AWOL VISION LTV-3000 Pro 4K 3D Ultra Short Throw Triple Laser Projector, Dolby Vision & Atmos, HDR10+, 150" UST Laser TV Home Theater Projector

For years, I have told myself to not buy (anymore of) the bleeding edge technology gadgets. The AWOL LTV 3000 Pro falls into the bleeding edge category, but I still purchased one anyway. I did this after checking a bunch of YouTube reviews of the AWOL LTV Pro series. Generally, the reviews left me a sense of lacking (as with other projector reviews). Pays your money, takes your chances. Upon powering up the LTV 3000, my initial reaction was abruptly favorable. The projected video on a cream colored wall was very good. I recently added a 100 inch ALR screen which made the picture even better. Accuracy, focus, color aberrations, contrasts are wonderful. Fonts were remarkable. Color rendition is outstanding (either from streaming or from a Panasonic Blu Ray player). Of course, a darken the room helps. Out of the box, the internal speakers were dreadful sounding. Finding the equalization and tone controls on the remote mostly solved the situation (adjusting to boost the high frequencies). Normally, I use the optical digital audio output to my HiFi system so these adjustments are not relevant. There are 3 HDMI ports available. One is sort of dedicated to a streaming stick which can be hidden in a recessed area in the back of the unit. A cover is provided to hide the stick and local wires. A Firestick seems to work fine, Roku needs to have its WiFi long range wire extended. It would have been nice if AWOL provided some holes thru the cover for wire access. There are 2 USB ports, however I have not used or tested them. There is also a video component input. I do miss not having an over the air TV tuner. The HDMI ports all work fine, both with streaming and Blu Ray players. Just as you should expect from modern HDMI systems. The video component input presented to me an opportunity for a time warp to the past. My Super Beta HiFi worked great as a video source. Picture was good. Sound was good too. However the 4:3 aspect ratio was not preserved (stretched to 16:9). Naturally the old 350 line resolution was not improved. (Note: one can buy elsewhere a converter box that preserves the 4:3.) Most of my viewing has been streaming HD content, no problems, good job here. I had some difficulties with UHD 4K. Either or both the Panasonic DP-UB820 Blu Ray player and the LTV 3000 doesn’t like something. I ended up switching the LTV 3000 inputs while restarting the disc in the player. Problem sometimes occurred just as the user selects “Play” on the disc’s intro screen. Otherwise the UHD display looks fine. I haven’t tried out any of the Dolby options. 3D worked great (using AWOL glasses). But the 3D requires a manual selection on the LTV 3000. The 3D display initially starts up with a double image, one on top of the other until the LTV 3000 gets into it true 3D mode. The main issue for me is that the LTV 3000 automatically exits the 3D mode whereas manual intervention is required to start the 3D mode. A typical 3D disc jumps between 2D and 3D during the intro phase of the disc. (My 12 year old Sharp LCD TV automatically detects 3D and activates same.) 3D performance is quite good, A darken room helps the experience. The things listed above are what can be seen as the pluses. Only one issue needs to be stated. The LTV 3000 has a variable speed cooling fan. Things are quiet at first. Usually as the video proceeds, the fan speeds up (noticeable fan noise is still acceptable). After an hour and half of 4K UHD, the fan seems loud. All in all, if you able to spend the large amount of money, the AWOL LTV 3000 Pro is a buy. Just don’t forget that you can but a couple of 75 inch high end large flat screen TVs for the same amount of money or less than the LTV 3000.

