[0:00] Projectors have a lot of downsides
[0:01] compared to TVs. They're hard to find
[0:03] space for, a pain in the butt to align,
[0:05] and they look downright awful in a
[0:07] bright room. So, why are they so
[0:09] popular? I mean, there's dozens of
[0:11] brands making them, and they've got to
[0:12] be the number one most advertised item
[0:14] on teu.com. Well, it's because people
[0:17] love them. They are by far the cheapest
[0:19] way to get a giant screen. And there's a
[0:22] natural softness and cinematic quality
[0:25] to the image that can make even your
[0:27] iPhone home videos look like absolute
[0:30] cinema. But how much do you need to
[0:32] spend on one? Probably more than $2, but
[0:35] we're going to try that one anyway. And
[0:37] we're going to go all the way up to $20,
[0:40] $200,
[0:42] $2,000,
[0:44] $20,000,
[0:47] and even all the way to a $200,000
[0:50] option. All in search of the sweet spot.
[0:53] Now, I'm not going to show you this one
[0:55] just yet, but what I will do is show you
[0:58] the $15,000
[1:06] lens that goes in it.
[1:08] >> DAMN BOY, HE THICK.
[1:10] >> Meet LED projector. It claims to be the
[1:12] most costefficient highresolution LED
[1:15] projector. And when it's $2, I kind of
[1:17] believe them. It is the bare essentials
[1:20] to make a projector. that makes it a
[1:22] lamp with a lens that directs light
[1:24] through an LCD layer and then through
[1:26] other optics that reflect out onto a
[1:28] screen. However, it has a surprising
[1:30] number of other features. For example,
[1:31] we have HDMI in, USB in, as well as a
[1:34] micro SD card slot, an AV input,
[1:37] headphone out, and we can power it via a
[1:39] USB cable, micro USB, but a USB cable
[1:42] nonetheless. You can even adjust the
[1:44] zoom. However, it doesn't disclose its
[1:47] brightness. It only has a contrast ratio
[1:48] of 800 to1. And as you're going to see,
[1:51] it really stretches the definition of
[1:53] HD.
[1:53] >> My expectations are pretty low, but
[1:56] probably not low enough. I feel like any
[1:58] light in the room right now is going to
[2:00] be crippling.
[2:02] >> Um, you you might be surprised. I might
[2:05] not. Is it even on? Hit the lights.
[2:10] >> Advertised as an HD projector. That
[2:12] ain't no screen door. That's a chain
[2:14] link fence. I can see everything.
[2:17] >> You can see the sub pixels. You can see
[2:19] like the red, the blue, and the green.
[2:21] It's crazy.
[2:22] >> We should probably, I mean, at least put
[2:23] it in the center. Let's give it its best
[2:24] shot right?
[2:26] >> Uh, hey.
[2:27] >> Yeah.
[2:27] >> Hey. Okay, cool. Here we go.
[2:28] >> I can't wait to use my projector for
[2:30] book.
[2:31] >> Adam,
[2:34] >> I can't read the YouTube book.
[2:36] >> Look, it's it's literally Oh, you can
[2:40] kind of get it there.
[2:41] >> Kind of.
[2:42] >> Can you believe they have the audacity
[2:43] to give this a book mode?
[2:47] The moon is square, Adam.
[2:49] >> It's constantly so bad.
[2:51] >> And somehow the image quality was better
[2:53] during that moment.
[2:54] >> I know, right? So that I could just make
[2:55] it up into the music in my mind. In
[2:58] fairness, nobody would be trying to use
[3:00] a projector of this caliber at 120 in.
[3:03] >> No, no, not even close.
[3:04] >> We should look at it at like, you know,
[3:07] 40 in. Like where you'd set it up in
[3:09] your tent when you're camping or
[3:10] something.
[3:10] >> Okay, let's move it closer. You know a
[3:12] projector is quality when I can look
[3:14] directly into it and not be bothered
[3:16] whatsoever. Like I can still totally
[3:17] see. All right, hit it.
[3:21] As anything more than a toy for kids, I
[3:24] just can't recommend this. Which is good
[3:26] because it's priced as one.
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[3:50] At $20, we have the LED projector. Yes,
[3:53] it is the $20 projector because the only
[3:55] way you're getting it for $2 is if you
[3:57] can get it on sale as like a Teimu
[3:58] promo.
