Now normally with projectors you have to place them on the other side of the room right and if
someone walks in front of them they block the image but not with a model like this here this
was sent out to me from a company called JMGO it is their 01 model here now this is an ultra short
throw projector and that means you can place it up very close to a wall and only 10 inches
will then allow us to project up to 100 inches and then of course you don't have to worry about
people walking front of the projection you can even sit in front of the image and you're not
going to be blocking it like you would a standard normal projector the good thing about this is you
don't need of course a huge room to be able to take advantage of that really large screen size
so this is the 01 model one of two there will be the o1 pro this is the lower end model
it's going to be for sale on indiegogo and have sent it out to me to review here this unit so
it does have an led projector within this it's full hd the resolution it can handle 4k
but it will scale the 4k down to 1080p of course and the maximum output of this one is 800 nc
lumens inside the box you will find our power supply we have a quick start guide and the
remote here so similar to an android tv remote the layout of it so this is the directional pad here
okay is in the middle we've got our home menu back keys settings volume up and down there's a switch
on the side for the focus adjustment up the top here is the microphone button for elixir and this
is to power it on and off so this is a bluetooth remote and it does take two aaa batteries
looking at the top of our projector here so we have a power on button status led this part is
plastic glass over where the projector is the lens is behind that of course this one is led
1080p and it does have 800 ansi lumens now right here is a camera for the autofocus it has keystone
correction too as well with this auto keystone correction and some other sensors
to either side of this so this part here at the back that's made out of alloy has a
matte paint job to it and overall the build quality is good of this projector
on the underside here we have some rubber feet at the front of it
and then a large rear one and a mounting point here for a tripod this here is a vent so it is
fan cooled just like the other led projectors that i've reviewed here in the channel and then either
side is where we have the speaker so built-in dyna audio on this and later on in this in-depth review
i'll give you a sample of them they do sound very good and here along the back we have a lan port
optical audio two usb 2 ports which work with external drives for example you can place some
movies on that and then play them from that and we've got hdmi which supports arc here and another
hdmi now those ports there do support actually 4k but it then of course scales down to 1080p
both the left and right is where you'll find the grille here and inside are those dyna audio tuned
speakers now this is one of my favorite things about this particular protector is the ultra
short throw ratio so i have it just 40 centimeters away from the wall here and it projects out about
approximate 100 inch image which is excellent you don't have to worry about people walking in front
of the projector either and you don't need a large room you just really need a blank wall and then
you can project the image onto it here we are in the os so this one has its own os which is called
luna os which is basically a ui a skin on top of android tv version 9. so at the top here in home
popular applications like youtube amazon prime video netflix is pre-installed you can see down
here spotify facebook bbc news various different apps there's a lot of things that are on this they
have their own app store with this particular projector but they don't have google app store
okay so google play store isn't on this particular projector at the moment at the time of this video
so if you go right up to the top we've got different categories there so applications
video music and our settings which i will jump into now just to have a look a few things so it
is powered by a quad core from mediatek with the melee g52 for its graphics and performance wise
it doesn't seem to be laggy it seems quite quick and the minimum that we need really to be running
android tv so it does have a 16 gigabyte rom and three gigabytes of memory which
is sufficient enough for android tv so here we can select our networks
it's pretty self-explanatory there bluetooth support of course the source so hdmi hdmi 2
color range your startup source is a very handy setting to have so using this you can select it
to always start up with hdmi one for example if you had your xbox or your playstation connected
to that that's what you're going to be using it for you're able to override that which is good
under audio so we have a few settings there you can swap over and you can use of course the
optical audio for your source or the equipment and different sound modes there with a diner
audio which is very good i'll give you a sample that later on in this video of course
so there are a few settings in here you can see that are still in chinese so they haven't
translated 100 everything yet but this is basically a beta firmware that i'm using
