What’s happening everyone Nick here from TV Box stop and welcome back to another
new and exciting review. Today’s video features a
projector like no other that’s not only a projector but an Android TV box as well.
Introducing the XGODY X1 native 1080p Android 9 TV Box projector.
This projector though not the first of its kind may be one of the first
you can get at this price range. It has a stylish modern design with
firmware features not seen in other models design to give you the complete package of
a high-quality projector as well as a high-performance Android TV box.
So to find out all that it has to offer stay tuned my full review is up next.
The X1 has a native resolution of 1920 by 1080p. It can play 4K HDR videos
and downscale them to 1080p. Its display is LCD and its light source is LED.
It has a display brightness of 9500 lumens. It has a contrast ratio of 15000:1.
It has a maximum viewing distance of 16.4 ft which produces it 300 inches display.
And an optimal viewing distance of 13.1 ft which produces a 120 inches display.
It has 150000 hours LED lamp life. It has dual band 2.4GHz + 5GHz Wi-Fi
and Bluetooth 5.0 technology. It has digital vertical and horizontal keystone
correction and 4D/4P corner keystone correction. It has 2GB of DDR3 RAM and 16GB of internal
storage running on an Amlogic S905X3 CPU and Mali G31 GPU on Android 9 pie operating system.
So I’m back and in this package contains the X1 model itself.
One Bluetooth voice/infrared combination remote control.
You get one HDMI cable.
One AC power cable. A kickstand screw.
A stylish carrying case. And a user manual.
So taking a look at its design is entire body is made of plastic
with an IR sensor to the right corner here and you have its projector lens to the front.
For connecting ports to its right it has two HDMI inputs.
Two USB 2.0 ports. One auxiliary port.
A headphone jack. And its exhaust vent.
To its left you have its focus adjustment-wheel its AC power socket and a secondary intake vent.
To its rear it has a rear facing IR sensor to the edge here. A vent for its internal
speaker a breather vent for the speaker and a third vent for its cooling fan. If
you remove the plastic cover you can gain access. At the top it features a multicolored LED
light show that can be adjusted from within the interface and it has a power button to the center.
And below the projector has four antiskid rubber pads.
A screw hole for the included kickstand that can also be used for mounting to a tripod.
And it has screw holes for mounting to a ceiling mount.
The included Bluetooth infrared combination remote out-of-the-box works via infrared only
and to connect it to the projector via Bluetooth simply press and hold the left and right buttons
on the D-pad and until the LED starts flashing rapidly then while flashing continue to use the
infrared with the D-pad to navigate to the Bluetooth settings where you can pair to it.
When you startup this projector for the first time unlike standard projectors this one starts
with a splash screen followed by an Android bootup animation followed by an Android TV box launcher.
Its firmware is divided into subsystems where you have the Android operating system running
independently and you have the projector’s media inputs running on another subsystem
with different features separate from the Android operating system
as I will show you in a moment. But for now let’s take a look at
its Android operating system and how you can use it as a standard TV box.
On this launcher you have options for mirroring your mobile devices
using Miracast or the Cool Air Mirror App. You have a shortcut to change the source input.
You have your Android file browser.
The settings area. A shortcut to access
its digital keystone correction its corner keystone correction and its Zoom.
And below you have shortcuts for Netflix YouTube the Google play store and your apps section.
The included voice remote works via Bluetooth and you can perform voice search commands
however it does not have and air-mouse feature. You can however connect any Bluetooth air-mouse
via Bluetooth or using one of its USB ports and it will work with mose cursor movements.
So in this operating system they decided to use the hybrid firmware seen in most recent TV boxes
where it core operating system is Android TV OS with the Android TV play store and it has
an interface from the mobile version. Its operating system is Android 9 pie
and you can access developer options by clicking on the firmware build information.
So this firmware is not rooted as shown here by the root checker app. Also it does not have
the digital rights under the Android section to play premium movie apps such as Netflix in HD.
Under AIDA64 it shows that its running on 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage.
Its Amlogic CPU is clocked at 1.7 GHz with support for only 32bit apps and games.
Its GPU is the Mali G31 with openGL ES version 3.2 support.
It has dual band 5GHz Wi-Fi support.
It shows that it does not have Vulkan support. Its operating temperature is around 67°C.
And it comes with decoders for the playback 4K HDR videos and videos with surround sound audio
formats such as Dolby Atmos and DTS audio. It does not have AV1 and Dolby vision decoders.
It comes with wireless updates and when I checked for updates there was one available which dealt
with an issue where it was having difficulty connecting to my audio receiver via Bluetooth.