[3:59] >> What? Sorry, you thought we were going
[4:00] to watch it again. Even at $20, it's
[4:03] still a toy for kids, guys. But the good
[4:06] news is that to get something that's not
[4:09] a toy doesn't cost as much as you might
[4:11] think. The Nexco PJ40 Pro is a 1080p
[4:13] projector and is perhaps our first
[4:15] serious entrant in this video. It has
[4:17] 800 ANC lumens of brightness, a 3000 to1
[4:20] contrast ratio, and supports HDR10, like
[4:22] the bare minimum. It's got two HDMI
[4:24] ports, two USB ports, AVN, and a
[4:26] headphone jack. For goodies, we get
[4:28] built-in Wi-Fi with Android TV and an
[4:31] included backlit remote. Also, this
[4:33] thing's got a 20 watt speaker in it, so
[4:35] you don't need to hook it up to another
[4:36] sound system. Nexo claims that the
[4:38] projector is good for screens between 50
[4:40] in and 300 in depending on the distance
[4:42] that you mount your projector. And its
[4:44] LED lamp is rated for 30,000 hours of
[4:47] operation. That's like 3 hours a day for
[4:50] 30 years. Though, note there will be
[4:52] some brightness degradation over that
[4:53] time. You also get some really important
[4:55] features for setting up your projector
[4:57] like automated and manual key stinging
[4:59] as well as manual zoom. Huh?
[5:03] You even get a spare filter for your
[5:05] fan.
[5:06] >> Wow. It's not perfect cuz it isn't.
[5:10] Nothing's perfect.
[5:10] >> No, but at the price it might be
[5:13] perfect.
[5:14] >> Do you think it's 10 times as good?
[5:16] >> Oh, yeah.
[5:17] >> Like obviously you can see that it's not
[5:19] like the best lens. When you look at the
[5:20] corners, you see like fringing as well
[5:22] as stuff that's out of focus.
[5:24] >> Sure.
[5:24] >> But you're how you're not looking at the
[5:26] corners all the time. It might be that
[5:28] we did just look at a $20 projector, so
[5:30] we're feeling really stoked, but I don't
[5:33] see why you would be unhappy with this,
[5:35] especially if you have a light control
[5:36] room. It's loud.
[5:39] It's quite loud.
[5:40] >> Yeah. And we are seated directly
[5:42] underneath it, as we would be, though.
[5:44] Now, press the home button. It even has
[5:46] its own built-in smart OS. It comes with
[5:48] Android TV. It's pretty responsive. To
[5:50] be clear, it was these guys who very
[5:54] recently talked about how the
[5:56] smartification of your TV is not
[5:58] necessarily a feature because of all the
[6:00] advertising that's built into it. But if
[6:01] it's going to have it, if it could be
[6:03] responsive, that'd be great.
[6:05] >> And it supports CEC, so you can bypass
[6:07] the OS to just boot directly to the
[6:08] input you want. It's pretty cool. I will
[6:10] say setting it up did suck. It is manual
[6:13] focus. There's no zoom. Um,
[6:16] >> and it's all manual height adjustments,
[6:18] no fun features, so it's kind of a pain.
[6:21] >> But at $220,
[6:23] am I happy with this? You're damn right.
[6:26] >> Yeah. Should we game on it, though?
[6:32] Sure. Cool. I'm calling it now. This is
[6:36] going to be the biggest bump we see in
[6:38] image quality for 10xing our budget. And
[6:40] 10xing our budget was only $200 this
[6:43] time. Wow. Oh, dude. This is so usable.
[6:48] >> You can definitely see ghosting on a lot
[6:51] of the quick movements, but it's not
[6:53] that distracting.
[6:54] >> I'll be honest with you, as the person
[6:56] playing the game, I didn't really notice
[6:58] it.
[6:58] >> Yeah, I'm specifically trying to look
[7:00] for these things, but I'm not looking
[7:02] where you are. I'm just like, what is
[7:04] what do the textures move like? And does
[7:06] it feel responsive?
[7:07] >> Feels fine.
[7:08] >> Yeah.
[7:09] >> Not bad at all.
[7:11] >> This seems like a great entrylevel
[7:12] option.
[7:13] >> Oh, yeah.
