Formovie X5 Portable Laser Reviews

The Formovie X5 is a portable 4K laser projector with attractive industrial design and a good price-to-performance ratio—though its current Chinese OS is a limitation.

Solid-state laser light source ; Auto-focus ; Excellent Denon speaker system ; No laser speckle ; Compact, attractive industrial design

Chinese streaming platform (though it ships with a working dongle) ; Somewhat inaccurate color and limited calibration controls ; Can't hold separate picture settings for SDR and HDR ; No 3D support ; No input button on remote

Despite its current limitations, the Formovie X5 is a pretty good projector, though depending on your perspective those may be serious limitations. Its biggest issues in my view are, first, an adequate but somewhat inaccurate out-of-box image and a...