Title: Impressive Living Room UST Projector – Excellent Daytime Usability (Ceiling Mounted) System Setup & Installation I purchased the AWOL Aetherion Pro in June to upgrade my living room setup. Instead of doing a standard tabletop media console placement, I chose to ceiling mount the unit. Living room space is always a premium, and mounting it allowed me to keep my floor area clear for my audio equipment. • Mounting: I used a custom-made slim bracket (about 1” thick) that allows for fine micro-adjustments (up/down and left/right). The short 0.20:1 throw ratio made positioning straightforward. • Screen: I paired it with a 120” motorized drop-down UST Ambient Light Rejecting (ALR) screen. Since the projector is ceiling mounted, the screen is a specialized "upside-down" ALR model. • Room Environment: The living room features a side window with standard blinds. Picture Quality & Performance • Daytime Viewing: Impressive. Even with the side window blinds open, the image brightness holds up remarkably well against daytime light bleed. Closing the blinds makes it completely comfortable for casual daytime watching. Coming from an older 1080p projector that was completely unusable during the day, this is a massive upgrade. • Nighttime & HDR Performance: In a dark room at night, the picture quality gets very close to a high-end TV. When running 4K HDR demo reels, the color pop, sharpness, and depth look just like display models on show floors in stores like Best Buy. • Gaming & Motion: Tested with games, and the motion handling is buttery smooth. • Noise & Audio: The fan is remarkably quiet and unobtrusive during quiet movie scenes. I run my audio through a dedicated home theater setup, but testing the internal built-in speakers showed they are more than capable for casual viewing. Pros • Exceptional Image Detail & Clarity: Pin-sharp focus across the entire 120" screen. • Strong Ambient Light Rejection: Easily handles living room light during the day when paired with a good ALR screen. • Unique Aesthetics: Distinctive chassis design with modern curves—it looks like a premium piece of hardware rather than a standard flat box. • Whisper-Quiet Operation: Fan noise is virtually unnoticeable during operation. Cons • Menu Navigation: The control settings menu layout takes some getting used to. I had to navigate through it several times before memorizing where frequently used picture and system settings were located. Photo Key: • Photo 1: Afternoon viewing with side blinds OPEN (120" upside-down UST ALR screen). • Photo 2: Afternoon viewing with side blinds CLOSED. • Photo 3: Nighttime performance with lights OFF. Overall Verdict The Aetherion Pro exceeded my initial expectations—especially in terms of daytime living room usability and night-time HDR punch. If you are looking for a high-performance UST projector that easily replaces a living room TV on a big scale, I highly recommend it.

I’ve had plenty of TVs and projectors over the years, and the AWOL beats all. The picture is stunning vibrant colors, great brightness even with light in the room, razor-sharp detail. Movies, sports, and YouTube all look incredible! The built-in apps and smooth interface make it feel more like a premium smart TV than a projector, so I don’t need any extra devices. The sound is clear and punchy too, no soundbar needed!! The volume is so immersive is crazy! I bought the AWOL 3d glasses as well, it literally takes the theatre to next level!! Setup is painless and you can literally carry it anywhere. You can adjust the screen, the quality super intuitive software. On top of a fantastic product, AWOL’s customer service has been responsive and genuinely helpful. I’m already planning to buy another setup for my dad because I know he’d love it as much as we do. If you want a real home theater experience with incredible picture, clear sound, and smart-TV convenience, the AWOL is the best TV replacement you can buy and worth all its money! Highly recommend.

Upgraded from my AWOL 2500 and this is a massive step up! I previously owned the AWOL 2500 and was already a fan of that projector after testing Epson, Hisense, and Samsung. The Aetherion Max is a noticeable jump in almost every way that matters for daily use. Daylight performance is the biggest surprise where I can actually watch during the day with some blinds open. The extra brightness (3300 ISO lumens) holds up way better than the 2500 did in ambient light. Sports and casual daytime viewing are now usable instead of washed out on my 123 inch ALR screen. Gaming is excellent. Input lag is very low, VRR works well, and it feels responsive even on a huge screen. I run it at 4K/60 for most games and drop to 1080p high refresh when I want that extra snap. Movies look spectacular. Colors are rich, HDR has real punch, and contrast is a clear improvement over the 2500. Dark scenes have more depth and the image just feels more cinematic. Pairing it with a good ALR screen makes a huge difference. Setup is typical UST (you have to get the placement right), but once it’s locked in, this thing is a daily driver for movies, games, and daytime TV. If you’re in the market for a UST projector look no further, the AWOL Vision Aetherion Max is the one!

Recently bought LTV-3000 Pro. Overall happy with it. Reaction so far: Pros: - Beautiful picture and color. Very bright, watchable even with some ambient light and no screen. WIll be getting a screen as soon as I figure out what size I want it to be, probably 120-135 inch. - 3D works and looks good for most part, (but is manual turn on-off and you have to diddle with it every time, see Cons) - very little adjustment necessary for size, it is auto focus. Just make sure both corners of the unit are equidistant from the wall. - DOlby Vision and color look great, as long as you don't choose 'vivid' settings. Cons: - Low refresh rate at 60 Hz max. This is problematic for high motion movies, 3D, and gaming. while you can turn on motion smoothing for TV shows, this is not ideal for movies where you dont want the 'Soap Opera' video effect. - 3D is bare bones. You have to manually enable it and fiddle with the settings (swap right left) every time you watch a basic 3D blueray. Not quite 'Pro' level. Also the low refresh makes action sequences with a lot of camera panning just a big blur. In areas with white colors, you get a rainbow effect during movement. Still, it is 'mostly' acceptable, just not awesome. - Menus are primitive, with little to no explanation of what the settings do, either on screen or even in the manual. Aparently you have to go online. Definitely not 'Pro' level. - Gaming is a mixed bag so far. The low refresh rate cuts down responsiveness majorly. There maybe settings tweaks to workaround this, but havent dug into that yet.

