Leica Cine Play 1 Review: An OK Projector With a Leica Badge and Price
7.8 / 10
Score
Pros
- Aluminum body looks and feels luxurious
- Lots of settings to fine tune the image
- Decent speakers
Cons
- Leica pricing
- Color isn't very accurate
Leica is best known as the maker of high-end cameras and lenses. We recommend one of its smaller models in our best point and shoot camera guide. And what is a projector other than a camera in reverse? Well, a lot more, to be fair, but I can see why Leica has stepped into the space.
The Cine Play 1 is a compact, gimbaled projector with some impressive specs, including a claimed 3,000 lumen light output. Interestingly, it doesn't use the Google TV interface like the majority of modern projectors and instead uses Hisense's VIDAA OS.
Overall performance is good, but a list price of $3,795 is indicative of the "Leica tax" that also results in their cameras being more expensive...
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