Last couple years, I pretty much thought the projector category was kind of dead.
Like, why would you get one when TV's picture quality is so much better and
the prices are coming down so much? But Valyrian, who sponsored this video, is
attempting to shatter that narrative with projectors that are not very large,
like this, the Vision Master Pro 2. Look at this little brick. This thing
promises to be super bright, super color accurate, super color uh gamut covery,
and super easy to use and compact. Let's open it up and check what this thing can
do. Jeez,
this is a cool look. It has this kind of like radiator fin kind of look with Oh,
it's it's dense. Pretty heavy glass on
the front. That is cool. Probably a fingerprint magnet, but why would you be
touching it? Don't touch it. Oh my god. And then you can see on the sides. This
thing definitely radio te out of each side and that's a a good design making
it like a heat sink because otherwise you'd be hearing it. You don't want to
hear fans on your projector. You got your lenses in the front. You've got some sensors that's going to help it do
auto keystone and autofocus when we do the setup in a minute. Then on the top
you can see it actually has these like long range microphones because it has
Google Assistant or Alexa or Apple HomeKit on board. So you can do all
sorts of voice activated things with this as well as the hard toggle for
turning the mics off. Also some LED indicators there on the bottom. We've
got our quarter20 thread and a couple feet. And this other kind of kickstand
Nintendo Switch style foot, which means you don't have to hang this from the
ceiling. You don't have to put it on a tripod. You could just put it on a table
and adjust it with that. It's super
stiff, which is what you want because you don't want to be touching this thing too often. You just want to set it and
forget it. And finally, on the back, we have nothing. Just joking. Yeah. IO, an
IR sensor with a power button, Ethernet, headphone jack, three HDMI ports,
including one that's Eer, two USB ports,
your spitiff, and the power barrel jack.
Speaking of power, I never did actually finish the unboxing cuz I was like just
too obsessed with looking at the actual thing. But here's a box of stuff. And
here's a bag of stuff. Um, specifically
a manual. A thick boy manual. Holy cow.
Wow. It's like full color and stuff, too. It's actually pretty sick. I
haven't read it myself, so I'm not going to say it's super usable or well written, but I will say they definitely
paid more attention, put more effort into this than your typical user guide.
And that is it. So, let's look at this.
Ah, yes. They give you a little shammy for all those fingerprints. the remote,
which is pretty standard. You know, it's got the back button in the bottom left
like normal. You've got a voice assistant button, power button, some app
specific buttons, and at least this section of the row is back lit. Uh, but
down here, you got to just memorize. And finally, you have the power brick
itself, which is 180 W. It's fairly heavy. I don't know for sure. Oh, it is
GAN. Yep, it's GAN, which is why it's so
small for being so beefy. And then for length, it's it's less than 6 ft, but
more than 5 1/2 ft. Now that this is empty, we just got to set this puppy up.
We've got the projector projecting. It's all automatic and seamless. Once you
leave your baggage at the door and and don't try to treat it like other
projectors you've seen, and by you, I mean me. We actually set it up on a
tripod behind the couch and it was shooting onto the ceiling. What the
heck? Turns out it really is not an ultra short throw, but a short throw
projector. It kind of wants to be on this table in front of me. And you can
see I don't even have any tilt adjusted at all. This screen is kind of just
straight ahead of me, not very high up. And to to hit that, it just needs to be
flat because the image actually projects outward a little upward like by default.
And I guess that makes sense because the IR sensor is on the back of the device.
So for the remote to hit it, you've got to be on this side of it, whether it's
on the table in front of you or mounted to the screen there. That might be
something to consider if you actually have this projector a lot farther from
the screen because you're trying to project a 300 in image, which this does
support. In that case, uh you're still going to have to be behind this thing if
you're not using an IR extender. We got it hooked up to the PlayStation. We're going to watch some movies hopefully in
HDR. Before we get into a film, we want to make sure we're watching it properly.
