Hisense PX3-Pro Review: The Laser TV That Earns the Name
It sits inches from the wall, throws 150 inches, measures brighter than its rating, and games at 240Hz. It also needs a screen nobody warns you about. The best laser TV at the price, with one honest caveat.
By Eran Yorkovsky · Founder, PickGrade
July 13, 2026 · Openly AI-powered
The pitch for an ultra-short-throw laser TV is seductive: all the scale of a projector, none of the projector problems. It sits on the console where the television was, throws an 80 to 150-inch image from inches off the wall, and turns on with a remote. No ceiling mount, no cable across the floor, no shadow when someone walks to the kitchen.
The Hisense PX3-Pro is the best execution of that pitch you can currently buy near $3,500. It is also the one that made me want to write a warning label for the whole category.
The picture is the real thing
Hisense rates it at 3,000 ANSI lumens, and unlike most of this market, that is an honest number the projector clears. Projector Reviews measured 3,246. ProjectorScreen recorded up to 3,400. ProjectorCentral got 2,669 in Vivid. Call it 2,700 to 3,400 depending on mode, which is bright enough that, on the right screen, you can watch it with the lights on. That is the whole promise of a laser TV, and this one delivers it.
Color is where it genuinely excels. Its TriChroma RGB triple-laser engine measures near-full BT.2020 coverage, around 98%, with roughly 99.8% DCI-P3 and a Delta-E around 0.9, which is reference territory. It supports every HDR format that matters: Dolby Vision, HDR10+, HDR10, HLG, and IMAX Enhanced. Very few projectors at any price cover the whole set, and among laser TVs it is close to unique.
Contrast is strong for a UST, with ProjectorScreen measuring up to 6,350:1 native. That will not embarrass a good long-throw in a blacked-out room, but it is far better than the category norm and it is why dark films hold up here in a way they do not on cheaper laser TVs.
It is the first UST that games properly
The PX3-Pro is certified "Designed for Xbox" and runs a 240Hz low-latency mode. In practice that means big-screen console gaming that feels responsive rather than syrupy, which no UST managed convincingly before.
This matters more than it sounds. The competing argument for a laser TV has always been "it is a television replacement," and a television replacement that cannot game is not really a television replacement. This one can. Pair it with three HDMI ports (two of them 2.1, one eARC), Google TV with a native Netflix app, and a 50-watt Harman Kardon system with Dolby Atmos, and the TV-replacement story finally closes.
The caveat nobody puts on the box
You need an ambient-light-rejecting screen, and it costs several hundred dollars.
This is not a nice-to-have. A UST throws light up the wall at an extreme angle, which makes it exceptionally vulnerable to overhead ambient light and exceptionally unforgiving of any texture or ripple in a painted wall. Projected onto bare drywall in a lit room, a $3,499 PX3-Pro can look worse than a $1,499 long-throw on a proper screen. Every glowing review of this projector was written with an ALR screen in front of it.
So the real price of entry is closer to $4,000 than $3,500. Budget accordingly, or buy a different kind of projector.
The other UST-inherent limitations apply as usual. There is no physical lens shift, so alignment means nudging a 20-pound cabinet a few millimeters at a time, and it drifts if the furniture gets bumped. And while its black floor is good for a UST, a dedicated dark-room long-throw still goes deeper.
What it competes with
Within Hisense's own line, the PT1 is the uncomfortable question. It has the same RGB-laser engine, the same complete HDR support, the same Google TV, and reviewers single out its black levels as a strength. It costs about $1,300 less. What the PX3-Pro adds is roughly 700 lumens and the 240Hz Xbox gaming, and if you have a room you can dim and you do not game, that is not $1,300 of value. We break that decision down here.
The bigger question is whether you need a UST at all. The Anker Nebula X1 measures brighter, has at least as much native contrast, needs no special screen, and costs about $1,300 less. On the specs it wins comfortably, and we say so plainly. What it cannot do is sit on your console eighteen inches from the wall.
The verdict
Buy the PX3-Pro because of where it goes, not because of how it scores. If your room has no space behind the seating, no way to mount a projector, or a household veto on cables and ceiling boxes, this is the best answer to that problem at the price, and it is a genuinely excellent picture with the most complete HDR support in our lineup. It is a real television replacement, gaming included.
Just do not buy it thinking you are buying the best picture per dollar. You are buying the best picture that fits in eighteen inches, and there is an ALR screen on the invoice.