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I'm not really sure what it is that

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XGIMI thinks that they're doing here. On

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the one hand, I definitely admire the

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hustle. Who wouldn't want a better

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projector for less money? But on the

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other hand, at the rate they're going,

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they're going to be making the best

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projector in the world for $5. Just a

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couple months ago, we looked at their

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Horizon 20 Max, which I joked would make

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rich people angry because of how much

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more they spent on their fancy

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projectors. And now, here we are with a

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sponsored video on their Titan Noir Max,

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which looks even better. At an early

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bird price of just 3,000 US dollars, the

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top spec unit in this lineup has it all.

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5,000 lm of real-world movie watching

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brightness, up to a 6,000 to 1

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real-world native contrast ratio. That's

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actually at 2,000 lm, so that would be

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very suitable for a light-controlled

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room and a great HDR experience. HDR 10

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Plus and Dolby Vision. It's also IMAX

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Enhanced. We're even getting the same

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lens shift feature that I raved about

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last time. That gives us the ability to

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move the image up, down, left, and right

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without any keystone or distortion. And

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[music] even better this time, we're

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getting a dual iris for super fine

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control over contrast. It actually looks

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better, too. Like, dang. XGIMI's

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learning. The lens setup allows you to

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switch instantly between a 16 by 9

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aspect ratio and a Cinemascope aspect

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ratio. And I guess I haven't even

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mentioned yet, it'll do 4K 60 Hz or up

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to 240 Hz 1080p if you're more into the

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gaming side of things. You can expect a

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little bit of rainbow effect because it

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is a triple chip laser projector, but

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they claim that they have some reduction

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built in, so I'll be interested to see

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how that works out a little bit later.

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As for IO, we've got three HDMIs in,

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including support for eARC, a couple

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USBs, one of which is running at 3.0

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speeds, a gigabit LAN port. They made a

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point of highlighting that, and that is

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important if you happen to use

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Sorry, excuse me. Uh your

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for your legitimate Sorry. Uh Blu-rays

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that you've definitely ripped, for

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instance. Optical audio, as well as

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really DC power. Huh. And a 3.5 mm jack.

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Woah, that's a lot of cooling on the

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bottom for something that's powered by a

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barrel jack. Look at that. I guess

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they're aiming to make it really quiet.

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I do see one 80 mm fan in there, though.

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Power that up in a second. First, I want

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to take a look at what else is in the

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box. Normally, I don't care that much

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about packaging. I mean, you're just

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going to throw it away, but like

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that's pretty cool. Really clean remote.

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Good job. No Netflix button. Instead,

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[music] you just get programmable

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shortcut buttons, so you decide if you

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want a Netflix button. XGIMI is leveling

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up so big time, dude. [music] So, I

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mean, I even said this in the last

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video. They've gone from like little

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brother projector brand to like

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oh. Oh, damn. Like, wow. Okay. Backlit

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remote. You love to see it. And not much

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else. Not that I really

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need anything else. I get a big chunky

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power brick. 360

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W.

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You know, when we started calling these

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power bricks, I don't think the

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intention was for them ever to be

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actually like something you could build

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a domicile out of, but we got there.

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Good Good job, everyone. Enough about

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that. Let's fire it up. Now, we can just

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plug in our NVIDIA Shield. Actually, no.

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Let's not do that just yet, because one

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of the big highlights for XGIMI on this

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one is that they're not using Android

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anymore. They are still using the

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Android Open Source Project AOSP, but

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they've made some customizations to it

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that they say allows them to give

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customers more control of just, you

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know, side loading any kinds of apps

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they want onto it, as well as better

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optimization for the software itself.

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So, it's a bold move, Cotton. Let's see

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how it works out for them. Okay, let's

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start with image correction. Boop boop

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boop boop boop. That was painless. We

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can make some fine adjustments with the

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little screw-style feet. Okay, that was

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about

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3 minutes, and we are like

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pretty darn close. Perfect? [music]

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No, but unless you want to spend a very

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long time or you're a professional,

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you're always going to be doing a little

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bit of keystone. Oh, right, right.

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Laser. So, when it detects someone in

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front of it, it turns off. For those

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wondering, by the way, does it have to

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be this close to the screen? The answer

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is no. It totally supports mounting it

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up high, or if you wanted to mount it

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behind your projector screen. We

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actually have it at maximum zoom right

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now. Man, there's so much like adaptive

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stuff. Automatic keystone, automatic

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wall color adaptation, automatic focus,

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like everything. I'll try out dynamic

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iris. I don't know if I'm going to like

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that, but I mean, hey, that's one of the

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key features, so let's give it a shot. I

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don't need to adapt to ambient light.

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We've got full light control in this

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room. Picture mode. Filmmaker mode.

