In a crowded field where you'll find some worthy competition such as the Hisense L9G and LG HU915QB, the LTV-3500 easily earns our Highly Recommended award designation. It lives up to its billing as one of the brightest consumer USTs, it handles HDR better than many, and impressively, it maintains most of its brightness advantage when calibrated for movie watching. If it were a bit more accurate, especially out of the box, and offered better, friendlier calibration controls that allowed for better tuning, it could be an Editor's Choice. Still, if your priority is watching a big picture in a room with some ambient light, the AWOL deserves thoughtful consideration because that's the condition under which it performs best.

With high 3500 lumens of brightness, low 30ms input lag, and excellent color accuracy plus contrast, the Awol LTV-3500 is one of the best 4K ultra-short throw laser projectors on the market. It offers a lush, lifelike image out-of-the-box with nearly unrivaled versatility as a projector for cinephiles and gamers. The built-in soundbar alongside advanced features such as eARC make the LTV-3500 a phenomenal value. 3D support would be nice, as would Dolby Vision HDR.

There are some compromises involved, but if you want a TV-like experience from a large-screen projector, the AWOL Vision LTV-3500 is the brightest laser TV that we’ve reviewed. It produces bright and vibrant images, although blacks could be better, and it is bright enough that it can be used during the day. Although cheaper than an actual 100-inch TV, this projector is expensive and you have to factor in the cost of a ALR screen to get the most out of it.

The Awol LTV-3500 is a surprisingly capable projector, with bright colors and sharp images. Its drawback is its software, which can cause issues with certain video sources, as well as the difficulties with screen mirroring and lack of automatic keystone correction.

Incredibly bright. Up to 150-inch screen. No mounting required. Convenient details, like a compartment for streaming stick and automatic bulb shutoff. Smooth gaming experience.

If money were no object then yes, we’d happily replace our ugly television with an AWOL LTV-3500 and ALR screen. Somehow, neither my wife nor I are bothered by that giant gray screen which approximates the creation of an accent wall.

After your first impressions of the sheer brightness and vibrancy of the colors wears off, you start to see how incredibly sharp, detailed and deep the image appears to be as well. Most other displays with RGB lasers which have blown out colors without the lasers being as purposefully in control and tamed as the AWOL engineers designed this exemplary unit to be, have more of a oversaturated and smeared look, almost like water colors that run past the lines of where they’re supposed to be. This is clearly not the case with the LTV-3500 UST.