Vivitek H5080 – Performance

Vivitek H5080 Brightness

Vivitek H5080 Projector - Uncalibrated

Brightest Mode

There are times when you need (or want) every last lumen. For this purpose, we look at the brightest modes offered, and do a “quick – calibration” That calibration isn’t designed for best color. Brightest modes are often very poor in color. Our goal in “calibrating” that mode, it so make the color respectable, not exceptional, while compromising brightness as little as possible. With most projectors, you could start with a very bright mode, calibrate it for the absolute best color, etc, but when you get it, and measure, it’s now no longer brighter than “best mode”, in which case, why bother.

Star Trek image from the Optoma HD8600 projector.

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So, we want bright and good color. Whether that’s for watching sports with some lights on or some daylight coming in, or just a good amount of brightness while watching your favorite sitcom, some high quality HDTV content, news, or your favorite vampire show, doesn’t really matter.

The Vivitek H5080 does extremely well. With our “quick-cal” the H5080 measured in at 1307 lumens, as previously noted. So, your choices when you need bright, is go with the default, which is very cool – blue, in color temp, go the middle route with improved grayscale balance, for a small drop in lumens, or not even bother worrying about it. That would be to just go with “best mode” which isn’t that much less bright than the other two choices.

The Vivitek H5080, definitely has the lumens to fill larger screens. While you don’t get a big extra boost in lumens, when switching to “brightest mode”, it still is a lot brighter than most.