$2 vs $200,000 Projector

[00:00] Projectors have a lot of downsides

[00:01] compared to TVs. They're hard to find

[00:03] space for, a pain in the butt to align,

[00:05] and they look downright awful in a

[00:07] bright room. So, why are they so

[00:09] popular? I mean, there's dozens of

[00:11] brands making them, and they've got to

[00:12] be the number one most advertised item

[00:14] on teu.com. Well, it's because people

[00:17] love them. They are by far the cheapest

[00:19] way to get a giant screen. And there's a

[00:22] natural softness and cinematic quality

[00:25] to the image that can make even your

[00:27] iPhone home videos look like absolute

[00:30] cinema. But how much do you need to

[00:32] spend on one? Probably more than $2, but

[00:35] we're going to try that one anyway. And

[00:37] we're going to go all the way up to $20,

[00:40] $200,

[00:42] $2,000,

[00:44] $20,000,

[00:47] and even all the way to a $200,000

[00:50] option. All in search of the sweet spot.

[00:53] Now, I'm not going to show you this one

[00:55] just yet, but what I will do is show you

[00:58] the $15,000

[01:06] lens that goes in it.

[01:08] >> DAMN BOY, HE THICK.

[01:10] >> Meet LED projector. It claims to be the

[01:12] most costefficient highresolution LED

[01:15] projector. And when it's $2, I kind of

[01:17] believe them. It is the bare essentials

[01:20] to make a projector. that makes it a

[01:22] lamp with a lens that directs light

[01:24] through an LCD layer and then through

[01:26] other optics that reflect out onto a

[01:28] screen. However, it has a surprising

[01:30] number of other features. For example,

[01:31] we have HDMI in, USB in, as well as a

[01:34] micro SD card slot, an AV input,

[01:37] headphone out, and we can power it via a

[01:39] USB cable, micro USB, but a USB cable

[01:42] nonetheless. You can even adjust the

[01:44] zoom. However, it doesn't disclose its

[01:47] brightness. It only has a contrast ratio

[01:48] of 800 to1. And as you're going to see,

[01:51] it really stretches the definition of

[01:53] HD.

[01:53] >> My expectations are pretty low, but

[01:56] probably not low enough. I feel like any

[01:58] light in the room right now is going to

[02:00] be crippling.

[02:02] >> Um, you you might be surprised. I might

[02:05] not. Is it even on? Hit the lights.

[02:10] >> Advertised as an HD projector. That

[02:12] ain't no screen door. That's a chain

[02:14] link fence. I can see everything.

[02:17] >> You can see the sub pixels. You can see

[02:19] like the red, the blue, and the green.

[02:21] It's crazy.

[02:22] >> We should probably, I mean, at least put

[02:23] it in the center. Let's give it its best

[02:24] shot right?

[02:26] >> Uh, hey.

[02:27] >> Yeah.

[02:27] >> Hey. Okay, cool. Here we go.

[02:28] >> I can't wait to use my projector for

[02:30] book.

[02:31] >> Adam,

[02:34] >> I can't read the YouTube book.

[02:36] >> Look, it's it's literally Oh, you can

[02:40] kind of get it there.

[02:41] >> Kind of.

[02:42] >> Can you believe they have the audacity

[02:43] to give this a book mode?

[02:47] The moon is square, Adam.

[02:49] >> It's constantly so bad.

[02:51] >> And somehow the image quality was better

[02:53] during that moment.

[02:54] >> I know, right? So that I could just make

[02:55] it up into the music in my mind. In

[02:58] fairness, nobody would be trying to use

[03:00] a projector of this caliber at 120 in.

[03:03] >> No, no, not even close.

[03:04] >> We should look at it at like, you know,

[03:07] 40 in. Like where you'd set it up in

[03:09] your tent when you're camping or

[03:10] something.

[03:10] >> Okay, let's move it closer. You know a

[03:12] projector is quality when I can look

[03:14] directly into it and not be bothered

[03:16] whatsoever. Like I can still totally

[03:17] see. All right, hit it.