[7:14] >> Yeah. I don't remember the last time I
[7:15] was this impressed by a value product.
[7:17] >> I'm wondering if your impressions will
[7:18] change when we go to our next step where
[7:20] we have an actual gaming projector.
[7:23] Going up to the $2,000 price bracket, we
[7:25] get to meet our first specialty
[7:26] projector, the BenQ TK710 STI, which has
[7:31] an unfortunate final acronym, is a laser
[7:34] gaming projector that's also short
[7:36] throw. What makes it a gaming projector?
[7:38] Well, it can support 1080p at 240 Hz or
[7:40] 4K at 60 Hz. If you're thinking, "That's
[7:43] a little strange. This came out in 2025.
[7:45] If it's going to really be a gaming
[7:46] projector, it should at least do 4K 120,
[7:48] right?" Yeah. You know what? That's a
[7:50] good point.
[7:52] Is this like an HDMI limitation? Yes and
[7:54] no. While this only has HDMI 2.0 ports,
[7:56] it also makes use of something called
[7:58] pixel shift to get that 4K image. What
[8:01] is pixel shift? Okay, we're going to
[8:03] have to do a lot of explaining here. The
[8:05] lasers from the projector bulb go
[8:07] through a DLP or digital light
[8:09] processor. The core part of this DLP is
[8:11] a DMD, a digital micro mirror device.
[8:14] This is a chip of tiny aluminum mirrors,
[8:16] one for each pixel that can
[8:18] electrostatically change angles to
[8:20] direct light towards or away from any
[8:22] given pixel, controlling brightness.
[8:24] That light is then reflected through a
[8:25] color wheel, which filters out or
[8:26] enhances the color of light before it
[8:27] heads out of the rest of the optic
[8:29] chain. But getting more micro mirrors is
[8:32] really, really expensive. So, they pull
[8:35] a little trick. They take your 4K image
[8:37] and process it into subframes. typically
[8:40] two or four. These subframes consist of
[8:41] different pixels that will all
[8:42] constitute a full 4K image. By adjusting
[8:45] the angles of your micro mirrors, you
[8:46] can fill in the extra pixels faster than
[8:48] the eye can see, allowing for measurable
[8:50] and perceivable increases in clarity.
[8:52] Those 1920 x 1080 mirrors can switch at
[8:54] 240 hertz, making three additional
[8:56] pixels at 4K60 or making a 1080 image at
[9:02] 240. Very cool. And that's basically the
[9:05] only way a projector can get 4K at a
[9:08] reasonable price. Now, let's talk about
[9:09] the other specs. The TK710 STI gets 3200
[9:12] ANC lumens with a quoted 600,000 to1
[9:16] contrast ratio, and its laser phosphor
[9:19] light source is rated for 20,000 hours
[9:21] at full brightness. And naturally, as a
[9:22] gaming projector, they quote very low
[9:24] input latency. We don't get motorized
[9:26] zoom or focus, but we do get manual zoom
[9:29] and focus. You know, not bad. It helps.
[9:31] It's nice. Okay. And we get a third
[9:33] hidden HDMI port for a built-in Android
[9:36] TV stick that kind of is jankly
[9:38] installed in the back of it. It's kind
[9:39] of weird. But does all that fancy tech
[9:41] amount to an image that's worth the leap
[9:43] in price? Something we didn't mention is
[9:45] that once we move into this price range,
[9:47] we start to get a lot more features and
[9:49] a lot more options on our lens. For
[9:51] instance, this one supports not only
[9:53] focus, but also zoom and happens to be a
[9:57] short throw model. So instead of sitting
[9:59] above and behind us, it sits on the
[10:02] coffee table in front of us, which
[10:04] >> yeah,
[10:05] >> it can be a mixed bag ergonomically.
[10:07] >> It's um the screen's really big, the
[10:10] room's also really big. We had to make
[10:12] some concessions and there are
[10:13] advantages to this approach. There's no
[10:15] down in front. And if you do happen to
[10:17] want to use the speakers that are built
[10:19] into it, at least the sound is coming
[10:21] from in front of you. Go ahead and kill
[10:22] the lights, Mr. Ree. Immediately the
[10:25] resolution difference is noticeable.
[10:26] Yeah. So, this does 4K. It isn't true
[10:30] 4K.
