Not always. A lot of companies will sell a product (or service) at a loss for awhile just to get a foot in the market or to get people talking about it. Stuff like this they usually try to recoup the loss in some way on the software side (bloatware) so it's generally being payed for somehow. Although I don't see that in this case, so they are probably just taking a hit for marketing. I started an accounting business 16 years ago straight out of college and decided to add in tax preparation a few years later since it was going great. But competing against so many "similar" businesses was challenging to say the least so I offered absurd deals the first 2 years. I lost about $17 on every tax return we prepared, on top of hiring and training new part-time employees. The first year we did around 950 returns, the second year we did around 1400, the 3rd year we were swamped just from appointments (we also take walk-ins) so I quit offering the discount deal on basic returns (they were free) and barely broke even at the end of the year. We did ~4000 tax returns that year. Gotta spend money to make money as they say. The 4th year I bumped my pricing up a little (just $5 on average) and we haven't had a year since where we didn't do at minimum 8000 returns, so its definitely profitable now. Even got people coming from out of state to do returns because family members recommended us and this is in a town of around 30k people so getting 8k customers minimum every year is amazing. It was well worth it to take the hit for 2 years.
It's not anti capitalism, it's just the truth. When I price up a job I go in with the minimum I can charge and make a living. I don't add money on top and hope they don't notice or have to win it back somehow.
Looks like you might be using this standard throw projector on a Fresnel ALR screen designed for Ultra Short Throw projectors. With a Fresnel UST screen the longer the throw of the projector the more the concentric circles show up in the image and the more faded/washed out the image will look.
This is nice and all, but how does it compare to regular projectors in that price range? Is the image quality comparable? Better? Worse? Do I need a completely dark room to use this? And the only advantage is that laser lasts longer? I have never had to change the lamp on mine.
Hey, I have the gen 1 and no you don’t need fully dark room. I watch stuff even in daylight on max brightness. Would I call it Immersive? No, but I would call it usable. G2 has 650 iso lumens more, which is more than some cheap projectors have as a base, so I would argue it will look good in daylight. When in full darkness I had to set the projector to The lowest brightness levels to avoid my eyes burning out 😂 I usually have Philips Hue light on ~ 15% with The brightness setting being “normal” and up to 30% on “Bright” and with both The image looks great! Hope this helped to clarify the situation, if you got any questions let me know :)
“This projector actually supports both HD10+ and HLG. Which you don’t always see. It’s more useful for sports on TV.” Kendrick been REAL quiet since this dropped..
I bought the projector on release and have been generaly happy with the image quality. The only thing that bothers ma and which i would have wished the review would have mentioned it is that the phosphorous technology has a slight afterglow. Its only noticable in dark shots and low environmental lighting but moving objects the appear to leave a glowing tale due to the crystals not reacting fast enough. I think one should now before buying considering a 'true' MLP laser projector with 4k costs considerably more.
try @TheHookUp just found his channel, shows ACTUAL tested specs and real world comparisons, I haven't found a single other video or channel that actually seriously reviews or tests these things. Which sucks because it's an interesting market with a lot of room for growth. There's barely anything online in general and most of what you do find is AI generated slop articles and TTS videos. These chinese manufacturers have created entire artificial networks of "tech reviews" and "manufacturers" many of these different brands are produced by the same companies and I'm convinced it's dedicated purely to market research and seeing which kind of branding sells identical hardware better. It's actually somewhat impressive once you see the full scale of it. I love my cheapo 200lm china trash projector to death and am only replacing it now because I got a dead pixel. BenQ, Anker and Epson just do NOT know how to design an appliance projector, these Chinese engineers and designers are lightyears ahead.
