One-minute review
Hisense 100L5 is not exactly your average television. It becomes very obvious as soon as you open the fact that it gives you a 100-inch solid screen for less money than many ordinary 75-inch TVs.
The main reason it can offer so many inches for your money is that it does not speak strictly a television. It is rather an ultra-short spotlight, associated with a 100-inch rigid projection screen designed to reject the ambient light, so you do not have to deny your room every time you want to watch it.
The projector is a DLP affair illuminated by laser lighting, which means it can go brighter and reach a wider range of colors than regular lamp projectors. It will also not need to replace its laser during its lifetime, unlike the lamp projectors, and unlike ordinary floodlights that can be changed more or less immediately, without warm-up or reliable time.
It goes beyond most ordinary projectors, carrying both a tuner and an intelligent TV system, with many flanks applications.
All this is ideal for the offer of 100L5 to feel more like a television than a projector. The amount of brightness and color it can keep on its specially designed screen, even with open lights or curtains is really striking. It manages to give 4K sources a 4K look quite convincing, despite no being a real pixel for the 4K pixel projector.
With an intelligently integrated speaker system at the rear edge of the projector, also sounding good enough to fly over most audio TV systems, the only major capture with the 100L5 for its money is that it does not contrast to adapt Convincingly to the theater conditions of the dark house.
Price and availability
The HISENSE LASER TV range is available in sizes of 88, 100 and 120 inches.
The 100L5 costs € 2,999 / AUS $ 6.99 / $ 3,499 / $ 3,699
It is available – with slight variations – in most major global territories
Hisense really started getting his market location act together lately, so it’s no longer surprising to find a relatively esoteric and expensive AV product as the 100L5 now widely available in the world.
Much more surprising is how affordable the 100L5 is in all territories that it appears. You plan to spend five to 10 times more than 100L5 costs to get a 100-inch regular LCD TV. This type of bang for your money is sure to turn the heads and has probably played a major role in Hisense that can have its latest “laser television” proposal in traditional retailers around the world, despite the potential difficulties associated with the Exposure and installation such a single product.
Design
The 100-inch hard screen adapts to your wall
The ultra short projector is just inch in the screen
Incorporates a powerful speaker system in its back edge
As it is shipped in two parts – the projector and the screen – the 100L5 is a little more than a taxation of your room than a right 100-inch TV would. That said, the screen is thinner than most LCD TVs, while the projector can really sit almost at the distance from your wall. There is no usual projection question in which the projector must sit in the middle of your room or near your sitting position.
The projector is quite important, as usual for an ultra-short design. There must be a room, after all, for the light to bounce inside the unit before exiting the slot on the upper edge of the projector. It carries its size, however, thanks to a two-tone silver and gray design and a back-heat-fire speaker section. Since the projector is just against your wall, this rear section is actually the part of the most visible projector in your sitting position.
The 100L5 carries a sensor that can turn off the laser if it detects anyone starting to rely on the opening of the image, so that no one is blinded.
