Hey how's it going, Dave2D here, so this is a can of Coke and behind it is a can of awesomeness. This is the
Nebula capsule made by Anker. it's a very small projector and
I've tried a lot of mini projectors before, the Rift 6, the Pico projectors like they're just- there's always some kind of
deficiency to the product to the point where I just don't enjoy using it.
This is the first one I've enjoyed thoroughly. It's bright, it's got good colors and it's just a really solid product, hence the video.
Now the three biggest issues I've had with mini projectors are number one, brightness, they're usually just not bright enough for me;
Secondly is the color of the image so it'll just project usually a very like
desaturated or a flat-looking image which I don't like watching and the third one, a big one for me is sound there there's obviously
fan noise that comes from these things because there's a little lamp in there and they got
to cool it off which is fine but if their speakers aren't good or if they're not loud enough that fan just
drones out everything else that you're trying to listen to.
This thing
does not have any of those problems so this thing has your standard HDMI connection so you can connect any kind of media device through
an HDMI cable
right up to this thing and it also has a dongle with a USB connection so you can connect up a USB flash drive or
whatever. But the thing that makes this thing like so much better than most
projectors, most mini projectors is the software that's built into it. This thing has Netflix, YouTube,
Plex, a whole bunch of media services available right on the device. You don't need to connect anything
third-party or even a phone to this thing it just literally takes that service,
streams it and then projects it onto a surface all in the size of a Coke can.
Like how cool is that, right?
Okay, another thing I like about this thing, is that the speakers sound way better than I thought they would. Now a lot of mini projectors
have this issue with just having a mono speaker and just projecting in one
direction. This, they call it 360° Sound; I wouldn't go as far as to call it that
but it's just a nice sounding speaker system that you can kind of be wherever you want around this thing and it'll still sound good
It's a 5 watt speaker not huge, not amazing but it's clean. There's no buzzing, there's no hissing, it's just
clean audio at a good volume. The lower frequencies are missing. It's not
great with bass but considering the size of this thing, I mean it's probably
physically impossible to get a good bass out of this thing so I'm happy
considering what this thing is. The fan noise is actually pretty average to me, I wouldn't consider it louder or quieter
than most of the many (mini?) projectors that I've used but because of the bigger and better speakers, I feel like it kind of compensates for
fan noise. The battery life on this thing. They claim 4 hours on the website, I'm getting actually a little bit more than that
but I think it depends on what you're doing with the device so I'm able to get a little bit more than four hours with
the thing at max brightness but I'm streaming video. If you have this thing connected to a USB device or some kind of,
physical drive that's feeding the data to the machine I think it's a little bit less but I'm getting around four hours of streamed content
So the image is
bright, way brighter than any of the other mini projectors that I've tried. it's rated at 100 ANSI lumens or a
100 A-N-S-I lumens I'm not sure exactly how they describe that thing, but this is literally double the brightness of your average mini projector
Often they come in at 50.
The colours on this thing are also really good. So that's something that a lot of mini projectors screw up on, it's just really muted
colours. This thing, nice colours. It's a little bit
oversaturated but considering what you're doing with this thing, like you're not watching these like super colour-accurate images. This thing has a nice colour
profile. It has vertical keystone correction so you can have it tilted, or even use it on your bed.
Now there's one issue with the image and that is its resolution. So
before i looked up the resolution on this thing, when I was just looking at the image on the wall i
always assumed that this thing was like
720p maybe even 1080p like my eye can't really tell when it comes to projection because they're never super, super sharp
This thing is actually a 480p projection and
it's- on paper that's terrible like that's straight-up pathetic I think for a lot of people they're like
"Hey 480p? Screw that, not interested". But visually, it looks totally acceptable to me. If you're looking for like a 4K super crisp image then,
don't even look at these products. But if you're just looking for like a large screen with decent image quality, that's super portable
This thing fits the ticket. Okay, in terms of the
screen size you can get up to 100 inches, that's what they say but you got
to be in a really dark room
to project it like that, but I can get like a
60 to maybe 70
inch (177.8 cm) image without going to a super dark area. So what else is there? There's a remote, it's like kind of your standard remote and
there's also an app that you can use on your phone to control the device, and it's surprisingly good there's no hiccups, it's not janky
and there is mouse control, it's actually a pretty good app.
There's some things I don't like about this thing the big one
for me is frame rate so i don't mind the resolution loss because visually I just- it's not that
important to me at this screen size and at this
viewing distance but the reduced frame rate limits this thing for my use so if I'm watching Twitch or even playing games I'm used to just
watching things at 60 fps, this thing is not. I want to say it's like
24 or maybe even 30 frames per second.
It's not really listed in the instruction manual so I'm not sure what it is but it's
definitely not 60 frames per second.
Another thing I don't like is that you can't log into the YouTube app so maybe they'll fix that in the future, but in its
current iteration
because you can't log in, you don't see your
subscription feed or anything like that. There's still a search history so you can kind of see the videos that you've looked up in
the past but there's no
custom feed in the YouTube app right now. OK, my favorite thing about this device though is seriously, this thing
paired with one of these things, those like retro gaming consoles from Nintendo. This kind of combination is
super fun like this is already a portable system that you can bring around, do whatever you want with it, and then you plug it up
to the projector and now you can play big screen Mario Kart wherever the heck you want. It's freaking awesome.
So this is a device that is gonna be different for everyone who uses it some people want something like this
some people want to stream from their phone, through AirPlay,
Cast on Android. Whatever it is there's just so much utility with this thing and i think for a lot of people it's a really
good pick up. So this thing starts at
$350, it's obviously not cheap but it's got a lot of utility and for the right person it's a really cool device.
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