Chris and back with the capsule 3 laser from nebula I've been using it now for four months
since I first reviewed it and it's an Android TV 11 powered projector it's got its own built-in
battery which is 52 Watt hours it can go for up to two and a half hours in the battery mode
now it is a DLP laser projector this one so 300 ANSI lumens is the maximum brightness and it does
have auto focus Auto Keystone correction and the bulb life is supposed to be up to around about 30
000 hours so I'm nowhere near that and only about four months of use just using this two
or three times a week or so and how is it holding up that's what I wanted to cover in this follow-up
video here is there's still one of the best portable projectors that you can get one of
the best things about this portable projector is the size of it it's very small it's compact
as you can see I can easily fit this and carry it around with just one hand and it does doesn't
weigh much at all it's only 950 grams so up the front here that is a little camera for the auto
focus Auto Keystone correction is 40 degrees plus or minus it's a DLP laser projector full HD so
1080p maximum brightness is 300 anti lumens and we found the focus to be really good now despite
just being 950 grams it does have a battery that is 54 watt hour sorry 52 Watt hours and
it will last for up to two and a half hours in the battery mode now our experiences with the
battery life that you're looking at when we run the brightness mode about an hour and 20 minutes
and then the battery mode streaming Netflix using the internet of course at the whole time around
about two hours or sometimes just under two hours if we've got our power on button right here we can
pair it up into a Bluetooth speaker mode too if you want to do that this is infrared and HDMI so
it will take HDMI 2.1 so you can actually input 4K into this but of course it will be down scaling it
we have 3.5 auxiliary out and type c to power now this is another big positive with this particular
portable projector so the capsule 3 laser can be run off power Banks and that's very hand if
you want to keep going when you're out and about with that use a battery bank and you can go over
the two and a half hours then there is uh the standard mounting Point here rubber base to it
and the top this is very handy we've got controls on it so you don't even need the little remote
here you could just use this if you wanted to and you can control it all from the top so you've got
your arrow keys your middle your power on as the button on the back that I just showed you before
you're back and your home it is all there with the volume up and down too now the build quality is
good plastic here on the top plastic on the bottom and this nice meal around the outside there is a
little fan that's built inside there that you will hear it it's not that loud at all it's very good
normally when you're running the speakers which are eight Watts by the way you will not hear that
fan noise at all so this projector the biggest and best thing about it is its portability of course
and the 300 ANSI lumens it might not seem a lot but when you're using this projector out late at
night as we have you can see now and this kind of situation here so we've just got a table and
chairs outside and a bit of a roof over us and just blast it up against project the image up
against a white wall here and it looks fantastic it's really good and we can happily sit there we
can watch some movies on episodes of TV Netflix Amazon Prime video you've got um Disney plus too
all of that good content YouTube all right there we've even set it up in the stairwell too so this
is projecting to about a hundred or so sized inch image here anywhere where you have a nice
big large wall that is preferably white and has an even surface to it even it's got a bit of a
texture it's not really going to be a problem at all and other areas that we did test it out like I
even projected up against their whole side of the house and you're looking then at about a 250 inch
sized image and surprisingly the 300 anti-lumens does fare pretty well again of course it at night
here projecting this image and it's pretty amazing just how good this comes out and even at that kind
of distance it doesn't look coarse as sharp as predicting only at say 120 inches or 100 or 60
still watchable though you can still enjoy content even at those super large sizes so the portability
of this is the big positive and then the run time up to two and a half hours but as I mentioned we
normally get around about two or just over two hours and if you do put it into the top brightness
mode then it's about an hour and 20 minutes in in my experience with real world times here
so I have the capsule 3 laser set up about 180 centimeters away from my wall here and
we're looking at then a projected image of approximately 60 65 inches
now of course in a black room we'd have a look at the image quality before I do get onto that I just
want to talk a little bit about here our settings now you can see under projector settings we've got
quite a few options in here with our picture so brightness it's at 100 so that is the standard