[10:30] >> Yeah.
[10:31] >> But I with projectors, you can't really
[10:33] tell the difference between a pixel
[10:35] shift.
[10:35] >> I can't.
[10:36] >> I've seen people that claim that they
[10:38] can see the difference. I cannot.
[10:40] >> Yeah.
[10:41] >> At every price point, I have been really
[10:44] Well, not everyone.
[10:46] >> At the last two price points, I've been
[10:48] really impressed. This is better than
[10:50] what we saw, but I think it's probably
[10:52] about two times better than what we saw
[10:54] last. You end up getting a lot of
[10:56] comforts with this, like the zoom lens,
[10:58] the short throw projection if that's
[11:00] something that works for your space. And
[11:03] also, it's so much quieter.
[11:05] >> Mhm.
[11:06] >> It does have gaming performance. That's
[11:08] right. It's a it's 1080p 240 Hz,
[11:11] >> right? So, you could theoretically like
[11:14] play pretty competitively on this.
[11:16] >> Yeah.
[11:17] >> At two times the image quality, at least
[11:19] two times the convenience, six times at
[11:21] least, maybe eight times the value here,
[11:24] but maybe not quite 10 times. But we
[11:26] haven't tried the game mode yet. Maybe
[11:28] it has two times the gaming experience.
[11:30] Let's do it. This is by far the best
[11:32] gaming experience we've had yet. It does
[11:34] give up some image quality switching
[11:35] over to game mode as I tend to expect
[11:37] from a projector, but you more than make
[11:40] up for it in input latency and overall
[11:42] responsiveness. So, how does that affect
[11:44] the price scaling for you then?
[11:47] >> I'd say it's two times better for gaming
[11:49] again, which makes it maybe eight times
[11:52] better than the last one.
[11:54] >> All right. Now, here's another big leap.
[11:57] We're going from $2,000 to car money.
[12:02] New car money. That's an important
[12:05] distinction for a lot of people. $2,000
[12:07] is car money.
[12:08] >> Yeah. Yeah, it is new car money.
[12:10] >> And at our $20,000 price point, we have
[12:12] the JBC DLA NZ900. And boy,
[12:16] this thing is big. It's still a laser
[12:18] projector, but it has a native 4K chip,
[12:20] which means with pixel shift, it can go
[12:22] all the way up to a completely useless
[12:24] 8K. And instead of just having a single
[12:26] DLP like the BenQ, it has three. One for
[12:29] the R, the G, and the B. That means even
[12:31] better color performance and brightness.
[12:33] And thanks to JVC's DILA technology, you
[12:36] get even better contrast, too.
[12:38] Obviously, all of that extra complexity
[12:40] adds up. And this thing's not just
[12:42] 20,000, but it's actually 26,000 and can
[12:44] typically be found for 30,000. But you
[12:46] also get a fully motorized lens that
[12:48] also has lens shift, which allows you to
[12:49] physically move the lens up and down.
[12:51] So, you don't have to angle your
[12:52] projector to have it fit your screen if
[12:54] your mounting height isn't perfect. This
[12:56] means you don't have to deal with any
[12:57] sort of distorted image and give up any
[12:58] of those precious pixels. The NZ claims
[13:01] a 150,000 to1 contrast ratio, which is a
[13:04] much more modest claim than the Ben Q.
[13:05] Like the BenQ, it uses a laser phosphor
[13:07] light source, but it barely gets any
[13:09] brighter, just 3,300 ANC lumens. But it
[13:12] does support HDR10 plus and numerous
[13:14] other display standards. And it also has
[13:16] a settings menu that you can really sink
[13:17] your teeth into if you're somebody who
[13:18] wants to calibrate and get the best
[13:20] image possible. It's designed for
[13:21] displays between 60 and 300 in. And God,
[13:24] just look at it. It's it's gorgeous.
[13:26] It's beautiful. But is the image also
[13:28] gorgeous and beautiful? And is it
[13:30] $30,000 gorgeous and beautiful?
[13:32] >> I'm very excited to see this because I
[13:35] installed that Epson in my home theater
[13:36] ages ago and I told myself it's good
[13:39] enough. I don't need the JVC and then I
[13:41] went out of my way to never view a JVC.
[13:44] >> It now I'm going to find out how wrong I
[13:46] was. Right.