eye protection mode our brightness and here we have a blue light filter so that will later be
in english of course and this is just an early production unit that they sent out to me to review
so keystone correctional manual keystone correction trapezoidal correction the warping
and the digital zoom auto focus focus calibration aspect ratio and the projector mode of course you
can swap it over so if you're going to be mounting this from a roof upside down or
you're going to for example have it aiming upwards this is where you can change all of those settings
there under video a lot of handy settings so we don't normally get this with projectors so
many options and i do like to see this so noise reduction game mode for improved latency the input
lag there will be improved with that on so when i game later i will definitely be turning that on
motion compensation hdr color temperature so you can adjust that and wall color calibration options
are there too as well which is good to see and then just under advanced fans on automatic i will
give you a sample of it later on after i've used the projector it has to be on at least running
for two hours so you can hear what it sounds like and system so there are system upgrades that do
come through for this projector so i'm just going to take a look here at the background you can see
that it looks very good here i'm not seeing a lot of noise with the blacks either now another
project i reviewed with recently which was the um what was that the x x gimme halo actually had
a bit of noise coming through a lot of noise were blacks and i'm not seeing it here so we'll take a
look at one of my videos and we're going to have a look at that image quality here because i have
so far i mean i think it's very decent for 1080p damage quality the brightness is fine of course
i'm in a pitch black room here at the moment i want to bring up this video and show you a
little bit of the youtube performance here that the wireless streaming quality is good
of course we've got an advert all right so i just turned that audio down so
very bright image and it is of course just 1080p max now what about the sharpness how
can i comment on that well i do have the projector really producing about
100 inches at the moment and i think it's fine now the closer you get it to the wall of course the
larger sorry the smaller the size of projection but it looks a lot sharper then but even at this
range here that i've got at the moment projecting about approximate 100 inches
it looks good and for 1080p this is definitely acceptable quality and overall i think the image
quality is good now the darkness the contrast and the blacks there again on a white wall acceptable
it is looking a little bit over saturated but i'm able to tweak that through the user
settings there as well i can just tone down a little on the contrast that's coming through
moving over now to our streaming services like amazon prime video and netflix let's go on to
netflix so i found out that uh this doesn't have a white phone level one cert and that's something
that's important for projectors especially so we can view content that is stream drm
at full hd and this is only stuck in standard definition so let's have a look at some tv shows
here i'll just go through one of my lists bring that up and uh one that's got a lot of blacks
in it okay so what has a lot of black stuck images barbarians i'll just quickly play this
even though it's standard definition and this should be coming through on the video i would
still classify this as just watchable so get out of this and we'll take a look now at amazon prime
so amazon prime video that will be the same unfortunately because it doesn't have the level
one cert just bring this up see the mouse cursor there that's because i've got the
keyboard and mouse plugged in so just bring up something here very very quickly so the expanse
very good tv series if you're into your sci-fi this one is a must okay and just resume this
and same story it starts out looking terrible i mean that's like 360p very very blocky and then
it starts to improve it gets a little sharper but again only standard definition with this one
and here we have our file manager that's on board i wanted to check out the video
playback performance of some demanding files so i'll just go into this and some demo clips
that i do have so images look good on this screen that loads up very quick one of their my cat vera
my test sample images and again i think projecting onto a white wall here that these blacks actually
do look pretty good and i'm happy with those lower noise levels but what about demanding videos so
here first is the jellyfish file now this one is a 4k 140 megabit per second file hevc will it run it
okay it is running it but it's choppy as you can see very choppy there and it doesn't really
seem to smooth out now i expected this this is a really demanding file audio format is limited so
the codec support a little bit limited on this one uh you need something like vlc player to be able
to run everything so i've got a just a standard 4k video clip here that i shot on a samsung
galaxy note and for some reason it doesn't want to play that okay so that seems to be very slow
no that just doesn't it doesn't want to play it there so the codec support seems a bit unlimited
here for those external files that you may be wanting to run but what about just hd hevc codec