"advanced laser phosphor display" It's just a regular DLP projector. The "advanced laser phosphor" part is just "we shine a blue laser at a phosphor wheel to make light instead of using a lightbulb"
@@alexeyrybakov3863 at 50% of original brightness, sure. Depends how bright the laser is, how big the wheel is, how well you cool it, etc. When people hear “laser projector” they probably have a vision of laser beams scanning over a screen like a CRT monitor, but in reality they’re usually just using the laser to make white light that feeds into a traditional projection engine like a DLP or LCD. The next step up from here is using three separate lasers (R/G/B) to produce a white laser without needing three phosphor wheel.
0:46 the peel meant to protect the product doesn't protect the most important parts because they know people will refuse to remove it and end up with a blurry picture.
I refuse to buy new any "Smart" TV, at this price, branded with apps on a generic $8 remote. I very much like the actual tech and engineering, to make these. And I understand corporate deals for brand placement. It's just such a saturated market, having labels everywhere. And ads right out of the gate, the moment it's turned on, telling what to watch...
Would have loved to here about lag and how it handles gaming. Was waiting the whole time for it to come up after the very short note of 240fps at 1080p, but no lag stats. Projectors often don't mention them on spec sheets so always ha e to go digging for that info.
Every digital image correction you used ruins the image. It really can easily delete 50% of image clarity. With projectors you should only use lens shift…
Hey, I got the G1 and the sound is actually not too bad, When I was moving I didn’t have my Sonos Home Theatre set up yet so I was relying only on the speakers in the projector and while I wouldn’t call it Immersive, it did the job fairly well. But let’s be honest if you spend this much on a projector you probably have at least a soundbar anyways. Why would anyone want to hear people in front of them talk behind them😂
The pricing is pretty bad for a regular throw projector, a 1080p Optoma HZ40HDR is around 850 usd/euros and at the same price point you can buy a BenQ X500i that totally obliterates the Mars Pro 2 with also the advantage of beeing a short throw. This projector is as uninteresting as this video.
I got the G1 on eBay for ~£600 (Brand new) a while ago and I must say I’m impressed with the projector. It’s bright enough to watch in daylight (not Direct Sunlight) it’s not really immersive, but it is usable. Glad to see them move from whatever Linux trash they had in the G1. After three minutes I was ordering Shield Pro because the OS was way too laggy and didn’t support Netflix 😂 I want to highlight the customer support though! I had issues with fan noise and hdmi settings not always working properly with CEC and I got a reply within 24 hours and a Fix via Software update two weeks later! you can imagine how surprised I was to even get a reply let alone to get such a fast update 😂 So yes, Considering it’s supposed to be better than G1, I would recommend to anyone who’s considering it! If anyone has any questions feel free to ask, I’ll be glad to answer them best to my knowledge or test stuff if needed (but keep in mind I only have the First Gen) :)
They only didn't mention response time. You can see resolution(s) at: 00:29 Max brightness at: 06:38 If you can't even read then you probably shouldn't watch videos on youtube and start learning.
Hey, Got the G1 and it does look good even in daylight. Not Sharp Bright Daylight. I actually have to Lower the brightness when watching at night bcs it gets too bright. The 2450 ISO lumens (of g2) reflecting off a wall must burn the eyes 😂😂😂
But with the peel on, it just looks like dull, gray, oxidized plastic and often has unsightly imperfections, such as air bubbles or peeling, worn edges. Ideally, manufacturers could just stop making products out of glossy, soft plastic.
@@Ale-bj7nd For a while YT would still answer API questions about dislikes, but then they removed those too. Now you have to install a extension like "Return RUclips Dislike" or similar. They don't show the actual number of dislikes that YT has logged. Instead they log dislikes clicked by the users of these extensions. Look at how many users of these extensions has watched this particular video and how many of these that clicked Dislike and calculate the percentage. Then they look at the number of views and multiply that by the dislike percentage and the result is at least somewhere near a likely number of true dislikes. This video has currently about 1100 likes and about 132 dislikes.
Is it an actual motorized lens or just fake software adjustments that degrade quality? Sounds like this is just a laser-lit projector rather than and actual laser scanning projector. It's like saying "LED TV" when you've actually an LCD with LED backlight.