[13:47] >> It might you might just it might just
[13:48] spoil you. Look at the contrast.
[13:51] >> That's really impressive.
[13:52] >> It lights Reese.
[13:55] >> It's so clean. It is such a natural
[13:58] looking image.
[14:01] WOW.
[14:06] Oh wow. And this level of contrast is
[14:09] something that only JVC can do thanks to
[14:11] their DILA technology. They're the only
[14:13] ones who make it. They're the only ones
[14:14] who can do it. To be clear, there are
[14:16] solutions that you can add to other
[14:18] projectors, but at least some of them
[14:21] are so expensive that you might as well
[14:24] just spring for a JVC projector in the
[14:26] first place. Maybe not this one, but
[14:29] they do have lower-end models that do
[14:31] have that same DILA technology. The
[14:33] question is, is it 10 times better than
[14:36] what we saw last?
[14:38] That's a firm no. However, this
[14:41] projector is not intended for a pitily
[14:44] 120in screen. You're supposed to have a
[14:48] 180in screen. And then that is where our
[14:51] lower-end models simply will not be able
[14:54] to achieve a satisfactory result. And
[14:56] this will.
[14:57] >> Yeah. Yeah. This thing does 8K.
[14:59] >> Yeah.
[14:59] >> So, we can get 4K120 on this. Looking at
[15:02] this as well as even the $2,000
[15:04] projector was like the first time I'd
[15:05] really appreciated that difference in
[15:07] like just the picture, the nature of the
[15:09] picture of a projector versus a TV.
[15:13] We've watched a lot of animated content,
[15:14] but when you watch like filmed content,
[15:16] it feels really really real. To be
[15:19] clear,
[15:20] >> the Epson LS12000
[15:21] >> still a lot of bang for like a sixth as
[15:24] many dollars, but there's no question
[15:26] this is a better projector. I switched
[15:28] up our game because I wanted something
[15:29] that supports HDR.
[15:30] >> Sure. Damn,
[15:33] that's more like it. Does this not feel
[15:35] like walking around in a city at golden
[15:37] hour? Maybe controversial take though.
[15:39] I'd rather game on a big TV than on
[15:41] this.
[15:41] >> I think that gaming is so focused on
[15:44] modern display technology. Film has that
[15:47] history
[15:48] with the projector that makes it so tied
[15:51] to it. And there's nothing analog about
[15:53] this. Why would I want to use analog
[15:55] technology? Plus, with displays, you can
[15:57] get a nice big super pixel dense monitor
[16:00] that's going to look amazing, have
[16:01] incredible motion performance,
[16:03] incredible like quality,
[16:04] >> and we'll have even better contrast.
[16:06] >> Yeah. Think about how many OLED monitors
[16:08] you could get for the price of this
[16:09] thing. I think this would be a great
[16:11] time to do this side by side.
[16:13] >> Yeah.
[16:13] >> Yeah.
[16:14] >> Yeah, we should. Let's look back at our
[16:17] $2,000 projector. That is the difference
[16:21] between a 2,000 and $20,000 projector.
[16:26] >> It is simultaneously such a huge
[16:28] difference and not a huge difference at
[16:30] all.
[16:30] >> Yeah. I mean, if I never knew that the
[16:32] one on the right existed, I would never
[16:34] have a problem with the one on the left.
[16:37] But now that I see them side by side,
[16:39] no, it's still not 10 times better. But
[16:42] it's an easy five.
[16:44] >> Yeah. It makes you wish you had the
[16:46] money. That's what it does. And the best
[16:48] part is we are far from the end of the
[16:50] line.
[16:51] >> Okay, so pretty much basically
[16:52] everything in the next section of the
[16:54] video was really unsafe. Don't do it. If
[16:56] you find yourself in a room with a
[16:58] professionalgrade projector, don't do
[17:00] what we're doing. Everything in this
[17:02] section is kind of dangerous, but feel
[17:04] free to remind us in the comments. For
[17:06] this one, we needed to change shirts.
[17:07] ltstore.com. This is the Christy Boxer
[17:10] 4K30. And despite its name, it actually
[17:13] is a 4K60 projector. I'm not sure what
[17:16] happened there, but what did happen is
[17:18] that this thing cost $200,000
[17:22] new, but that's because this is a
[17:24] professional thing. And among its
[17:25] professionals features a super handy
[17:27] side screen to allow you to calibrate
[17:29] and make sure that your projector looks
[17:30] perfect. And man, it has so many menus.
