hi everyone i'm chris and i'm taking a look today at a projector here this one is the Halo 1080p
it has up to 800 ansi lumens is the brightness output from it and it is from a company called
x gimme they did send this out to me in exchange for this review
now being a portable 1080p projector it does have a built-in battery of course now that is
59 watt hours and it will allow it to run for around two hours with video and up to four to
six hours with just audio so it does have built-in speakers now they're tuned from harman kardon
and they sound very very good for the size of this which is well you can see it's not a large protect
projector at all so in the box you will find a user guide we have a remote for it and it's a
very similar setup to most android tv projectors here so we've got the arrow keys here around the
outside uh the ok button in the middle home back volume up and down this can also be switched over
to the focus for the projector and various other buttons here including a google assistant one
right there and then power at the top so this connects up with bluetooth it does take two aaa
batteries which are not included with that and then the power supplies this one here decent size
to it and it is rated to 90 watts now the design and build quality of this one i do like it's a
very good finish that it has fitting of the price tag of course it's not a cheap projector at all
and it does definitely fit the quality we've got here so the plastics now have no sharp edges on
them it does not feel cheap at all we've got metal around the outside so nice big large rubber foot
all around here for sitting on a table there's also this little kickstand if you needed to
prop it up a little bit there's a thread here so you can mount it on a tripod in front of your
projector screen or your wall whatever you're going to project onto and then on the sides
here you can see that we've got this mesh around the outside and we've got the built-in speakers
too now part of this is an air intake to cool the leds in this projector so the sound is by harman
kardon very good sound as you'd expect from them for such a small little unit and then at the front
here we've got a little camera at the top here so that is an autofocus little camera to assist
with focusing and then the lens here so these leds in this 1080p projector they are rated for
30 000 hours which is quite a lot you don't have to worry about them failing for some time and
here on the other side you can see again there is just one of the sides here with the speakers
and the marking there of harman kardon so on the back of it here we've got an exit vent so this
a little bit of hot air will come out of this and i'll get on to the fan noise and also
speak sample later on in this in-depth review of just what you can expect out of it so usb 2 port
here power on hdmi now this can take hdmi to 4k 30 but it down scales to 1080p after all it is only
a 1080p projector 3.5 millimeter and this is our power in so what's missing on here is an optical
for our audio which would have been nice to have finally at the top we have our volume up and down
and pause and play capacitive touch controls if you didn't have the remote with you or you just
wanted to use it on the projector itself it's good that we do have this option let's take a look at
the ui here so it runs android 9. it's android tv security patch level is from november 2020 so
it is a little dated there now you got your app store there so you can go into google play you
can install extra apps you can even install games and things but it's not a powerful gpu that it has
within this one here the amilogic chipset is a quad core it has the two gigabytes of ram 16
gigabyte rom but it's pretty standard and that's really all the amazon tv needs it does not need a
lot of power now the menus here everything seems to be great the performance you can see some
featured movies coming through here that i can rent or buy these ones if i wanted to watch them
now disney plus does work amazon prime video works and i'll just find for for you here netflix
to show you that unfortunately netflix does not seem to want to work with this which is a bit of
a disappointment i am a netflix uh subscriber so i would actually like to be able to see some netflix
programs through this and this is the error that i get unfortunately device not optimized and netflix
app is not compatible with your device and that's installing it through google play store and i have
not missed about trying different apk versions or just so side load them on there because i
just don't think it is going to work sadly at the time of doing this review and the halo here is not
supported for netflix and looking at our settings right here so you've got your standard to set up
for your accounts your wireless projector settings right here so brightness for the projector they've
got energy saving which i doubt anyone would use so this does have a maximum of 800 ansi lumens
with this office mode video which is just 100 brightness percent on everything and customized
you can set your own settings in here so i've got everything maxed out at 100 there just so you can
see of course the projector at its absolute best right here so just going back into what other
options we have available so i'll just go down to our device preferences this is all standard for
an android tv box while this being the projector and everything in one here so about time and date
language your keyboard sound so no separate sound options there for the harman kardon speakers but
i'll give you sample them later on they do sound excellent storage we've got 12 gigabytes and
that's ample for an android tv setup here and home screen google assistant chromecast is on
board screensaver and you know the rest is pretty much straightforward there with android tv devices
so looking at our image quality what can you expect out of this so it has the 800
ansi lumens maximum brightness this is a completely blacked out pitch black room
and i'm projecting onto a white wall and the blacks they look pretty decent
you can see right now i'm trying to capture this exactly how it looks
with my sony camera here and i think it's not bad at all for 1080p quality it doesn't look as
sharp as the 4k projector that i have reviewed in the channel but i find this quality is acceptable
now the current image size you're looking at is an estimated about just over 100 inches so this is a
large image i'm projecting from the other side of the review room here automatic focus it's got the
keystone correction now another thing i've picked up on is the blacks you notice this that there is
like this noise definitely present in the blacks now the further i move the screen away
and if you get it closer you don't really notice it as much but the further away it is definitely
a little bit noticeable this kind of noise and i'll just zoom into it now so you can see
now you should be able to see it just under this this black bar here should be deep pure black and
