LEICA CINE PLAY 1
4K Resolution
An image’s resolution determines how sharp its details are. The Leica Cine Play 1 achieves 4k resolution with 3840 x 2160 pixels, so you can play all your favourite films and series in the highest quality. The associated Digital Light Processor (DLP) uses XPR pixel-shifting technology to provide 4k resolution even with minimal dimensions, which is why the innovative Leica mini smart projector has such a compact size and comparatively low weight.
High-Fidelity Audio & Video
The Leica Cine Play 1 combines premium picture and sound quality in an impressive overall package. Equipped with dynamic drivers and DTS:X surround sound technology, which can be supported by additional speakers, it crafts a truly immersive sound experience. The powerful integrated 2 x 10 watt speakers bring out rich bass tones and clear sounds that perfectly complement the visual experience.
Leica Summicron Zoom Lens for an Image Size of up to 300”
Having been developed to fulfil Leica’s high quality standards, the Summicron zoom lens combines precision and innovation. Equipped with aspherical lenses, it not only delivers breathtakingly sharp 4K images measuring up to 300”, but also guarantees unparalleled consistency of image sharpness thanks to its high temperature stability. Leica’s proprietary image processing technology (Leica Image Optimization – LIO™) supports the lens’ impressive image quality, using special algorithms to ensure particularly natural colour rendering, keen colour gradations and excellent contrast transfer.
Dolby Vision®
Dolby Vision® technology, which comes with the Cine Play 1, is a dynamic image optimisation system that reproduces images as realistically as possible. To achieve this, both the recording devices and the end devices must be able to process this image standard. The Cine Play 1 is able to do so thanks to its powerful image processor and modern image processing algorithms.
Optical and Digital Zoom
The Leica Summicron zoom lens has both an optical and a digital zoom, thereby opening up versatile application options under a wide range of environmental conditions. Being able to flexibly adapt projection distances and image sizes to spatial conditions means you can even provide professional projections on large screens or during outdoor cinema evenings.
The optical zoom changes the focal length of the lens to enlarge or reduce the image without altering the frame, resulting in no resolution loss. This ensures excellent image quality, so details remain sharp with full resolution even at high magnifications. The digital zoom, on the other hand, enables software-based enlargement of the frame, whereby the image can be cropped and scaled up. This function offers further flexibility, especially in situations requiring additional adjustments to the frame. By using both zoom techniques, users benefit from the best of both worlds: the optical zoom ensures outstanding image quality, while the digital zoom facilitates additional adjustments and flexibility.
Smart Connectivity
The Leica Cine Play 1 supports numerous wireless connections, such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Apple AirPlay, Apple HomeKit, Screen Mirroring, etc., and offers various interface options (including HDMI, USB, LAN, audio out). As it can be easily connected to smartphones, laptops and soundbars, its possible applications are limitless.
VIDAA U7 Smart User Interface Streaming
The VIDAA U7 streaming platform gives you direct access to over 200 national and international streaming services, such as Netflix, YouTube, Prime Video, Disney+, Deezer, Red Bull TV, DAZN, and many more. The intuitive, user-friendly interface makes it easy to navigate through all content conveniently via remote control or voice control. Thanks to the VIDAA app, the Cine Play 1 can be effortlessly connected to a smartphone, so content can be streamed via Apple AirPlay or Screen Mirroring.
Keystone Correction
The automatic keystone correction ensures distortion-free, precise alignment of the image by automatically correcting horizontally or vertically offset projections. This function ensures that the image is always optimally rectangular, regardless of where the projector is positioned. Tedious manual adjustments are a thing of the past. Flexible positioning, combined with the automatic keystone correction, not only guarantees convenience and ease of use, but also razor-sharp, clear-cut images as and when you want.
Aluminium Body and Glass Front
Inspired by the Bauhaus style, the Leica Cine Play 1 impresses with its timeless minimalist design, putting emphasis on sustainability and optimum quality of materials. The aluminium body, having been milled from a single piece, combined with a sleek glass front, not only imbues the smart mini projector with an exceptional feel, but also unrivalled durability and sustainability.
Floor Stand
The Leica stand has been specially developed for the Cine Play 1 and sets new standards for the home cinema experience in terms of design and functionality. It allows for flexible positioning and features an integrated pin contact system, which enables a concealed power supply via the base plate, eliminating unsightly cable clutter. This clever design not only ensures a tidy appearance, but also a secure, reliable connection and optimum image quality, meaning that you can enjoy an uninterrupted, immersive cinema experience.
Automatic and Manual Image Alignment
With its automatic image alignment, the Leica Cine Play 1 offers a smart solution for effortlessly adjusting projections within a white screen with a black frame. The innovative technology recognises the frame and automatically adjusts the picture to it. This saves time and ensures that your image is always optimally positioned on a screen, even if the projector is not placed right in front of it. Furthermore, it is easy to adjust the picture manually via the menu options using the remote control.
Triple RGB Laser
The RGB laser unit on the Leica Cine Play 1 uses three separate laser units for the primary colours red, green and blue. This advanced technology ensures exceptional colour reproduction, increased energy efficiency and an impressively long service life. Direct light transmission to the DLP (Digital Light Processing) chip, without blending colours, produces an exceptionally stable colour space that meets – and even exceeds – the requirements of the demanding BT.2020 standard.