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If they can afford to put a $500 discount on it... It means it is marked up $500 more than it should be.
Not always. A lot of companies will sell a product (or service) at a loss for awhile just to get a foot in the market or to get people talking about it. Stuff like this they usually try to recoup the loss in some way on the software side (bloatware) so it's generally being payed for somehow. Although I don't see that in this case, so they are probably just taking a hit for marketing. I started an accounting business 16 years ago straight out of college and decided to add in tax preparation a few years later since it was going great. But competing against so many "similar" businesses was challenging to say the least so I offered absurd deals the first 2 years. I lost about $17 on every tax return we prepared, on top of hiring and training new part-time employees. The first year we did around 950 returns, the second year we did around 1400, the 3rd year we were swamped just from appointments (we also take walk-ins) so I quit offering the discount deal on basic returns (they were free) and barely broke even at the end of the year. We did ~4000 tax returns that year. Gotta spend money to make money as they say. The 4th year I bumped my pricing up a little (just $5 on average) and we haven't had a year since where we didn't do at minimum 8000 returns, so its definitely profitable now. Even got people coming from out of state to do returns because family members recommended us and this is in a town of around 30k people so getting 8k customers minimum every year is amazing. It was well worth it to take the hit for 2 years.
But then they can’t FOMO you into buying it.
That's my anti capitalism boys
It's not anti capitalism, it's just the truth. When I price up a job I go in with the minimum I can charge and make a living. I don't add money on top and hope they don't notice or have to win it back somehow.
Agree. Instant distrust when companies do this.
Looks like you might be using this standard throw projector on a Fresnel ALR screen designed for Ultra Short Throw projectors. With a Fresnel UST screen the longer the throw of the projector the more the concentric circles show up in the image and the more faded/washed out the image will look.
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i respect James' choice to accept doing Sponsor videos based solely on how fun to say is the brand
This is nice and all, but how does it compare to regular projectors in that price range? Is the image quality comparable? Better? Worse? Do I need a completely dark room to use this? And the only advantage is that laser lasts longer? I have never had to change the lamp on mine.
This is just an ad.
Bro, this whole channel is where they do sponsored previews, NOT reviews
Hey, I have the gen 1 and no you don’t need fully dark room. I watch stuff even in daylight on max brightness. Would I call it Immersive? No, but I would call it usable. G2 has 650 iso lumens more, which is more than some cheap projectors have as a base, so I would argue it will look good in daylight.
When in full darkness I had to set the projector to The lowest brightness levels to avoid my eyes burning out 😂 I usually have Philips Hue light on ~ 15% with The brightness setting being “normal” and up to 30% on “Bright” and with both The image looks great!
Hope this helped to clarify the situation, if you got any questions let me know :)
@@bismuth7730 they do both and the key is to listen for when they are SPONSORED
if it was a review instead of an ad, we would hear about the comparison. not just with projectors but with TV options around that range.
James got tagged.
“This projector actually supports both HD10+ and HLG.
Which you don’t always see.
It’s more useful for sports on TV.”
Kendrick been REAL quiet since this dropped..
Did someone glued a "kick me" post-it on James's back?
Came here for that exact reason! 😆
James here, the post-it actually says someone's name; I found it on the box and stuck it on my own back. Didn't know it was visible in frame lol :S
Yeah! I was looking for a comment about it 😂
The post-it is attached to the table behind James later in the video and I think it says Geoffrey. 😄
Same!
I bought the projector on release and have been generaly happy with the image quality. The only thing that bothers ma and which i would have wished the review would have mentioned it is that the phosphorous technology has a slight afterglow. Its only noticable in dark shots and low environmental lighting but moving objects the appear to leave a glowing tale due to the crystals not reacting fast enough. I think one should now before buying considering a 'true' MLP laser projector with 4k costs considerably more.
