![]() ![]() Pushing the TROFAST right up against my skirting board with the back edge of the Nova roughly 2” from the wall results in a modest 65” screen that feels about the right height and is bigger, and less vulnerable to projectiles than my 50” TV. It’s a touch high- a side effect of the projector throw angle that places the image about 14” above the projector- but nonetheless big, bold and very watchable. ![]() The image stops about 5” short of the ceiling in 16:9, missing the cornice by an inch and starts about 36” from the floor. I’ve settled on something in between, sitting the Nova on the back edge of a low storage unit (an IKEA TROFAST) and pulling it just under 10” from the wall for a roughly 112” diagonal screen. A 150” screen is difficult to do justice in photographs but for both movies and gaming the experience is profound.ġ50”, 100”, 70” /jd2xgxpdMF If you can afford the space, putting the Nova on the floor and pulling it away from the wall can net you a 150” screen (you can’t really go bigger without cutting a hole in your floor or living in a high ceiling house) that really makes the expression “home cinema” feel apt. But the 70” to 100” screen sizes you’ll get from sitting the Nova close to your wall feel like they don’t do this hulking beast the justice it deserves. The Nova feels most convenient pushed as close to the wall as possible, using the depth of a good TV stand or side cabinet to give it the distance it needs to project a decent sized picture. This can be a little irritating if you’re just fumbling about to plug something in the back, but since this is a set-up-and-go projector that should not be a problem for normal use. Fortunately the Nova has a motion sensor covering its projection area and – like the Go Advanced – will shut off the picture with a dimmer warning message if it detects anything where it shouldn’t be. While it’s still possible to get your head between the laser projector and the wall, it’s quite a bit more difficult when the two are just a few feet apart. This also means you can take advantage of the brightness and sharpness of laser projection technology without the imminent risk of, uh, let’s say: unwanted laser/eyeball interactions. ![]() Bad news if you like shadow puppets, but great news if you don’t want to have to mount the projector to your ceiling. With this setup nobody can ever stand up and block the projected image. This lets you throw a 100” image from a TV stand pushed right up against the wall. The general conceit of short-throw is that the throw ratio – the ratio between the distance of a projector to the wall and the size of the projected image – is dialled all the way up to “all the screen please”. The Nova is svelte by comparison, but it’s still a big bulky boi. I first tested Dell’s short-throw projector in 2019 and it was a colossal hulking box that they shipped to me in a protective flight case. The Nova is Wemax’s entry into the 4K, short-throw projector market. ![]() In fact the big picture had an immediate and profound impact on my ability to judge precise jumps.īut let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Thrill? This thing turned my living room wall into a 150” screen with a low enough input lag for me to beat my Lunistice 1-1 speedrun time. ![]()
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