This has everything. XJimmy's new
Horizon 20 series projectors start at just $1,700.
Support [music] 4K with pixel shift, Dolby Vision, HDR10 plus, super low
latency gaming at up to 240 Hz, and I
don't think I've ever seen this on a projector at this price. Lens shift.
That's always been the killer feature that enthusiast and professional-grade
projectors have, but that budget and mainstream ones don't. [music] And it
makes a huge difference both to image quality as well as to ease of
installation. Because let's face it, we've all tried it with an entry-level
projector. You kind of point it at the wall and you got this image that's kind
of shaped like this, right? And it looks like garbage. So, you go, "Oh, well, no
problem. I'll just keystone that out." And then you've got rectangular garbage.
Not with this. Theoretically, [music] I can point this thing straight at the
wall dead on, get my nice square image, and then just move it up and down or
left and right. Vertically 120% and horizontally 45%. I have no idea what
those numbers mean, but I'm still excited about them. The main difference
between the three different models in the lineup then is just down to
brightness. So, the regular one does 3200 lumens. The mid-range [music] Pro
does 4,100 lumens. And this one, the Max, creative naming scheme, you guys,
does 5700 lumens, which they claim is good for up
to a 300 in screen in perfect blackness
or up to an 80in screen in a relatively
bright room. They claim less than.8
[music] delta E color accuracy. So basically
saying it's extremely color accurate. also greater than 100% coverage of the
BT2020 color space. Although it is worth noting that is more common for
projectors than it is for TVs. My goodness, is that a funky power [music]
brick? What the heck? How many watts is
300 watts? What? Delightfully retro
colored C19 power cable. Haven't seen one of these in this color for a while.
All right. a classy looking remote with all the obligatory
buttons that I won't use except for actually, you know what, these aren't
that bad. You got YouTube, Netflix, Prime Video, and look at that. You can
get a free TV. Imagine being that confident in the quality of your
projector that you'd put a button to get a free TV right on your remote knowing
no one will ever press it cuz they've got this. I like their little magazine
style battery thing here. Channel surf.
Channel surf. Channel surf. I'm out. Hold on. I got this.
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Surf. Surf. Surf. Surf. Surf.
Let's go. Oo. I like that. Very
convenient. Around the back, we've got two HDMI ports, one with ERC, USB 2, USB
3, optical audio, as well as a 3 and 12
mm audio jack and a power button. It also includes I think it's 24 [music]
watts total of Harmon tuned sound, but we're getting dangerously close to the
price where I would really think anybody buying even the entry level Horizon 20
should really be getting at least a soundbar rather than using the speaker
that's built into their projector. And then, ooh,
there she is. Oh, right. I didn't even
mention the other really cool thing about this lens. Apparently, this is
their own optical design. It's like super efficient, which is a huge part of
why they're able to achieve this level of brightness. And not only do they have
lens shift, they also have optical zoom. We're going to play around with that
later. But basically, that combined with lens shift just gives you so many more
options when you're mounting. Instead of like here, IT'S EXACTLY HERE. You could
go back a little bit and then zoom it. Or you could go off to the side a little
bit and then lens shift it over so you don't, you know, hit your head on it
every time you stand up or whatever. That, man, that really helps a lot. Oh,
speaking of mounting it overhead, we've got one of those little quarter20 threads on the bottom so you could mount
it on a ceiling or whatever if you really wanted to. And where the devil's
the power input? Oh, interesting. It's in the base. Let's plug it in after this
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which is a cool opportunity for us to show you a neat feature. Hey, look at
that is laser projector is not good for eyes. So, this is probably one of the
best functioning eye protection whatever. Okay. The second I go to show
that it works really well, it immediately doesn't work. So, I'm going to go over there now. I am following the
instruction. Oh. Oh, these ones.
Oh, you put Okay, that looks like it's
about to reach onto the home in the back. But what they actually want you to
do is hit the volume up and volume down, which by the way, this is an absolutely
sociopathic place to put volume up and down. Literally, everyone knows from the
dawn of time to present day, they go
above and below each other. Okay, thank you. All right, region. Hey, how about a
non-authoritarian region? Let's go with Canada. All right. Setup
connecting. [music] It's a funny thing, right? Wi-Fi can do
like over gigabit speeds in the real world, but you want to send those like
12 characters to sign in and it's like, whoa, whoa.
>> Slow down. This will take a few seconds here. [music]
Maybe a minute. I >> I'm sure there's a very good reason for it, but hey, there we go.
Done. Fantastic. [music] Let's make some adjustments to the image
and see how quickly we can get this thing dialed in. Okay. Select an image
adjustment mode.
Okay. Yeah, definitely. This interesting.
So, with lens shift, you can't use auto keystone, autofocus. Don't care about
any of that. Do that manually. Wall color adaption. Adaption. I think they
mean adaptation. I You know what? I'm not going to argue English with XJimmy.
