Just days after its Vidda sub-brand announced its most powerful home projector model to date, Hisense has followed up with what it says is its smallest, lightest and therefore most portable big-screen device to date.
It’s called the Hisense M2 Pro Smart Mini Projector, and as can be seen from the above image, it really is small, with dimensions of just 19 x 22 x 23 centimetres, weighing in at just under 4 kilograms.
But don’t let its compact frame mislead you, for it packs a pretty powerful punch in terms of its picture qualities. It can deliver a 4K resolution image of between 65-inches and 200-inches, with around 1,200 lumens of brightness – making it just about viable for daytime viewing, if you have some thick curtains that can successfully block out most of the sunlight.
Hisense’s AI 4K Clarity software, which comprises a suite of AI algorithms, helps to sharpen the picture quality, upscaling lower resolution content, reducing any noise and optimizing the contrast to render those images in HDR quality. Dolby Vision HDR and HDR10 are both baked in.
The Chinese company says it’s powered by a Pure Triple Colour Laser system that uses discrete red, blue and green light sources to cover an impressive 110% of the BT.2020 colour gamut. It has used this system before in earlier home projectors, but the one featured in the M2 Pro Smart Mini Projector is much smaller. According to Hisense, it found a way to miniaturise the system, allowing it to proclaim that true 4K laser projection is now “genuinely portable”.
Other features include an optical zoom with a 1.0 to 1.3 throw ratio, which gives users the ability to adjust the picture size and the distance quite a bit without any noticeable impact on image quality. There’s an array of automated set up capabilities too, such as auto keystone correction and wall colour adaptation feature that’s able to compensate for the hue of whatever surface you project the image onto. So if you’ve only got an orange wall available, it will adapt the colours so they appear as they should on that less-than-optimal surface
Hisense didn’t say much about the sound system, but there are a pair of speakers that support both Dolby Atmos and DTS Virtual:X for spatial sound effects without any external audio system. The device runs the VIDAA OS platform, which comes with streaming apps such as Netflix, Disney+ and YouTube.
We don’t know much else yet, but the Hisense M2 Pro Smart Mini Projector does look very capable indeed, and it will go on sale in the U.S. this summer with a $1,299 price tag. The company didn’t say anything about a U.K. release, but if it does, we expect it to cost around £959, going by the current exchange rate.
