Bigger than bigger, this is the dream of all screen entertainment fans. The immersive visual experience brought by the large screen is incomparable, no matter whether it is girls’ watching movies, soup operas, or boys’ watching ball games and playing games. In the past two years, the rise of intelligent portable projectors has dramatically reduced the purchase threshold of projectors. You can buy a smart projector with a “large screen, excellent picture quality, HiFi and massive resources” with a reasonable price.
But is this kind of intelligent projector really worth buying? Today, we would go through some pros and cons of the buying of smart portable projectors.
Advantages of Android portable projectors:
1/Experience the big screen at a lower price
For many people, the home projector is a relatively high threshold category. Some traditional large factories, such as BenQ and Epson, often have 56000 or even tens of thousands of home projectors with excellent imaging quality.
With the emergence of intelligent projectors, many people experience larger screen effects at a lower price. The two most famous smart projector brands in the market are XGIMI and NUT. Most of their products are priced at only 1000-3000 yuan. The relatively low price gives more people a chance to experience a larger screen.
2/Small appearance, easy to install
Compact, portable, and plug-in are the main reasons for many people to choose intelligent projectors. After all, for many rental parties, a smart projector can save a lot of trouble without additional speakers or drilling holes in the wall. The size of two or three books is much easier to carry than a TV.
3/Internet connection
The so-called “high degree of Internet connection” is actually that a set of the intelligent operating system is built in the projector, which is similar to the current network set-top box. You can directly install apps on the projector to watch various film and television resources, which is much more convenient than the traditional projector.
It can be said that an intelligent projector makes many people experience the fun of a large screen with a lower threshold, but sometimes the smart projector is cheap and convenient, and it also sacrifices somethings.
Disadvantages of Android portable projectors:
1/Image quality
Although the nominal resolution of some flagship functions can reach 1080p, the resolution of most intelligent projectors on the market is only about 720p at present, which is far from the expected high-definition image quality.
2/Time limitation
At present, most of the smart portable projectors on the market have a nominal brightness of less than 1000 ANSI lumens, and the actual use-value may be lower.
Such brightness is not too big at night, but if it is in the natural light of the day, the details and color presentation of the screen will be greatly affected. Putting it simply, you can watch a film, but you may only view it as a PPT.
3/More fuselage noise
Projectors often need high-power light sources to project pictures, which naturally generate a lot of heat, so projectors usually have small fans built in to dissipate heat.
The traditional projector is relatively large, so the fan with a larger diameter can be used, and the fan blade can also optimize noise reduction. The smart projector with a small appearance can’t have a massive fan inside, so it can only increase the speed to improve the cooling capacity.
4/Placement is not flexible
Although the smart projector can be plugged in and used, it doesn’t go anywhere. If you want to project a big enough picture, you need a big enough house and a whole blank wall. For many small families and rental parties, such requirements are still very high.
Many intelligent projectors support zoom and trapezoid correction functions, which can be “side projection”, but mostly at the cost of loss of image quality or size. In order to get a perfect picture, it’s better to put it in the middle of the room or lift it, which is not different from the traditional projector.
Is it worth buying?
We mentioned at the beginning that as a device that integrates projector, speaker, and resource base, intelligent projector really dramatically reduces the threshold of using a projector. But there are some problems with this kind of smart projectors, such as general resolution, low brightness, not supporting optical correction, and so on.
Anyway, a smart portable projector would be perfect for you if you suit in this situation:
There’s plenty of room in the house and a whole wall.
Really in need to experience the big screen, but the budget is not so high.
Don’t care much about the quality of the painting.
Office workers usually don’t use projection during the day, mostly at night.
Then those two or three thousand intelligent projectors on the market, you can choose one if you like. If you make a purchase, XGIMI would be highly recommended since it has set up its own recognition and brand image in the competitive market. By the way, its new product XGIMI HALO has been a breakthrough to bring about the brighter ever experience in projection. Don’t hesitate to buy it for an ideal visual entertaining life if you have decided to enjoy one.
Laila Azzahra is a professional writer and blogger that loves to write about technology, business, entertainment, science, and health.