Why are there no NON sponsored videos for Projectors. on YT??? Hardly any real or good videos that are not sponsored by the manufacturers
It is always annoying with sponsored videos. Especially car review youtubers who can't say anything negative about the crapbox they sit in.
"The Hook up" ain't sponsored and he does gold review comparisons!
try @TheHookUp just found his channel, shows ACTUAL tested specs and real world comparisons, I haven't found a single other video or channel that actually seriously reviews or tests these things. Which sucks because it's an interesting market with a lot of room for growth. There's barely anything online in general and most of what you do find is AI generated slop articles and TTS videos. These chinese manufacturers have created entire artificial networks of "tech reviews" and "manufacturers" many of these different brands are produced by the same companies and I'm convinced it's dedicated purely to market research and seeing which kind of branding sells identical hardware better. It's actually somewhat impressive once you see the full scale of it. I love my cheapo 200lm china trash projector to death and am only replacing it now because I got a dead pixel. BenQ, Anker and Epson just do NOT know how to design an appliance projector, these Chinese engineers and designers are lightyears ahead.
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"advanced laser phosphor display" It's just a regular DLP projector. The "advanced laser phosphor" part is just "we shine a blue laser at a phosphor wheel to make light instead of using a lightbulb"
Can a phosphor wheel last 30,000 hours?😏
@@alexeyrybakov3863 at 50% of original brightness, sure. Depends how bright the laser is, how big the wheel is, how well you cool it, etc. When people hear “laser projector” they probably have a vision of laser beams scanning over a screen like a CRT monitor, but in reality they’re usually just using the laser to make white light that feeds into a traditional projection engine like a DLP or LCD. The next step up from here is using three separate lasers (R/G/B) to produce a white laser without needing three phosphor wheel.
@@alexeyrybakov3863 Will that company last long enough for anyone to find out 😊
0:46 the peel meant to protect the product doesn't protect the most important parts because they know people will refuse to remove it and end up with a blurry picture.
“AI” Auto Keystone… my VCR had AI autotracking
@@tim3172 + and - buttons
you can tell his holding off soo much things hed like to say cause its sponsored lol
Yeah
Especially when he mentioned the speakers
lmg has priorities 🤭
"AI keystone features", really?
Muh AI!!! It's goooood!!!!
For real, companies are just using that term to refer to literally any algorithm or basic automated software and it's annoying af
AI all the things!!
@@Thezuule1 no don't
Throwing in the latest buzz words is the easiest way to trick naïve investors into parting with their money
I refuse to buy new any "Smart" TV, at this price, branded with apps on a generic $8 remote.
I very much like the actual tech and engineering, to make these.
And I understand corporate deals for brand placement.
It's just such a saturated market, having labels everywhere.
And ads right out of the gate, the moment it's turned on, telling what to watch...
Would have loved to here about lag and how it handles gaming. Was waiting the whole time for it to come up after the very short note of 240fps at 1080p, but no lag stats. Projectors often don't mention them on spec sheets so always ha e to go digging for that info.
What happened to the audio in this recording he sounds underwater.
bro prolly slapped his lapel a lil too far and floor noise is crankin
Why is the audio so jank?? It pops all over the place
Honestly a great price for a 120" HDR experience. Much cheaper and more compact than a TV.
"that's like me and linus" had me chuckling hard... :D
Ummm, wouldn't the cloth be for the lens?
There's a post-it on James's back lol
"Dangbei, a company reached out to us!"
The gimbal would be bad ass if it had a height adjustment
Don't know about you but I have a whole bookcase full of projector height adjusters.
Every digital image correction you used ruins the image. It really can easily delete 50% of image clarity. With projectors you should only use lens shift…
In that case I hope he does even more corrections. I need heirloom gifs quality
the sound is bad but james is amazing as always
Hey, I got the G1 and the sound is actually not too bad, When I was moving I didn’t have my Sonos Home Theatre set up yet so I was relying only on the speakers in the projector and while I wouldn’t call it Immersive, it did the job fairly well. But let’s be honest if you spend this much on a projector you probably have at least a soundbar anyways. Why would anyone want to hear people in front of them talk behind them😂
"That fish attaches to the other fish... kinda like me and Linus" 🤣🤣
What if you point it directly into your eyes? I bet its pretty amazing.