[17:33] It has settings for settings that you
[17:34] thought you might have been setting, but
[17:36] turns out you actually weren't. It is
[17:38] everything that you would need to make
[17:40] sure that this thing looks perfectly
[17:41] aligned and calibrated in any sort of
[17:43] deployment. It even comes with tools in
[17:45] a handy little tool box that is oh so
[17:48] incredibly organized. And these let you
[17:50] access the service panels where you can
[17:51] tune the internal optics of this. Don't
[17:53] try it yourself. You can really really
[17:55] screw things up. Or you can access the
[17:57] projector bulbs. Yes, bulbs plural.
[18:01] Inside of this beast are six easily
[18:02] removable 450 mercury vapor lamps
[18:05] shining at 30,000 lumens through a 3DLP
[18:09] setup. That means each of these mercury
[18:12] vapor bulbs gets 5,000 lumens roughly,
[18:15] which is brighter than our $30,000
[18:17] projector. This thing has six of them.
[18:19] It's literally dangerous. That amount of
[18:22] brightness means that you can use this
[18:23] thing in even well-lit rooms, even maybe
[18:25] outdoors, though it's probably not super
[18:28] recommended. However, that brightness
[18:30] does come with some downsides. These
[18:31] bulbs are only good for $1,500, and they
[18:34] cost about $400ish
[18:36] each, so you'll be replacing them a lot.
[18:38] The good news is that you can run this
[18:40] with just one light at a time. And also,
[18:42] they have these little NFC bits on the
[18:44] back so you can check the exact lifespan
[18:46] of each bulb in its condition. And did I
[18:48] mention that this thing is liquid
[18:49] cooled? Now, you might have expected
[18:50] that for the bulbs that maybe there'd be
[18:51] some liquid cooling, but that's actually
[18:53] not what it's for. It is for the DLP
[18:55] processing chips. And on top of that
[18:57] water cooling, they also have blower
[18:58] fans directed at some of the power
[19:00] delivery stuff. This thing is crazy to
[19:01] get inside. And it's also very, very
[19:03] loud. Let's check it out. Getting ready.
[19:07] Come when ready.
[19:12] >> Oh my goodness. You can fit so much
[19:15] projector in this bad boy, Adam.
[19:17] >> Six bulbs worth of projector.
[19:19] >> And that's not to achieve a brighter
[19:21] image in our home cinema. In fact, you
[19:24] might have noticed that no matter how
[19:25] much we spent up until this point, all
[19:28] of them were in about the same range for
[19:30] target brightness. It's to shoot a much
[19:33] much bigger image at the same optimal
[19:37] brightness level in a light control
[19:38] environment.
[19:39] >> Yeah,
[19:40] >> but we're gonna use it in here anyway.
[19:41] >> We actually had to install special
[19:43] powers to get this running. Look at
[19:45] that. It's like a car charger.
[19:48] >> What the heck?
[19:49] >> How much power does it draw?
[19:50] >> Well, it has uh six 450 W bulbs in it.
[19:55] Neat.
[19:55] >> Yeah. I can't wait to be in a room full
[19:57] of that.
[19:58] >> Oh, yeah. There's no cooling in here.
[20:00] Fun fact, by the way, we borrowed this
[20:02] projector from Tobias, who runs the
[20:04] Vancouver Dome. That's a great video.
[20:06] >> Yes.
[20:07] >> And so is the dome. Go watch that, too.
[20:09] >> We got to put the lens in first, I
[20:11] realize.
[20:11] >> Right. Right.
[20:13] >> This kind of stuff makes me feel like
[20:14] I'm in the movie, you know, like put
[20:16] putting in the control. The last
[20:18] >> control rod before the self-destruct
[20:20] sequence goes.
[20:20] >> Can you just put it in, man? I'm scared
[20:22] if you don't want you to drop it.
[20:26] >> Just like that. So, this has a almost
[20:28] one one ratio for its throw distance,
[20:31] which means that we're probably more
[20:34] than 120 in away.
[20:38] >> So, it's going to be a bit
[20:38] >> It's going to be pretty big.
