choosing a different mode and tweaking settings. I think it would do a very good job in a conference room in presentation mode. At night, I can have a lamp or 2 on with very little degradation of the image.. Also, I turn my projector on and off a lot. I think the laser is a better choice for this.Color and image quality: This projector has rich, accurate color and produces, what are sometimes, eyepopping whites and colors. I found that the best setting for this is the Cinema mode. It seems to do a great job with whatever it does with 4k and HDR input and produces beautiful images. Black levels are very good. Maybe not as good as a OLED tv, but it’s better than my LG 4k flat screen. Here are some of my settings for the Cinema mode: I leave dynamic range, or HDR on auto.Brightness, contrast and color can be zero…. Or -4 brightness and +4 color. In the color group, Brilliant color goes on the blue side at the low end and green at the top. I leave it in the middle at 5. For Gamma I leave it at standard. I do find the Cinema mode is on the blue side with temperature set at Cold…. I adjust this with +5 for Tint. Or you can adjust the color temperature. Pretty simple. You’re mostly adjusting the brightness and color as you go from media to media.I also spent time with the RGB mode. It’s preset very warm and on the green side. You can adjust with tint and color temp. Whites aren’t as brilliant, but this can be easier on the eyes.I tend to have sharpness turned up all the way but it depends on the media. Older films that are lower resolution copies can benefit from turning down it down.Random: I watched the movie Speed Racer last night. My gosh, what an eyecandy extravaganza! Looked fantastic!3D viewing: It’s good, nice color but you still see roughness in action. Optoma touts the 120 hz support as being helpful with 3D, but I believe this only applies to a game console or computer. Correct me if I’m wrong. I was pleasantly surprised that once you switch to 3D mode, you can still adjust image settings. I’ll keep playing with that.Photos: I’ve included some photos….not really for close inspection. Just snaps I took from my couch with my phone mainly to show color. And my first screen was screwed up at the top. The real thing is better with proper keystone, color and sharpness.All in all, I think Optoma hit a sweet spot here. A laser projector that produces a beautiful, cinematic image as good or better than a movie theater and support for 4k and HDR input. If you have the bucks and the short throw works for you, give it a try!

Who'd a thunk researching for a projector would be so daunting. The prices range from under $100 to like $10,000. I chose to look for the best projector that I could find under $2,000 which helped speed up my research. The GT2100HDR has a footprint smaller than a letter size sheet of paper. At 6.6lbs it's lighter than the GT1080, GT1090 class of Optoma projectors which I think this line of GT2000HDR & GT2100HDR replaces.I timed my purchase for Black Friday sales in 2023. Through Black Friday they dropped the price from $1799.00 to$1,399.00.The GT2100HDR is a laser projector for under $1,500 using only 173 watts which makes for a cooler machine since projectors can get quite hot. At 4200 ANSI lumens it's almost as bright and clear as the images casted from my smaller 17" MSI gaming laptop with the lights off. The GT2100HDR is plenty bright in ambient light. Best Buy floor models were dim and grainy in ambient light and their projectors were huge and clunky in comparison. The GT2100HDR is the most recent up to date projector from Optoma being on the market less than a year now.My GT2100HDR is one important component of my garage Golf simulator. If I turn it on it usually doesn't get turned off till 12 hrs later. And presently its floor mounted in a case I built out of 3/8" plywood. With any projector you get will require YouTube to help with little things here and there. One YouTuber explains how to fill the entire screen no black out top and bottom merely by changes in ur RTX3060 video card settings for example.Other things like Dynamic Contrast 300,000:1, 1080p w/4K support, 10bit color processing, laser phosphorus life 30,000 hrs, 3D mode, aspect ratio 16:9, keystone correction, 2.0 HDMI inputs, 173 watts, smaller footprint blows any non laser projector out of the water.And now what's wrong with it. I don't know if anybody else would be bothered by this but? The GT2100HDR looks like several other Optoma models share the same small foot print housing. There is no where mentioned that my unit is a GT2100HDR on the unit itself. The only place Optoma has the model number is on the box that it came out of. So I took a picture of the label and taped it to the bottom. My concern is if I'm in need of support whether not identifying the model # on the unit itself could get messy.The manual can be obtained on line at the Optoma support site of some 100 pages that I printed out. But I'm still not understanding how the digital shift corrections really work. And the remote that it comes with takes a bit getting use to because Optoma encrypts (being sarcastic) the images on the buttons and its hard to tell which side is up. So you'll need the manual to explain the obvious.Overall I'm very pleased with the GT2100 I worry about the heat cus when I turn it on it stays on for the whole day and thru the night. My research for a projector had me going to Discount Golf to check out their Golf simulator setups. They run their golf simulator all day so what am I worried about?