Hopefully they do another video on this, was looking forward to see the 1080 240hz low latency mode in action, bummed they didn't include that
3:04 Would have been neat if they put the power jack centered at one of the gimbal mounting points and had cable management along one of the arms
This was about 95% ad and 5% review
Its true, everyone does love Dan
"showcase" or as we should legally call them "paid for advertising"
not bad at all, happy to see prices continue to drop for laser projectors
The pricing is pretty bad for a regular throw projector, a 1080p Optoma HZ40HDR is around 850 usd/euros and at the same price point you can buy a BenQ X500i that totally obliterates the Mars Pro 2 with also the advantage of beeing a short throw. This projector is as uninteresting as this video.
It must have a automated gimbal as smartphone gimbals
Almost perfect! It just doesn’t have enough light! Not good for enough for open rooms with sun light
Did he have a sticky note on his back with "Goof" written on it? 😂😂😂
i just watched a commercial
what an astute observation
goota watch more of james, kinda like the guy, would be awesome seeing him more with linus teasing each other in some vids, those were funny!
2:58 why do you have a sticky note on your back😂😂
at least the high end ones should come with optical zoom. also i wonder if it's a true 4K or just 4K input ☺️
I got the G1 on eBay for ~£600 (Brand new) a while ago and I must say I’m impressed with the projector. It’s bright enough to watch in daylight (not Direct Sunlight) it’s not really immersive, but it is usable.
Glad to see them move from whatever Linux trash they had in the G1. After three minutes I was ordering Shield Pro because the OS was way too laggy and didn’t support Netflix 😂
I want to highlight the customer support though! I had issues with fan noise and hdmi settings not always working properly with CEC and I got a reply within 24 hours and a Fix via Software update two weeks later! you can imagine how surprised I was to even get a reply let alone to get such a fast update 😂
So yes, Considering it’s supposed to be better than G1, I would recommend to anyone who’s considering it!
If anyone has any questions feel free to ask, I’ll be glad to answer them best to my knowledge or test stuff if needed (but keep in mind I only have the First Gen) :)
I do love it when dan hosts, u right james
The note on his back says "segway to our sponsor"
Daaaang Bae!
What is the absolute closest this thing can be for 40-60ish screen size?
A huge projector like that, and it has a external power supply 🙃🙃
Auto Keystone isn't AI.
Not every function has become AI today
I am wondering how loud it is.
What does the sticky note on your back say? 😂
this is great and all, but why would I buy this over a regular TV?
Because you can't get a 120 inch TV for 1500 dollars?
Because you can't pack up your 120 inch TV and take it with you?
Player 1 doesn't need it guys, this video is redundant.
Add to Linus to do list: Item 1, Drug Test James.
Dang boi another sponsor video..
finally,someone who still has a beard
As DankPods would say "oh wow it comes with a bum wipe" points to the shamwow
Dang! Finally a hit from the random trademark generator!
How much does disney hate that we call it Mickey mouse conector?
Piano black?!
Never gonna buy something in that finish again
That's literally everything now
@@tim3172dust is more noticeable and it attracts it
This is one big ad, without addressing the shortcomings or criticizing the marketing bulls%%t. Sorry, but that’s not the content people want.. 👎
Why can’t you get a clear shot of the power brick so we can see the specs on it?
Whats the resolution?
Whats the lumens?
Whats the response time from input?
They only didn't mention response time.
You can see resolution(s) at: 00:29
Max brightness at: 06:38
If you can't even read then you probably shouldn't watch videos on youtube and start learning.
did you even watch the video?
