this is the full movie theater it's an ultra short throw projector it's 4k
supports hdr and dolby vision and it's also got speakers made by bones and wilkins so
let's take a look in this video i'm going to be giving you my impressions of this ultra
short throw projector i'm going to be breaking it down in depth and going over the things that you
should care about and maybe some things that could be improved so let's take a look at why
this projector is potentially one of the best options available on the market today so first
of all what is an ultra short throw projector very very briefly it's a projector that sits
just below where you want the screen to be now there's tons of benefits to a projector like this
and there are some disadvantages and i'll get on to that later in the video but first of all
let's talk about the design of this thing immediately straight off the back this is one of
the smallest old short throw projectors i've seen and that is a very good thing some of these things
that you have shiny up at your wall or your screen that you have and they're just absolutely massive
and in some circumstances they can be a bit of an eyesore so having something that's a little
bit more compact is definitely a bonus now sometimes having it bigger means you can fit
in things like better speakers and stuff like that and i think that despite this being small
that isn't a disadvantage that comes with it but i will get onto the sound quality later in the video
now ultimately i think this thing looks really smart i do quite like having a sort of darker
metal finish the fact that when you're going to be using this you're probably going to be in a
slightly darker room i do think sometimes it can be a little bit distracting have something that's
really bright sat in front of the screen so that's a definite positive now you have the speaker mesh
on the front of the projector and you do have two smaller sort of tweeter speakers on the sides you
have the recess on the top where the lens is and then at the back of the projector you have all
of your ports now i think it looks really smart i like the fact they're small the only thing i don't
think is necessarily the best about the design is that you have quite an obvious logo on the front
that lights up now i think it's good to show that there's sort of power and you do get that
by having a few led lights come on the front when you turn the thing on but having the logo shining
really brightly i actually think that takes away from the smart look of this ultimately design wise
it's nearly perfect but not quite there now moving around to the back of the projector now at the
back we have sort of all the standard things we would expect you do get three hdmi ports which is
really really good the hdmi 2.0 port so not hdmi 2.1 um but normally on a ust projector you're
not expecting 4k 120 hertz signal to be passing through so not a surprise there one thing that is
a bit of a surprise is that one of the hdmi ports is an e-arc port or enhanced audio return channel
it's basically just an arc port but it's enhanced so it's slightly better and it handles sort of
audio signals better so basically if you are going to be plugging this into an external sound system
you are going to be getting the best connection that you can with that port so big thumbs up
now other than that we do have our other standard ports we've got things like optical audio ethernet
usb so connection-wise it's got everything that you should need now this thing is running android
11 which is the standard for projectors like this so when you're setting this up is very similar to
all other sort of android projectors so it's fairly easy it runs through a wizard which goes
through that and also goes through some of the things like focusing and keystoning now that does
bring us on something which is quite important in my personal opinion and that is focus uniformity
sometimes with ultra short story projectors it does struggle to get the corners in focus and
that's because obviously the corners near the projector are quite close to projector and the
corners far away are considerably further away than the bottom corners of the screen
so getting it properly focused can be a bit of a challenge on some of these i have to say i thought
that was going to be the case with this and when you first power on and you go to keystone and
focus um it can be a bit of an issue to try and focus it just doesn't seem to get in there once
the project is warmed up and you've been using it for a little while suddenly that then makes it a
lot easier to be sharper i think the problem we have here is that the projector just isn't quite
warmed up in time to get that sort of sharp thing when you first boot up the projector so if this
is the projector that you're going to be getting out to use and it's not going to be a permanent
fixture in your home you do have to bear in mind it will need to be switched on for a little while
in order to get that focus perfect when you first get it out the box so you do have both four points
and eight points keystoning which makes it a lot easier to actually get the screen the way you want
it now honestly i wouldn't recommend doing that because the more you sort of digitally keystone
something the more processes you're adding into that display which is going to affect the picture
it might not affect it that much so if you're not really that fast and you just want to make sure
it's flush against your wall and easy to use then great but if this is going to be something that is
a permanent fixture i would recommend getting it right with the adjustable legs if you can get it
sort of lined up perfectly just by positioning it physically it is going to give you the best
picture you can get so android 11 pretty simple pretty easy to use everything is sort of where
you'd expect it to be you've got a wide array of apps available on the projector so that is a
positive the only thing i don't like about android is i feel like it's quite difficult to get to some
of your sources quite quickly so if you're going to be switching between some of your apps and then
some of your hdmis that is going to be a little bit difficult it's not going to be a very quick
process now this is also hindered by the fact that it is a very simple remote that you get in the box
so there's not a lot of options for shortcuts or things like that in order to get anywhere you're
going to sort of need to be going home and then getting to that place that being said once you're
in a hdmi input if you press the settings button it brings up the shortcut menu where you can
quickly go and see your sources and stuff but that only comes up if you're in a hdmi input it doesn't
come up if you're just using for example disney plus now that does bring us on to some of the
issues that we have this just like the vast majority of projectors on the market today
it doesn't have a license to be able to run netflix natively on the projector so it means
if you do download netflix which you can do it's just not going to run any of the titles
which is a little bit annoying so in order to get netflix on this you're going to have to go through
a separate input whether that be a console or like something like a fire stick you could do that
however you can't run netflix straight from the netflix app like you would for example
disney plus or youtube now one thing that you can do with this and with android 11 is you can
chromecast to it so if you have something that you're watching on a mobile device
uh you can just chromecast that straight to the projector which is obviously a massive plus so
just like most projectors running android 11 um it's pretty similar in that regard there's
