Philips GamePix 900 review

At the first debut in a balmy questionable arena, Philips is really forceful with the GamePix 900 game projector. This behemot 4K, 60 FPS offers the highest level specifications and equipment depending on the price, at least if you order in presale.

This is certainly the biggest draw. If you are in the USA, you can Choose one of them for around USD 600 If you buy a product before starting the product in April 2025, and this applies only to the first 1000 orders (on the pre -sale page there is a useful tick, which says exactly how much left). However, this is a special introductory price, which at least on the surface is a very wild way to enter the market segment, but still effective. I can guarantee you that they will not make a profit on these first thousands of units, for sure.

Outside the window, before buying, the standard retail price will drop in the amount of around 999 USD or 819 £ in Great Britain. This is not bad, but not entirely revolutionary.

Considering the equipment that must be handed over, he puts it in a line with projectors such as Acer’s Predator GM712, which similarly contains the same DLP Texas Instruments DLP Display technology to achieve these resolutions and delays and also has more or less the same cost. It is worth mentioning, however, that the GM712 has been available for several years.

If you are aware of the projector market, then 4K units and their equivalent specifications are almost dozens. If they can do 4K at 60 Hz, they can do 1080p at 240 Hz, with a reduced delay. The higher the Res, the greater the technical delay. It’s not like MPRT or Gray-to-Grey; However, it is much smoother, so remember that. Philips does not advertise 4K delays because of this, but if you decide to choose 4K, you look at the input delay of about 12 ms or higher, at 120 Hz, which drops to 8 ms and at 240 Hz (at 1080p), you assume a 6 ms reaction, which he advertises.

As for other key specifications, Philips rated him at about 1000 lumens (ANSI); If we compare it with GM712, it is not so clear. The GM712 is in a standard mode of about 4,000 lumens (around 1667 ANSI). Fortunately, the lower brightness gives you a much longer lithe bulb, and GamePix is ​​intended for about 30,000 hours (about 3.4 years, if you used it for 24 hours a day, each day for this duration). At the time when testing, I never felt that it was too frail, certainly at night in my office, and even tested it on a shadowy gray wall, with a slight change in this experience.

However, apart from these basic statistics, GamePix is ​​incredibly bare compared to some of these other units. There is no wireless communication, Bluetooth, Google casting, AirPlay, Android TV or anything. I/O is also extremely narrow, with only one HDMI port, USB type A power supply, and the headphone jack IO.

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There is also no automatic function here. Without auto-ladder, without automatic focus-everything must be manually chosen. This is not the end of the world, and the reality is that if you set it in Mancave or games, you will probably do it once, and then you never move again, but nevertheless it would certainly be so nice to turn on here.

Unfortunately, the quality of workmanship is generally quite average. The housing is simply a budget-friendly black plastic with a fingerprint with a lithe red accent around the lens and that’s all. On the sides there is good ventilation and velvety fans who are still enough, and has an adjustable front foot, as well as quite distant distance, but there is really nothing to talk about from a pure design perspective. Certainly, there are no such Benq’s X Series units near the caliber, although these projectors are much more steep. There is no glitz or glam here; Still, it can be a good thing. After all, you should focus on the image, not on the device.

And GamePix 900 provides exactly this. Oh, boy, image quality – what a feast is apply. It can be pigeon, it can be quite elementary, but the brightness and color are excellent. 4K absolutely realizes this premise, with a crystal clear definition and beautifully forceful colors, with impressive shadowy tones, regardless of the content you experience. The delay, even at 4K, even above this sign of 8 ms, is noticable at all. Especially when he is configured in game modes.

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The settings are quite basic again. He can not write much home here. There are plenty of color profiles, some of them a bit strange; For example, “the most talented” seems to rotate the entire green image; The standard is a bit darkened, and the film moves it to a warmer tone mode, but there is a lot of calibration here to really choose, and colorful tones exactly as you want.

The speakers are probably what you can expect at this price, just average. Lack of high or top shelf, too bass, very noisy, but they will do it in a pinch until you get a better solution.

GamePix 900 is ultimately quite a naked unit. It provides the basic ethos of what the projector should, and this is the exceptional image quality with impressive color accuracy, while hitting it on a very huge display (120 inches at a maximum throw). He does this, providing an impressive delay and a fantastically pleasant impressions. Despite this, he lacks this improvement, a set of functions and the quality of workmanship that others have at a retail price, and it really hurts at a full price.

If you can download it with a pre -sale discount, what you are looking at is one of the best purchases of 4K projection that you can do this year. But, more importantly, if it is in retail, if it is after April or if Philips did not continue this discount after the fact, it will be better to look elsewhere.