1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:05,839 This has everything. XJimmy's new 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:09,840 Horizon 20 series projectors start at just $1,700. 3 00:00:07,759 --> 00:00:16,400 Support [music] 4K with pixel shift, Dolby Vision, HDR10 plus, super low 4 00:00:12,719 --> 00:00:18,640 latency gaming at up to 240 Hz, and I 5 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:23,760 don't think I've ever seen this on a projector at this price. Lens shift. 6 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:28,480 That's always been the killer feature that enthusiast and professional-grade 7 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:33,520 projectors have, but that budget and mainstream ones don't. [music] And it 8 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:38,559 makes a huge difference both to image quality as well as to ease of 9 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:43,040 installation. Because let's face it, we've all tried it with an entry-level 10 00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:47,120 projector. You kind of point it at the wall and you got this image that's kind 11 00:00:44,879 --> 00:00:51,360 of shaped like this, right? And it looks like garbage. So, you go, "Oh, well, no 12 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:57,120 problem. I'll just keystone that out." And then you've got rectangular garbage. 13 00:00:54,320 --> 00:01:01,199 Not with this. Theoretically, [music] I can point this thing straight at the 14 00:00:58,719 --> 00:01:07,360 wall dead on, get my nice square image, and then just move it up and down or 15 00:01:04,479 --> 00:01:11,920 left and right. Vertically 120% and horizontally 45%. I have no idea what 16 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:15,200 those numbers mean, but I'm still excited about them. The main difference 17 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:19,360 between the three different models in the lineup then is just down to 18 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:24,960 brightness. So, the regular one does 3200 lumens. The mid-range [music] Pro 19 00:01:22,159 --> 00:01:30,159 does 4,100 lumens. And this one, the Max, creative naming scheme, you guys, 20 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:35,920 does 5700 lumens, which they claim is good for up 21 00:01:32,320 --> 00:01:39,040 to a 300 in screen in perfect blackness 22 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:42,836 or up to an 80in screen in a relatively 23 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:43,520 bright room. They claim less than.8 24 00:01:42,836 --> 00:01:48,640 [music] delta E color accuracy. So basically 25 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:52,960 saying it's extremely color accurate. also greater than 100% coverage of the 26 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:56,799 BT2020 color space. Although it is worth noting that is more common for 27 00:01:54,320 --> 00:02:04,880 projectors than it is for TVs. My goodness, is that a funky power [music] 28 00:02:00,159 --> 00:02:09,599 brick? What the heck? How many watts is 29 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:12,560 300 watts? What? Delightfully retro 30 00:02:09,599 --> 00:02:17,120 colored C19 power cable. Haven't seen one of these in this color for a while. 31 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:22,000 All right. a classy looking remote with all the obligatory 32 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:25,280 buttons that I won't use except for actually, you know what, these aren't 33 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:30,080 that bad. You got YouTube, Netflix, Prime Video, and look at that. You can 34 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:33,360 get a free TV. Imagine being that confident in the quality of your 35 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:37,760 projector that you'd put a button to get a free TV right on your remote knowing 36 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:42,400 no one will ever press it cuz they've got this. I like their little magazine 37 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:46,959 style battery thing here. Channel surf. 38 00:02:44,640 --> 00:02:52,239 Channel surf. Channel surf. I'm out. Hold on. I got this. 39 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:57,680 Yeah. Oh, yeah. Surf. Surf. Surf. Surf. Surf. 40 00:02:53,920 --> 00:02:59,840 Let's go. Oo. I like that. Very 41 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:07,280 convenient. Around the back, we've got two HDMI ports, one with ERC, USB 2, USB 42 00:03:04,239 --> 00:03:10,080 3, optical audio, as well as a 3 and 12 43 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:15,040 mm audio jack and a power button. It also includes I think it's 24 [music] 44 00:03:12,159 --> 00:03:19,680 watts total of Harmon tuned sound, but we're getting dangerously close to the 45 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:23,840 price where I would really think anybody buying even the entry level Horizon 20 46 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:28,159 should really be getting at least a soundbar rather than using the speaker 47 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:32,040 that's built into their projector. And then, ooh, 48 00:03:32,239 --> 00:03:37,200 there she is. Oh, right. I didn't even 49 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:41,360 mention the other really cool thing about this lens. Apparently, this is 50 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:44,480 their own optical design. It's like super efficient, which is a huge part of 51 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:49,200 why they're able to achieve this level of brightness. And not only do they have 52 00:03:46,239 --> 00:03:52,480 lens shift, they also have optical zoom. We're going to play around with that 53 00:03:50,239 --> 00:03:56,480 later. But basically, that combined with lens shift just gives you so many more 54 00:03:54,959 --> 00:04:03,840 options when you're mounting. Instead of like here, IT'S EXACTLY HERE. You could 55 00:04:00,879 --> 00:04:09,599 go back a little bit and then zoom it. Or you could go off to the side a little 56 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:12,319 bit and then lens shift it over so you don't, you know, hit your head on it 57 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:16,079 every time you stand up or whatever. That, man, that really helps a lot. Oh, 58 