quite a few positives there's a few negatives as well thrown in there but let's look at some of
the real key selling points of this projector and we're going to start off with the picture
now i have tested quite a few ultra short throw projectors and i have to say that this one is
one of the better options that you can get one of those things is that it does support dolby vision
which is a massive plus i mean i love watching things on disney plus and a lot of like some of
the movies and stuff on there are imacs and they use darby vision so the fact that you can just
sort of tap into that to get those best colors it's really impressive and the color accuracy is
actually pretty good there's quite a few settings that you can go in to change some of the color
accuracy and stuff like that but i did find that it was fairly decent out of the box now something
you do need to sort of go in and have a little fiddle with is some of the brightness settings
um dolby vision does make it seem a little bit darker when you first turn on and so it
takes away some of that brightness and the reason for that is this projector is 2500 antsy lumens
which is a set amount of brightness and when you go into something like dolby vision
which has a much wider gamut of different colors and brightnesses that it can access
well in order for it to sort of show that range off in the best way possible it does have to sort
of scale back some of the brightness in order to be maxing out at that 2500 lumens so if you're
going to be using this in a dark room um don't worry about it don't change anything dolby vision
looks great if you're going to be using this in a slightly brighter room you probably want to go
into the settings and change the dolby vision gain up which you can do and they've got a little bit
of customization there so if you want to sort of bring up the gain a little bit you are going to
lose some of the low end if you do that but it's going to give you a brighter image so you sort of
pros and cons if you're using a projector though really you should be aiming to be
in a dark room now speaking of sort of the low end and the shadows and stuff
this is a pretty decent performer again especially if you're using something like
dolby vision it really does make the most of the entire spectrum of different colors now in
darker scenes you can make out details but that is only going to be if you're in a pitch
black room like with any projector as soon as you start introducing a bit of ambient light you're
going to be losing out on a lot of shadow detail and that's no different no matter what projector
you're using but if you have an alr screen and a projector like this well then your shadow detail
is going to be pretty impressive now another thing to focus on is motion and there's a couple of
things that they do with this projector which is actually i think really positive so first of all
if you're just going to be running this projector and watching a movie in 24 fps and you don't sort
of do any sort of tweaking with the settings then you're going to get a bit of judder and i think
that's quite normal for any sort of display but it is quite apparent with this if you have nothing
on um and like if you've got a panning shot or something like that it stutters quite a lot and
it is a bit distracting so this projector does have something called memc now i can't remember
what the acronym stands for but what it does is it adds in some extra frames in between the frames
that are already in the content sort of mix them up if you will and what that then does is that
it reduces the stutter and sort of makes a much smoother image so for example i've got this motion
test pattern running on the screen and if i switch on the memc that then sort of smooths it out and
makes it a lot more bearable to watch now the test pattern is pretty extreme and it's not going to be
that obvious in normal content but for example for a panning shot it makes an absolute massive
difference as the difference between not really seeing what's happening and what the details are
in a moving shot to suddenly being able to see everything in crisp detail now you do have a risk
of artifacts when you do anything like this with motion smoothing
but what this does is actually doesn't do that bad in terms of artifacts there are a few but nothing
that noticeable especially in real term content now what about sound one of the massive benefits
of a projector like this an old short throw projector is that because it isn't behind you
or above you but it is directly in front of you it gives a good excuse to put decent sound in because
then it replaces something like a sound bar now as much as this has an eoc port which means you can
connect high quality sound straight to it through a hdmi port it has pretty good speakers built
in they're made by bones and wilkins and they sound really really good now they're not perfect
and it's not going to replace a dedicated sound system especially a high-end one but if you're
sort of ominoring about something like this and all you're going to be getting is the projector
you're not going to be going for an external sound system just yet or ever then this actually does a
fairly decent job the thing that impresses me most is that it is very loud i think it's only
two 15 watt speakers but even despite that they get really really loud and you only really need
the volume to be pretty punchy and loud at sort of 25 if you turn it all the way up it's going to be
way too loud now i really like how clear the sound is i think with some of these systems they can be
a bit bassy and muddy and having sound that's pretty clear especially things like vocals and
like sort of the details in the sound having them quite clear is rare so this is pretty good and it
achieves that very well the only thing is missing out is that real low end it doesn't make your seat
shake it's not got proper built-in subwoofer so it's not going to make your house rumble but
it is okay in terms of bass so i've got to be honest pretty solid marks for sound there but
again not quite perfect now the last thing i want to speak to you about is gaming now it's a bit of
a weird one talking about gaming on a projector because ultimately it's never the best it's okay
for casual gamers but as soon as you get into any sort of fast reaction type gaming things like an
fps it's just a little bit too slow now there's a game mode included and also low latency mode and
stuff like that so the response time can be pretty good for a projector it gets to about 40 or so
something milliseconds which is okay for a projector but it is not perfect especially
for fps games and you can find if you're playing a game and you're trying to duke it out with someone
um you just feel a little bit out of control which isn't really what you want in like a racing game
or something that's a little bit more casual like fifa you don't really notice it it's only in this
sort of fast pace turning the camera quickly and getting accurate shots in where you notice it
a bit more so in summary what do i think of this projector well honestly it is massively impressive
it's not very often i see an odd shorter objective supporting things like dolby vision
so that's a massive plus we also get decent sound on this thing we get a really good picture and a
bright vivid accurate colors so i've got to give it a pretty high mask but guys tell me what you
think are you interested in buying this projector let me know and let's have a little chat about it
and if you want to see another video from me about some of the other old shelter options out there
click one of these two videos guys thank you very much for watching i'll see you in the next one