Autofocus
The autofocus feature on the Cine Play 1 automatically adjusts the image to achieve optimum sharpness for perfect playback quality. The navigation buttons on the remote control also allow you to individually readjust the focus.
MEMC
The abbreviation MEMC stands for Motion Estimation and Motion Compensation. This technique is used to add additional frames between the original frames in a video sequence. This means that fast motion sequences in the picture can be rendered more smoothly, without any stuttering, resulting in a more natural visual experience.
Game Mode
The Game Mode available with the Leica Cine Play 1 makes it possible for gaming fans to playfully create an exciting, adrenaline-pumping atmosphere at any location. With a latency of less than 12 milliseconds and a refresh rate of up to 120 Hz, the Cine Play 1 is ideal for games that require lightning-fast reactions.
Filmmaker Mode
Filmmaker Mode guarantees an unadulterated viewing experience that does justice to the director’s creative vision. By deactivating all image editing processes – including noise reduction, image sharpness adjustment and dynamic backlighting – the image is reproduced in its purest form. This means that the visual experience remains authentic and true to the original, just as post-production intended it for the cinema.
3000 ANSI Lumens
Like the Leica Cine 1, the Cine Play 1 also enables astonishing brightness of up to 3000 ANSI lumens. This results in brilliant, high-contrast image reproduction by the projector, even in brighter environments, so you can enjoy unforgettable film and cinema experiences regardless of the lighting conditions. Good to know: ANSI lumens are a common unit for measuring projectors’ and laser TVs’ brightness. The higher the value, the brighter and clearer the projected image remains – even in daylight.
DTS:X Virtual Surround Sound Technology
The integrated DTS Virtual:X audio signal processing forms the ideal basis for a truly 3D surround sound experience. When connected to a surround sound system, this advanced technology makes it possible for the sound to be processed in such a way that it appears to come from different directions. Specially developed for home cinema systems, DTS:X adds spatiality and dynamics to the sound, meaning that the listener is immersed in the action. What’s more, additional speakers can easily be connected to the Cine Play 1 using a variety of connection options, such as HDMI, S/PDIF or Bluetooth, in order to intensify the sound experience.
Portability
The Leica Cine Play 1 will win you over with its flexibility and versatility, especially due to its portable weight and compact size. Thanks to its tilt and swivel options, it also adapts easily to many environments and applications. Combining it with the matching stand ensures even greater flexibility, allowing the projector to be effortlessly positioned anywhere – exactly the way you need it.
Leica Image Optimization (LIO™)
With its own Leica Image Optimization (LIO™), Leica is also applying its decades of expertise in image technology to home cinema projectors. This Leica image technology uses special algorithms to achieve natural colour rendering, detailed colour gradations and outstanding contrast. The Leica Cine Play 1 projects impressive images in unrivalled Leica quality, with moving images up to 300 inches in size.
HDR10+ (High Dynamic Range)
HDR10+ offers a greater dynamic range and more contrast than standard dynamic range (SDR) video. This image technology ensures that video content supporting HDR10+ can process and play back dynamic metadata (dynamic tone mapping), which displays image information with optimum colour values, contrast settings and high brightness levels. Together with 4K, this makes the picture more vivid, more brilliant and more detailed, as the light and dark tones are accentuated.
BT.2020 Colour Gamut
The extended colour space of the BT.2020 (Rec.2020) standard, which is specially adapted to 4k laser projectors, creates a vibrant world of colour far exceeding the existing BT.709 (Rec.709) Full HD standard. Only laser TVs and projectors that have triple lasers, like the Leica Cine Play 1, cover over 100% of this vast colour space. Other TV technologies cannot display this vast colour space.
3D Mode
The Leica Cine Play 1 lets cinema enthusiasts and film fans enjoy lifelike 3D films with an image size of up to 300”. All you need for this is a pair of active shutter glasses. The DLP link for the Cine Play 1 controls the glasses’ wireless synchronisation to enable separate playback of image content for the right and left eye. The 3D functionality is perfect for holding unforgettable film nights and thrilling gaming sessions, as it conveys a sense of depth and dimension that cannot be achieved with conventional 2D images. Film fans and gamers alike can immerse themselves in the action as if they were right in the thick of it – whenever and wherever they want.
Gentle on the Eyes & Energy Efficient
Unlike conventional televisions, the Leica Cine Play 1 projects light onto a wall instead of directly into your eyes. This reduces the amount of blue light, which is not only energy-intensive but also particularly strenuous. As a result, viewing becomes much easier on the eyes. It has even been awarded a certification in 2025 lauding its eye-friendly design, which emits 0% harmful blue light. Furthermore, the advanced laser technology ensures high energy efficiency, as laser light sources generate less heat than conventional lamps and have a significantly longer service life. Energy consumption is also reduced, and there are no follow-up costs for replacing lamps.
Sustainability & Recyclability
The high-quality materials and precise craftmanship used to create the Cine Play 1 ensure outstanding sustainability. The body and stand are each made from a single piece of pure aluminium and are 100% recyclable. The front panel is made from hard-wearing glass. Even the laser engine featuring advanced chip technology is largely composed of recyclable components – offering a clear advantage in terms of sustainability compared to conventional LED and OLED TVs.
HLG (Hybrid Log Gamma)
This standard enables television broadcasters to transmit video streams via cable or satellite in SDR and HDR quality, even with limited bandwidth. An HLG-capable projector is therefore a prerequisite for displaying video content transmitted in compliance with the HLG standard in both SDR and HDR.