Hi everyone i'm Chris and i have with me today XGIMI's 4k projector 60 hertz max it
is called the horizon pro now this one has a decent brightness right up to 2200 ansi lumens
built into it are two harman kardon tuned speakers and for the size of it you would think that the
speakers probably wouldn't sound too good they actually are really impressive in this so it
runs android tv 10 and i've been using it now for a week and so far i think this is one of the best
4k projectors you can get for the price now included in the box is our remote to control
it this one has a metal frame around the outside of it your typical controls right here for android
tv there's a microphone this button here is our google assistant and here we do have a button
dedicated to focusing the projector the power supply this one is rather large and powerful
220 watts the power cable so that will depend on your region of course and then
a user guide now this outside material here this is all made out of metal it's a premium top-end
finish to it no complaints at all so we've got our dlp projector here that's the tickets using
4k 60 hertz and the throw ratio of this one is 1.2 so anywhere from 30 inches to 300 inches
is what it can project this right here is a little camera and there's a sensor in there too
that is for the auto focus mode this right here is our fan so yes it is actively called like all
projectors and it does make a little bit of noise i'll give you a sample later on in this
in-depth review of what it sounds like after i've been running it for at least two hours
and then along the top of the projector this here is plastic probably for the wireless antenna
reception we have a power on button and then some media control so start stop and then volume
both on the left and the right side you will find these right here our speakers so it does have two
speakers tuned by harman kardon they're eight watt they're only little ones 45 millimeters but
for the size of them they really do put out quite decent sound and you'll hear later on i'll also
give you a sample of that the bottom is made out of plastic we have four solid rubber feet
and a tripod mount first off before i get on to the image quality let's talk a little bit about
the operating system here so very good performance everything is fast fluid no real problems with it
it has two gigabytes of ram and 32 gigabytes of storage it's a quad core that it does run
and that is actually sufficient it's enough for an android 10 projector right here that
everything lights up quick as fast as my tv would load this up i see no problems in fact i think the
performance is maybe even a little bit better than my samsung so just getting here into amazon prime
video that this works in full hd so it is netflix not a problem they are updated the netflix app
these applications are all up to date so just going through this now performance with the ui
very very good there's sometimes a tiny little bit of lag here that's loading
things in now i'm just connected up with the wi-fi so it's just wi-fi ac and it's fine
i don't see any issues so just go into vikings right here okay and you see that it loads in
quick enough and you can resume all those features you typically find here so just get out
of this application all right and we're going to just a few things with the settings now
now very standard settings that you'll find on most projectors so under brightness i have this
set to the standard okay you can even increase this up to bright level the maximum the whole time
high projection performance now performance is probably the best for gaming to help reduce
the latency the delay you're going to be seeing with that and i'll get onto gaming later on too
in this review so bright there's going to then be the 2 200 and c lumens that this puts out and on
standard it seems to be really about the same but i'll keep it on bright here now so that is
the ambient light sensor you can also enable so it will automatically change this for you
now get onto the way the screen looks soon with lights on they're currently off of
course at the moment but keystone correction it's automatic or manually focus adjustment
settings so on startup you can get it to autofocus it's itself projected placement
so this is standard so if you're going to mount this on a ceiling so it's inverted it
will automatically flip over but you can manually go along and change this now on the remote here if
i tap the focus button you'll see it will then go and do its focus thing so right now it's
using the camera and it'll work out and get the focus absolutely spot on the other settings that
you'll find we've got hdmi control settings so you can adjust this to be auto power on if you want
and that was with the arc devices for the hdmi control gyro calibration focus calibration and the
keystone calibration can all be done here if you needed to do so now i haven't had to touch this
but imagine you're having a few issues or whatever you could run this to get it to recalibrate itself
and netflix so this one is running great so very very fast going through the menus right here
unfortunately i can't play anything because the last time i did this i got flagged for
copyright reasons and that was only just using a seven second clip and i thought that was still
fair use but it wasn't but very good now with this you will see that certain newer programs
especially tv series for example like this one money heist 4k hdr support atmos it works quickly
cache is just fine and the image quality i'll get onto now does look really good
but the good thing is we have the proper wide vine level 1 support 4k hdr all that
working the only thing i had to do with this is that i needed to get the netflix application
from their store the one that i updated on google play said that it didn't support this device so
here we go with our image quality now and i must say it looks spectacular this is in 4k
and i'm shooting in 4k and right now this is actually an hdr clip and this is from youtube
channel called birder king and my cat very goes absolutely nuts with these videos so the image
quality super sharp lots of detail now we do have with this 4k 60 hertz maximum and i'll get
onto gaming soon on this projector which is really good but the brightness is impressive so it's 2200
nc lumens max which is so far the brightest projector that i have reviewed here in the channel
most of them have been around 800 so the images look very sharp they look so clean and crisp here
