The NOMVDIC P2000UST-RGB is different from a traditionally designed projector. I applaud the company for trying to visually distinguish itself from the sea of large rectangular box designs found on most ultra-short throw projectors.

NOMVDIC has done a nice job designing a Laser TV projector that stands out from the competition, but not too much. The P2000UST-RGB is a nice combination of curving black plastic, metallic trim, and one of the best uses of red that I have ever seen on a projector. Since this is my opinion, you should consult your partner before putting one in your living room.

The NOMVDIC P2000UST-RGB is slightly bigger than most modern Laser TV projectors I’ve reviewed. It’s a little wider and deeper than the typical UST projector. The design is certainly different, and that’s not a bad thing. The P2000UST-RGB measures (WxDxH) 23.7” x 16.7” x 6.2” inches (604*426*153 mm) and weighs 23.3 lbs (10.6 kg).

The inputs and connections are all located on the rear of the unit, facing the screen. There are three HDMI inputs. All three inputs are HDMI 2.1b inputs, allowing 4K HDR content playback with 12-bit color at up to 60fps, which is more than enough to maximize the full capabilities of the projector.

The P2000UST-RGB remote control resembles what you find on modern ultra-short throw Laser TV projectors. Except for some color highlights around the remote controls, NOMVDIC did not drastically change the remote design. The remote is lightweight and backlit, with enough light to see it even when there is some uncontrolled ambient light from lamps in the room. The remote backlight stays illuminated for five seconds before it shuts off.

The projector takes about 30 seconds to boot up. It has an auto-input detection feature, so when you turn on an external device plugged into one of the HDMI ports, it automatically switches to that device's input.

The projector's fan noise is noticeable even from about 10 feet back, but it’s not distracting when audio is playing.

The NOMVDIC P2000UST-RGB uses two sets of menus, which I’ll refer to as the master menu and the external device menu. The functionality between the two menus is identical, but they look different. Let’s start with the master or the home screen menu. The underlying operating system used on the NOMVDIC is Android OS rather than a Feng OS or a similar type of Chinese third-party OS. I like the way this menu system looks and operates.

The Home menu fills up the entire screen so everything is visible. The grouping of features is very logical. The first section is your inputs, listed from the top to the bottom. Next is the file management system that is organized the same way you expect Android OS to be organized. Next is the app center menu. The next tab is the settings menu, where network, basic, and advanced settings are located. There is a tab section dedicated to screen mirroring and one for Bluetooth. The final section is where you would add apps via side loading.

To access the mini version of this menu, you need to use an external device via HDMI or USB. Here, you can adjust brightness, contrast, and color settings. This menu is also where the projector CMS (Color Management System) is located. The CMS provides full-color control, including adjusting red, green, and blue gain, red, green, and blue offset, tint, saturation, sharpness, and gamma.

I like the logical way NOMVDIC organizes its menu system.

Delta E measurement of 3 or less is considered ‘Excellent’ and imperceptible by the human eye. After calibration, the grayscale average DeltaE was just 1.7, which is very good. The average post-calibration Color Tracking dE was just 1.45, which is also great.

The NOMVDIC P2000UST-RGB supports HDR10 and HLG. Out-of-the-box HDR performance will appeal to customers who like their content a little oversaturated, especially the reds. HDR content looked great on the P2000UST-RGB.

Looking at the photo of Samuel L Jackson in Spider-man: Far From Home, you can see the excellent job that the P2000 does, providing both dark area details and bright area highlights in the explosion taking place outside the window. The image from Passengers is one that I like to use a lot because the details in the star outside the port are often either hard to see or require black levels to be elevated into lighter grays. The P2000UST-RGB has no issues displaying dark area details without sacrificing black levels.

The shot from Thor Love and Thunder shows off this projector's excellent HDR performance with lots of the bright area details in the window behind Zeus, all while displaying extended but accurate colors of the people and objects in the foreground. With 4K HDR content, this projector has the potential to deliver video with an expanded color space that displays better highlight and shadow details. However, even the brightest HDR projectors struggle to reproduce HDR. For the most part, the P2000UST-RGB did an admirable job balancing between delivering respectable on-screen brightness while still producing visible highlight detail.

Most TV shows and live broadcasts are produced in HD and will continue to be for many years, so good 4K upscaling capabilities are critical when displaying this type of content. The P2000UST-RGB did an excellent job upscaling content from various HD sources, from 720P content on YouTube to 1080p Blu-ray content and even news content from CNN. It all looked very good.

Most 4K movies do not have enough fine detail to make the difference between watching 4K SDR and upscaled HD noticeable. In addition, quality optics combined with adjustable focus resulted in sharp detail across the entire screen.

The video processor used in the P2000UST-RGB delivered good onscreen brightness while maintaining highlight detail with HDR picture quality that is as good as, if not better than, many more expensive Laser TV models from established manufacturers.

You can see in the screenshots I’ve provided that the P2000UST-RGB does an excellent job displaying very natural-looking upscaled high-definition and native 4K UHD images. All photographs are unadjusted for color, so they may not look as good as what the projector produced.

The P2000UST-RGB comes with motion compensation technology that, when turned on, uses frame interpolation technology to smooth the image by reducing judder and blur. Users can reduce seeing after images that are generated when viewing fast-moving objects.

You can see in the screenshots I’ve provided that the P2000UST-RGB does an excellent job displaying very natural-looking upscaled high-definition and native 4K UHD images. All photographs are unadjusted for color, so they may not look as good as what the projector produced.

The NOMVDIC P2000UST-RGB comes with motion compensation technology that, when turned on, uses frame interpolation technology to smooth the image by reducing judder and blur. Users can reduce seeing afterimages that are generated when viewing videos containing fast-moving objects.