that's where you can see that constant noise there and as i just mentioned that it seems to
be when it is the furthest away from my screen so projecting the greater image here is when you
really do see it so it does have the auto focus mode that i can just flick on now there's this
little switch on the bottom if i turn that on you can manually focus or it will first do an
auto focus as you can see now it brings up the logo it's using the camera and then it will lock
that focus and it seems just to me to be pretty much perfect and then i can manually adjust that
i can just tweak it up or down to if i wanted to if i wasn't happy with the autofocus but
for me every time i've used the autofocus it's actually done the best job and even better than
me trying to manually focus it i found so there is keystone correction of course with this as
well and our throw ratio is 1.2 and then taking a look at amazon prime video so the performance of
this i have found to be perfectly fine just like any other android tv depends on your
internet connection you will have a little bit of caching there and i'll just turn that volume down
so the blacks here looking reasonably deep again but you know they're not oled deep of course not
and i do have a white wall this is projected on now when i pause and take a look at the image
quality here this of course is the expanse if you haven't seen this before excellent tv series if
you're into sci-fi it's a must really it looks good this is definitely running to my eyes at
1080p so it's not standard definition otherwise i would see a lot of artifacts in there and the
performance of the ui and the menus here is very quick it is probably even better than my
lg tv and the samsung tv i have downstairs for the ui and the performance within amazon prime video
and it does have a file browser which i'm currently using here so you can use this
to go through just a few photos and whatnot and play your media files just off external storage
so i do have a very demanding jellyfish file here that i do not expect it to be able to play because
this is 140 megabits per second 4k hevc 10 bit it's just probably not going to work at all i
might need something like hevc but i'll just give it a try i don't think that it'll just lag out
i guess okay so i can't open it with their default video player or vlc but what i'll
do is just try it now with the video player and just do just once and expect this to be a mess but
hey look at that that is a big surprise to me which is great to see so it's playing that but
there we go it did lag a few times so you can play 4k files through this and even a really demanding
file like this one but expect for a few little bits of just lag and stutter there now something
else that is not as demanding here which is a 60 megabits per second and this one's an hd file
i'll use that with the video player again and you can see that that one at least that is flawless
that seems to be 30 frames per second there is no noticeable lag and started with that
at all so for your media files everything that i've thrown at it so far actually seems to work
i just didn't think it was going to play that hevc one and so i'm surprised to see that it does
so i have it on the performance option here with this game you can set it to either graphics
to prioritize that or performance but i prefer performance here to keep it nice and smooth
so it is definitely yes showing that it's running at 1080p and 60 frames per second this is very
smooth so when i look around even really fast i'm not noticing any tearing at all now i've
been playing this game and some other ps5 games on this and i've noticed no problems whatsoever
with the input the latency and it's perfectly fine for gaming so if you intend to game
on a 1080p projector and that's one of the plans that you're gonna use it for as well i think this
one definitely does check out for that for gaming performance it is really immersive
to game at like the 100 inches now screen size versus the 48 inches that i'm typically used to
onto a sample clip now just to test out our audio quality now these speakers they do
sound really good so they're Harman Kardon tuned ones and for the size of this projector they do
put out an excellent sound now it's not going to replace a 2.1 setup or your surround
setup that you're going to be running at home but if you're using this as a portable projector or
music player it's definitely sufficient enough i find now you don't get the great stereo separation
from it but here is a sample of some music here at 100 volume just to give you an idea
of what it sounds like which is actually really good plenty of bass good mids and some treble
okay so it boils down to the halo here is i think a very good little projector
it has an excellent build quality now the speakers from this the harman kardon speakers
when you look at this you think wow that wouldn't really sound that great built-in speakers
and again yet again they have surprised me so good volume very loud yeah they have some
bass decent mids and a little bit of triple to them now the performance of the ui android tv
no problems there it's fast it's fluid it works well image quality from the projection good the
brightness is okay i think it's it's fine for most people you're gonna be watching it normally in a
room that's completely dark right with the blinds will pull down even if you have a little bit of
ambient light you can still make out the screen fine now my complaint with the image quality
which is one of my cons is the blacks the blacks they're not bad i mean they're reasonably dark but
when you look at them closely especially when you have this projector projecting say up to about a
hundred inch screen or so you really do notice so when you look at those blacks closely that it has
this effect there's grain there there's noise noise in the blacks and i don't believe it's
just my unit here i think that's just a trait of this particular projector and just well something
we're going to have to put up with the other con for me might be a big one for a lot of people
that is that netflix it doesn't seem to want to work on this projector i've got amazon prime
video and i can watch a lot of things with um you know tv and movies from google and youtube
but i still want netflix support on my projectors and that's a real shame i mean amazon prime video
is looking good but i hope that they can add netflix netflix support there in future updates
with this one here so i think for a portable projector you get up to two hours of runtime for
video i think that's going to be fine for most people cover a few episodes there and then the
built-in speakers are good and really nice little portable size that you can put this in a bag you
can travel around with it you can go camping with it and project it up onto a wall or the inside of
a tent or something which really is what this is designed for so thank you so much for watching my
review here of the halo and i do hope to see you back with more up and coming reviews bye for now