$400 off at launch? How much are they marking it up?? I'll wait for them to hit the used market for an actually reasonable price.
Can you cast your phone on it?
Netflix showing Web users lower quality is so frustrating. I get why they do it, but I don't want to use their app.
What's the reason? To encourage you to use the app and accept some crappy EULA? (Genuine question btw).
There's no good reason
bag over mic gang
seems just like my slightly cheaper and similar looking Xgimi Horizon Ultra, would be cool to do a side by side test.
Only reason I see to buy a projectors, is size of image, not image quality.
Need to know what screen you folks are using… looks sweet
So they named it they same thing as a preexisting nebula projector? No way that'll create any confusion /s
Laser phosphor (light source) not laser scanning.
Needs a ‘dang bay’ counter on screen.
$1900 AND NO USB C???
come on dude, i would rather drop 300 on a chinese one even if it breaks in a year
You must have very specific needs
Did this guy just come from filming a Head & Shoulder's commercial? 🤔
That 180w powerbrick is 2 times the size of my 420w powerbrick
can y'all do a review on the LG cinebeam q
Didn't test it with different light levels in the room.
Otherwise decent overview.
Hey, Got the G1 and it does look good even in daylight. Not Sharp Bright Daylight. I actually have to Lower the brightness when watching at night bcs it gets too bright. The 2450 ISO lumens (of g2) reflecting off a wall must burn the eyes 😂😂😂
What’s with the background music? Is this a normal thing that I have missed?
So distracting. 😢
James looks like he's about to announce the new iPhone
james sounds crazy bassy
Laughs in exorbitant amount of taxes even after those coupons.
5:40 Zhu - Faded
For those that want to know the title of the track
Love you man, thanks a lot
"just like me and Linus" 😂
8:42 Mmm yes, fifty dollars dollar off
Where are the QD-Oled tvs?
okay, I gotta know whats with the stickie note on James' back!?
no, 140 dollars for four powder coated pieces is not an "appropriate price"
What’s the latency for gaming?
that would be information, this is sponsored entertainment.
For those who orgasm over peels, you do realize now it will never look as good? Once you take that peel off literally anything will scratch it
It looks much uglier with the peel tho
But with the peel on, it just looks like dull, gray, oxidized plastic and often has unsightly imperfections, such as air bubbles or peeling, worn edges. Ideally, manufacturers could just stop making products out of glossy, soft plastic.
AI shoes, AI bicycles, AI fans, AI power supplies, AI tyres seriously what does AI even mean at this point?
When do you feature stuff normal people can afford?
Why is James dressed like he’s going to jump on a stage and announce a new product with some serious executive hands?
This was hard to watch. He didn't even game on the damn thing
shiny up batman, dang batman
Cool !
protip: double tap this comment to like it
20 likes and no comment? lemme change that
I wish dislikes would be still visible
Thank you !
How many taps for a dislike? Begging for likes is kinda cringe
@@Ale-bj7nd For a while YT would still answer API questions about dislikes, but then they removed those too. Now you have to install a extension like "Return RUclips Dislike" or similar. They don't show the actual number of dislikes that YT has logged. Instead they log dislikes clicked by the users of these extensions. Look at how many users of these extensions has watched this particular video and how many of these that clicked Dislike and calculate the percentage. Then they look at the number of views and multiply that by the dislike percentage and the result is at least somewhere near a likely number of true dislikes. This video has currently about 1100 likes and about 132 dislikes.
Bra..Bea... At this point he might as well just blackface.
Is it an actual motorized lens or just fake software adjustments that degrade quality? Sounds like this is just a laser-lit projector rather than and actual laser scanning projector. It's like saying "LED TV" when you've actually an LCD with LED backlight.
these lazy reviews are annoying.. you can literally feel the "ok, lets make this video and get it over with" vibe.
I see some fool put a sticky note on his back. LOL
Hey Bro, I heard you liked ads, so we put an ad between your youtube ads.