Lumio, the Bengaluru electronics brand run by Circuit House Technologies, has put a 2026 edition of its Arc 7 projector on sale in India at Rs 34,999, roughly $361 at this week’s exchange rate. The new model went on sale on October 8 through Lumio’s own store, Amazon India and Flipkart, two days after the company announced it, and it carries exactly the same sticker price the original Arc 7 launched at during Prime Day 2025.
The headline number is brightness. Lumio now rates the Arc 7 at 500 ANSI lumens, up from 400 on the first version, a 25 percent jump. Contrast is quoted at 1,700:1, which the company says is 15 percent higher than before, and DCI-P3 coverage is up 10 percent. Lumio has raised its recommended image size to 120 inches and says the optical block, which it calls Arc Light Engine 2, is fully sealed against dust, a point it pitches directly at Indian living rooms. According to Fone Arena’s launch report, the unit is assembled in India and tested for heat, dust and voltage swings, with a one-year warranty serviced through more than 300 carry-in centres.
The rest of the changes sit on the software side. The 2026 Arc 7 ships with Google TV on Android 14, Gemini built into the Google TV interface, and Netflix certification. Internal storage doubles from 16GB to 32GB. Audio is unchanged on paper: two 8W stereo speakers with Dolby Audio. Setup aids carry over too, with Lumio’s STR8 auto-keystone, time-of-flight autofocus and obstacle avoidance, plus a redesigned “Minion Noir” remote with a dedicated Google Assistant button.
What Lumio has not published for the new model is just as telling. None of the launch coverage names the processor, the RAM or the native panel resolution. The 2025 Arc 7 we covered at its launch used a MediaTek MT9630 with 2GB of RAM and a native 1080p panel. Doubling storage while staying quiet about memory usually means memory did not move, and 2GB is tight for Google TV once a few streaming apps are cached. Until a spec sheet or a teardown says otherwise, buyers should assume the 2026 model is a brighter, roomier version of the same platform rather than a new one.
The 120-inch figure also needs a footnote. Lumio now says the original Arc 7 was recommended for 100 inches, but its own 2025 launch material listed “up to 120 inches.” The real change is that the company is willing to recommend that size, which is what an extra 100 lumens buys you. At 500 ANSI lumens a 120-inch image in a dark room is watchable; with a lamp on it will look washed out, as it would on any projector in this class.
The launch landed in the same week Lumio announced a $12 million raise, about Rs 115 crore, in a Series A led by Blume Ventures with Stellaris Venture Partners and 3one4 Capital following on. The Times of India reports the brand passed Rs 100 crore in gross merchandise value within 13 months of starting sales, more than tripled GMV year on year between April and August 2026, and has shipped to over 35,000 households without a store or a TV advert. Most of the money is earmarked for R&D, and the software layer, an AI content-discovery feature Lumio calls Project Neo, now in public beta in nine Indian languages, is where the company says it will compete.
That is the context for keeping the price flat. The original Arc 7 had already slipped to an effective Rs 29,999 (about $310) in sales, so holding the new model at Rs 34,999 is a reset to list price rather than a price cut. Lumio is betting that 25 percent more light, double the storage and a newer Android base are enough for buyers to pay the full figure again.
Lumio does not sell in the US, but its pitch maps neatly onto the budget end of the American market, and the comparison is not flattering for most of the anonymous projectors on Amazon’s best-seller list. Those machines advertise YouTube and Prime Video; almost none can run Netflix natively, because Netflix requires licensing and hardware DRM certification that unbranded sellers do not get. Lumio clearing that bar at around $360 is the real story of this launch, more than the lumen count.
In the US, the cleanest example of the same idea at a lower price is Dangbei’s N2 mini, which sells for $199 on Amazon as of October 10 and runs officially licensed Netflix with automatic focus and keystone correction out of the box. It is smaller and aimed at bedrooms and dorms rather than 120-inch living-room walls, but it delivers the part of the Arc 7 pitch that matters most to first-time buyers, which is switching on and streaming without a dongle, for a little over half the money.
For a closer match on brightness and Google TV, Anker’s Nebula P1i sits at $299 in our product database with 380 ANSI lumens, a little dimmer than the new Arc 7 and around $60 cheaper on a straight currency conversion. Indian prices include GST and American ones exclude sales tax, so the gap is not a like-for-like retail comparison, but it shows Lumio is pricing the Arc 7 in line with global brands rather than undercutting them.
Our guide to projectors with Netflix built in covers the US options in more detail. As for the Arc 7, the open question is the one Lumio has not answered: whether the processor and memory moved along with the light engine. If they did not, the 2026 edition will look better than last year’s model, but it may not feel much faster.