WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:05.839 This has everything. XJimmy's new 00:00:03.360 --> 00:00:09.840 Horizon 20 series projectors start at just $1,700. 00:00:07.759 --> 00:00:16.400 Support [music] 4K with pixel shift, Dolby Vision, HDR10 plus, super low 00:00:12.719 --> 00:00:18.640 latency gaming at up to 240 Hz, and I 00:00:16.400 --> 00:00:23.760 don't think I've ever seen this on a projector at this price. Lens shift. 00:00:21.760 --> 00:00:28.480 That's always been the killer feature that enthusiast and professional-grade 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:33.520 projectors have, but that budget and mainstream ones don't. [music] And it 00:00:30.560 --> 00:00:38.559 makes a huge difference both to image quality as well as to ease of 00:00:35.760 --> 00:00:43.040 installation. Because let's face it, we've all tried it with an entry-level 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 00:00:44.879 --> 00:00:51.360 of shaped like this, right? And it looks like garbage. So, you go, "Oh, well, no 00:00:49.280 --> 00:00:57.120 problem. I'll just keystone that out." And then you've got rectangular garbage. 00:00:54.320 --> 00:01:01.199 Not with this. Theoretically, [music] I can point this thing straight at the 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 00:01:04.479 --> 00:01:11.920 left and right. Vertically 120% and horizontally 45%. I have no idea what 00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:15.200 those numbers mean, but I'm still excited about them. The main difference 00:01:13.680 --> 00:01:19.360 between the three different models in the lineup then is just down to 00:01:17.360 --> 00:01:24.960 brightness. So, the regular one does 3200 lumens. The mid-range [music] Pro 00:01:22.159 --> 00:01:30.159 does 4,100 lumens. And this one, the Max, creative naming scheme, you guys, 00:01:27.680 --> 00:01:35.920 does 5700 lumens, which they claim is good for up 00:01:32.320 --> 00:01:39.040 to a 300 in screen in perfect blackness 00:01:35.920 --> 00:01:42.836 or up to an 80in screen in a relatively 00:01:39.040 --> 00:01:43.520 bright room. They claim less than.8 00:01:42.836 --> 00:01:48.640 [music] delta E color accuracy. So basically 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:52.960 saying it's extremely color accurate. also greater than 100% coverage of the 00:01:50.720 --> 00:01:56.799 BT2020 color space. Although it is worth noting that is more common for 00:01:54.320 --> 00:02:04.880 projectors than it is for TVs. My goodness, is that a funky power [music] 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:09.599 brick? What the heck? How many watts is 00:02:04.880 --> 00:02:12.560 300 watts? What? Delightfully retro 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:17.120 colored C19 power cable. Haven't seen one of these in this color for a while. 00:02:14.720 --> 00:02:22.000 All right. a classy looking remote with all the obligatory 00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:25.280 buttons that I won't use except for actually, you know what, these aren't 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:30.080 that bad. You got YouTube, Netflix, Prime Video, and look at that. You can 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:33.360 get a free TV. Imagine being that confident in the quality of your 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 00:02:35.440 --> 00:02:42.400 no one will ever press it cuz they've got this. I like their little magazine 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:46.959 style battery thing here. Channel surf. 00:02:44.640 --> 00:02:52.239 Channel surf. Channel surf. I'm out. Hold on. I got this. 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:57.680 Yeah. Oh, yeah. Surf. Surf. Surf. Surf. Surf. 00:02:53.920 --> 00:02:59.840 Let's go. Oo. I like that. Very 00:02:57.680 --> 00:03:07.280 convenient. Around the back, we've got two HDMI ports, one with ERC, USB 2, USB 00:03:04.239 --> 00:03:10.080 3, optical audio, as well as a 3 and 12 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:15.040 mm audio jack and a power button. It also includes I think it's 24 [music] 00:03:12.159 --> 00:03:19.680 watts total of Harmon tuned sound, but we're getting dangerously close to the 00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:23.840 price where I would really think anybody buying even the entry level Horizon 20 00:03:21.840 --> 00:03:28.159 should really be getting at least a soundbar rather than using the speaker 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:32.040 that's built into their projector. And then, ooh, 00:03:32.239 --> 00:03:37.200 there she is. Oh, right. I didn't even 00:03:35.840 --> 00:03:41.360 mention the other really cool thing about this lens. Apparently, this is 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:44.480 their own optical design. It's like super efficient, which is a huge part of 00:03:43.200 --> 00:03:49.200 why they're able to achieve this level of brightness. And not only do they have 00:03:46.239 --> 00:03:52.480 lens shift, they also have optical zoom. We're going to play around with that 00:03:50.239 --> 00:03:56.480 later. But basically, that combined with lens shift just gives you so many more 00:03:54.959 --> 00:04:03.840 