- I've been in the market for a short throw projector
for a long time now, and thankfully NexiGo has sent one over
for us to take a look at and it's available online now
for 2,600 US dollars.
It's capable of throwing an 80 inch to 150 inch screen.
Can't remember the size of the one that we have here,
I think it's about 120 inches.
We're gonna get it set up. We're gonna try some games.
I've got a laptop too, and hopefully this guy's coming
with us to the Christmas party.
Oh yeah, a little information book here.
Some foam.
Here's our projector here.
It's like we've got a couple speakers along the backside
that faces you on the couch.
We've got four speakers in here,
each of them are about 15 watts, two subs, two tweeters,
that sort of thing.
Got some inputs on the back here,
we've got USB, HDMI one and two,
number two supports audio arc,
which is the audio return channel from your TV,
if you wanna have anything plugged into that.
Both the HDMI support HDMI 2.0,
and if you have other external sources like, you know,
music player, or you want to have an aux in,
it's got three and a half mil in and out.
At home I use the projector as well,
and I use the audio return channel to come back
to my stereo at the front of the room.
The nice thing about having a short throw projector
like this, is it's all self-contained
right in where you want all your media stuff,
so you don't have to run cables through the ceiling
or around the sides of the walls like I do.
It's great. And we've got a LAN port too.
Ah, oh and yeah, this is a laser projector,
which is kind of exciting.
They're claiming about 25,000 hours on the laser miter,
which is kind of cool.
What else we got in here? We got a power cable,
and a nice little remote too, which is cool.
Cool thing about this is it has Android nine build in,
so you can, you know, watch YouTube videos, Netflix,
all that sort of stuff right from the projector itself.
You don't even need a, you know, external device
like a PS five or laptop hooked up, which is great.
Let's throw this on this table here.
You don't have to have it on like a coffee table
like we've got here, you would have it
on your center console and place it however far away
from the screen and it's got these little adjustment wheels
on the back here so you can adjust the feet up and down
to get the picture centered up and down like that.
It's a little bit easier than doing it in the ceiling,
right?
Looks like it's got a pretty big aperture.
I mean you're doing 150 foot screen is gonna be pretty huge.
The laser in here will be 2,500 ante lumens,
and it'll do 4K, 60 frames a second,
and it has 120 frames a second,
with that motion plus smoothing stuff.
We'll see how that looks. It's probably okay, I don't know.
So let's get it down on the table, we'll get it powered on
and calibrated and see how that goes.
It's quiet. That's nice.
I guess 'cause it doesn't have the giant fan in it.
Like you would need a lot of cooling
with a traditional like xenon discharge.
Oh there we go!
It's on the ceiling.
Okay, maybe ow! Maybe a bit, bit too far away.
Hey, there we go.
So yeah, there's no zoom controls or anything,
so you do do have to find the place
where it's gonna live physically, rather than anything else.
And these feet should help,
you know we're gonna get some keystone correction
and we'll do that stuff in a minute.
Okay, I think I've got it reasonably well positioned.
One of the difficult things about short throat projector,
is the height of the throw needs to be critical.
The height of the bottom of the image is directly dictated
by how high the projector is off of the ground.
So depending on a few things,
you might have to adjust your screen.
We have a rolly screen,
so why don't we just bring that up a bit,
and then we can pull this back until it fits.
The more you can do moving the projector around physically,
rather than doing it in software,
the better image you'll get out of any kind of projector
'cause you know the lens is gonna distort whatever you have.
I mean naturally you would probably put the projector
in your house, and then find the position of the screen.
We already had a projector,
so this screen is already set for our screen size.
Okay, so this is settings for the whole thing,
we'll go into display, there's our keystone correction.
So it'll have eight way keystone correction,
which is quite nice, and we can do four point,
or eight point, and so we can come in here physically,
and we should be able to just grab this,
and fix any of those little distortions that we might have.
That's close enough for today.
Let's have a look at the eight point.
Okay, so just add some more in the middle.
There we go, that'll get rid of any of the pin cushioning
that we can see there along the sides.
That's, that's always nice to have.
The other thing that's nice to have is this focus correction
and so you don't have to like get down there
and play with it. Press the arrow keys on the remote
to adjust focus left and right.
So get up nice and close. Have a look at the pixels.
What I'm looking for on the screen here is
if I can see like the individual lines of the pixels.
It looks like the corners are a little bit soft like here.
It's really nice right there,
and over here. This is kind of a low resolution image,
so if I take this over, no, that's okay, even more.
I think that's fine.
There you go. That's a little bit easier
than having to drill into your walls to hang a projector,
isn't it?
What on earth is Aurora cast? Is that like a...
Oh it's like a special version of Chromecast.
That's kind of nice.
It's got airplay for, you know, your iPhone,
and your, your Mac. Mirror cast for your Android devices,
and DLNA for everything else.
Let's get the PS five on there and play some games.
It's picked up 4K at 60 hertz, which is great.
Oh yeah, that's right, so this is an HDR projector.
I believe it supports HDR 10.
Let's have a look at some of our input choices
because this has it's got the motion plus
and all sorts of other things.
(cosmic music)
So, here we can adjust some image parameters.
Got our brightness, HDR's on, color temperature standard.
Oh yeah, that's right! It'll do 3D stuff too!
So it looks like left, right, top, bottom,
frame packing, frame sequential, all the cool stuff.
Oh, it has a specific gaming mode,
so we'll probably want that.
In gaming mode, this one will do 30 milliseconds of latency,
which is not too bad at all.
A lot of projectors have hell of a lot of input latency.
I think there's quite a bit of image processing
they gotta do, especially gotta go through
all that digital keystone correction
and all that sort of stuff.
(car engine accelerating)
I'm standing over it, that's why.
What are you gonna go watch TV here?
You dumbass.
(car engine accelerating)
Okay, that's actually not bad. Those are pretty good.
When you're actually pointing your head at the speakers,
they sound better. Who woulda thunk.
Let's, let's take our image parameters over,
and we'll go to TV, it's got the same.
Go over to game mode, movie, sorry, gaming mode.
Oh yeah, that's like, that's definitely less,
and it it doesn't feel as bad.
And of course we don't know the, the game's actual
like choice to smooth inputs,
but yeah that feels certainly faster.
I mean it's nice, it's bright, it's easy to set up.
Do I go in my hole?
No. Okay. Let's, let's try a YouTube video.
YouTube! Have you ever heard of YouTube?
- Never heard of it.
- Never, never. Do we do a crab rave?
Do I, do I dare?
Definitely some sort of artifacting
from the motion smoothing. That's very strange.
If I go back home, and push the home button,
and then go to settings, and go to display,
and then MEMC, and I go back.
See if that artifacting is still there.
Oh yeah, that totally is.
I wonder if this is just the bit rate of the video.
The thing is though, it says that the viewport frame
is 1920 by 1080. So does that mean that the Android TV
is only, you know, full HD? It's not UHD?
So if we wanna watch 4K UHD content,
we need to plug in a laptop anyway.
So this is 4K at 60 frames a second, which is great.
I guess motion smoothing is disabled,
for 60 frames of second things, but I don't, I don't know.
I think that's about all the things
that I can test with this,.
You know, from NexiGo for 2,600 bucks,
I think if you care about having speakers
that don't sound absolute garbage,
if you like having the Android integrated system,
and if you want the nice kind of compact form factor
that sits right up against your wall,
like this is like half a foot away, it's great.
Then this will be an awesome option for you.
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