There’s a famous bit in The Wizard of Oz when the world of the movie changes from black and white to technicolor. Watching a movie with the Valerion VisionMaster Max is very much like that – and it’s coming to CES 2025 to disrupt the projector market.

Valerion specializes in designing and making innovative cinematic projectors, and the VisionMaster Max is their flagship and most anticipated new product. The brand burst into the spotlight in 2024 with their crowdfunding campaign for the new projector, a $10 million campaign that became the most funded Kickstarter of the year and the highest-funded projector ever. And at CES Valerion will unveil the Max, introduce their groundbreaking external lens concept and present the full VisionMaster series.

The projector everybody’s talking about

The Valerion VisionMaster Max is the world’s first cinematic grade home theater projector to use the professional-grade OpticFlex lens system, and it’s packed with state-of-the-art technology to deliver picture perfection. No wonder it’s the most crowdfunded projector of all time.

The VisionMaster Max brings you the best of both worlds: the performance of the most expensive high-end projectors and the price of much more affordable personal projectors.

Movies like you’ve never seen them before

The VisionMaster Max is equipped with the professional-grade OpticFlex Lens System, offering exceptional flexibility with optical zoom, vertical lens shift, and dynamic iris, allowing for a fully customizable and immersive viewing experience. These features are normally found only in very expensive cinematic projectors.

The VisionMaster Max isn’t just better than its rivals. It’s fifteen times better. Where the average lifestyle projector has a contrast ratio of 1,000:1, with the brightest part of the image being 1,000 times brighter than the darkest, the VisionMaster Max delivers a contrast ratio of 15,000:1. That means much more vivid, existing and realistic images in movies and games alike.

That’s not all. The VisionMaster Max comes with an exceptionally clever mapping technology called Dynamic Tone Mapping, or DTM for short. Dynamic Tone Mapping technology optimizes HDR content in real-time, adjusting brightness and contrast to preserve highlights, shadow details, and rich, balanced visuals. The DTM feature is typically found only in high-end projectors alongside lens shifting, dynamic iris and optical zoom – and you’ll find those features in the VisionMaster Max too.

If you’re really serious about home cinema, the VisionMaster Max also has a really smart feature that we think you’ll love: Enhanced Black Level mode. Enhanced Black Level (EBL) technology profoundly enhances the depth and richness of black tones, making the brightest brights and darkest darks more vivid.

The ultra-bright laser RGB light sources deliver exceptional brightness – 3,000 ISO lumens – and industry-leading color gamut and accuracy. It delivers an incredible 110% coverage of the BT.2020 (REC.2020) color standard, ensuring every frame looks just like the director and cinematographer intended. It’s ISF-certified color accuracy. And project the images up to 300 inches.

The projector that loves to play everything

With the Valerion VisionMaster Max you don’t need to mess around with time-consuming video conversion or worry whether a particular standard is supported: it happily handles all the key video standards including IMAX Enhanced, Dolby Vision, Filmmaker Mode, 3D Active, and 24 & 48 FPS, for the ultimate theater-like experience, and its audio support includes not just Dolby Atmos and DTS but also virtual sound effects standards including Dolby DAP and DTS: Virtual X.

The VisionMaser Max is incredibly powerful. Inside there’s a blazingly fast AI-SoC MT9618 with 4GB of RAM, 128GB ROM and Google TV OS. That’s twice the RAM and four times the ROM of rivals. That power delivers exceptional smart home functionality and super-smooth gameplay with input lag as low as 4ms at 1080P@240Hz.

And it’s also incredibly easy to use. It features one of the industry’s very best built-in interfaces, with all the smart TV features you could desire and full support for AirPlay 2, Chromecast and Miracast wireless streaming. And it also works with Google Home, Apple HomeKit and Amazon’s Alexa.

A price that’s as amazing as the projector

When you look at the specifications of the VisionMaster Max it’s clear that it’s designed to deliver the ultimate home cinema and gaming experience. But it doesn’t come with the kind of price tag you’ve come to expect from high performance projectors. It’s priced much more affordably than many high-end projectors that don’t have its cinematic smarts: just $3,999.

Valerion is currently running a global pre-sale on its official website, and its early backers will be receiving their projectors just as the Max makes its official debut at CES 2025 in the Central Hall, booth #21614. If you’d like to join them in home entertainment heaven the official Valerion website is here.