options when you're mounting. Instead of like here, IT'S EXACTLY HERE. You could 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 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 00:04:10.720 --> 00:04:16.079 every time you stand up or whatever. That, man, that really helps a lot. Oh, 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 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:26.639 it on a ceiling or whatever if you really wanted to. And where the devil's 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 00:04:29.840 --> 00:04:36.560 segue to our sponsor. Thanks to AI for sponsoring this video. Their Mag Fusion 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 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 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 00:04:47.440 --> 00:04:52.400 whole charger tipping over. 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But what they actually want you to 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 00:05:32.160 --> 00:05:40.479 sociopathic place to put volume up and down. Literally, everyone knows from the 00:05:37.360 --> 00:05:43.120 dawn of time to present day, they go 00:05:40.479 --> 00:05:49.520 above and below each other. Okay, thank you. All right, region. Hey, how about a 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:53.680 non-authoritarian region? Let's go with Canada. All right. Setup 00:05:52.800 --> 00:05:58.160 connecting. [music] It's a funny thing, right? Wi-Fi can do 00:05:55.840 --> 00:06:04.160 like over gigabit speeds in the real world, but you want to send those like 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:10.720 12 characters to sign in and it's like, whoa, whoa. 00:06:08.639 --> 00:06:13.280 >> Slow down. This will take a few seconds here. [music] 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. 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:23.280 Done. Fantastic. [music] Let's make some adjustments to the image 00:06:21.360 --> 00:06:30.560 and see how quickly we can get this thing dialed in. Okay. Select an image 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:32.160 adjustment mode. 00:06:30.560 --> 00:06:38.960 Okay. Yeah, definitely. This interesting. 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:43.199 So, with lens shift, you can't use auto keystone, autofocus. Don't care about 00:06:41.199 --> 00:06:48.000 any of that. Do that manually. Wall color adaption. Adaption. I think they 00:06:46.080 --> 00:06:51.120 mean adaptation. I You know what? I'm not going to argue English with XJimmy. 00:06:49.840 --> 00:06:55.600 I'm sure that they used AI [music] and it's really smart. Uh screen rotation, 00:06:53.600 --> 00:06:59.219 eye protection mode. No eye protection mode. Okay, so I'm going to need to not 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 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:06.800 keys. Huge. Now, it does seem to have some 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 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 00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:19.599 much. My wife will be thrilled. 00:07:17.840 --> 00:07:22.560 >> She's never seen this much lens shift before on a projector. She loves 00:07:21.039 --> 00:07:26.639 projectors. What did you think I was talking about? What is the aspect ratio 00:07:24.319 --> 00:07:30.560 of this screen? Do we know? This screen is worth noting is a complete piece of 00:07:28.639 --> 00:07:33.920 garbage. So, I don't want you to judge this thing too harshly. Like, the fact 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 00:07:36.639 --> 00:07:42.000 of random aluminum tubing and PVC 00:07:39.840 --> 00:07:46.000 corners [music] than that the projector is the wrong shape. So, don't don't 00:07:44.240 --> 00:07:50.479 stress about that, you guys. Let's play around with the brightness since that's 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 00:07:52.720 --> 00:08:00.080 the vanilla. High power mode, temperature abnormal. Switch to default 00:07:57.280 --> 00:08:05.599 mode. That's not cool. I mean, this is very room temperature room. Okay, we 00:08:02.720 --> 00:08:11.919 turned off MEMC, which might give us filmmaker mode. Game sports high. No, 00:08:09.280 --> 00:08:18.460 no, no. I Wait, was it P? Was it past high power there? Game, sports, high 00:08:13.599 --> 00:08:19.120 power. Okay, what was next? I did 00:08:18.460 --> 00:08:25.360 [snorts] I can't click on it to see the whole list of options. 