EH-LS650W

The LS650W is a TV replacement, not a cinema projector, and the review needs to start there. Ultra short throw means it sits 4–25cm from the wall directly below the screen, projects upward, and casts a 100" image without a ceiling mount, an across-room cable run, or a darkened room. That's the entire selling point — and the reason households replacing a 65–75" TV with a 100"+ image keep buying it.

The picture is honest at what it's trying to be. Pixel-shifted 4K from a laser engine, 3,600 lumens, real HDR support, Yamaha-tuned 2.1 onboard speakers reasonable for casual viewing without an AVR. Out of the box it's a credible everyday TV replacement. It is not a cinema reference: colour calibration is mainstream-tuned rather than DCI-P3-accurate, and the picture sophistication isn't in the same league as the Sony or JVC flagships further up the list.

The honest UST trade-off is geometry. The throw distance is fixed by the screen size, so swapping screens later isn't trivial. The screen surface matters — a regular wall paint job will show texture artefacts that an ALR (ambient-light-rejecting) screen avoids. And ambient light bleeds onto the lower image more than long-throw setups, because the projector itself is in the same plane as the screen.

The right projector for living-room TV replacement — wrong choice if you want a treated cinema room.