[03:21] As anything more than a toy for kids, I

[03:24] just can't recommend this. Which is good

[03:26] because it's priced as one.

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[03:50] At $20, we have the LED projector. Yes,

[03:53] it is the $20 projector because the only

[03:55] way you're getting it for $2 is if you

[03:57] can get it on sale as like a Teimu

[03:58] promo.

[03:59] >> What? Sorry, you thought we were going

[04:00] to watch it again. Even at $20, it's

[04:03] still a toy for kids, guys. But the good

[04:06] news is that to get something that's not

[04:09] a toy doesn't cost as much as you might

[04:11] think. The Nexco PJ40 Pro is a 1080p

[04:13] projector and is perhaps our first

[04:15] serious entrant in this video. It has

[04:17] 800 ANC lumens of brightness, a 3000 to1

[04:20] contrast ratio, and supports HDR10, like

[04:22] the bare minimum. It's got two HDMI

[04:24] ports, two USB ports, AVN, and a

[04:26] headphone jack. For goodies, we get

[04:28] built-in Wi-Fi with Android TV and an

[04:31] included backlit remote. Also, this

[04:33] thing's got a 20 watt speaker in it, so

[04:35] you don't need to hook it up to another

[04:36] sound system. Nexo claims that the

[04:38] projector is good for screens between 50

[04:40] in and 300 in depending on the distance

[04:42] that you mount your projector. And its

[04:44] LED lamp is rated for 30,000 hours of

[04:47] operation. That's like 3 hours a day for

[04:50] 30 years. Though, note there will be

[04:52] some brightness degradation over that

[04:53] time. You also get some really important

[04:55] features for setting up your projector

[04:57] like automated and manual key stinging

[04:59] as well as manual zoom. Huh?

[05:03] You even get a spare filter for your

[05:05] fan.

[05:06] >> Wow. It's not perfect cuz it isn't.

[05:10] Nothing's perfect.

[05:10] >> No, but at the price it might be

[05:13] perfect.

[05:14] >> Do you think it's 10 times as good?

[05:16] >> Oh, yeah.

[05:17] >> Like obviously you can see that it's not

[05:19] like the best lens. When you look at the

[05:20] corners, you see like fringing as well

[05:22] as stuff that's out of focus.

[05:24] >> Sure.

[05:24] >> But you're how you're not looking at the

[05:26] corners all the time. It might be that

[05:28] we did just look at a $20 projector, so

[05:30] we're feeling really stoked, but I don't

[05:33] see why you would be unhappy with this,

[05:35] especially if you have a light control

[05:36] room. It's loud.

[05:39] It's quite loud.

[05:40] >> Yeah. And we are seated directly

[05:42] underneath it, as we would be, though.

[05:44] Now, press the home button. It even has

[05:46] its own built-in smart OS. It comes with

[05:48] Android TV. It's pretty responsive. To

[05:50] be clear, it was these guys who very

[05:54] recently talked about how the

[05:56] smartification of your TV is not

[05:58] necessarily a feature because of all the

[06:00] advertising that's built into it. But if

[06:01] it's going to have it, if it could be

[06:03] responsive, that'd be great.

[06:05] >> And it supports CEC, so you can bypass

[06:07] the OS to just boot directly to the

[06:08] input you want. It's pretty cool. I will

[06:10] say setting it up did suck. It is manual

[06:13] focus. There's no zoom. Um,

[06:16] >> and it's all manual height adjustments,

[06:18] no fun features, so it's kind of a pain.

[06:21] >> But at $220,

[06:23] am I happy with this? You're damn right.

[06:26] >> Yeah. Should we game on it, though?

[06:32] Sure. Cool. I'm calling it now. This is

[06:36] going to be the biggest bump we see in

[06:38] image quality for 10xing our budget. And

[06:40] 10xing our budget was only $200 this

[06:43] time. Wow. Oh, dude. This is so usable.

[06:48] >> You can definitely see ghosting on a lot

[06:51] of the quick movements, but it's not

[06:53] that distracting.

[06:54] >> I'll be honest with you, as the person

[06:56] playing the game, I didn't really notice

[06:58] it.