I've owned projectors for well over a decade and have always loved the immersive experience of a huge screen. But laser projection—especially the AWOL Aetherion Pro—is on a completely different level than the traditional projectors I've used in the past. I'll start with the only downside before moving on to everything that's great. Because this is an ultra-short-throw projector, it sits close to the wall and projects upward. That means the image starts roughly 18 inches above the floor. If you have low ceilings, especially in a basement with an 8-foot ceiling or less, you'll need to plan carefully. You may find that you can't achieve the screen size you want without the image reaching the ceiling. In my case, I had to settle for a 10-foot diagonal image instead of the 13.5-foot image I previously had with a traditional projector. It's not a flaw with the projector—just something buyers should understand before purchasing. Now for the good. The picture quality is simply incredible. It's one of the brightest, most vibrant displays I've ever seen. Even in my dedicated theater room, it's bright enough to light up the room, yet somehow the extra light doesn't wash out the image. The colors are rich, the contrast is outstanding, and the black levels are astonishing. It's honestly difficult to explain how it produces blacks that look so deep on a standard white projection screen. This is an expensive purchase, but I have absolutely no regrets. I'm genuinely blown away every time I turn it on. I uploaded a few videos to give people an idea of what it looks like with the lights on and off, but no camera can truly capture what your eyes see in person. That was the hardest part about reading reviews before I bought it—there's simply no accurate way for photos or videos to convey just how impressive this projector really is.

Nice projector, great picture, very poor build quality, very BAD remote control design, proprietary 3D glasses required. The circuit board on the back is loose. It moves so much that the HDMI port for the fire tv stick is almost impossible to plug in. The bottom of the remote has very sharp square corners and using the remote cuts into your palm. Very painful. It does not use standard RF 3D glasses. It uses 3D glasses that are activated by the 3D video stream. So you are required to buy their 3D glasses. There is no way to manually sync your basic 3D glasses. I bought this to replace my Epson 3800 projector unfortunately I'm going to return it as the problems it has don't outweigh the better picture quality.

Best picture quality that I have ever seen which is tuned for Dolby vision. I also bought their floor rising ALR screen and it is perfect for 120 inches. I was going to get 100 inch screen but I can see that it would be too small for the throw ratio for the UST motorized cabinet I bought (brand: Povision). One slight aggregation is that the volume controls on the remote are place in the second row of about 4 rows of the sized row buttons. I often hit the button for Netflix or YouTube which takes me about of the app I am watching just to turn the volume up or down (shared wall neighbor situation) - I can hit the back button to get me right back into the movie or show I was watching, unless it it in my YouTube library, then it forgets my spot and I have to jog it forward again to the place I was watching. However built in sound quality is really quite good, but I have a full Dolby Atmos system that it runs the sound natively through instead through the hdmi audio return channel, using the unit’s CEC control to control my receiver, where it puts out the correct audio output for the source instead mixing it down to a different standard. The google tv operating system is great, even though I prefer Apple, where I am heavily Invested in the Apple device eco system. The Apple TV app is built in, but the sound from Apple is not as great so far, which I will need to investigate further. However I find all the apps from my Apple TV are readily available on the google tv platform so I am not missing much of anything. I highly recommend the his UST projector to anyone looking into purchasing a UST!

Excelente produto. Foi caro, mas vale a pena.

