What’s up everyone Nick here from TV Box Stop and welcome back to another
new and exciting projector review. This model is from the brand ETOE,
and this is one of their latest models called the ETOE E3 Pro. This model comes with a built-in HAKO
mini-Pro certified Android 10 TV OS TV box, allowing you to view premium movie streaming
services such as Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, and Max in HD 1080p with your subscription.
So in my usual style, I will do a quick unboxing, take a look at its design and ports,
I’ll do a walk-through of its firmware features, and finally,
I’ll test its display and audio quality. So if you are interested in this newly
certified projector from ETOE, don’t go anywhere my full review is up next.
So the E3 Pro has a native resolution of 1920 by 1080p.
It has a brightness of 600 ANSI lumens. A contrast ratio of 15,00:1.
It has an optimal viewing distance of 2.7 m that produces a 100 inches display.
And has a viewing range of 40 inches to 150 inches Its light source is LED and its display is LCD.
It has a contrast ratio of 4:3 and 16:9 adaptive. It comes with dual band 2.4GHz + 5GHz Wi-Fi.
Bluetooth 5.1. Dual 10 W speakers.
It has Google assistant together with its Bluetooth voice remote.
It comes with a built-in HAKO mini certified Android TV box
with a 64bit cortex A53 CPU running on Android 10 TV OS operating system.
And it comes with digital autofocus, and auto keystone feature.
So in the box contains the E3 Pro model itself. You get one Bluetooth voice remote
with Google assistant feature. A 19V 4.74A 90W DC power supply.
One AC power cable for the power supply. And a user manual.
Please note in this purchase you don’t get an HDMI cable, or auxiliary cable.
For design this model falls within the medium-size category with a dimension of 8 ¼ inches wide,
by 5 ¼ inches long, by 6 ½ inches tall. Its entire body is made of plastic,
and at the front features its projector lens, an auto focus sensor, to the top left here, you
have its extractor cooling fan, and to the bottom left you have one of its built-in 10W speakers.
For input output to its rear, as one HDMI input, one USB 2.0 port, one auxiliary port,
a rear facing IR sensor and its DC power socket. Just below that you have the compartment
that houses the detachable HAKO mini-Android TV box already installed.
And below here you have its intake vent and a second rear facing 10W built in speaker.
At the top you have manual press button controls. And below the projector you are four antiskid
rubber feet, and a screw mount for mounting to a tripod or ceiling mount.
So its first startup includes a simple ETOE splash screen, then you are presented with a
wizard to pair the Bluetooth voice remote, then the Android TV OS 1st startup wizard.
At this point, it also performs its first autofocus and auto keystone correction.
So this is my projector screen and I’m using a high-contrast anti-glare projector fabric,
and given my limited space at a distance of 7 feet 2.1 m it produces a 72 inches display.
However, at my usual 8 feet 2.4 m it produces 83 inches which is larger than this screen.
So once you have completed the wizard you can begin using the Android TV
OS operating system to stream movies and TV shows. But before you proceed,
you first have to understand how these new projectors work.
With these new certified models what you are actually running is two operating
systems simultaneously. The projector’s default operating system, and the operating
system from the HAKO mini-Android TV box. On the remote, if you press the source
button you can switch between the projector’s interface and the Android TV box operating system.
I will start with the projector’s core operating system.
So unlike similar models that give you a separate main menu the E3 Pro does not and all
you have is a screen that allows you to switch between source inputs and its settings area.
To the top, you have a QR code to a quick start guide and another for help and support.
The settings area is divided into three sections. Projection settings,
other settings, and its about section.
Under projection settings, you have projection mode or projection direction
as it’s called in most models. You have zoom settings.
You have its focus settings where you can set it to autofocus on startup or not. And
you can enable or disable the autofocus feature.
You have settings to calibrate the auto keystone feature.
You have four-point corner keystone correction.
And you have a keystone reset feature.
You can adjust its digital autofocus manually by pressing the focus button on the remote and
using the left and right buttons on the direction pad to fine-tune your focus.
Under other settings, you have screensaver time options.
