Hi, everyone.
It's Adam with World Wide Stereo.
Today's video, I'm going to go over the LG CineBeam projector, the HU70LA.
The LG HU70LA CineBeam projector is a UHD projector so that's 4K,
that means it can handle 4K.
And something different that I haven't seen is, inside of this, you have some
streaming services built in, like Netflix and Fandango.
So, that's a first for a projector that I've ever dealt with.
Another thing that's different is that this LG projector uses an LED as its
light source, an LED engine.
Most projectors will have a lamp and you'll get 3,000, 4,000 hours.
But they claim to get 30,000 hours of lamp life out of this guy because they use
that LED engine.
So, that's really impressive.
The projector itself, not very heavy.
It's got a nice white design here.
Another thing, it has a built in speaker and it also has Bluetooth connectivity so
you could actually pair a nice Bluetooth speaker with this.
On the bottom, you'll notice you have these adjustable little feet here and you
just kind of screw them in or screw them out if you need to level it or raise it or
lower it to make it higher.
And there's no real adjustment to zoom in or zoom out as far as making
the picture here.
You do have this but if you need a bigger picture, you really physically do need
to move that projector back and then you have a little manual zoom
adjustment right here.
So, not on the remote control, but right up top here for you.
So, you'll also notice on the bottom here is you have a hole pattern here to put
a mount in.
So, if you're going to ceiling mount this, it would hang like this and then you could
put your projector mount right here and attach it to the ceiling.
Included with the projector is the supplied remote control
and on that you will have, you'll see, direct access here to Netflix
and they have a Prime video feature right here.
And the remote has the common LG theme where you have a little mouse on the
screen that you can use and as you move it around that cursor moves on the screen
to help you navigate through the menu system.
It does have voice recognition.
This has the LG ThinQ IQ system so you can talk to it, ask to search for a movie and
it will find it inside of here.
It's also a Google Assistant enabled device so you can pair this
with Google Assistant, tell it to turn on that way.
But all your other basic commands are right here and it's a nice remote control.
So, let's talk about the connectivity that's on this.
On the back, you'll find two HDMI inputs, you'll find some USB inputs.
You also have a digital TV tuner built into this thing as well so you can connect
an antenna right to it.
You can connect this to the internet with a wired connection or wireless.
I always recommend a wired connection, but if that's not possible,
you can connect this to your WiFi network and that'll unlock the smart TV feature
set built into this.
The listed smart features that are built into this were Netflix, Amazon,
Google Play Music, you have YouTube, Spotify, and Fandango Now.
So, they will say that they do firmware upgrades to this so more might be
available in the future but currently that's what's listed in the specification
sheet right now at the time of this video.
As far as audio connections on the back or outputs, you'll have a fiber optic output.
You have a standard 3.5 millimeter or 1/8-inch headphone jack stereo
headphone jack output.
And don't forget, you have Bluetooth built into this so I have a lot of different
ways that I can connect this to get sound out of it.
You have the built in speakers.
I could Bluetooth this to a pair of Bluetooth speakers.
Or I could send its output, the fiber optic output back to a receiver
to run my surround sound system or add a soundbar to it.
And you have that headphone jack on there.
So, you can connect that to headphones, obviously, but it can be an output that
you would run into a pair of powered speakers or you can use it as a standard
analog output as well.
So, a good amount of connectivity with this guy.
Now I want to talk a little bit about the technology that's in here.
I mentioned that this had the LED engine which is great.
I mean, that's the first I've seen in here, 30,000 hours of lamp life expected
out of this.
That's a lot of movies.
LG will also give you a one-year manufacturer's parts and labor warranty.
This is a DLP projector, okay?
Now, when DLP first came out, it's actually like a chip and it's
about the size of a book of matches.
And on that chip are tons of mirrors, in this case, 8.3 million of them because
this is a 4K UHD projector and those little mirrors are constantly pivoting and
moving and then shine through what used to be a spinning color wheel.
And it was great.
It was a very efficient way of making color.
It was very, very bright.
But every now and again, there was something out there called the
rainbow effect that you would see and that happened when you had a very bright source
up against a very dark source.
And where those seams came together, if you looked carefully for a second,
you would just see this flash of RGB, or red, green, and blue.
And we called that the rainbow effect.
Well, this projector is a DLP projector but they've been able to take out 90%
of that rainbow effect.
And this really worked.
Instead of using that spinning color wheel, they use a static color filter
to send and there's four channels of them that go through.
So now, I'm shining through these static four channel RGB color filters and that
has really toned down the rainbow effect.
As far as its resolution, again, this is a 4K UHD projector so it has 8.3
million pixel capability.
Also does HGR10.
The lumens on this projector, they spec it out at 1,500 lumens which
is very bright.
That's a bright projector.
And the contrast ratio they have in the specs says 150,000 to 1.
In the specifications, you'll find that they say that you can get
either a 60-inch image or all the way up to 140 and in my testing, I actually had
this thrown up on about 120-inch screen and I was about 10 feet away or so
from the screen.
So, keep that in mind, the further back that you get
with a projector, the less brightness that you're going to get out of it.
So, I think around 100, 120 is really kind of the sweet spot
for this projector but you can get up to 140.