For streaming movies and TV shows for which I believe is one of its
primary entertainment features. It comes preinstalled with the Kodi media player
but it’s an outdated version that you can update to the latest version
from the Android TV play store. Just keep in mind that you need to uninstall the old
version before you can install the new one. Here I installed all my third-party add-ons
that I usually enjoy on all my Android TV boxes and they work without issues.
You can also install any movie and TV shows streaming APKs
just as you would on a regular TV box and enjoy unlimited streams of movies and TV shows.
For official movie streaming services such as Netflix Disney+ and Amazon prime video.
You can install these apps manually and some are preinstalled after the firmware update.
However due to its lack of DRM support
these apps are limited to basic 480p resolution under this Android firmware.
This doesn’t hold the same when applied to its HDMI port as I will show you in a moment.
The YouTube app which is the Android TV version plays up to 4K 1440p resolution with HDR.
A much-welcomed feature on this model that we cannot enjoy on
other 1080p models is its ability to play 4K HDR videos and have it downscaled to 1080p
via a flash drive or portable storage connected directly to its USB port.
The whole point of having Android running on this projector is to eliminate the need for an Android
TV box to play 4K videos and other streaming apps. In this demonstration I played my usual list of 4K
HDR videos via a portable M.2 NVME SSD enclosure connected to one of its HDMI ports and the videos
played smoothly with HDR downscaled to 1080p and its display is a fantastic.
For playing Android games you don’t get much to go on with its limited
RAM and internal storage. You can play some lower end Android games but it’s graphics
rendering is affected by limited 2GB of RAM and internal storage of only 16GB.
For playing videos with surround sound audio formats such as Dolby Atmos DTS X DTS HD-MA
Dolby surround and Dolby TrueHD every projector I have tested to date either played some or none of
those videos and produced audio. Well with Android running on the X1 it comes with all the decoders
for the playback of videos with these formats. So I will do a quick run through of these videos
just to show that it play audio from videos with such formatting.
Staying on the topic of audio. After the firmware updated I proceeded to
pair my Bluetooth 7.1 audio receiver to achieve a cinematic audio experience.
It managed to pair itself to my receiver successfully and played audio but unfortunately
they still have some tweaking to do on the stability of the Bluetooth connection to
audio devices as it frequently drops off. But with that said when connected to
controller devices such as gamepad controllers and Bluetooth remotes the connection is stable.
The problem only happens when connected to Bluetooth audio speakers and receivers.
The good news is that they are providing updates.
For screen mirroring of mobile devices this firmware comes with the official
version of Miracast and another Cool air mirror app for iOS devices.
When I attempted to mirror my Android cell phone using the Miracast app that shows in HD the app
wouldn’t connect to my mobile phone so I installed the Airscreen app from the play store instead.
Here I’m my mirroring my mobile phone successfully but it’s not in HD.
Returning now to the earlier part of this video where I was indicating that
you cannot watch premium movie services such as Netflix in HD do to lack of digital rights
under the Android operating system and you can also recall that I spoke about subsystems within
the projector unrelated to Android. There is a way you can watch premium
movie services in HD and that is by connecting an official
streaming device to one of its HDMI ports. When you change the source input to HDMI it starts
up a subsystem within the projector that has its own settings area and it also has its own digital
rights to play Netflix Disney+ Amazon prime video and other premium apps in HD. You don’t get 4K.
You also have some advanced digital audio and video options in the settings are.
Here I’ve connected the Amazon fire TV cube and to ensure that you get audio you need to enter
the settings area under the settings option scroll down to the HDMI 2.0 option and set it to auto.
Once you do this you can play your premium apps in HD with audio.
And finally for fan noise from less than 1m away
it generates only 43 dB of noise which is one of the lowest fan noise levels I’ve ever recorded.
So in summary this projector is the total package. It’s got style
it has bright display lumens it has Android built-in that also makes it a TV Box
it can play 4K HDR videos and videos with surround sound audio formats it can play
your Google Chromecast Amazon fire TV stick and other official streaming devices in HD with audio.
The only issue I have with this model is that even though they have updated their firmware and
achieved connectivity to Bluetooth audio speakers and receivers they are still updating to maintain
a Bluetooth stability. However Bluetooth is stable with Bluetooth controls and gamepads.
So viewers once again there you have it. This was my review of my first
Android TV box projector the XGODY X1.
I really like this model and I highly recommend it as a great all-in-one projector solution to buy.
A project like this would usually cost over $300 on Amazon but for a very low price of only $159
from the XGODY Amazon store with an Amazon prime Day discount you
can grab one of these for a bargain. So to take advantage before the Amazon
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Give this projector the thumbs up because I believe it deserves it.
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