In terms of pricing, the Formovie Cinema Edge 4K clocks in at just under $2400, which is essentially what most mid-range 4K UST Laser units sell for these days. You can find various UST 4K Laser units ranging from around $1800 to $3500. On the lower end, you have to make do with outdated Android TV versions which lack native streaming service support, and on the high-end you get 3000+ ANSI lumens, and all kinds of smarts with all the endorsements from Dolby, DTS, IMAX as well as branded speakers and more.

As such, looking at that center mass in the price spectrum, there is plenty of serious competition for the Formovie Cinema Edge 4K, which makes it feel a little dated - even if it performs well. There are other similarly priced products that manage to check off a few extra boxes from Dolby Vision and Atmos, dedicated game modes, auto keystone to also having a much nicer remote.

While the Cinema Edge 4K will certainly manage to perform similarly from the image quality and its Google TV experience, it is obvious that over that last few years the gap these first movers had in the market has been eliminated. Just a few years and the market has been a lot more receptive to give those brands a go, because they offered almost everything you would want from a 4K projector so that consumers were even willing to use their creative ways to enable streaming services on these devices unofficially. Where brands like Formovie initially managed to provide products which traditional brands like Epson, HP etc. still have not managed to offer equivalents to, brands like Hisense have really invested a lot in recent years and managed to negate any such advantages.

Unfortunately, on top of that, the move to ISO Lumens by Formovie (and others) instead of the more established ANSI measurement further dampens the potential, as consumers have come distrust that new way of measurement as it rarely manages to live up to the marketed performance. In the case of the Cinema Edge 4K this seems to be uncalled-for, as the unit we received for review managed to go above and beyond in terms of ANSI anyway, so it would have been beneficial to market that.

This makes the conclusion pretty straightforward. The benefits you had from buying a projector from Formovie aren't nearly as pronounced anymore in today's market. While the Cinema Edge 4K still manages to offer exactly what you would expect from a unit of this price point in terms of the picture quality and core functionality, you now have a more diverse choice in the market, where alternative offerings also manage to push the envelope further in the secondary features and overall experience, going beyond pure picture quality and streaming service integration - for the same price. So we can recommend the Formovie Cinema Edge 4K but need to make note of the fact that it should be cheaper to reflect this.