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:21,120 speaking of mounting it overhead, we've got one of those little quarter20 threads on the bottom so you could mount 59 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:26,639 it on a ceiling or whatever if you really wanted to. And where the devil's 60 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:32,400 the power input? Oh, interesting. It's in the base. Let's plug it in after this 61 00:04:29,840 --> 00:04:36,560 segue to our sponsor. Thanks to AI for sponsoring this video. Their Mag Fusion 62 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:41,280 1X is a Chi 2.2 wireless charger that can charge at up to 25 watts. And what 63 00:04:39,759 --> 00:04:45,759 makes this charger so special is the suction cup base that allows you to stick it to most flat surfaces. If you 64 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:49,040 got a big old chunker of a phone, you don't have to worry anymore about your 65 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:52,400 whole charger tipping over. 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But what they actually want you to 75 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:34,720 do is hit the volume up and volume down, which by the way, this is an absolutely 76 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:40,479 sociopathic place to put volume up and down. Literally, everyone knows from the 77 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:43,120 dawn of time to present day, they go 78 00:05:40,479 --> 00:05:49,520 above and below each other. Okay, thank you. All right, region. Hey, how about a 79 00:05:46,639 --> 00:05:53,680 non-authoritarian region? Let's go with Canada. All right. Setup 80 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:58,160 connecting. [music] It's a funny thing, right? Wi-Fi can do 81 00:05:55,840 --> 00:06:04,160 like over gigabit speeds in the real world, but you want to send those like 82 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:10,720 12 characters to sign in and it's like, whoa, whoa. 83 00:06:08,639 --> 00:06:13,280 >> Slow down. This will take a few seconds here. [music] 84 00:06:11,919 --> 00:06:18,960 Maybe a minute. I >> I'm sure there's a very good reason for it, but hey, there we go. 85 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:23,280 Done. Fantastic. [music] Let's make some adjustments to the image 86 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:30,560 and see how quickly we can get this thing dialed in. Okay. Select an image 87 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:32,160 adjustment mode. 88 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:38,960 Okay. Yeah, definitely. This interesting. 89 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:43,199 So, with lens shift, you can't use auto keystone, autofocus. Don't care about 90 00:06:41,199 --> 00:06:48,000 any of that. Do that manually. Wall color adaption. Adaption. I think they 91 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:51,120 mean adaptation. I You know what? I'm not going to argue English with XJimmy. 92 00:06:49,840 --> 00:06:55,600 I'm sure that they used AI [music] and it's really smart. Uh screen rotation, 93 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:59,219 eye protection mode. No eye protection mode. Okay, so I'm going to need to not 94 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:02,800 stand in front of it. Yes, I'm good with [music] all that. Here we go. Arrow 95 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:06,800 keys. Huge. Now, it does seem to have some 96 00:07:05,039 --> 00:07:10,800 keystone on right now, which is a bit of a problem for me. I'm going to just make 97 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:15,360 sure that's all off. How much can I go down? Wow, dude. I could go down so 98 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:19,599 much. My wife will be thrilled. 99 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:22,560 >> She's never seen this much lens shift before on a projector. She loves 100 00:07:21,039 --> 00:07:26,639 projectors. What did you think I was talking about? What is the aspect ratio 101 00:07:24,319 --> 00:07:30,560 of this screen? Do we know? This screen is worth noting is a complete piece of 102 00:07:28,639 --> 00:07:33,920 garbage. So, I don't want you to judge this thing too harshly. Like, the fact 103 00:07:32,479 --> 00:07:39,840 that it doesn't line up with this screen [music] is probably more of an indication that this screen is made out 104 00:07:36,639 --> 00:07:42,000 of random aluminum tubing and PVC 105 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:46,000 corners [music] than that the projector is the wrong shape. So, don't don't 106 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:50,479 stress about that, you guys. Let's play around with the brightness since that's 107 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:55,039 really one of the main selling points of going for the max rather than the Pro or 108 00:07:52,720 --> 00:08:00,080 the vanilla. High power mode, temperature abnormal. Switch to default 109 00:07:57,280 --> 00:08:05,599 mode. That's not cool. I mean, this is very room temperature room. Okay, we 110 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:11,919 turned off MEMC, which might give us filmmaker mode. Game sports high. No, 111 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:18,460 no, no. I Wait, was it P? Was it past high power there? Game, sports, high 112 00:08:13,599 --> 00:08:19,120 power. Okay, what was next? I did 113 00:08:18,460 --> 00:08:25,360 [snorts] I can't click on it to see the whole list of options. 