The Laser TV category is no longer a new segment of the projection market. Almost all the traditional consumer electronics manufacturers make ultra-short projectors for the home entertainment market, with some companies like Hisense releasing their sixth-generation products. The past few years have seen performance increases in key features like brightness and resolution.

The ultra-short throw home projector market is flourishing, and with the introduction of native 4K DLP sensors seemingly right around the corner, it should only get bigger.

Another element driving the growth of the Laser TV category is the avalanche of new projector manufacturers financing product development and manufacture through the use of crowdfunding. These companies offer cutting-edge products at highly competitive prices, and consumers want more. The potential downside to strategy is that the quality of these products is a mixed bag at best.

The NOMVDIC P2000UST-RGB is an example of the best of this marketing process: a projector packed with powerful features, the best tech, and all at an incredibly competitive price.

NOMVDIC seems to get that making a great projector requires both high-quality technology and a keen understanding of how to get the best performance out of that tech.

The P2000UST-RGB’s Appotronics ALPD 4.0 triple laser light source is a large part of what makes this projector the beast and a big reason why I’m so impressed with it. Unlike so many RGB laser projectors, the NOMVDICs out-of-the-box performance is balanced rather than over-saturated. Picture quality only gets better after calibrating the projector. Not everything is perfect. For example, the projector produces a very noticeable red laser speckle.

The P2000UST-RGB retails for $2,999 and meets the manufacturer's brightness rating of 2500 ANSI Lumens. The P2000UST-RGB is bright enough to be used in rooms with unwanted ambient light sources or as a lights-on viewing projector, maintaining excellent color details and decent on-screen contrast.

The P2000UST-RGB utilizes a 0.47-inch Texas Instruments DLP imager with XPR technology to create a beautifully detailed 4K on-screen image. The projector's mult-element short-throw lens displays an incredibly uniform picture with no visible hot spotting or chromatic aberration. The NOMVDIC P2000UST-RGB can display an image of any size between 65 and 150 inches diagonally, and the digital focus system makes it incredibly easy to dial in this projector's focus from the remote.

The projector displays decent blacks with excellent shadow detail that is Better than many DLP projectors in its class. The P2000UST-RGB supports HDR10 and HLG-encoded content, and it does a good job balancing onscreen bright and visible highlight details.

The P2000UST-RGB uses an operating system based on Google’s popular Android software and supports Chromecast and Airplay devices. The projector is Smart capable, but without access to Google Play, users must depend on an external HDMI streaming device to access the most popular streaming services like Netflix. Nomadic includes an Amazon Firestick 4K Max HDMI media device, providing customers access to the most popular media platform with thousands of apps, games, moves, music, and more. The Firestick 4K Max effectively upgrades the projector's WiFi performance to WiFi 6e and Bluetooth to version 5.0. The menus and controls are smartly integrated, providing an easy-to-use, well-laid-out navigation experience. 

The built-in 25-watt x2 Harmon Kardon sound system does an excellent job providing big audio performance that competes with many soundbars. The P2000UST-RGB has analog and digital audio outputs and eARC connectivity for connecting to external sound solutions if you want bigger sound. Users should enjoy the sound that this projector is capable of producing.

OPTOMA CINEMA-X D2+ (SMART) $2,699 MSRP

The Optoma CinemaX D2+ offers 4K displayed resolution via a single chip Texas Instruments DLP imager. This new Optoma projector is designed to deliver sharper, lifelike images and richer colors, allowing viewers to sit close to the screen and enjoy an immersive viewing experience.

NOMVDIC uses an ALPD 4.0 triple laser light source compared to Optoma’s single blue laser light source. However, the CinemaX D2 series is rated to produce 3,000 lumens of brightness, which is about 500 more than the P2000UST-RGB. Both projectors provide excellent lights-on viewing capabilities. NOMVDIC rates the P2000UST-RGB’s dynamic contrast at 3,000,000:1 compared to Optoma’s impressive but lower 1,800,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio.

The new CinemaX D2+ series supports HDR10 and HLG and can display a 100-inch image while sitting less than 12 inches away from a screen. The NOMVDIC P2000UST-RGB and the Optoma CinemaX D2 series projectors offer powerful color management systems, but Otpoma takes this one step further, providing ISF-calibrated picture modes.

Hisense PX2-Pro $2998 MSRP

The Hisense PX2-PRO and the NOMVDIC P2000UST-RGB offer comparable features and benefits. Both projectors use bright triple laser light sources and can display the full BT2020 color gamut. The NOMVDIC’s brightness is 2,500 ANSI, with the Hisense rated at 2,400 ANSI lumens.

We talk a lot about Hisense and their excellent understanding of color science, but in this comparison, the color performance of the P2000UST-RGB is on par with Hisense. Both the P2000UST-RGB and the PX2-PRO offer digital focus adjustment. Still, the Nomadic projector can display up to a 150-inch image. In contrast, the Hisense stops at 130 inches.

Both projectors support HDR-encoded content. However, the Hisense PX2-PRO supports Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos content, but the NOMVDIC P2000UST-RGB does not. The dynamic metadata found in Dolby Vision content does make a noticeable improvement to HDR tone mapping.

Both projectors offer big onboard sound systems that easily compete with entry-level soundbars, but once again, I like that Hisense supports Dolby Atmos sound where NOMVDIC does not.

While it is very nice that Nomadic has included an Amazon Firestick 4K Max with purchase, Hisense has partnered with Google to provide users a fully integrated Google TV OS experience with access to the entire gamut of Google and Google-compatible services, including live TV, built into the projector.