I would just really make sure if you're doing that
that it's in a completely darkened room.
Any ambient light would really affect that.
So, 100, 120, I think you're good with this projector.
Now I want to tell you a little bit about my personal experience
with this projector.
So, I received this projector and I set it up in one of my theater rooms.
I was using a Stewart FireHawk screen and I projected on it.
It's 135-inch overall screen that I have but that's a two, three,
five to one screen so I ended up bringing this down because this aspect ratio
handles standard 16 by 9 and 4 by 3 content.
So, I was able to get about 120-inch image out of this.
Once I set it on my table, I used the leveling feet down here to not
only get the pitch that I needed because I was a little bit below my projector
but also to level it out so it was perfectly flat and nice and
up on the screen there.
The first thing I noticed when I set it up is how quiet it was.
I was very surprised by that.
And that's something you want to think about with a projector,
especially if you're doing like a dedicated room and this isn't going to be,
like, a portable product for you.
If you're installing that projector above your head, if it's got a fan up there,
that's something you want to think about.
Is it going to be way too loud?
Am I going to, in a quiet scene, just hear the fan above me?
So, very, very quiet.
The next thing I noticed was those lumens.
This is a very, very bright projector.
I was astonished at how bright the screen was.
I was able to turn the lights up a little bit and have a decent amount of ambient
light on and still have a very usable image.
Of course, when I shut it all the way down, I was blown away by how
bright it was.
I did actually have to calm it down to get a nice picture, you know, out of it.
I didn't want it too bright.
You don't want an image too bright that it feels like it's burning your eyes when
you're watching it.
So, I had to calm it down in a darkened room.
But when I had some of the lights up, I brought that brightness up and it was
able to have a nice usable image.
So, good projector for watching a football game or a big sporting event or you're
having people over and you don't want to bring the lights all the way down.
You know, you want to have a little bit of ambient light so this had enough
horsepower to do that.
I wired this to my internet and I put my Netflix account in it because I wanted
to check out the HDR10 to see the high dynamic range out of it.
I also wired it to a Blu-ray player and also a standard cable box.
So, I started with the cable box and I put a sporting event on,
the football game happened to be on and I was watching it.
And the motion looked very nice on it.
It kind of stayed together.
I did see, like, the grass, though, when the camera moved around or the runner
was running on the field that started to get a little out of focus but we're
dealing with a sub $2,000 projector here so I didn't want to get my hopes
up too high.
I've seen lots of very, very expensive and top performing home
theater projectors and that kind of stuff always stays nice and true.
But here we're dealing with a projector that's not quite on that level so I wasn't
expecting it to look like that.
And of course, it didn't.
But a very good image, the edge detail was nice,
it was just the body content that started to get a little out of focus
as things moved.
But again, the colors were nice so I liked the color accuracy on it and the overall
brightness was very impressive.
As I increased my source, so then I went to Blu-ray which gives me a
better source, the blacks on that and the accuracy of that even got better
than watching standard cable.
So, I was watching a movie and I put on some "Harry Potter" scenes,
I watched some "Lord of the Rings" then I went to some animated detail just trying
to cover all my basis to see all the different kinds of movies out there,
anything from dark movies to bright movies to documentaries that use
really interesting lighting.
And again, it held together pretty well.
That motion artifact that I was talking about when things moved kind
of stayed true.
Again, whenever the camera moved, it seemed like if I move real fast my
shirt would've gotten just a little out of focus.
But the edge detail stayed intact so that was good.
The last thing I checked was Netflix and I started streaming some 4K content
onto this projector from there.
The resolution is always impressive for 4K.
It always looks fantastic.
The colors were nice.
I could tell the HDR was working because it had scene where you could tell it was
brighter and darker and some background areas so the HDR seemed to be working
or the high dynamic range seemed to be working very, very well.
Again, same motion kind of thing that was happening there, but again,
with the price point of this projector, I think it's performing very, very well.
I've seen some others in this price point and it kind of holds its own with those.
But overall, the usage for this, there's so many different things you can
do with this projector, between the speaker being built in so you
really don't need to have an external source if you're just trying to watch
something real quick.
You have the Bluetooth connectivity.
So, I see a lot of applications for this projector.
So, it's a good one.
Overall, this projector has tremendous value for what it does, for the price
point, it's awesome.
The smart TV feature's built right in.
It's fantastic.
You have decent connectivity on the back.
I even hooked up my iPhone directly to this.
I have a little lightning to HDMI adapter.
You could take your iPhone and plug it right into the back of this.
Take it outside.
This is where I really see this projector being an awesome piece for like that
outdoor movie night because it's so easy to move around and set up so quickly.
The audio connections are great.
You can make a quick Bluetooth connection and have a pretty awesome outdoor
movie night experience.
If you're looking for an inexpensive projector for a basement, for the kids,
or for your own home theater, again, very, very quiet so when you mount it
on the ceiling, it's not going to be loud.
It has decent brightness or actually great brightness when you have ambient lights
up or when you turn it down.
It's got nice imagery on the wall there.
I would always recommend that you buy a screen though.
But overall, there's a lot you can do with this projector.
So again, I think it's a great value.
This is the LG HU70LA projector.
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