but let's have a look now what it looks like if i was to turn on the light or open up the blinds
now with plenty of ambient light at the moment here it is still perfectly watchable to me
thanks to the 2200 ansi lumens it looks great i would not be worried at all it almost looks like a
tv when you've got a tv on and you've got ambient light on some sunlight coming through it really is
about the same here but with the ambient light right now the blacks don't look as deep and
they're never really going to look that deep with a projector like this considering i'm projecting
here onto a white projector screen i've placed my usb pen drive in one of those usb 2 ports
here and the file manager very good performance let's take a look here just at a demo clip so i
can tell straight away that this is definitely 4k the cat in the middle there that's my vera
and the late rougher to her right i can see all those fine details of her fur and her whiskers
not a problem there with this particular 4k projection you can see all those finite little
details but what about the performance here within the file manager so i've tested this one out
sony swordsmith hdr this is 4k i didn't expect to be able to play 4k 60 without any problems
but look at this super smooth 60 frames per second playback from this
not an issue at all and it looks stunning very very detailed there proper 4k
and this file here is an hevc 4k 10 bit 140 megabit per second file and it's playing it just
fine absolutely flawless here there are no dropped frames no lag and stutters so great performance
just straight out of the native file browser here gaming performance now this is with my ps5
and it did detect it as an hdr compatible display here well should i say projector
i'll jump into a game now and we'll see how it performs well i have any issues with the latency
so this is running just fine on the 4k 60 frames per second option so the most detailed looking
graphics and it looks good i'm having no problems at all with input latency so there's no noticeable
well that's an issue at least for these kind of games that i'm seeing now if you're
a competitive gamer and you play counter-strike professionally you wouldn't be using a projector
anyway to start with but for the casual console games out there gamer i think this is absolutely
fine and it just looks amazing this i think is way more enjoyable than using my tv
just having such a super large size especially for dirt 5 here for racing is really really nice
lastly for the games i had to show you this one this is counter strike
7. now this of course is with the playstation 5 so i've got that new texture pack and it looks
absolutely stunning the first reaction for me was when i booted this up and looked at it was
oh wow and that's true no lie i just went wow wow wow that looks absolutely amazing now i'm
not getting it across really capturing this in 4k 30 frames per second but trust me this
looks stunning this is better than a 65 inch tv now i played this game quite a lot on a 65 inch
huawei vision s that i reviewed in the channel and this experience with the projector
to me is so much better it's definitely great for games console games like this
and our speakers on this one harman kardon they're both 45 millimeters they're 8 watt
speakers and they actually sound impressive for the size here's a sample at 100 volume
and a very quick example now of the fan noise so this is excellent on this particular projector
does not make a lot of noise at all it's never at a high rpm and for me now using it for quite
a few hours it's just a small little humming noise that it's making my playstation 5 makes a
lot more noise than this but here's a sample of it after now about two and a half hours non-stop use
so the only real con that i've found is this right here that when i'm doing a little bit of
4k playback with youtube the app i have noticed that often it will completely just freeze up on
me just jam now right now it seems to be working okay and it looks sharp the blacks of that bike
do look very good here again for a projector but now then it will just completely stop
and i don't know if that's to do with my internet connection i don't believe it is
i just think it's the application or the app and i just have now and then problems with 4k
with youtube that's the only thing that i found that i don't particularly like with this projector
okay i'm blown away with the image quality on this one when i first loaded up final fantasy 7 remake
with the 4k playstation 5 texture pack i was taken back it's just like wow this is amazing this looks
so much better than the 4k 65 inch tv that i reviewed and 75 inch tvs lcds i'm talking about
okay not not oleds but really really impressed input latency i think is fine for console gaming
it is fine it's really good performance of android tv 10 fine it's fast it's quick it's snappy it
does not need a lot of power and i threw some very demanding files at this from removable storage 4k
hevc 10 bit no problems at 140 megabits per second it was flawless great worked good 4k
watching 4k clips on it really nice okay so much detail overall very bright image
even if you've got some ambient daylight coming in you can still see it it won't be great of course
if you turn off all your lighting and in pitch black environment it just looks amazing it looks
stunning there however the blacks this is one of my cons the blacks i would not say a super dark
but there is a positive to them many projectors that i have reviewed in the channel when you
look at blacks you see this grain to it okay and it looks terrible not with this
i don't see any of that horrible black the grain and the black coming through at all
so even though the black super deep blacks do look gray there's no grain so that is great there
the other con for me with this is that youtube at 4k setting i don't know whether this is my
internet connection it works fine for a while and sometimes it doesn't sometimes it just
locks up completely and decides to become a bit of a slideshow i don't know i think it's probably
the application and not a fault of x give me here so overall i think this is a fantastic
4k projector yes it is a little expensive but you are getting quality image quality product here the
harman kardon speakers they sound very good for the size of it and they are very loud for 8 watts
they don't sound like 8 watts they sound like they are much much more than that so thank you so much
for watching my review here of the horizon pro i do hope to see you in the next one bye for now