It features motion videos as screensavers.
It has a screen saver timeout shutdown feature. You can change its language.
And you have its restore to factory default option.
And under the about section, you have its model, its firmware version, and its system temperature.
And that’s its core projector firmware
and settings area. There are no picture or audio options.
So the main feature of this projector is its built-in certified Android TV OS operating system.
The Android box is the HAKO mini and it runs on the Android 10 TV OS operating system,
and here is its firmware build information. It has Google Widevine level I with HDCP
2.2 protection and it’s not rooted. Under TV settings it shows that it
has a Netflix ESN certification which allows Netflix to show in HD quality.
For firmware features, you get a display of 1920 by 1080p.
Adaptive HDR feature. HDMI CEC options.
Surround sound audio options.
Built-in Chromecast. And Google Assistant feature.
It runs on 2 GB of RAM and of 4.4 GB of internal storage.
Its CPU is a quad-core cortex A53 processor clocked at 1.8 GHz configured in 32bit mode.
Its GPU is the Mali G31 with OpenGL ES 3.2. It has dual-band Wi-Fi.
It has GPU Vulkan support. They disabled the temperature sensor.
And it comes with decoders such as DTS HD surround sound audio, HEVC, and the AV1 decoder.
So with this certified operating system, you can watch premium streaming services such as Netflix,
Disney+, Prime Video, Max, and others in HD 1080p resolution without having to connect an external
Android streaming device to its HDMI port. For screen mirroring you can use the official
version of Chromecast with your mobile devices, and it also has Google Assistant which means with
the included voice remote you can perform voice search commands as well as you can connect to your
Google smart Home application and mirror your mobile devices that also has Google Assistant.
One of the major improvements with these new certified models is its built-in audio. So I
will now connect an Android TV box to its HDMI port and play a 4K AV1 video
and have the projector downscale to 1080p and we’ll also listen to its audio quality.
For gaming, here I have it connected to my gaming PC to test for display quality and latency.
The HAKO mini has Bluetooth 5.1 and with it, you can pair any Bluetooth device such
as audio speakers and gamepad controllers. If you would like to pair the E3 Pro to your
home surround sound system, a Bluetooth speaker, or a headset, you simply open the Android settings
under remotes and accessories and click add accessory to connect to your Bluetooth device.
Here I detected my AV receiver and paired without
issues and the connection is stable without latency.
For viewing pictures in a loop, you can use an Android application on
the HAKO mini or you can switch sources to the projector’s main
firmware and read images from pen drives or external hard drives.
Simply open an image and press the okay button to pull up the left pop-up menu. Click the play
button to cycle through all images in a particular folder in a continuous loop.
For fan noise, it registered 41 dB from a distance of 1 m.
In summary, the E3 Pro has some pros and cons and I’ll start with the pros.
Its certified built-in Android TV box can play Netflix in HD with its Netflix ESN certification,
and other premium movie streaming services in HD. Its autofocus, corner keystone,
and auto keystone feature are premium features among projectors today.
Its clear display and powerful dual internal speakers, deliver a good viewing experience.
And with Google Assistant and built-in Chromecast, with the Bluetooth voice
remote you can use voice search commands and cast your mobile devices without issues.
And now for some cons. The major issue I have with
this model is that the projector’s firmware does not have any picture
brightness and color settings, or audio treble and bass settings.
Even though it comes with a Bluetooth voice remote the power button and its direction pad only work
via infrared and not Bluetooth. So there is always a latency issue where you believe that they are
supposed to work via Bluetooth and you find yourself pressing and clicking with no response.
With that said you can use an alternative air-mouse remote via USB dongle or via Bluetooth.
They did not include an HDMI cable or an auxiliary cable.
And finally, even though the built-in Android TV box is great, it’s very limited to 2GB of RAM and
4.4 GB of internal storage which restricts you to mostly watching movies and TV shows.
So viewers there you have it. Special thanks to ETOE for sending
their projector for review and supporting this channel.
If you like this model, you can get it for $264 when you apply a $35 coupon on
their Amazon product page. See the link in the description below this video.
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