I'm sure that they used AI [music] and it's really smart. Uh screen rotation,
eye protection mode. No eye protection mode. Okay, so I'm going to need to not
stand in front of it. Yes, I'm good with [music] all that. Here we go. Arrow
keys. Huge. Now, it does seem to have some
keystone on right now, which is a bit of a problem for me. I'm going to just make
sure that's all off. How much can I go down? Wow, dude. I could go down so
much. My wife will be thrilled.
>> She's never seen this much lens shift before on a projector. She loves
projectors. What did you think I was talking about? What is the aspect ratio
of this screen? Do we know? This screen is worth noting is a complete piece of
garbage. So, I don't want you to judge this thing too harshly. Like, the fact
that it doesn't line up with this screen [music] is probably more of an indication that this screen is made out
of random aluminum tubing and PVC
corners [music] than that the projector is the wrong shape. So, don't don't
stress about that, you guys. Let's play around with the brightness since that's
really one of the main selling points of going for the max rather than the Pro or
the vanilla. High power mode, temperature abnormal. Switch to default
mode. That's not cool. I mean, this is very room temperature room. Okay, we
turned off MEMC, which might give us filmmaker mode. Game sports high. No,
no, no. I Wait, was it P? Was it past high power there? Game, sports, high
power. Okay, what was next? I did
[snorts] I can't click on it to see the whole list of options.
Definitely a little bit of work to do on the menus here, boys. It looks like
there's not much we're going to be able to do with it for now. All right, let's
get some flex on here, boys. HDR just
worked. That's always nice to see. Wow, we are really not doing this thing any
favors by pointing it at this awful, awful screen. Like I can see flashes of
brilliance. I can see how it's supposed to look. Color handling seems, as
advertised, to be really good. And the brightness is
really good. I think we're going to have to kill the lights to really give this
thing its best chance to shine, though. In actual content, the rainbow effect's
really not bothering me. And man, this might be the best I've seen these
fireworks look on a projector. That's
really good. Bloody hell is that ever
nice. Oh man. Ah, not all the buttons on
the remote are illuminated. What a weird thing to cheap out on. I mean, the sound
is
>> Yep. That's a projector speaker. All right. Don't use that. I mean, in a
pinch, right? Sure. But try to avoid it, right? I want to try something Dolby
Vision. Let's try Let's find something with Dolby Vision. Seriously, would you
watch movies like this? >> Oh, looks amazing. Hell yeah. Yeah. This looks awesome. Like, how long ago was it
that XJimmy [music] was like a weird no-name projector
company that couldn't get coverage on LT unless they sponsored us? They all
glowed up now. I still don't mind if you guys sponsor us once in a while. Thanks,
Jimmy. We're still good with that, but uh little bit too much rainbow effect
and I'd love to see the menus tweaked a little bit. The overall responsiveness
of the UI is not bad though. But man, especially the entry level and the Pro,
having these kinds of image adjustment settings at these price points, pretty
freaking awesome. You're not going to get the same kind of ridiculous specular
highlights like you would with a a miniLEDD or an OLED or something like
that. But you get that almost more filmic theater projector look, which
some people prefer anyway. Very cinematic. Let's try games. game mode
colors are uh not as good. That is some
overdone red, but also then some of it
underdone. Like look at Rory McShagy's
orange flipping hair here. That's That's wild.
>> Enable projector super frame and picture advanced settings and
>> now it's 240. It wants the interpolation. >> But is this like interpolated 240?
>> If you can't feel it, doesn't matter, right? >> Okay. It definitely does feel more
responsive now. Oh, she's smooth.
I don't know if the input lag is actually as good though. [music] Did we
change anything to do with input lag? No.
>> And oh, that red is so wrong though. I want
to play something with HDR. We were poking around on ratings and apparently
with variable refresh rate enabled, it changes how it refreshes the screen a
little bit, which might be contributing to why it kind of felt funky. Definitely
not the greatest for image quality in game mode. I mean that with respect to
color as well as just in general. To be
clear, it's still very playable obviously, especially if we had it on a
nicer screen like an ambient light [music] rejecting screen or if we were in a properly light controlled room. But
this is not its best use case. That's for sure. No discernable problems with
input lag though, which actually raises the question for me. What if I just
didn't use game mode?
Okay, well that answers my question then. Game mode or not, latency doesn't
seem like a big issue for me, at least in controller games. But what I will say
is that while I liked the look of this
thing, the more filmic look in films, it
doesn't have the same kind of pop that I've gotten used to in gaming from the
latest gaming TVs [music] and gaming monitors. So, I wouldn't say that it's a
problem to game on this thing at all, but you are giving up some image quality
stepping down to 1080p in order to get that higher refresh rate. [music] And
for the money, I would probably rather have just like as big of a miniLEDD
display as I could get. Nothing wrong with it either, though, especially if
you're in a nice dark room. Just doesn't quite pop the same way, you
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