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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the BenQ Joy gp2 so the gp1 was an LED

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lit projector in a very small form

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factor meant to be portable the gp2 is

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now an HD LED lit projector so that

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means you will never and you know never is an asteris cuz if you ran it forever

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it might eventually run out but you will never have to replace it the bulb with

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an expensive replacement bulb pretty cool this one also is HD now so it's

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720p you've got multimedia connectivity which I'll show you when we open it up

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an iphone/ipod Doc and I've seen this in

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action already very cool and you can even get a detachable battery that'll

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run the unit for 2 hours on battery life

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actually I believe the BenQ site quotes 3 hours so somewhere in the 2 to three

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hour range not 100% sure um which is

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great for travel great for portability let's see what else BenQ has to say for

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themselves on here so HD ready two watt speaker so it does have included

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speakers so it'll do audio over HDMI USB

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reader SD card reader so you can play from pretty much any Source two gigs of

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built-in memory so you can play from any of those sources you can play from your

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oh it's not even on here but you can play from the iPod doc it has a document

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viewer it supports USB display

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uh there's the brightness I've seen this thing up to about uh 70 in though with

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no issues whatsoever very cool it has Auto Keystone instant on and off LEDs

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and it runs for 30,000 hours without

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replacing the bulb so that is pretty much in that sort of never time frame

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here's the unit itself which comes in a great carrying case this time around

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especially when compared to the gp1 we've got an included

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remote so I'm just go ahead and com in little Ziploc bag here show you guys the

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remote functionality that is included with the gp2 if I can ah there we

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go okay so you can navigate the menus I'm holding it upside down sorry guys

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you can oh look at that dedicated controls for your iPhone or iPod and

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yeah that's pretty much it let's see what else is included in here we got the

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power adapter so small power brick and

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there's even room inside the case this

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this was one of the things that uh Ben Q received complaints about with the gp1

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was that there wasn't room in the carry travel case to put the power adapter

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well now they have designed a special compartment right next to the projector

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for you to put that in there and there you go nice and compact we've

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also got adapter cables included uh

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we've got composite we've got uh iPhone

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and then we've got uh VGA neaten and finally a USB cable

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so let's have a look at the unit itself pull that out and take these off take

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this off okay so pretty glossy pretty

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shiny also got a nice like anodized aluminum brushed aluminum finish here

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with the BenQ logo there's all of your navigation these are all touch sensitive

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buttons including the okay in the middle

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on the side we find ventilation there's a heat sink that you can clearly see

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through there we've also got a focus wheel

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on this side we see the lens itself which got a big old fat fingerprint on

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it but you know nothing you can't take care of there you go it's not much

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better okay more heat sinks and a heat pipe even there hopefully you can see in

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there yep okay on this side we find the

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business end of the unit so there is your USB so you can run uh content off

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USB there's your mini there is your PC

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slav so oh I see okay so so that adapter

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where' that go where did the adapter go ah okay so this adapter allows you to

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run VGA or composite and this what looked like an iPhone adapter to me

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really looked an awful lot like an iPhone adapter to me plugs right into

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there and gives you those options you've also got mini HDMI so you can plug that

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right into your tablet smartphone whatever the case may be audio in

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headphones or audio out very cool

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because what that means is with the HDMI you're not stuck with the two watt

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speakers that are included you can also plug them into outside external speakers

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very neat and DC power in here we have

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more ventilation such a small unit as well as oh what's this aha SD card slot

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and such a small unit ventilation is going to be key because even though

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we're using LEDs it's still a lot of a lot of light that's being generated a

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lot of heat that's going to be generated there's where you plug in the external

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battery pack and uh let's go ahead and

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give me a couple minutes and I'll get this uh set up so we can watch something on

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it so this is fairly straightforward I plugged my uh my iPhone in says press

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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

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see the point so here's the size of the image uh cameraman if you just want to

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have a look at the blinds we aren't able to get them any more closed than that so

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I would say in a darker room actually here maybe I can close them a little bit

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better ah there we go okay so in a

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darker room that's properly set up for a presentation you can get a pretty darn

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good image out of this guy that is here

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about this big no no issues whatsoever

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very cool for such a portable unit um now I'm running SD content now so let me

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find something HD and give me a sec here

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guys so right now I'm using my favorite

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uh my favorite iPhone app this is air video and I can play back any video that

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is on my uh my Windows Home Server at

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home so let me just see here's here's something

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HD just adjusting the volume down here guys with the included remote so yeah no

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big deal I'm going to go ahead put that there and I've got something HD to play

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back for you guys so from the beginning

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okay outputting through TV output so to speak and there we go so that is running

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at uh probably a down sampled 720p cuz

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remember this is streaming uh from my home computer all the way here but I

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just want to give you guys some size perspective for the image so kind of

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hears me here I'm 56 apparently your

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armspan is about the uh about your

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height so yeah looks like we've got about a 5 foot wide image here coming

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out of this projector that looks pretty Prett darn good I'm very very impressed

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with how easy it was to set up the gp2 I

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think for you know what here I'm just going to turn on the uh the light I

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think for gamers that are running out of

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their you know that are still living in sort of one room and they want a

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projector or they want a big screen and they don't necessarily have the means to

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buy like and mount you know a big 50inch TV or something like that for 500 550

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bucks this thing is a killer value to set up a nice big screen on the cheap

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and put it away in a very very small form factor whenever you don't want to

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use it plus eliminating that uh that

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bulb replacement factor is huge and

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awesome very very cool big thanks to BenQ for providing this unit for us to

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check out don't forget to subscribe to lineus techtips from our unboxings reviews and other computer

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videos so here I am set up on uh a much

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larger wall wall although I'm actually not projecting a much larger image just

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yet let's go ahead and see how big we can get it this is a very brightly lit

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room right now there are lights directly above it so right now the image is

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probably about I'd say 5 and 1 half 6t

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wide and I'm just going to level it off and I'm going to go ahead and I'm going

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to turn the lights off in here just

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going to head over to the other side and

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turn off the light and show you guys oh

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that looks so good what kind of results we get with this is HD content playing

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off cameraman's iPhone not my own and uh

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here we go I'm just going to something to do with some Victoria Secret

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thing image quality and color is just outstanding I'm going to change my angle

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a little bit here so that I'm straight on and zoom in a little bit so that the

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uh there we go so it looks just awesome so once

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again thanks to Ben Q for allowing us to check out the gp2 don't forget to

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