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If you've only experienced budget projects you will be blown away by the amazing XGIMI Horizon Ultra 4K Video Projector. With its 2300 lumen DualLight projection system, it can work in just about any space. Tech expert Dave Taylor, veteran of many video projector reviews, finds the XGIMI Horizon Ultra to be wonderful, with its extraordinarily bright projection system, Dolby Vision, and Harmon Kardon audio system.
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This 4k video projector will blow you away. Let's check it out
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Dave Taylor here and I'm checking out this. This is the X Jimmy horizon ultra
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4k video projector and as you can see, it's pretty hefty. In fact, let's start with dimensions
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It's eight point eight inches by six point seven inches by ten point four inches and it's eleven and a half pounds
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It is pretty solid. But what you get for that is you get an amazing
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4k HDR projector which means that you can actually enjoy your video content in
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incredible crisp detail and it can project a display screen from 40 inches to
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200 inches now it does that by using what they call dual light
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It's a combined laser plus LED hybrid light giving you an incredible
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2300 lumens, that's ISO lumens, but I'm looking at projectors a lot that are like a hundred lumens. This is
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2,000 times 20 times whatever the number is It's a whole heck of a lot brighter and it's so bright that I'll actually give you a demo
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During the day in my regular room without having to turn the lights off
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I'll turn off my studio lights, but otherwise you'll see it's really really amazingly bright now
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HDR 10 the resolution is 3840 by 2160 It is a long throw video projector with Dolby Vision
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So it is the first 4k projector with Dolby Vision which gives you ultra high brightness ultra high color gamut and ultra high color
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accuracy it also includes two 12 watt Harman Kardon speakers the sound on this thing will blow you away. It's not a plinky little speaker
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It's a full rich solid speaker that will fill up your room
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If you want to have this in your basement if you want to have this outside
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projecting onto a garage door Or if you want to have it like at the church or at some meeting room and you want to just be able to have
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The best possible experience. This is your best friend Android TV 11.0 Bluetooth 5.2 and
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Dynamic focus and keystone adjustment it auto adjusts for the environment it can even figure out the color of the wall you're projecting on and
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Compensate for that with its color management system pretty amazing want to use it for gaming
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They got you covered with an 18 millisecond latency. So this is gonna be just fine for gaming
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It's not gonna be like you're you know half a second behind or something has lots of ports
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But you know, let's just start with turning it on. So I just want you to see it's obviously pointing at
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your screen, but Isn't that cool now I realize you now have a light projecting into the video camera
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So this is suboptimal but it just noticed that it said hey, wait a minute. There's not a screen there
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So it engaged something called intelligent eye protection now I'll show you a better demo of it because right now it's trying to figure out am I supposed to project onto the far wall
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Am I projecting onto the camera? So we're gonna switch things around so you can actually see what it does
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But I just wanted to show you how that front opens because I think that's fantastic
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Now we'll go ahead and turn it off again and Let it close
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Tell me that's not cool, right? Let's switch around so you can see the ports it includes two HDMI to USB LAN
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AUX and an optical output if you want to plug it into a soundbar or something, but really give me a second
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Let me spin things around So here's the projector at work And as I said, this is during the day and you can see I'm pretty darn close to this wall
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I could just as easily project this image to be five times the size on a much bigger wall
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But I just thought I'd tape the screen to my wall here So you could see it in my sort of standard setting on this side of me
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I have a window showing me daylight and it's a big window and I'm getting a lot of light
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But this is still a pretty darn sharp and crisp and colorful image
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It's really very impressive and does come with this remote. It's a very sleek and attractive remote
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You can see in the close-up You might need to study a little bit to figure out all the buttons
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but it does have Google Assistant and it does have the all-important home button and then I can actually choose different content and
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We can go to something like I don't know. Let's go back to Netflix and yes, it does work with Netflix
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Which is to me one of the core tests with video projectors because a lot of them actually don't work with
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Netflix even though they're running Android TV because Netflix is pretty picky about connectivity
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So I'm gonna go here and then we can go here and let just so you can hear a little bit of the audio
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Let's go ahead and just start this movie and I unfortunately don't have the rights to show you the movie dread
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but we'll do this and Let's get the volume up a little bit
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And you can see it's a crisp clear image and you can hear there's plenty of audio here, too
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so there's so much to like with this thing and unfortunately can't really show you the movie so let's jump back to home and
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I'll jump back here and it works with Disney Amazon Prime Video
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You can go to peacock and you can catch up on your favorite sports
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all of the major streaming apps are all here and what's great is that some of them and
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It's not the world's fastest to load, but does that really matter but some of the apps
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Like let's see Plex and also the Google Android TV itself if I go to the very top
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If it'll let me there we go, and I go to live This is actually a lineup of free live streaming channels
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so I could actually pick something it offers up a Decent number of free channels from apps and I can go here. We can just pick one randomly