Man, they got everything under the sun on this thing. HLG, HDR10 Plus, Dolby
Vision. Like some very expensive projectors, this projector does have
frame by frame dynamic tone mappings. Another thing that's really cool is that
in the picture mode settings, they don't just say game and sports mode. They say
HDR game and HDR sports mode. I really like having that label on there just to
make it more clear exactly what you're getting. I am going to choose filmmaker
mode. While we're in here, worth mentioning it has not only 24 FPS
support, but also 48. So, if you want to watch Gemini Man or for some reason The
Hobbit, you can. And if you're another type of weirdo, 3D person like Lionus,
it has active 3D support as well. Now, I am going to launch this movie through
Plex. That's on the PlayStation because we're going to be gaming a little bit
later. Um, but just want to note, don't need a PlayStation at all. Don't need a
Fire TV stick or anything. Google TV does ship on this thing, which is
awesome. It's a great OS. That's what's on my NVIDIA Shield. One thing I like about Google TV is obviously it supports
chcast or casting. Sometimes I cast from my PC to my uh home theater. So you got
you can do that, but you also can do AirPlay too with this thing. I wish that
the volume buttons was back lit on this because that's what you're using most of
the time. It's not. But I can live with that. You know, it's funny though.
Onboard speakers on here. Don't use them, please. But it's nice to have, you
know, just in a pinch or maybe the first day you move in, you don't have all your
stuff yet or maybe you're troubleshooting. Nice to have. The
picture quality honestly is really good. I run a cutie OLED at home, so I'm a
black level snob. This looks pretty dang
black. They have this technology called enhanced black level, which basically
just dims the lasers so that they're just not shining as brightly in the dark
areas. Now, of course, it's a projector, so the darkest black can never be darker
than the screen you're projecting on in the darkness of your room currently, but
it does look really good. And the brightness with 3,000 ISO lumens is
super bright. So, I'm getting like a TV- like experience here in a room that is
dark but not so dark. I think we should flip the lights on just to compare a
little bit. But if you are watching in a bright room, Valyrian does offer a premium ambient light rejecting screen
which claims it can block up to 85% of light from the ceiling or the sides.
Okay, now this is a lighting setup that I would say is not ideal. I would
actually hate to watch a movie with this kind of lighting setup. A bright light
kind of right behind me pointing at the screen. It drastically affected the
picture quality. this is still watchable. Um, but it no longer looks
great. That's the thing with projectors. You buy them because the screen size is
huge. Um, but you have to realize they do have to be in a room that is at least
a little bit light controlled. That said, with this projector at this
brightness, at this throw distance and screen size, I would say this is at
least usable. But if you want to get locked in, turn the lights off. In terms
of color performance, there's some claims here that are maybe even surpassing your QD OLED. We're talking
110% coverage of the REC 2020 color gamut, which is just huge. We haven't
tested this ourselves, but from other reviewers and places on the internet,
I've seen 95 99% coverage of BT2020, and
that is plenty. My first impression is total satisfaction with the color
accuracy, and the black levels are awesome, too. Um, so why don't we find
out what the latency is all about and play some games. So, we're gaming. We're
gaming. And it looks awesome, and it feels really responsive. There's not a
lot of imput lag happening here. Uh I'm bad at games, but it's not gonna be
because of this projector. I'll say that. One thing to note though is
though, the PlayStation is of course pumping this out at 120 FPS at 4K, and
that's awesome. But with projectors,
particularly this DLP technology, there is a limitation with the chipset that
you're only going to be able to get 60 FPS at 4K. However, you can play at
1080p up to 240 Hz, which is pretty
insane for a projector, and they're claiming 4 milliseconds response time if
you do that. Now, we're playing on PlayStation, so we don't have unlocked frame rates, so I'm not going to
experience that today. But I will say that gaming is not a reason not to buy
this, that's for sure, which is kind of my default ickiness around projectors.
So, I guess my mind has changed on that. For someone at my level, there is no
discernable difference between this and a TV. Overall, my first impression is
that this projector lived up to the hype that was circling around the home
theater community about it. The performance you're getting, the picture quality you're getting is just really
good for the price. Now, what is that price? Normally $3,000, but right now at
the time of shooting this, $25.50. You can also check out their early bird
prime day deal, which is 15% off plus a
free pair of 3D glasses. To get that, use the code pro2 EPDD. Don't sleep on
this. It's It's at least worth considering if you're in the market for those kind of things. So, thanks for
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