- 10 ANSI Lumens
- Projection Image 10 to 50 inches
- Single Chip White LED
- Life 15,000 hours
- 0.5 Watt Mono Speaker
- Aspect Ratio Control: 4.3
- Supports MP4/MPG/3GP/AVI/JPG/TXT
- Composite A/V Input
I purchased this little projector new from ANTonline via Amazon. I knew it was only 10 lux and wasn't surprised or disappointed that it needed near total darkness for acceptable performance. My guess is it was designed for the widest user needs possible to be a commercial success. It may have too many optional bells and whistles. It is, however, a marvel of compact design and definitely not a toy. It might be at its best as a tool for a traveling manager training a small group of regional salesmen, perhaps five to seven people who can form a compact viewing group in a hotel room or other similar viewing area where the lights can be adequately dimmed and the projection area wont be too great.
My purposes are quite specific and different. I am an artist and I work in oils, mostly from photographs I take myself or from old photographs made in the 1800's and transferred to SD cards, removable from the camera and inserted into the little projector. ... beginning to get the picture? (no pun intended).
After priming a canvas I can project an image onto it and rough sketch my painting-to-be with vine charcoal. From that point on I work in full light, using a WalMart photo enlargement for color reference. The projector is just one step in the process. It keeps my rough sketch in correct perspective on any size canvas. Don't get the idea that you can use the projector for a paint-by-numbers color picture projection. It's nowhere near bright enough. I use a small personal night reader lamp with an opaque shade pointed downward to give enough illumination in the studio to see my way around, and still have it dark enough for the projector to work just fine.
The projector is LED lit but still gets pretty warm. A tiny fan inside helps dissipate heat. It's thermocouple operated and the internal battery will keep the light on and the fan blowing even if you try to switch the unit off if it's still too warm. The instructions tell you to hold the ON/OFF button in position to switch it on or off for three seconds, but if the projector is too hot it will come back on with the fan blowing after releasing the button. This is a nuisance. The bottom of the unit is heavily louvered for air circulation. If you choose not to use the dinky little near-useless tripod that comes with the projector, and mount it on a regular camera tripod with a large surface area on the mounting base, blocking the projector's cooling louvers, it will overheat. I solved this problem by digging out an old vintage mini-tripod with a ball joint head (rather than a flat plate) and just screwed the threaded stud at the top directly into the projector. The mini-tripod could then itself be screwed onto a full sized camera tripod with full elevation and angle adjustments.
The projector's menu is pretty straightforward and is accessed with a little joystick on top, just like a computer. Four buttons arranged around the joy stick complete the menu control ensemble. Lens sharpness is minimal at best and barely adequate even after adjustment using the knurled focusing wheel.
I can't speak to any of the movie or other functions because I don't use them. I would not recommend this for movies, however, because there are far better ways to watch movies with greater brightness, sharper images, and a larger speaker. The fact that this little projector even has its own internal speaker is unbelievable. I suppose it could be pressed into use as a movie projector for short instructional clips. Any projected movie image over about briefcase size will not be bright enough or sharp enough.
CONS:
1) brightness is minimal, as expected.
2) the unit WILL heat up, especially if any of the louvers on the bottom are blocked.
3) it frequently doesn't want to stay turned off, probably due to heat.
4) when reviewing still photos and after selecting one for enlarging, it goes into an automatic dissolve and open-the-next-picture sequence for a slide show, whether you want it or not. (I found that backing up stops the sequencing).
5) sharpness at high enlargement is marginally adequate.
6) the ON/OFF switch is recessed too far into the case to be easily accessed by a finger, necessitating use of a match stick or pen point. (I solved this by cementing a small raised extension onto the button with a dab of KrazyGlue, the one that comes in a small bottle with an applicator brush
7) CD card capacity is limited to 4 Gigs
PROS:
1) extremely compact and well engineered
2) has the necessary controls and menu options to project what's on CD cards
3) inexpensive enough for me to buy and use as an art tool.
Conclusion: I would recommend this for certain specific uses. It happens to fit my needs nicely. I would, however, be willing to trade compactness and versatility for greater brightness and more simplicity. Nonetheless, it is solid, well built, and a marvel of engineering for such a small package. It has already paid for itself in helping me sketch several photographs onto canvasses.
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I got this projector for my husband because he loves watching movies on his iPhone. He can just plug it in and watch anything off his phone and it's great to just look at pictures too. It's so small, a little bigger than an iPhone. It's a great product and I'd sure recommend it.
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I bought this product from another web site. First I got a broken item with plug ports missing in the bottom. The web site quickly offered me a return. I received the new product and it seemed to function as advertised. In other reviews I read, they were impressed with how bright the picture is. I have to agree. In a dark room or even a room that has partial ambient light that cannot be turned off, it still has a good picture. The reason for the lower review is because the unit does get warm. It has a small cooling fan installed that for me, only seems to operate when the unit is first turned on and remains cool. As the unit starts to warm up the fan seems to stop working and then the picture starts to degrade. I found out that if I apply an external fan and blow it towards the vents of the unit, the picture clears up and greatly reatains its brightness and sharpness. I also noticed that if the unit is turned upside down, then the small cooling fan begins to work and will stay on and helps the picture to regain its composure. But who wants to watch a movie or other media upside down?? So, if you get a unit where the tiny cooling fan seems to operate properly during the entire time the unit is operating, then I think you'll end up with a pretty good viewing machine. NO, this is not intented for your home theatre experience. For that you will want a brighter full sized projecter costing a few hundred dollars more. But if you want something to entertain the kids for a while or for a business presentation, as long as it operates in a cool environment, I felt the picture is worth watching. I actually watched the movie Polar Express all the way through with the projector far enough back that I had at least a 5 foot screen. It maintained a good picture as long as I kept an extra fan blowing on the unit. Please remember folks, these units are definitely NOT bright enough for a fully enjoyable family movie viewing experience. For that you WILL want to purchase on of the big guns.
Just another note, it does come with all the cables you will need for most of the devices you may want to hook up to it. I wonder what playing my XBOX would look like on it??
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you receive what you paid...no more
would be nice to have an audio output to connect speakers when you watch movies from the SD memory. The subtitles most of time are not clear enough. But for your hundred bucks... its ok.
I bought this projector 2 days ago, and I have to say, it is better than expected. I tried it out with a photo slideshow I created on my laptop. The picture quality was absolutely satisfactory; even in a room that was not completely dark. I saved the slide show in MP4 on a SDHC card and had some starting difficulties, because the the projector "told" me that this format was not supported. A phone call to Aaxa's customer service solved this problem in less than 10 minutes. Aaxa's customer service is second to none. I reached a representative without having to go through painful steps with a voice recognition computer. This representative sent explained to me what the problem was (codec issues) and send me the solution, a link to FormatFactory, by email in less than 5 minutes after I hung up the phone. I converted the slideshow with this application and it worked like a charm afterwards.
Tha P1 Jr. is a nice little gadget, and in my opinion delivers a better quality than one would expect for a 100-bucks projector. A flexible mini tripod, mini USB to USB adapter, and AV cable are included. It is easy to use, and I am sure I will have lots of fun with it in the future.
The only con is, that it doesn't have a connection for external speakers. The internal speaker doesn't really cut it.