114 00:08:23,759 --> 00:08:29,199 Definitely a little bit of work to do on the menus here, boys. It looks like 115 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:34,800 there's not much we're going to be able to do with it for now. All right, let's 116 00:08:31,759 --> 00:08:37,519 get some flex on here, boys. HDR just 117 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:40,959 worked. That's always nice to see. Wow, we are really not doing this thing any 118 00:08:39,039 --> 00:08:45,600 favors by pointing it at this awful, awful screen. Like I can see flashes of 119 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:50,720 brilliance. I can see how it's supposed to look. Color handling seems, as 120 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:54,880 advertised, to be really good. And the brightness is 121 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:57,760 really good. I think we're going to have to kill the lights to really give this 122 00:08:56,240 --> 00:09:02,080 thing its best chance to shine, though. In actual content, the rainbow effect's 123 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:07,839 really not bothering me. And man, this might be the best I've seen these 124 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:11,600 fireworks look on a projector. That's 125 00:09:07,839 --> 00:09:15,040 really good. Bloody hell is that ever 126 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:17,839 nice. Oh man. Ah, not all the buttons on 127 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:23,080 the remote are illuminated. What a weird thing to cheap out on. I mean, the sound 128 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:23,080 is 129 00:09:24,399 --> 00:09:31,519 >> Yep. That's a projector speaker. All right. Don't use that. I mean, in a 130 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:34,560 pinch, right? Sure. But try to avoid it, right? I want to try something Dolby 131 00:09:33,279 --> 00:09:37,200 Vision. Let's try Let's find something with Dolby Vision. Seriously, would you 132 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:42,320 watch movies like this? >> Oh, looks amazing. Hell yeah. Yeah. This looks awesome. Like, how long ago was it 133 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:47,839 that XJimmy [music] was like a weird no-name projector 134 00:09:45,680 --> 00:09:51,440 company that couldn't get coverage on LT unless they sponsored us? They all 135 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:54,720 glowed up now. I still don't mind if you guys sponsor us once in a while. Thanks, 136 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:58,560 Jimmy. We're still good with that, but uh little bit too much rainbow effect 137 00:09:56,720 --> 00:10:02,320 and I'd love to see the menus tweaked a little bit. The overall responsiveness 138 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:06,399 of the UI is not bad though. But man, especially the entry level and the Pro, 139 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:10,240 having these kinds of image adjustment settings at these price points, pretty 140 00:10:08,560 --> 00:10:14,320 freaking awesome. You're not going to get the same kind of ridiculous specular 141 00:10:12,399 --> 00:10:18,560 highlights like you would with a a miniLEDD or an OLED or something like 142 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:24,320 that. But you get that almost more filmic theater projector look, which 143 00:10:22,079 --> 00:10:30,720 some people prefer anyway. Very cinematic. Let's try games. game mode 144 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:33,839 colors are uh not as good. That is some 145 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:36,880 overdone red, but also then some of it 146 00:10:33,839 --> 00:10:39,440 underdone. Like look at Rory McShagy's 147 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:42,480 orange flipping hair here. That's That's wild. 148 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:45,680 >> Enable projector super frame and picture advanced settings and 149 00:10:44,399 --> 00:10:50,160 >> now it's 240. It wants the interpolation. >> But is this like interpolated 240? 150 00:10:48,959 --> 00:10:56,880 >> If you can't feel it, doesn't matter, right? >> Okay. It definitely does feel more 151 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:58,399 responsive now. Oh, she's smooth. 152 00:10:56,880 --> 00:11:02,640 I don't know if the input lag is actually as good though. [music] Did we 153 00:11:00,079 --> 00:11:07,120 change anything to do with input lag? No. 154 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:12,320 >> And oh, that red is so wrong though. I want 155 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:16,640 to play something with HDR. We were poking around on ratings and apparently 156 00:11:14,399 --> 00:11:19,920 with variable refresh rate enabled, it changes how it refreshes the screen a 157 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:24,560 little bit, which might be contributing to why it kind of felt funky. Definitely 158 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:30,959 not the greatest for image quality in game mode. I mean that with respect to 159 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:33,040 color as well as just in general. To be 160 00:11:30,959 --> 00:11:36,272 clear, it's still very playable obviously, especially if we had it on a 161 00:11:34,959 --> 00:11:42,320 nicer screen like an ambient light [music] rejecting screen or if we were in a properly light controlled room. But 162 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:46,640 this is not its best use case. That's for sure. No discernable problems with 163 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:51,959 input lag though, which actually raises the question for me. What if I just 164 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:51,959 didn't use game mode? 165 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:58,240 Okay, well that answers my question then. Game mode or not, latency doesn't 166 00:11:56,720 --> 00:12:04,000 seem like a big issue for me, at least in controller games. But what I will say 167 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:07,760 is that while I liked the look of this 168 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:09,760 thing, the more filmic look in films, it 169 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:13,760 doesn't have the same kind of pop that I've gotten used to in gaming from the 170 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:18,399 latest gaming TVs [music] and gaming monitors. So, I wouldn't say that it's a 171 00:12:16,560 --> 00:12:22,800 problem to game on this thing at all, but you are giving up some image quality 172 00:12:20,959 --> 00:12:27,519 stepping down to 1080p in order to get that higher refresh rate. [music] And 173 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:32,399 for the money, I would probably rather have just like as big of a miniLEDD 174 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:36,480 display as I could get. Nothing wrong with it either, though, especially if 175 00:12:33,839 --> 00:12:41,680 you're in a nice dark room. Just doesn't quite pop the same way, you 176 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:46,560 know. See you later, coppers. And I'll see you guys later. Subscribe to Short 177 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:46,560 Circuit.