hello everyone it's SpawnPoiint and welcome back to another video
and this is my new 100 inch projector setup which i've been using over the
last week it is absolutely massive but it's awesome for both movies and gaming
the horizon pro is a 4k hdr projector from XGIMI it's got android tv built in harman kardon
speakers are pretty low input lag for gaming plus it actually looks nice now i've had some big tvs
over the years including a 77 inch c1 and an 86 inch nano cell but this has been the ultimate
big screen for me and that 4k picture quality is incredible well today i want to show you what this
projector can actually do i'm going to show you some movies and i'll also show you some gaming on
both the playstation 5 and the xbox series x plus what it's like in different lighting conditions
both during the day and at night any questions you've got about this projector or my setup please
drop those in the comments and also let me know one movie or game i should definitely play on this
okay so first impressions of this projector well for me projectors have always been pretty boring
looking but it's great to see that the horizon pro has a clean and almost minimal design going on
the outer case is actually metal rather than plastic so it gives it a nice premium feel now
i'm not sure how many of you will move this around once you've set it up but if you did need to move
it it is less than three kilograms as i mentioned the design of this is pretty minimal with only a
few buttons on the top including the power button and the media controls now as this projector has
harman kardon speakers you can see there's a little label on the side here as well around
the back it comes with pretty much everything that we need including two hdmi ports now these hdmi
ports are 2.0 not 2.1 but i will explain later why we don't really need 2.1 on this there's
also two usb ports headphone out an optical port and an ethernet port if you're not using wi-fi
on the bottom there's some rubber feet and there's a hole in which you can actually mount it on a
tripod or a bracket if you'd like okay so before i get this set up let me quickly show you the screen
that i'm using so if you've followed me for a while you'll know this isn't actually my first
projector the last time i used one i didn't have a screen and i just pointed it straight at the wall
it worked fine but this time i thought i wanted to do it properly so i've actually gone for a fixed
frame screen i bought this one off amazon and it cost me £120 or about $160 which isn't bad for the
quality that you're getting it's got a full metal frame which clips together and then the screen
itself well that stretches and clips onto the back given an almost perfect finish it can then
be wall mounted using four screws although for now i've actually attached it to my tv bracket instead
and then around the front of the frame it's actually got a nice velvet texture to it it
definitely has a nice quality feel i could have gone for a roller screen instead and it would
have been easier to store away and probably easier to use but i really like the look of this screen
okay so getting it set up is really easy i've actually attached mine to a tripod and that means
i can adjust the height and the tilt or move it around but you could use it on a shelf or a table
plus it can be front rear or ceiling mounted now the first time that you've set it up or any time
that you need to move it you can actually use the auto keystone which is actually incredible so
there's no need to mess around in the settings to try and adjust the projector to match your screen
just tap a button and it does it all for you and within a matter of seconds it's ready to go
and once it is set up it will take less than six seconds to boot up each time almost as
quick as a tv one thing to note is the distance you need to place the projector from your screen
i've put these measurements on screen now to give you an idea but this depends on the size you wish
to achieve but this projector does go up to 300 inches now my projector is set at 10 feet from
the screen and i've got it set to 100 inches this is exactly what i wanted to go for in my setup and
i think it works pretty well but there's also a digital zoom though so if you wanted to make
it larger or smaller you can do that within the projector settings okay let's talk about
the picture quality of this projector which has genuinely blown me away the clarity vibrance and
overall picture quality is really impressive it's no surprise though as it is a 4k projector with
over 8 million pixels and it supports hdr10 so any movies or gaming that i've shown looks great i've
watched a few different movies on this over the last week on disney and prime and whether it's
been live action or animated it all looks decent a combination of the projector the screen the movie
and the lighting has given me a real home cinema experience an issue that i expected to find with
this which i haven't is the colors or contrast being washed out but it has been perfect it means
i've been able to watch darker films on it without really worrying about the image being unwatchable
sure the brighter scenes and the brighter movies look far nicer but the dark scenes look absolutely
fine now projectors generally speaking aren't as bright as a tv you'd normally need to have the
lights off or dim to see anything at all but this is the brightest projector that i've ever used
i've been able to watch this during the day and have my lights on at night in fact i've actually
got the brightness of this projector set to just 50 percent and that's more than enough it's
actually rated at 2200 lumens which is 30 percent brighter than the competition and that really
shows now obviously the best viewing experience is definitely watching this at night with the
lights dimmed the same as you would expect at the cinema but here's an example where i'm actually
shining the brightest light that i own a soft box and you can still see the picture now this
is an extreme case and obviously not something you would typically do but i wanted to show you
how the screen can actually cope with it you could watch this during the day but it's not going to be
ideal for the ultimate picture experience the bulb on this actually has a lifespan of 25000
hours that means if you watched over eight hours every single day it would last you more than eight
and a half years there's no worries about the bulb needing replacing overall though the picture
quality has really surprised me for a screen measuring 100 inches it just looks perfect and for
the price this is well worth the money in terms of the dashboard and the ui well the horizon pro
comes with the android tv operating system this means it supports almost all the apps you would
expect to see in the google store things like disney plus amazon prime youtube and loads more
even games on here although i've not downloaded any of these there's only one app that doesn't
work even though you can download and sign into it and that's netflix now this might be something
that is supported in the future who knows but it's worth mentioning as right now it does not work
but if you want to watch netflix on it like i do you could use chromecast or you can plug another
device in something like an apple tv an xbox or playstation 5 anything else that supports netflix
but if you don't need netflix well you can use this projector as it is with nothing else plugged
in the app store and the native apps are awesome plus as it's got that 32 gigabytes of internal
memory there's plenty of space to download and store your apps now i've got to show you this and
