I've been in the market for a short throw projector for a long time now and
thankfully Mexico has sent one over for us to take a look at and it's available
online now for 2600 US Dollars it's
capable of throwing an 80 inch to 150 inch screen I can't remember the size of
the one that we have here I think it's about 120 inches we're gonna get it set
up we're going to try some games I've got a laptop too and hopefully this
guy's coming with us to the Christmas party oh yeah call information book here
it's foam here's our projector here
looks like we've got a couple speakers along the back side that faces you on
the couch we've got four speakers in here each of them are about 15 watts two
subs two tweeters that sort of thing got some inputs on the back here we've got
USB HDMI one and two number two supports
audio Arc which is the audio return channel from your TV if you want to have
anything plugged into that both the HDMI support HDMI 2.0 and if you have other
external sources like you know music player or you want to have an AUX in
it's got three and a half mil in and out at home I use the projector as well and
I use the audio return channel to come back to my stereo at the front of the
room the nice thing about having a short throw projector like this is it's all
self-contained right in where you want all your media stuff so you don't have
to run cables through the ceiling or around the sides of the walls like I do
it's great and we've got a lan Port too oh and yeah this is a laser projector
which is kind of exciting they're claiming about 25
000 hours on the laser emitter which is kind of cool what else we got in here we
got a power kit table and a nice little remote too which is cool cool thing
about this is it has Android 9 built in so you can you know watch YouTube videos
Netflix all that sort of stuff right from the projector itself you don't even
need a you know external device like a PS5 or laptop hooked up which is great
just on this table here I have it on like a coffee table like
we've got here here you would have it on your center console and place it however
far away from the screen and it's got these little adjustment Wheels on the
back here so you can adjust the feet up and down to get the picture centered up
and down like that it's a little bit easier than doing it in the ceiling
right looks like it's got a pretty big aperture I mean you're doing 150 foot
screen is going to be pretty huge the laser in here will be 2500 ANSI lumens
and it'll do 4K 60 frames a second and
it has 120 frames a second with that Motion Plus smoothing stuff we'll see
how that looks it's probably okay I don't know so let's get it down on the
table we'll get it powered on and calibrated and see how that goes it's
quiet that's nice I guess because uh it doesn't have the giant fan in it like
you would need a lot of cooling with a traditional like Xenon discharge oh
there we go it's on the ceiling
okay maybe ow maybe a bit uh
a bit too far away hey there we go so yeah
um there's no Zoom controls or anything so you do have to find the place where
it's going to live physically rather than anything else and these feet should
help you know we're going to get some Keystone correction and we'll do that
stuff in a minute okay I think I've got it reasonably well positioned one of the
difficult things about a short throw projector is the height of the throw
needs to be critical the height of the bottom of the image is directly dictated
by how high the projector is off of the
ground so depending on a few things you
might have to adjust your screen we have a rolly screen so why don't we just
bring that up a bit and then we can pull
this back until
it fits the more you can do moving the projector
around physically rather than doing it in software the better image you'll get
out of uh any kind of projector
because you know the lens is going to distort whatever you have I mean
naturally you would probably put the projector in your house and then find
the position of the screen we already had a projector so this screen is
already set for our screen size okay so
this is settings for the whole thing we'll go into display
there's our Keystone correction so it'll have eight-way Keystone correction which
is uh quite nice and we can do four point or eight point
and so we can come in here physically
and we should be able to just grab this and
fix any of those little distortions that we might have
that's close enough for today let's have a look at the eight point oh
okay so just adds some more in the middle
there we go that'll get rid of any of the pin cushioning that we can see there
along the sides that's uh that's always nice to have the other thing that's nice
to have is this Focus correction and so
you don't have to like get down there and play with it press the arrow keys on
the remote to adjust focus left and right so get up nice and close have a
look at the pixels what I'm looking for on the screen here is if I can see like
the individual lines of the pixels it looks like the corners are a little bit
soft like here it's really nice right there and over
here this is kind of a low resolution image
so if I take this over no that's okay even more
I think that's fine there you go that's a little easier than
having to drill into your walls to hang a projector isn't it what on Earth is
Aurora cast is that like uh it's like a
special version of Chromecast it's kind of nice it's got AirPlay for you know
your iPhone and your your Mac Miracast for your Android devices and dolna for
everything else let's get the PS5 on there and play some
games it's picked up 4K at 60 hertz
which is great oh yeah that's right so this is an HDR
projector I believe it Sports HDR 10. let's have a look at some of our input
choices because this has uh it's got the Motion Plus and all sorts of other
things
so here we can adjust some image parameters we've got our brightness hdrs
on color temperature is standard oh yeah that's right it'll do 3D stuff too so it
looks like Left Right top bottom frame packing frame sequential all the cool
stuff oh it has a specific gaming mode so we'll probably want that in gaming
mode this one will do 30 milliseconds of latency which is not too bad at all a
lot of projectors have hell of a lot of input latency I think there's quite a bit of image processing they got to do
especially got to go through all that digital Keystone correction and all that
sort of stuff oh my God
I'm standing over it that's why you're
gonna watch TV here you dumbass
okay that's actually not bad those are pretty good when you're actually
pointing your head at the speakers they sound better who'da thunk let's uh let's
take our image parameters over and we'll go to TV
it's about the same go over to Game Mode movie sorry gaming
mode oh yeah that's like that's definitely
less and it it doesn't feel as bad and of course we don't know the uh the
game's actual like choice to smooth uh
inputs but yeah that feels certainly
faster I mean it's nice it's bright it's easier to set up
do I go in my hole no okay
Let's uh let's try a YouTube video YouTube
you ever heard of YouTube never and ever do we do a crab Rave do I
do I dare definitely some sort of artifacting from
the motion smoothing that's very strange if I go back home
and push the home button and then go to settings and go to
display and man
I'm gonna go back see if that artifacting is still there oh yeah that
totally is I wonder if this is just the bitrate of the video the thing is though
it says that the viewport frame is 1920x1080. so does that mean that the
Android TV is only you know full HD it's
not UHD so if we want to watch 4K you HD
content we need to plug in a laptop anyway so this is 4K at 60 frames a
second which is great I guess motion smoothing is disabled for 60 frames a
second things but I don't I don't know I think that's about all the things that I
contest with this um you know from Mexico for 2600 bucks I
think if you care about having speakers that don't sound absolute garbage uh if
you like having the Android integrated system and if you want the nice kind of
compact form factor that sits right up against your wall like this is like half
a foot away it's great then this will be an awesome option for you check out the
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