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Let's try this Absolutely, no idea what this show is. This is just random, but you can see we're gonna get into this impossible quiz show
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and So now it's live streaming and I'm just doing this straight over the Internet
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and Okay Pretty loud. Let's go back to home and then go all the way back to home
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Sometimes some of these apps are a little fussy about letting go of control
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But notice what happens if I lean in front of the screen instead of it giving me this bright image
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It actually uses what I talked about earlier Which is intelligent eye protection to make sure that if someone runs in front of the projector
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They don't have this intense light bursting into their eyeballs But once I move out of the way, it goes right back to showing me what's on the screen
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So much to like here I really am very impressed with this device it gives you great sound
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It's an incredibly bright image. I love the autofocus and auto keystone
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So I have a lot of flexibility in terms of how I position it on on what wall I want to project it
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And like I said earlier it also automatically compensates if It also automatically
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compensates if at the wall has a color instead of it being white like I'm getting from this screen, so
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Lots lots lots of cool stuff. Now. Let me switch things around again just to wrap this up
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One of the features I didn't demonstrate but is still pretty cool Is that it works with Chromecast built-in and there's an app that lets you use airplay from your iPhone, too
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So you can be watching something on your phone And you can just push it out to the projector and it'll just pick up the image and work just fine
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That also works with every single YouTube video regardless of what you're watching it on if you really want to watch that on the screen
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Then you can do that now. Let me go ahead and turn this off. Actually. You know what before we turn it off. Let's
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cancel that and I'll just show you the settings real quick It's one of the buttons on the remote and then you can see that the shortcuts
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give you a quick ability to do things like sleep timers and
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redo that keystone or focused setting but then you can go down and
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You can go to all settings and then there's a lot more things you can tweak and fine-tune
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Including what account you're using with Google and everything and a lot of this is Android TV
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But it's really easy to work with now having shown that Let's go ahead and turn it off and then my camera will actually be able to breathe out a little bit because it's not
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competing with the projector So the remote control really one of the slickest remotes it does come with built-in or it comes with batteries
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So you don't need to go and add your own batteries The projector is heavy
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But really really nicely designed and it does come with a pretty hefty brick not entirely sure why this needs to be
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Part of this but my guess is a lot of it is to make sure it has extremely clean power
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so that it doesn't affect the projector and Turn this around so you can see a little better and
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That's pretty much everything when I got the box. It is an enormous box and it is a heavy box
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but there's a lot of stuff in it including obviously the power brick and the unit and all sorts of instructions and
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Documentation and the remote and the batteries for the remote so it really is a good to go
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you'll probably spend like 10 or 15 minutes configuring it to sign in to all your favorite streaming services and everything and
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Then you are so ready to rock and roll. The sound is so good
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You might use this just to listen to music because you can get things like Spotify for it
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But it's absolutely a wonderful experience to watch movies with this because of that dual light
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Technology and because of the Dolby vision, which just gives you this
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Eye-popping bright colorful image and not only that but it changes the image as the day goes on
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So if I sat here and watched a movie, it's daytime right now
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But as it got dark it would compensate and would actually give me an even more vivid picture
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So when it detects that it's a daytime or a very bright room
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It will put more energy into actually being bright and then in a dark room
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It'll sort of step back a little bit on the brightness So it's not too bright and then give you more color depth
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so it's a pretty phenomenal experience and the fact that I can use this without having to go and close all the curtains and put up black up lines and wait till
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It's super dark or something is Wonderful it is a lot to have with 2,300 lumens
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It is a big unit and it has a pretty spendy price tag, but not for the technology you're getting
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So definitely one to check out now we should talk about the price. So before we get there
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Go ahead and give me a thumbs up If you found this to be a value and either way leave a comment and tell me what you think of this unit and what
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You think of my review always appreciate the feedback cool This little beastie is the X Jimmy horizon ultra 4k video projector and it is
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$1,699 you can pick it up at amazon.com It is spendy but for a 4k long throw video projector
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This is one of the very least expensive in the market and honestly one of the best I am not sending this back
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I am refusing I am going to hold on to it. We'll negotiate later
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But the idea of having this available so I can use this when I'm on the road or when I'm at an event or something
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Fantastic imagine you could host movie night at a trade show by just pulling this thing out of the back of your car
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So nice, that's exactly what this thing can do. It is so powerful. It's everything I got
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I might go back to dread not a great movie, but an entertaining movie. So that's what I'm my plans are
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I'm what I'm gonna do. So I'll hope to catch you in my next video
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