00:08:23.759 --> 00:08:29.199 Definitely a little bit of work to do on the menus here, boys. It looks like 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 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:37.519 get some flex on here, boys. HDR just 00:08:34.800 --> 00:08:40.959 worked. That's always nice to see. Wow, we are really not doing this thing any 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:45.600 favors by pointing it at this awful, awful screen. Like I can see flashes of 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:50.720 brilliance. I can see how it's supposed to look. Color handling seems, as 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:54.880 advertised, to be really good. And the brightness is 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 00:08:56.240 --> 00:09:02.080 thing its best chance to shine, though. In actual content, the rainbow effect's 00:08:59.760 --> 00:09:07.839 really not bothering me. And man, this might be the best I've seen these 00:09:04.000 --> 00:09:11.600 fireworks look on a projector. That's 00:09:07.839 --> 00:09:15.040 really good. Bloody hell is that ever 00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:17.839 nice. Oh man. Ah, not all the buttons on 00:09:15.040 --> 00:09:23.080 the remote are illuminated. What a weird thing to cheap out on. I mean, the sound 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:23.080 is 00:09:24.399 --> 00:09:31.519 >> Yep. That's a projector speaker. All right. Don't use that. I mean, in a 00:09:28.800 --> 00:09:34.560 pinch, right? Sure. But try to avoid it, right? I want to try something Dolby 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:37.200 Vision. Let's try Let's find something with Dolby Vision. Seriously, would you 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 00:09:41.360 --> 00:09:47.839 that XJimmy [music] was like a weird no-name projector 00:09:45.680 --> 00:09:51.440 company that couldn't get coverage on LT unless they sponsored us? They all 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, 00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:58.560 Jimmy. We're still good with that, but uh little bit too much rainbow effect 00:09:56.720 --> 00:10:02.320 and I'd love to see the menus tweaked a little bit. The overall responsiveness 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:06.399 of the UI is not bad though. But man, especially the entry level and the Pro, 00:10:04.160 --> 00:10:10.240 having these kinds of image adjustment settings at these price points, pretty 00:10:08.560 --> 00:10:14.320 freaking awesome. You're not going to get the same kind of ridiculous specular 00:10:12.399 --> 00:10:18.560 highlights like you would with a a miniLEDD or an OLED or something like 00:10:16.240 --> 00:10:24.320 that. But you get that almost more filmic theater projector look, which 00:10:22.079 --> 00:10:30.720 some people prefer anyway. Very cinematic. Let's try games. game mode 00:10:26.880 --> 00:10:33.839 colors are uh not as good. That is some 00:10:30.720 --> 00:10:36.880 overdone red, but also then some of it 00:10:33.839 --> 00:10:39.440 underdone. Like look at Rory McShagy's 00:10:36.880 --> 00:10:42.480 orange flipping hair here. That's That's wild. 00:10:40.240 --> 00:10:45.680 >> Enable projector super frame and picture advanced settings and 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:50.160 >> now it's 240. It wants the interpolation. >> But is this like interpolated 240? 00:10:48.959 --> 00:10:56.880 >> If you can't feel it, doesn't matter, right? >> Okay. It definitely does feel more 00:10:52.160 --> 00:10:58.399 responsive now. Oh, she's smooth. 00:10:56.880 --> 00:11:02.640 I don't know if the input lag is actually as good though. [music] Did we 00:11:00.079 --> 00:11:07.120 change anything to do with input lag? No. 00:11:04.320 --> 00:11:12.320 >> And oh, that red is so wrong though. I want 00:11:10.720 --> 00:11:16.640 to play something with HDR. We were poking around on ratings and apparently 00:11:14.399 --> 00:11:19.920 with variable refresh rate enabled, it changes how it refreshes the screen a 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:24.560 little bit, which might be contributing to why it kind of felt funky. Definitely 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:30.959 not the greatest for image quality in game mode. I mean that with respect to 00:11:27.360 --> 00:11:33.040 color as well as just in general. To be 00:11:30.959 --> 00:11:36.272 clear, it's still very playable obviously, especially if we had it on a 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 00:11:39.920 --> 00:11:46.640 this is not its best use case. That's for sure. No discernable problems with 00:11:44.160 --> 00:11:51.959 input lag though, which actually raises the question for me. What if I just 00:11:48.160 --> 00:11:51.959 didn't use game mode? 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:58.240 Okay, well that answers my question then. Game mode or not, latency doesn't 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 00:12:00.880 --> 00:12:07.760 is that while I liked the look of this 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:09.760 thing, the more filmic look in films, it 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 00:12:11.760 --> 00:12:18.399 latest gaming TVs [music] and gaming monitors. So, I wouldn't say that it's a 00:12:16.560 --> 00:12:22.800 problem to game on this thing at all, but you are giving up some image quality 00:12:20.959 --> 00:12:27.519 stepping down to 1080p in order to get that higher refresh rate. [music] And 00:12:25.200 --> 00:12:32.399 for the money, I would probably rather have just like as big of a miniLEDD 00:12:30.320 --> 00:12:36.480 display as I could get. Nothing wrong with it either, though, especially if 00:12:33.839 --> 00:12:41.680 you're in a nice dark room. Just doesn't quite pop the same way, you 00:12:38.720 --> 00:12:46.560 know. See you later, coppers. And I'll see you guys later. 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