this should be at least playable so there we go that one's running just fine and smooth as i'd
expected it would but no audio coming through with it unfortunately and what about a super demanding
4k 60 frames per second it probably won't be able to play this at all no that's to be expected
didn't expect it to be able to run that one at all and one thing that's really impressed me is
the audio quality out of the dyna audio with the speakers that are within this
so what i do is play a sample now 100 volume and it's powerful loud audio but they haven't gone
over the top of the tune it's not way too powerful the bass and the trebles aren't over exaggerated
and mids are good for inbuilt speakers i think it sounds excellent and really good volume on it
and onto gaming performance so this did actually auto detect it and set it to hdmi 2 so that's a 4k
input 4k 60 but of course it's sampling it down then to 1080p so when you go into the settings
you select the source of course that you want you can override this so if you want it to run
at a native 1080p hdmi 1.4 so 1080p 60 hertz then you do that but i'm going to test it out here
with hdmi 2. i've also enabled just under video there's the option to set the game mode to improve
the input lag so latency wise we'll see how it does with this so just get out of the menu and
it's actually looking pretty good so right now i have my playstation 5 with final fantasy
7 remake here set to the performance mode so this is 60 frames per second 1080p and it looks good i
can happily play like this now the playstation 5 also did automatically detect it as supporting hdr
so i went through the hdr configuration now capturing it on camera right now very hard to
get that dynamic range to come through with a non-hdr camera it's impossible of course
so here it's looking good and very very smooth here input lag here okay good i can happily game
with this that's not going to be a problem not for a for a game like this at all so what about
the fan noise all of these projectors of course are actively cool they've got a little fan inside
to make sure the leds and the components to keep cool so yes you do hear it it's not too offensive
it's not the loudest i've heard occasionally it ramps up but normally it goes right back down
the rpms of the fan but here is a sample of it now what it will normally sound like when in use
let's talk a little bit about the pricing now i see it's listed on indiegogo this model for the
early bird pricing of around 700 us dollars and what do you get for that as i've demonstrated we
get i think good 1080p image quality it will accept 4k if you wanted to input 4k into it
goes down scaling it and it does run at 60 hertz the brightness 800 ansi lumens is looking good now
in dark environments of course it's going to look its best on my white wall here i found the blacks
to be decent and i'm not seeing a lot of noise in blacks like i have seen with other models
for example like the excuse me halo had a lot of noise with the blacks 1080p projector also this
one is better the quality coming out of it now impressive speakers in this really good the dyna
audio tune speakers i think so far these have to be the most powerful and the best i've heard that
are built in a projector and the maximum volume is very very decent without any distortion that's the
main thing nothing vibrates it's not distorting clipping or anything like that no they're actually
very good now it's interesting that they've gone with this design of course that is allowing the
super ultra short throat that i think is one of the best things about this and the reason to go
for it solely for that you don't need a huge wide room to be able to take advantage of this
projector in fact no you just need really about 10 inches to set this up you can even go smaller than
that so you can literally have the wall right here and be projecting up to then about say 60 inches
of course the more you pull it back the larger the image image size and that means of course no one's
going to be walking in front of it either you can even sit right behind the projector and not even
worry about blocking it so that's the best thing there but what about things that i don't like that
need improvements okay as i pointed out it doesn't have a wide vine level one suit it's level three
that drm means that netflix amazon prime video disney plus and things will be running in standard
definition so we cannot take advantage of the 1080p projection quality this has so when you
watch something like Netflix that i showed you from a demo i think it's watchable but of course
it's not great quality only standard definition so that needs to be improved there is at the time of
this video at least on the what is basically beta phone where i'm testing on this a little bit of
chinese that they will be fixing they've told me that's showing up in the ui and there is no google
play store support so far so if they can fix those really software related things i think it's a good
projector i really do like it now the fan noise is not that bad at all the speakers the image quality
good build quality and the best part being able to set this just in front of a wall and still
enjoy a really large picture size so thank you so much for watching my review here of the jmgo01