Optoma HD29H review: the best gaming projector thanks to its low latency and 120Hz refresh rate

Optoma’s HD29H is comfortably the best gaming projector I’ve ever used. And I’ve spent a long time gaming under the reflected light of a high-powered beamer. One of the biggest regrets I have from moving into my current digs is leaving behind the perfect projection wall I had in the living room of my old flat. I was able to leave my projector permanently in place and beam a huge image onto the wall at will. It was glorious. There was the hungover new years day where I spent three solid hours screaming for The Sound of Music to finish, a full month of playing the entirety of GTA V at almost 1:1 scale, so many iterations of co-op FIFA Career Mode games, and countless hours of PC gaming writ large across the eight years I lived there. Halcyon days. And all those years of projector enjoyment came from using what’s actually not a particularly capable beamer for gaming. That’s because gaming on a projector has traditionally been an exercise in compromise; you have to compromise on image quality, refresh rate, and gaming latency. With the Optoma HD29H, however, none of them is a concern.