that's the auto keystone and the autofocus which is an absolute game changer on this projector
so if you go into the keystone settings it will actually automatically adjust the image to the
best possible size you can obviously manually override this if you think it's wrong but so far
for me it has been 100 percent perfect on top of this if you tap the focus button on the remote it
will put an image on screen and it will then sort the focus out for you it's always been pin sharp
once it's properly focused but this next part is awesome it's actually got an intelligent obstacle
avoidance sensor so if you shine the projector on the wall and someone or something is in the way
it will actually adjust the screen around it so here for example i've deliberately stood in front
of the projector and as it tries to calibrate it actually moves the entire image to the side
this would work if there was a lamp or a shelving or a door in the way or anything else that isn't
flat enough for the image and if you've ever had a projector before you'll know how convenient
this is that it auto keystones and autofocus is for you there's no need to spend hours
trying to fiddle with the feet underneath the projector to try and balance it for the screen
right next up is gaming on the horizon pro now not many will use this projector for gaming but i do
and it's been awesome it's a totally different viewing experience but it's not for everyone
i've been using it with both the playstation 5 and the xbox series x and there's only been one
single noticeable issue i'll get straight to the point it's got a delay of 35 milliseconds
while in game mode now by comparison my tv is 5.3 milliseconds and my monitor is four milliseconds
so it's a lot slower than those but it's still very very good for a projector and probably
not much different to a non-gaming focus tv or monitor this means for games that don't require
lightning fast reactions there's no problem at all i've been playing loads of different games
to test out over the last week and here's what i found car games like forza or gran turismo
look and play incredibly well as long as you have game mode enabled without game mode on games are
just unplayable i'm talking what feels like a two second delay i was fishtailing all over the place
driving around in forza is awesome though the colours the contrasts are perfect even the motion
handling is really good there's no screen tearing and no issues with the picture and since fours are
launched a couple of weeks ago i've been addicted to this game i've put so many hours in already but
if you want to add me over on xbox my gamertag is the same as youtube it's just SpawnPoiint now as
this isn't hdmi 2.1 it's only hdmi 2.0 there's no 4k 120hz support but that's fine for a projector
you don't really need it and the 4k 60 it supports runs very very smoothly i did actually play
one game of call of duty vanguard and that was the first and the last game that i played on this
projector at 35 milliseconds it's just unplayable for me but if that's the only downside to this
projector that you can't play a competitive fps game i guess that's not a bad downside but
jumping back into other games like spider-man or astros playroom on the ps5 looks incredible
i think this is probably the nicest looking game that i've played on here in terms of colors and
brightness my two children have loved playing this on the big screen it's definitely going to make my
77 inch tv look a little bit too small but when it comes to gaming on a projector i would say as
long as you don't need lightning fast reactions like in an fps game like call of duty everything
else will run absolutely fine so whether that's your racing games or spider-man or platform games
they will look incredible and it will definitely give you a whole different gaming experience
so the chances are if you're using a projector at home you've probably got a soundbar or an avr with
some speakers but with this projector you don't need to as the projector actually has some harman
kardon speakers built in it also supports dts hd audio and it sounds great movies and gaming have
sounded awesome seriously the sound is as good as a dedicated sound bar just take a listen to this
now what's great about having internal speakers is if you do decide to use this outside or away from
home you don't need a soundbar or a bluetooth speaker with it and in terms of the fan noise
it is really quiet when there's no sound on in the room at all you can obviously hear it very
slightly but as soon as the movie or the game sound is on you cannot hear it at all
and in case you're wondering what's inside the box let's take a quick look so it comes with
the projector then underneath that it comes with a manual which i can safely say i did not read
you've got the power brick a power cable and the bluetooth remote and that's it
and the remote is actually pretty simple looking it does everything that we need it to do you've
got the power button on the top then the settings button and a google assistant button the circler
button in the middle that's your navigation and in the center is your ok button underneath is the
back the home and the volume buttons and the last one is the auto focus button which is actually
quite convenient as it means you don't need to go into the settings to change the focus around the
back there's this little button that pops the battery tray out which takes two aaa batteries
okay let's talk about the cost of this projector what do you think it's worth we're talking about
a 4k hdr projector probably one of the brightest and best pictures available right now plus it's
got those harman kardon speakers built in okay so the rrp for this projector is one thousand
five hundred pounds or one thousand seven hundred dollars which considering what this can do i
actually think it's not a bad price at all there's also the cheaper non-pro model and that offers the
same experience but it's 1080p instead of 4k but keep an eye out on the sales because we're
very close to black friday and if this reduces in price anymore it would be an instant bargain
i've also dropped a link in the description if you wanted to check it out so as always the ultimate
question is is it worth it is it something that i would recommend buying well first the overall cons
there's no hdmi 2.1 support but unless you're gaming at 4k 120 you don't really need this on
a projector yet the lack of netflix support is a real shame but plugging in a console or an apple
tv will sort that then finally the 35 millisecond response time don't expect to be playing call of
duty or any fps games online as you will really struggle but the pros far outweigh the cons it's
got incredible 4k performance everything is sharp and the image is crystal clear it's also
incredibly bright to the point that you don't need to watch it in a blackout room you can watch this
with the lights on it also looks nice it's one of the most aesthetically pleasing projectors that's
out there i've got no problem having this on show and it could easily sit on the shelf pretty much
anywhere then there's the awesome keystone and the focus there's no time wasting trying to get
the perfect picture overall i'm very happy with the horizon pro and i think i'll struggle to find
another one better than this especially for the price so if you're wanting a true 4k home cinema
experience whether it's for movies or gaming this is the one well you've just made it to the end
of today's video so thank you for watching if you've got any questions about this projector
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