Philips GamePix 900 Review: Good Looks, Insane Value

The location projector tract is competitive, truthful a caller contender offering a 120" display, 4K solution with HDR support, and lighting-fast refresh rates makes for an alluring prospect. That Philips is promising each that for nether $1000—and astir fractional that connected pre-order—almost sounds excessively bully to beryllium true.

Philips hasn't been rather arsenic large a subordinate successful the projection crippled arsenic immoderate of its rivals, with its range focused connected the broadly entry-level NeoPix models and the ultra-short propulsion Screeneo laser projectors. The GamePix 900 is thing new, emphasizing improved gaming show adjacent astatine gigantic scale. It boasts latencies arsenic accelerated arsenic six milliseconds—essential for fast-paced gameplay wherever you privation arsenic small input lag from controller-to-screen arsenic possible—and refresh rates arsenic precocious arsenic 240Hz, and comes with 3 dedicated show presets: Action Gaming, Adventure Gaming, and Sports Gaming, each tailored for champion results successful specified genres.

Anyone who pays attraction to the gaming marketplace volition apt cognize that a accordant precocious framework complaint astatine 4K (or higher) solution is simply a spot of a beatified grail, thing adjacent immoderate of the best monitors conflict to present without breaking the bank. Even then, the console oregon PC moving the crippled needs to beryllium almighty capable to propulsion retired ultra high-res frames rapidly capable to instrumentality vantage of a accelerated screen. Typically, you'll extremity up successful a mediate ground, specified arsenic the Samsung Odyssey G6 OLED, which offers an insanely accelerated 360Hz refresh complaint but a sub-4K show solution of 2560 x 1440.

Getting Lit

Achieving each that, and astatine this price, is wherever those fewer sacrifices travel in, arsenic the GamePix 900 is undeniably barebones successful astir each different respect. Its plan is basic, a svelte but uninspiring matte achromatic cuboid (219 x 219 x 119mm, weighing successful astatine 2kg), and lone has 1 adjustable limb to tinker with its carnal predisposition and propulsion angle.

The GamePix 900 finds itself doing immoderate crafty number-wrangling to warrant its lofty specs. While the projector is so susceptible of hitting those buttery-smooth 240Hz refresh rates and nigh-imperceptible 6ms latencies, it lone does truthful astatine a 1080p resolution. If you privation to play thing successful existent 4K—3840 x 2160p—then the refresh complaint and latency driblet accordingly.

The trade-off is much than worthy it. Playing the likes of Marvel Rivals blown-up to wall-size, astatine competitory velocity with fundamentally nary noticeable lag is simply a fantastic experience, adjacent if "only" successful 1080p HD.

Still, fewer owners are apt to usage a projector purely for gaming, and wide representation prime proves to beryllium a spot of a concealed limb for the GamePix 900. Both 4K Blu-rays and 4K streamed contented from Netflix and Disney+ (all played done a connected PS5) look crystal clear, adjacent astatine that maximum 120" projection.