You bought the biggest screen you could afford, mounted it on the wall, and called it a home theater. It looks great. It’s also exactly that size forever. Want to go bigger? You’re buying a new TV. Want a traditional projector? You’re mounting hardware to the ceiling, managing cables, and blacking out the room like a photographer’s studio.
There’s a cleaner answer. It’s called an ultra-short throw (UST) projector, and the JMGO O2S Ultra (a best of CES product in 2026) is doing something the category hasn’t quite pulled off before.
Slide a device roughly the size of a bread maker onto your TV cabinet, push it six and a half inches from the wall, and you get a 100-inch 4K screen. No ceiling mount. No dark room required. No contractor. It just sits where your old cable box used to live.
JMGO has been building laser projectors since 2011 out of Shenzhen, and they’ve earned a quiet but serious reputation in the enthusiast projector world. Projector Reviews noted earlier models earned awards, calling the brand reliable and feature-rich in “an increasingly competitive market.” The O2S Ultra is the company’s UST flagship, and it carries their best engineering forward.
The standout stat is a 0.16:1 throw ratio, which JMGO says is the shortest on the market. Competing UST models typically sit at 0.25:1. That difference means the O2S Ultra fits on standard TV furniture without rearranging the room. Inside, it runs triple RGB lasers through JMGO’s proprietary MALC 3.0 optical system, covering 110% of the BT.2020 color gamut with color accuracy rated at Delta E below 1, a benchmark typically reserved for professional cinema displays. Output is 3,600 ISO lumens with a 4K DLP chip, Dolby Vision, and HDR10 support. Bright enough to watch in daylight.
Then there’s image flattening, and this is where the O2S Ultra separates itself.
Most walls aren’t perfectly flat. Standard projectors hitting an uneven surface produce a wavy, warped image, which is why serious UST setups have traditionally required an expensive Ambient Light Rejection (ALR) screen to compensate. The O2S Ultra uses a ToF sensor and dual cameras to analyze the wall in real time, then digitally compensates for any unevenness before the image reaches you. Reviewers at AVS Forum called the feature mind-blowing, noting it doesn’t add latency beyond standard keystone correction, clocking in at 34.4ms at 4K60Hz with everything enabled.
The picture quality itself has impressed hands-on reviewers. François Richard at Son-Vidéo tested it against 4K Blu-rays of 1917, Top Gun: Maverick, and Alita Battle Angel, writing that the black levels were the deepest he’d seen on any DLP 4K projector, and that installation took only minutes start to finish. He called it “one of the easiest models to install” he’d recently tested.
Trusted Reviews highlighted the intelligent image flattening as a key differentiator, noting it’s designed to compensate for uneven projection surfaces alongside automatic focus, keystone correction, and screen fitting.
Customers echo the reaction. One O2S Ultra owner on the JMGO product page wrote that friends are always shocked when a 100-inch screen lights up from something so small, adding the image looks great during the day and theater-level at night. Another used it as a trade show display in a large, bright exhibit hall and called it the best booth on the floor once ambient light conditions settled.
The O2S Ultra runs Google TV 5.0 with native Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video, Hulu, and YouTube 4K built in. No extra streaming stick needed. Audio comes from 2x 10W speakers tuned by Dynaudio, a Danish hi-fi brand whose name on a projector would have seemed absurd five years ago. Son-Vidéo’s reviewer said he was “completely blown away from the very first seconds,” noting the bass reaches down to 40Hz, giving voices substance and effects real impact.
At $2,799, this isn’t an impulse buy. But next to a 100-inch OLED TV, the math gets interesting fast. The O2S Ultra earned a Red Dot Design Award and the 2026 VGP Award. Those are the kinds of wins that matter more when the category is still earning trust.
