Projector company Valerion debuted its highly anticipated VisionMaster Max at CES 2025. Valerion says the $4,000 4K triple-laser projector is the first home unit to use the professional-grade OpticFlex Lens System with optical zoom, vertical lens shift and dynamic iris, projecting images from 40 inches to 300 inches (a massive 25 feet). The Max delivers 3,000 ISO lumens and a 15,000:1 contrast ratio, while all entries in the VisionMaster series feature 110 percent coverage of the Rec. 2020 color space and enhanced black level (EBL). Unique to the Max is a changeable external lens that expands the throw ratio.

“The company will offer alternate lenses for the projector — a feature typically only offered on professional-grade home theater hardware — that can be swapped by users to change the size of the image it produces or how far it can project,” writes The Verge.

Valerion hasn’t detailed the additional lenses it will make available or how much they’ll cost, but the VisionMaster series, including the Max, is available for preorder now for delivery in February. The VisionMaster Plus 2 and Plus start at $1,500, while the VisionMaster Pro 2 and Pro start at $2,500. Advance orders garner a $500 discount.

The standard lens on the VisionMaster Max has a throw ratio of 0.9-1.5:1, suitable for small- to medium-sized rooms. At the low end, the projector would need to be only 90 inches from the wall or screen to project images of up to 100 inches.

“Under the hood of the Max is Valerion’s AI-SoC Platform, MT9618 processor that does a lot of the heavy lifting, including AI-driven FHD to 4K upscaling” using AI Super Resolution, reports Digital Trends.

The VisionMaster Max also features Dynamic Tone Mapping (DTM), “automatically adjusting brightness and contrast in HDR content in real time, preventing highlights from washing out while maintaining sharp shadow and dark details as well as color,” per Digital Trends. The Rec. 2020 (BT.2020) color standard ensures that “ideally what you’re seeing on screen is what the director or filmmakers wanted you to see,” though there are also customizable settings.

The “all-in-one” Max “includes a pair of 12-watt speakers with support for DTS:X and Dolby Audio” and has “three HDMI ports,” including one with the new Enhanced Audio Return Channel (eARC), writes The Verge, noting it also supports Google TV, “IMAX Enhanced, Dolby Vision, and HDR10 Plus standards and includes a low input lag mode for gamers with refresh rates up to 240Hz when stepping down to a 1080p resolution.”

The Shenzhen-based Valerion gained attention when it announced in November that it raised $8 million on Kickstarter to fund VisionMaster development. That figure has since climbed to $10.7 million.