mode this is the 300 ANSI lumens you've got Auto or battery which is going to lower it right down
and I think that's probably around about the 180 maybe 150 Lumen Mark and just to save of course
on that battery but I normally just keep it in standard most of the time when I am running this
projector so image correction we've got the auto Keystone correction autofocus you've got a lot of
settings and that I've gone over that when I did the first review of this very handy so even now
if I was to bump the projector or just to move it you place it in a different location so I'll just
move it about a bit here you see it's going to go into its auto focus mode and correct that and the
focus is very good I've had no problems with it and it is really quite quick when it does do this
it displays that screen and it uses that little built-in camera of course now there have been a
couple of quite a few firmware updates have come through for the capsule 3 laser which is really
good to see that they are still supporting it of course I'll just do another check there shouldn't
be any more updates at all now the last update that came through there was an update even for
the remote 2 and you'll see here that we do have a security patch level of March the 1st considering
that we're still in March at the moment when I'm filming this that is good so we are relevant we're
super recent here with the patch level and of course Android TV 11 which is fairly good now
it's got a quad core that runs all of this their performance of the menus is very good
this is typical Android TV no problems I don't see any slow down any lag or anything like that
with it and we have two gigabytes of RAM and 16 gigabytes the ROM pretty standard there specs for
Android TV but that's all you need it's just we need to get up and running now YouTube I'll just
quickly go into that app see that it does light up quick I'm on Wi-Fi five here so it supports Wi-Fi
2.4 and 5 gigahertz bands and just go into one of my own little Clips here and that loads in really
quick this is 1080p quality the image does look sharp the blacks look good there's none of that
ugly noise contrast ratios here good very good image I think for a laser projector DLP Tech and
that 300 ANSI lumens we are looking at a very good image quality here so this all runs really well
it loads in all of those thumbnails without any noticeable lag the control key using the remote or
just the top of the actual unit itself the touch panel there does work really good it doesn't bog
down it doesn't lag and we have no problems with that I'll just quickly go into this to take a look
at the sample of some of the bright colors of these birds it's looking very very good now I
only play just a few seconds of this so just skip ahead again just to check out the caching [Music]
and that's in 1080P too great looking colors sound is very good out of the speakers NATO art
will give you another sample of exactly what you can expect and I'll just go over now into a very
common app that I think a lot of people will be using and that is Netflix which it does support
and this is working fine now it's easier to use their nebula Connect app which I'll show
you shortly for this just to scroll through and go through the menus because this has mouse support
enabled but it is working good and I'll just go into an episode here of cyberpunk I won't
show you much it at all just to test the speeds here obviously for copyright reasons I cannot
but it goes into that it loads it up really quick and we're away at full HD too as well it does have
a wide Vine level one cert and this is the app so it's called nebula connect and you've got all
of the controls of basically the remote on your phone you can adjust the volume right there we've
got our settings auto focus Keystone correction back home menu key and you can turn on this is
the mouse emulation mode so now I can move this around you can see so it acts like a touch pad
and I've got a mouse curse so you can just see it there moving back and forth and that makes Netflix
a little easier to control with it but it's a good app it's straightforward very easy to use
now it might be small but it does have that 8 watt speaker it'd still be audio and it does
sound pretty good we've been happy with it for portable projector needs I do think it's
sufficient enough now I will give you a sample of it with one of my own videos here just so you
can hear what it sounds like at 100 volume it's quite loud it's decent it's very good actually
for the size of it 40 millimeter Dynamic drivers three microphones on each side so six in total
and active noise cancellation you've got various different levels too for the noise cancellation
a wind mode standard then fan noise of course it's a projector so there is that ever present
always on fan and it needs to be cooled of course so it doesn't overheat the components inside so
the sample I'll give you you'll hear that it's not actually that loud it's around about 31 32
decibels and if you're running the speakers the building speaker then you're not even really
going to hear this fan noise at all it's I think it's acceptable I think it's a great fan noise
