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 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..
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 :)
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 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.
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.
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...
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😂
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…
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.
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.
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) :)
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.
Amateur lazy review, no gaming mode analysis and input lag test, no laser speckle test, no color accuracy test, no real ISO lumens test, no black levels test... Useless sponsored video haha
I don't know how to break it to you, but the word "review" does not appear anywhere in the title or description of this video. So, your entire complaint is that you, apparently, can't read?
@@tim3172 Oh so it's only for sponsored spotlight shills that actually have no meaning at all - basically an over glorified ad-as-an-video. My bad should have read better that this channel is a sponsored ad garbage :)
@@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 RU-vid 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.
You should run the same suite of tests you guys ran on all the other shifty Android TV boxes to see how often Dangbei is sending data back to Chinese servers. Spyware running on expensive hardware is the same as spyware running on cheap hardware.
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 😂😂😂
@@tim3172 Projectors produce a lot of heat and require active cooling. All real projectors have fans, only toy projectors that don't put out any real brightness don't require fans. A comparable incandescent bulb projector (which is still most projectors on the market) might have a 250 watt bulb and a 350-400 watt power draw, and all that heat has to get removed from the projector somehow. A laser projector will use less power, obviously, but this Danbei still draws 150 watts, and you still need active cooling for that.
If it had an electronic polarizer and could project BD3D movies using regular RealD 3D glasses (not special laser 3D glasses), that price would sound amazing to me. I even have a 92" screen just sitting unused in a garage. Gosh I want 3D TVs to make a comeback.
What year is it??? They launched a while back. Sony BRAVIA XR A95L Samsung S95C/S95D There are also numerous QD-OLED monitors. This channel has covered all of the QD-OLED TVs at this point.
