The V700G Professional’s menu provides 5 image modes. Solely one of many modes—Customized—provides any settings choices, and I shortly found in my preliminary SDR testing that the one setting that wanted altering is not on the record. All the image modes confirmed sufficient lack of shadow element to be noticeable, and to have any probability of fixing the issue, you’d want a conventional brightness setting to regulate the black stage. With no method to enhance shadow element, even in Customized mode, I selected Film mode for my viewing exams as a result of it supplied one of the best coloration accuracy.
Regardless of the shadow element situation, the projector carried out properly total for viewing SDR content material in a darkish room. It delivered stable distinction, properly saturated coloration in brightly lit scenes, and a satisfyingly darkish black in darkish scenes. Shade accuracy was on the mark; I did not see any clearly off-target hues in our commonplace check clips or throughout casual testing. It additionally helps that, regardless of the projector dropping sufficient shadow element for it to be evident in each darkish scenes and the darkish areas in brighter scenes, I might nonetheless make out what was happening, even within the darkest scenes amongst our check clips.
(Credit score: M. David Stone)
In my casual exams streaming from Apple+, the V700G Professional reported an HDR connection. Nevertheless it did not do the identical for 4K HDR motion pictures on disc, and the participant reported the connection as 1080p SDR in these circumstances. Even so, the picture on the display screen for HDR motion pictures on disc supplied basically the identical strengths as with SDR, plus vastly improved shadow element, as you’ll count on from HDR. Based mostly on these exams, full HDR help appears restricted to streaming, however the V700G Professional seems to supply some stage of HDR compatibility by way of the HDMI port, even with out full HDR help.
This is not as shocking as it might appear. It is more and more frequent for newer projectors and TVs with HDMI 1.4 ports to supply workarounds to the restrictions of the HDMI 1.4 spec, which does not help HDR. The end in these circumstances provides you many of the advantages of HDR for viewing, even when the connection is technically SDR. I wasn’t in a position to get Vankyo to substantiate whether or not that is it proper clarification for what I noticed in testing, however it doubtless is. Extra necessary, if you happen to discover your {hardware} is reporting SDR for HDR enter with the V700G Professional when utilizing the HDMI enter, it’s essential know it is not a difficulty to waste time making an attempt to repair.
(Credit score: M. David Stone)
Word that the spec sheet claims help for “purple and blue 3D.” That is truly an alternate pronunciation of “no 3D help” as projector 3D is usually outlined. Actually any coloration show —and even printed pages—can help 3D that makes use of purple and blue (or purple and cyan) glasses. That is not what’s normally meant by 3D help.
Picture brightness in my exams utilizing Vankyo’s Film mode was near what I count on from a 400 ANSI lumen ranking. Utilizing the Society of Movement Image and Tv Engineers (SMPTE) suggestions, that might be shiny sufficient for a roughly 80-to-105-inch-diagonal 16:9 picture on a 1.0-gain display screen in a darkish room. In my exams, utilizing my most popular settings, the V700G Professional lit up my 90-inch display screen with the lights off with no downside. It additionally delivered a suitably shiny picture on an 80-inch display screen in a household room at evening with lights on, and was even watchable at that measurement, although slightly washed out, through the day on an overcast day.
(Credit score: M. David Stone)
Vankyo additionally bundles the V700G Professional with a 120-inch display screen, however it’s barely value mentioning. It could be an inexpensive measurement for the rated brightness, however with the settings I used for greatest picture high quality, it is too giant to offer you an appropriately shiny picture even in a darkish room. It additionally lacks a body, so setting it up could be just like organising a bedsheet as a display screen.
The enter lag is appropriate for strictly informal gaming. I measured it, utilizing my Bodnar 4K Lag Tester, at 52.3 milliseconds for 1080p/60Hz enter.
