welcome to my unboxing and first look at the BenQ Joy gp2 so the gp1 was an LED
lit projector in a very small form
factor meant to be portable the gp2 is
now an HD LED lit projector so that
means you will never and you know never is an asteris cuz if you ran it forever
it might eventually run out but you will never have to replace it the bulb with
an expensive replacement bulb pretty cool this one also is HD now so it's
720p you've got multimedia connectivity which I'll show you when we open it up
an iphone/ipod Doc and I've seen this in
action already very cool and you can even get a detachable battery that'll
run the unit for 2 hours on battery life
actually I believe the BenQ site quotes 3 hours so somewhere in the 2 to three
hour range not 100% sure um which is
great for travel great for portability let's see what else BenQ has to say for
themselves on here so HD ready two watt speaker so it does have included
speakers so it'll do audio over HDMI USB
reader SD card reader so you can play from pretty much any Source two gigs of
built-in memory so you can play from any of those sources you can play from your
oh it's not even on here but you can play from the iPod doc it has a document
viewer it supports USB display
uh there's the brightness I've seen this thing up to about uh 70 in though with
no issues whatsoever very cool it has Auto Keystone instant on and off LEDs
and it runs for 30,000 hours without
replacing the bulb so that is pretty much in that sort of never time frame
here's the unit itself which comes in a great carrying case this time around
especially when compared to the gp1 we've got an included
remote so I'm just go ahead and com in little Ziploc bag here show you guys the
remote functionality that is included with the gp2 if I can ah there we
go okay so you can navigate the menus I'm holding it upside down sorry guys
you can oh look at that dedicated controls for your iPhone or iPod and
yeah that's pretty much it let's see what else is included in here we got the
power adapter so small power brick and
there's even room inside the case this
this was one of the things that uh Ben Q received complaints about with the gp1
was that there wasn't room in the carry travel case to put the power adapter
well now they have designed a special compartment right next to the projector
for you to put that in there and there you go nice and compact we've
also got adapter cables included uh
we've got composite we've got uh iPhone
and then we've got uh VGA neaten and finally a USB cable
so let's have a look at the unit itself pull that out and take these off take
this off okay so pretty glossy pretty
shiny also got a nice like anodized aluminum brushed aluminum finish here
with the BenQ logo there's all of your navigation these are all touch sensitive
buttons including the okay in the middle
on the side we find ventilation there's a heat sink that you can clearly see
through there we've also got a focus wheel
on this side we see the lens itself which got a big old fat fingerprint on
it but you know nothing you can't take care of there you go it's not much
better okay more heat sinks and a heat pipe even there hopefully you can see in
there yep okay on this side we find the
business end of the unit so there is your USB so you can run uh content off
USB there's your mini there is your PC
slav so oh I see okay so so that adapter
where' that go where did the adapter go ah okay so this adapter allows you to
run VGA or composite and this what looked like an iPhone adapter to me
really looked an awful lot like an iPhone adapter to me plugs right into
there and gives you those options you've also got mini HDMI so you can plug that
right into your tablet smartphone whatever the case may be audio in
headphones or audio out very cool
because what that means is with the HDMI you're not stuck with the two watt
speakers that are included you can also plug them into outside external speakers
very neat and DC power in here we have
more ventilation such a small unit as well as oh what's this aha SD card slot
and such a small unit ventilation is going to be key because even though
we're using LEDs it's still a lot of a lot of light that's being generated a
lot of heat that's going to be generated there's where you plug in the external
battery pack and uh let's go ahead and
give me a couple minutes and I'll get this uh set up so we can watch something on
it so this is fairly straightforward I plugged my uh my iPhone in says press
okay to connect so I press okay iPod doc
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searching okay pretty bright in here you guys but uh hopefully you can kind of
see the point so here's the size of the image uh cameraman if you just want to
have a look at the blinds we aren't able to get them any more closed than that so
I would say in a darker room actually here maybe I can close them a little bit
better ah there we go okay so in a
darker room that's properly set up for a presentation you can get a pretty darn
good image out of this guy that is here
about this big no no issues whatsoever
very cool for such a portable unit um now I'm running SD content now so let me
find something HD and give me a sec here
guys so right now I'm using my favorite
uh my favorite iPhone app this is air video and I can play back any video that
is on my uh my Windows Home Server at
home so let me just see here's here's something
HD just adjusting the volume down here guys with the included remote so yeah no
big deal I'm going to go ahead put that there and I've got something HD to play
back for you guys so from the beginning
okay outputting through TV output so to speak and there we go so that is running
at uh probably a down sampled 720p cuz
remember this is streaming uh from my home computer all the way here but I
just want to give you guys some size perspective for the image so kind of
hears me here I'm 56 apparently your
armspan is about the uh about your
height so yeah looks like we've got about a 5 foot wide image here coming
out of this projector that looks pretty Prett darn good I'm very very impressed
with how easy it was to set up the gp2 I
think for you know what here I'm just going to turn on the uh the light I
think for gamers that are running out of
their you know that are still living in sort of one room and they want a
projector or they want a big screen and they don't necessarily have the means to
buy like and mount you know a big 50inch TV or something like that for 500 550
bucks this thing is a killer value to set up a nice big screen on the cheap
and put it away in a very very small form factor whenever you don't want to
use it plus eliminating that uh that
bulb replacement factor is huge and
awesome very very cool big thanks to BenQ for providing this unit for us to
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videos so here I am set up on uh a much
larger wall wall although I'm actually not projecting a much larger image just
yet let's go ahead and see how big we can get it this is a very brightly lit
room right now there are lights directly above it so right now the image is
probably about I'd say 5 and 1 half 6t
wide and I'm just going to level it off and I'm going to go ahead and I'm going
to turn the lights off in here just
going to head over to the other side and
turn off the light and show you guys oh
that looks so good what kind of results we get with this is HD content playing
off cameraman's iPhone not my own and uh
here we go I'm just going to something to do with some Victoria Secret
thing image quality and color is just outstanding I'm going to change my angle
a little bit here so that I'm straight on and zoom in a little bit so that the
uh there we go so it looks just awesome so once
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