Before getting the Aetherion Max, I had an Epson long-throw setup in my basement. I always wanted to move the projector upstairs, but running the wiring and ceiling-mounting the unit never quite got the stamp of approval from my wife. With an ultra-short-throw (UST) projector, those problems completely disappear. I sneakily moved my screen upstairs, went through the basic setup on the Aetherion, and... it wasn't quite as good as I had hoped. While the image was much sharper than my old 1080p Epson and noticeably brighter, it just didn't have the "pop" I expected. After doing a bit of research, I figured out that my matte white screen wasn't the best choice for an UST projector. Because the screen is flat, the geometry looked fine, but the steep angle of the light caused it to reflect right off the screen and light up the ceiling and walls, lowering the perceived contrast. I didn't want to spend too much money on a high end screen without doing a lot more research, but I managed to find a used, UST-specific Ambient Light Rejecting (ALR) on the Marketplace. It was a bit of a downgrade in size and a pain to disassemble and reassemble without tearing or crinkling the material, but the price was right. Half a weekend of work and it has been semi-installed, ready for testing. Round two with the new screen met all my expectations and then some! The difference between the two screens, even in completely dark room is massive. The most surprising is the improvement in the richness and contrast of the colours, but overall, the image on the new screen just looks much richer and it just comes alive. The black levels completely leave my old Epson in the dust, and in a dimly lit room, they easily rival those of my Samsung TV. The image clarity is incredibly sharp without feeling overprocessed, and I haven't noticed any distracting rainbow effects or colour aberrations. In a dark room with the laser luminance cranked up, the screen looks exactly like a massive OLED TV. Even with a small corner lamp on, or with evening light coming through the windows, the picture remains incredibly clear and perfectly watchable. In a somewhat bright room, the image washes out - still watchable, but at this point a TV looks much better. I suppose one of the newer Fresnel-type screens would improve contrast in brighter spaces, but I doubt it would ever fully match a premium TV panel. After a bit of tweaking of the settings - laser luminance 9, enhance black levels on, dark detail on, gamma 2.2, ai contrast off, brightness enhancer off and finally motion enhancement turned off I have the best movie watching experience that I ever had! A couple of final notes: - the projector is very sensitive when it comes to positioning in front of the screen. It's worth to spend the time there and to get the image matching the screen as much as possible without using the digital keystone correction - that produces the best image quality without wasting pixels. Keystone correction works well, even the automatic mode, but you'll have some light spill outside of your screen. - the built in speaker is really good, but if you connect the projector to a receiver, then it can't work as a centre speaker. It’s a missed opportunity since the unit sits in the perfect physical spot for it, but from what I can tell, that functionality is locked to AWOL’s proprietary wireless speaker system.. I don't see myself gaming on this setup, but we plugged in the kids old Wii U to do some testing. Stretching that console's resolution onto a 120-inch screen is a big ask, but the results were surprisingly impressive. The upscaler does a great job, the colours are bright, and there was no noticeable input lag. It works perfectly fine for casual gaming. If you are looking for a premium ultra short throw setup, and the "Cylon meets Cybertruck" aesthetics don't clash with your decor, the Aetherion max is a fantastic, top of the line choice.

Excelente producto

J'ai même donné ma télé samsung à ma fille j'écoute tout avec mon projecteur, télé, film l'image est d'une qualité exceptionnelle en plus je n'ai que le Vision pro 3000 je ne peut m'imaginer avec le Vision pro 3500 peut-être coûteux à l'achat mais ça vaut la peine pour pouvoir regarder des bons films sur un écran de 100" si tu as les moyens n'hésitez pas vous ne serez pas déçu

When my daughter broke the screen on my 75" Sony Bravia XR X90K I was trying to decide how to best replace it. I knew that I wanted something with built in Google TV as I had become accustomed to the interface and functionality. I briefly looked at other LED TV options but quickly decided that I did not want another big TV with a fragile screen. I started looking into Ultra Short Throw Projectors and came across the AWOL Aetherion Pro 4K Projector. The specs seemed too good to be true. I have 2 teenage boys who are avid gamers and the 1ms response time stood out immediately along with the brightness, contrast ratio, throw distance and Google TV OS. Given the cost I did not make the decision to purchase lightly and spend the next few hours watching Youtube reviews of both the Aetherion and its competitors and came to the conclusion that the Aetherion was the projector for me. The only question was whether I could justify the MAX or the Pro. In the end I went with the Pro and cannot be happier. The image is Bright and Crisp even when there is some ambient light. My 18 year old loves it and told me that the reduction in input lag is noticeable. I originally projected this onto a bare wall, with little complaints, the only being that any imperfections in the wall are noticeable, so if you want to go this route make sure the wall is perfectly flat. After a week or so I ordered the AWOL VISION 100-inch Projector Screen Fixed Frame, 1.3 dB Peak Gain MW-100 to pair with the projector. The results were amazing and can be seen in the attached images. I have been using the projector for a month now and have absolutely no complaints. The projector is seeing constant use with family members waiting for the others to finish using it so they can.