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Thank you. I do notice a little bit of

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rainbow effect, especially as I'm moving

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around in a white-on-gray menu. We'll

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have to see how it looks in content,

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though. Oh, the anti-rainbow effect

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thing wasn't on. Oh, dude, that like is

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immediately better. Why don't they have

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that on by default? What's the downside?

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What? It's way better. Can you guys see

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that? Maybe there's like a terrible

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downside, but I would turn it on so far.

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All right, home. Here we go. Wait.

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Oh.

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I guess there's just like no home

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screen. It's not a smart device. So,

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they're running AOSP just for like the

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operating system of it, but

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no extra clunky stuff. Okay, so we will

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need our NVIDIA Shield. Huh, that's

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super cool.

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All right, HDMI 1.

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And boop. Time to kick off the lights

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and see how she looks. Wow.

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Not bad.

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It is pretty incredible how much image

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you can get out of a tabletop projector

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these days. To be clear, the resolution

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and the brightness and even for that

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matter, the overall picture quality

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might not be like an enormous leap over

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what's been available in this type of

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form factor before. But like I said last

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time around, the inclusion of lens

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shift, not to mention now this like

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[music] super responsive granular menu,

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makes it

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actually usable. Okay, I do want to see

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a piece of content I haven't watched

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this since it came out. So, I do want to

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see a piece of content that I have a

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little bit more familiarity with one

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that really really pops in HDR.

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It doesn't have the poppiest HDR I've

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ever seen

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even on a projector. Screen size

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uh I think more like 120.

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Oh, interesting.

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So, they have a brightness slider

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elsewhere in the menu, but separately

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[snorts]

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they have this screen size adjuster

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that as you can see will boost the

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brightness, but actually doesn't seem to

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be screwing with color too much. Little

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bit yes, definitely. It's It's [music]

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definitely juicing it a bit, but I would

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say that if you like a more vibrant

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image

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boosting this a couple tens of inches

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over what your screen size actually is

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>> [music]

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>> is going to yield an image that you will

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like a lot more even than a vivid mode.

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That's That's cool. Screen gain.

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So, I can play around with how much gain

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my screen has as well. This is terrific.

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XGIMI

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sponsored video or not, got some

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feedback. This should not be hidden in

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the Dolby Vision settings in the picture

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mode. Please,

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>> [music]

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>> no. Wow, now that looks great. See, I

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was sitting here going like, "Yeah, it

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doesn't look that much better blah blah

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blah blah blah blah." cuz I'm I'm not

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going to tell you guys something I don't

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believe whether it's sponsored or not,

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but like now damn that looks awesome. It

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just needed that little bit more pop.

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Now, you're still not going to get that

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kind of crazy, you know, specular

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highlight that you might get on

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something like a you know, a mini LED TV

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or an old head or something like that.

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But, you're never going to get that

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projector look. That's sort of uh

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cinematic almost softness. I don't want

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to call it a softness, right? It's a 4K

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display and it's it's quite sharp, but

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it does look a little bit different and

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you'll never get that on a TV. So, it

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comes down to whether you want that more

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cinema look or whether you want

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really bright TV that can do, you know,

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pinpoints of light. This like solved it

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for me. I'm so glad we found that. You

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know, I was worried that the dynamic

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iris would be a huge problem in a scene

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like this where we're kind of going

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between near total darkness to like you

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know, flaring [snorts] lights in the

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sky. But, I was not noticing the iris

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transitions. That's um

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pretty smooth. I did notice a little bit

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of noise in like sort of very dark

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sections that it was not um handling

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perfectly, but

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I it's the kind of thing that if you're

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not like a nerd who's looking for it, I

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don't think most people would ever

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notice. I guess I should turn the

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speakers on. Normally, I would never

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ever in a thousand years recommend using

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the speakers on a device like this,

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whether you paid, you know, the $3,000

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early bird price or the $6,000 like full

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retail price.

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Get speakers. Like it deserves it. Um

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but we might as well turn them on.

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You're in trouble and you need my tree.

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Yes. Yes, we do. Yeah, the speakers are

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usable, but what I said before stands.

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Yeah, now that I've got it dialed in,

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it's uh quite solid. Was part of the

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setup wizard? Did I miss that part where

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it like asked me how big my screen was

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and stuff? No. Okay, that's something

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I'd like to see XGIMI improve as well

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then is make sure that that's part of

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the initial setup wizard. Other than

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that, man, all the things that you need

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are in the menu and it's pretty easy to

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figure out other than that screen inch

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thing. If you guys want to check this

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thing out, it's going to be linked in

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the video description. Obviously,

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there's an early access price and then

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there'll be a higher retail price down

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the road. Or, you know, hey, down the

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road though, the way XGIMI's going there

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might be an even better projector. These

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guys have just been killing it lately.

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Thanks to XGIMI for sending this over

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