[20:40] >> Okay. You can start directly into it,
[20:42] but I don't recommend it.
[20:43] >> Oh, I I won't.
[20:43] >> Yeah. Okay, good. We're at that sort of
[20:46] other side where at the very low end of
[20:49] the curve, your creature comforts are
[20:51] very limited and then you get kind of
[20:53] the mid-priced ones that are like very
[20:55] consumer friendly. Now we're down at the
[20:58] other end of the curve where nicities
[21:00] like quiet cooling fans uh
[21:03] go away. Yeah. Usually you build a room
[21:05] for your screen. With this you're
[21:07] building a room for the projector.
[21:09] >> You might call it a projection room. M
[21:13] WA BUDDY.
[21:17] DUDE, it's usably bright off of the
[21:20] freaking velvet frame on the freaking
[21:23] projector screen.
[21:24] >> Yeah,
[21:24] >> that's supposed to absorb any light that
[21:27] accidentally hits it. Look at this. It's
[21:29] coming off the velvet. Sorry, it's not
[21:32] velvet. It's like a matte black paint,
[21:34] but it's coming off the black paint with
[21:36] usable brightness.
[21:39] That's nuts. You got to see this bit.
[21:42] This blew my mind
[21:44] when I watched it earlier.
[21:50] Wow.
[21:53] So bright. That looked like I was
[21:56] looking at actual lightning.
[21:58] >> Yeah.
[22:00] And you can hear it. You can hear how
[22:01] bright it is. That's for sure.
[22:03] >> You sure can. And the content still
[22:05] looks great. The contrast is not as good
[22:08] as the JBC, but this is a much older
[22:11] projector than that.
[22:13] >> And also, it is really designed to throw
[22:15] huge images really freaking far.
[22:17] >> Yeah, this is not Christy's latest gen.
[22:20] It was just what we could get access to
[22:22] because we're not buying one. Completely
[22:25] unsuitable for home use for a wide
[22:27] variety of reasons.
[22:28] >> Yeah, I think it's like 250 lb.
[22:31] >> And no benefit for a consumer
[22:34] whatsoever.
[22:35] >> Yeah. Yeah,
[22:35] >> like I would just prefer the JVC in my
[22:38] home.
[22:38] >> Yeah, but it has all these cool features
[22:40] like because it has six bulbs, you can
[22:42] have bulb redundancy, right? Like you
[22:44] can have a fallback. You can run with
[22:46] four B. There's a setting on here. I
[22:48] want to show you. Let's change the
[22:50] brightness. The lamp brightness. It's
[22:52] really funny in this room.
[22:53] >> Okay, so we're currently at 100% lamp
[22:56] power.
[22:57] >> Yeah. I'm going to go down all the way
[22:58] down to the lowest setting for lamp
[23:00] power.
[23:02] That's 80%.
[23:03] >> What? I can't even tell.
[23:05] >> Can't tell the difference. It might
[23:07] matter when we're like three times as
[23:09] far away.
[23:10] >> Right. Right. Right. Right. Right.
[23:11] Right. But it just you cannot tell the
[23:13] difference between the lamps being at
[23:15] 180%. No, I really couldn't. This
[23:17] thing's so cool. The lens offset.
[23:21] Oh, yeah. Oh, wow bud. Right. Because
[23:26] this is designed to sit above 250
[23:30] people. Yeah. It's meant to be in
[23:32] versatile for many different venues. So,
[23:34] the lens shift is absolutely massive.
[23:37] And this is where you can really see the
[23:38] whole like you can see it's keystone
[23:40] right now,
[23:41] >> but you can see the edge going beyond
[23:43] that wall TV that we have here.
[23:45] >> Should we game?
[23:47] >> Yeah, sure. We can game.
[23:49] >> Yeah. I'm not expecting it to be very
[23:50] good. But before we do that, it's time
[23:52] for the side by side by side by side.
[23:55] Let's do some comparisons. Once again,
[23:57] can't emphasize enough. Nexigo is the
[24:00] winner for bang for the buck even before
[24:02] I've looked at anything else.
[24:03] >> Nexigo versus Ben Q.
[24:06] >> The Ben Q is just plain a lot better.
[24:09] It's just got more brightness, more pop.