[06:58] >> Yeah, I'm specifically trying to look

[07:00] for these things, but I'm not looking

[07:02] where you are. I'm just like, what is

[07:04] what do the textures move like? And does

[07:06] it feel responsive?

[07:07] >> Feels fine.

[07:08] >> Yeah.

[07:09] >> Not bad at all.

[07:11] >> This seems like a great entrylevel

[07:12] option.

[07:13] >> Oh, yeah.

[07:14] >> Yeah. I don't remember the last time I

[07:15] was this impressed by a value product.

[07:17] >> I'm wondering if your impressions will

[07:18] change when we go to our next step where

[07:20] we have an actual gaming projector.

[07:23] Going up to the $2,000 price bracket, we

[07:25] get to meet our first specialty

[07:26] projector, the BenQ TK710 STI, which has

[07:31] an unfortunate final acronym, is a laser

[07:34] gaming projector that's also short

[07:36] throw. What makes it a gaming projector?

[07:38] Well, it can support 1080p at 240 Hz or

[07:40] 4K at 60 Hz. If you're thinking, "That's

[07:43] a little strange. This came out in 2025.

[07:45] If it's going to really be a gaming

[07:46] projector, it should at least do 4K 120,

[07:48] right?" Yeah. You know what? That's a

[07:50] good point.

[07:52] Is this like an HDMI limitation? Yes and

[07:54] no. While this only has HDMI 2.0 ports,

[07:56] it also makes use of something called

[07:58] pixel shift to get that 4K image. What

[08:01] is pixel shift? Okay, we're going to

[08:03] have to do a lot of explaining here. The

[08:05] lasers from the projector bulb go

[08:07] through a DLP or digital light

[08:09] processor. The core part of this DLP is

[08:11] a DMD, a digital micro mirror device.

[08:14] This is a chip of tiny aluminum mirrors,

[08:16] one for each pixel that can

[08:18] electrostatically change angles to

[08:20] direct light towards or away from any

[08:22] given pixel, controlling brightness.

[08:24] That light is then reflected through a

[08:25] color wheel, which filters out or

[08:26] enhances the color of light before it

[08:27] heads out of the rest of the optic

[08:29] chain. But getting more micro mirrors is

[08:32] really, really expensive. So, they pull

[08:35] a little trick. They take your 4K image

[08:37] and process it into subframes. typically

[08:40] two or four. These subframes consist of

[08:41] different pixels that will all

[08:42] constitute a full 4K image. By adjusting

[08:45] the angles of your micro mirrors, you

[08:46] can fill in the extra pixels faster than

[08:48] the eye can see, allowing for measurable

[08:50] and perceivable increases in clarity.

[08:52] Those 1920 x 1080 mirrors can switch at

[08:54] 240 hertz, making three additional

[08:56] pixels at 4K60 or making a 1080 image at

[09:02] 240. Very cool. And that's basically the

[09:05] only way a projector can get 4K at a

[09:08] reasonable price. Now, let's talk about

[09:09] the other specs. The TK710 STI gets 3200

[09:12] ANC lumens with a quoted 600,000 to1

[09:16] contrast ratio, and its laser phosphor

[09:19] light source is rated for 20,000 hours

[09:21] at full brightness. And naturally, as a

[09:22] gaming projector, they quote very low

[09:24] input latency. We don't get motorized

[09:26] zoom or focus, but we do get manual zoom

[09:29] and focus. You know, not bad. It helps.

[09:31] It's nice. Okay. And we get a third

[09:33] hidden HDMI port for a built-in Android

[09:36] TV stick that kind of is jankly

[09:38] installed in the back of it. It's kind

[09:39] of weird. But does all that fancy tech

[09:41] amount to an image that's worth the leap

[09:43] in price? Something we didn't mention is

[09:45] that once we move into this price range,

[09:47] we start to get a lot more features and

[09:49] a lot more options on our lens. For

[09:51] instance, this one supports not only

[09:53] focus, but also zoom and happens to be a

[09:57] short throw model. So instead of sitting

[09:59] 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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[28:16] watching, and thanks to Tobias from The

[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.