Philips GamePix 900 4K@60 HD@240 Gaming Projector Review

Configuration

Setting up this projector was pretty straightforward. I used my PS5, and straight away it detected it as a 4K HDR device, and triggered the HDR calibration on first boot. With that done, we were ready to rock. In supported titles, the projector would switch to Full HD HDR 120Hz mode, but if you want to lock it to 4K60, you have to disable higher refresh rates in the console’s settings menu.

First impressions are excellent, and despite this being both smaller and cheaper than my own projector, it has superb brightness. I am in a light controlled room, so I have blackout blinds behind me, and on the internal doors and the lights off. The only light coming in is behind the projector screen, which is giving the room enough ambient light to see around me, but as you can see, the projection is still more than bright and with plenty of contrast for usage.

There is an OSD, allowing you to adjust all the usual settings. It was set to “cool” by default but I set mine to “warm” as this gives a more accurate-looking image for both media and gaming, but that’s arguably a personal preference for me too.

There’s a built-in test pattern you can use for display alignment here.

Basic settings for input and HDR on/off.

HDR mode can be adjusted for HDR10 (consoles, Blu-Ray, streaming, etc) or HLG (typically used by broadcast TV). However, auto seemed to work just fine.

You can set it to normal, eco or smart eco to adjust power usage at the cost of brightness, however, I can’t imagine any reason why I would use anything other than normal mode here.

Here you can change the orientation, with the projector supporting table, ceiling, front and rear projection modes to suit your screen type.

You can also see a readout of the current display mode, which is great for ensuring its working as intended.

Aspect ratio, both horizontal and vertical keystone and zoom can be adjusted digitally, while zoom and focus can also be adjusted manually on the projector lens wheels, so getting it setup should be a breeze.

There’s also plenty of colour management options, but again, other than setting the colour temp to warm, I felt these were fine at stock settings.

There’s also a bunch of built-in modes; however, changing to the gaming modes disabled digital zoom and keystone, so unless your projection throw ratio is set up perfectly without them, these are going to be pretty troublesome to use.