[24:12] If you want to go to 120 in, it's worth
[24:15] spending the 10x extra. Let's see. Ben Q
[24:18] versus JBC. Just go step by step.
[24:20] >> And immediately the color performance of
[24:22] the Ben Q just looks completely
[24:24] inadequate.
[24:25] >> Yeah. Oh, the bear from the bear. That
[24:28] was so much scarier cuz it was actually
[24:30] dark.
[24:30] >> Yeah. Okay,
[24:33] >> now we pull out the big dog. Okay, big
[24:36] boy's on the right. Here she comes. Here
[24:38] she comes. She'll be coming round the
[24:39] mountain when she I'd rather have the
[24:41] JBC.
[24:44] >> Yeah. Yeah. Um Oh my god. But this is
[24:48] why the expression horses for courses.
[24:51] >> Yeah. This is an utterly inappropriate
[24:54] use case for that Christy projector. And
[24:57] you can see that it shows. There
[24:59] literally is a limit to how much you can
[25:01] spend on a home cinema projector and
[25:03] yield not just a meaningful benefit, but
[25:07] even just an improvement.
[25:09] >> Mhm. And I wouldn't be surprised if the
[25:11] Christy would be able to maintain its
[25:13] brightness way further away than the JVC
[25:15] could.
[25:15] >> Oh, 100% you would. You'd get a way
[25:18] better image on a 100 ft screen on that
[25:21] Christie.
[25:22] >> Yeah,
[25:22] >> no question.
[25:23] >> Pull this away.
[25:25] >> You can barely tell the JBC's there.
[25:27] >> It completely overwhelms it.
[25:30] >> It's like the motion that gives it away.
[25:32] >> That's pretty crazy.
[25:33] >> It's so bright.
[25:35] >> No 120 Hz. 4K 60 is the max it can do.
[25:38] >> Yep. I don't actually know about this
[25:40] specific model, but I do know that with
[25:42] some commercial projectors from
[25:44] Christie. There are like upgrade modules
[25:46] and stuff that you can augment them with
[25:49] over time. Uh I I really don't know
[25:50] about this one. So, it's possible you
[25:52] can put a better brain in it or a better
[25:54] HDMI input module or whatever else. You
[25:57] were saying what's the maximum number of
[25:59] HDMI inputs this can be converted with?
[26:00] >> Me, too. I think there's some wonkiness
[26:02] with how it handles uh the color space.
[26:04] I couldn't figure this out. I had some
[26:06] issues watching movies with it, too. But
[26:07] that's the thing about professional
[26:09] solutions is they're designed to be
[26:11] configured, maintained, and troubleshot
[26:13] by professionals.
[26:14] >> Yep.
[26:15] >> Not for us.
[26:15] >> You can change how blue red is in the
[26:18] settings on this, which doesn't make any
[26:20] sense, but it's a thing that matters
[26:21] when you're doing color calibration.
[26:22] >> But here's a question. What if we
[26:24] compare the Nexigo at $220 to the JBC at
[26:29] well $30,000? Is it over a hundred times
[26:32] better? Don't you see?
[26:33] >> Oh, yeah.
[26:34] >> It's really good.
[26:36] >> Yeah. It's really, really good.
[26:38] >> But
[26:40] here's
[26:41] >> 1080p.
[26:42] >> It's not HDR. Doesn't have convenient
[26:44] lens shift.
[26:45] >> It won't do increased refresh rates.
[26:48] >> It's loud. I mean, it's not as loud as
[26:49] the the Christy.
[26:51] >> Yeah, that's overwhelming everything
[26:52] right now. But also, let's turn the
[26:54] light on. And the JBC will clearly
[26:57] outperform the Nexico in a brighter
[26:58] environment. But I wouldn't say it's
[27:00] over a 100 times better. I called it at
[27:03] the beginning. I'm confirming it now.
[27:07] Gold medal value award,
[27:10] gold medal raw performance award, and
[27:13] BenQ was there.
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[28:18] Dome who sent over the Christy Boxer
[28:20] 4K30. Uh the Dome, it's a cool venue in
[28:22] Vancouver. We did a video on it. You
[28:24] should watch that video, but you should
[28:25] also go see a show there. Thanks to JBC
[28:27] for sending this over and the rest of
[28:29] them, nobody but no thanks to anybody
[28:30] else cuz we bought all the other ones.