and here's a little size comparison this is the X Jimmy MoGo 2 Pro and it's not even a portable
projector it's a lot larger now this one outputs 400 ISO looms versus the 300 ANSI lumens and it
doesn't even have the controls on the top so if you were going to take this one around and make
it a portable projector you need to carry then a battery Bank which of course is going to have to
be quite a large and Powerful one you need 65 Watts power delivery and over which this one
does have so you need to take that with you and then you've only just got a course the capsule 3
laser here and that can go up to around about two hours two and a half with its built-in battery
a recent patch did also add ntfc file support which is quite handy so you can use a type c
to type a adapter to play external files off a USB pen drive I have a USB pen drive here that
does have a type c Port so it's very handy I can just move those files over from my PC plug
it in and there is a beta file manager that I can use to access and then play video files TV
series or whatever off an external pen drive and if you're a Transformers fan while there
is a nebula capsule 3 laser Transformers edition that does have Optimus Prime on the front of it
so if you want more information of that check the link out in the description of this video
so all that we have been really pleased with the performance here of the capsule 3 laser
the autofocus Auto Keystone correction is very quick so we can move it around we can move it
into another room you can simply just place it down have it point up against a a blank wall it
will focus correct itself of the Keystone and Away you go up and running now the fan noise is not
offensive at all it's very quiet and I would call this just minimal fam noise really it's only about
31 32 decibels and we don't really hear it because we're using the built-in speaker all the time now
we do have a 3.5 auxiliary out option I've never actually used that we just didn't need it really
we would go off the built-in speaker it's only eight Watts but it's loud enough that everyone
has been happy now the best part about it is just how portable and light this is so it is only the
950 grams you can take it anywhere you can set it up I can set it up down in the kids room we can
take it outside which we've done before quite a few times I've done this I can point it at
a white wall again we're up and running and the image quality has been really good everyone's
been surprised by just how great it is for such a small little unit even when I was projecting
in the steer well about 150 or so inches looks reasonably good I could watch a movie there like
that I could watch episodes Netflix Amazon Prime video not a problem at all and even predicting as
I showed you in my first video if you watched of it the first review against my whole house
it looks surprisingly good predicting at about 200 250 or so inches it was just huge the image taking
out my whole house maybe even about 300 inches and it seemed to do that right even though it's
only 300 anti-lumens now the battery life I wanted to cover my experience than that now having used
it for four months so we normally get about an hour and 20 minutes out of it when you are using
the high brightness mode which is the 300 ANSI lumens so I wish it was a bit longer than that
high brightness mode now if you put it into the battery saving mode the battery mode it lowers
the brightness down of course it will go then in our experience for about two hours sometimes
just over two hours but not quite the two and a half probably because we're streaming from this
is the reason we're streaming as well from Amazon Prime video or Netflix too so it's sapping away
a little bit more energy there the good news is because of the type C port and the power delivery
support with it we can use and plug in an external battery bank or I could use an external power
socket or something like that too to keep it powered but we've got that option which is great
now the HDMI port I really haven't been using that much at all I just connected to my PlayStation 5
just to test it out really but you've got that option you could do a little bit of gaming on
it not that that's something that we would do we normally just set it up and just play uh Netflix
Amazon Prime video Disney Plus or something for the kids and it's just it's just great to move it
around from room to room good option having the touch controls on the top of it we often just
use that to play pause and even adjust the volume without even having to look for the
remote and as I showed you there is their nebula connect application as well where you can control
basically everything through mobile phone not even having to touch that and there's the Bluetooth
speaker option as well we'll go for about uh 15 hours or so as a Bluetooth speaker again it's
not something that we've used a lot just a couple of the times we've played some tracks through it
as a Bluetooth it works functions well I believe that this is still one of the top three definitely
and for me one of the best portable objectives that you can still buy even four months later so
thank you so much for watching this follow-up review here of the nebula capsule 3 laser