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hey how's it going Dave Toodee here so this is a can of coke and behind it is a can of Awesomeness this is the nebula capsule made by anchor it's a very small projector and I've tried a lot of mini projectors before the rift 6 the pico projectors like they're just there's always some kind of deficiency to the product to the point where I just don't enjoy using it this is the first thing that I've enjoyed thoroughly it's bright it's got good colors and it's just a really solid product hence the video now the three biggest issues have had with mini projectors are number one brightness they're usually just not bright enough for me secondly is the color of the image so it'll just project usually a very like desaturate or a flat looking image which i don't like watching and the third one a big one for me is sound there there's obviously fan noise that comes from these things because there's a little lamp in there and they got to cool it off which is fine but if their speakers aren't good and if they're not loud enough that fan just drones out everything else that you're trying to listen to this thing does not have any of those problems so this thing has your standard HDMI connection so you can connect any kind of media device through an HDMI cable right up to this thing and it also has a dongle with a USB connection so you can connect up a USB flash drive or whatever but the thing that makes this thing like so much better than most projectors most mini projectors is the software that's built into it this thing has Netflix YouTube Plex a whole bunch of media services available right on the device you don't need to connect anything third-party or even a phone to this thing it just literally takes that service streams it and then projects it onto a surface all in the size of a coke can like how cool is that right okay another thing I like about this thing is that the speakers sound way better than I thought they would now a lot of mini projectors have this issue with just having a mono speaker and just projecting in one direction this they call it 360 sound I wouldn't go as far as to call it that but it's just a nice sounding speaker system that you can kind of be wherever you want around this thing and it'll still sound good it's a 5 watt speaker not huge not amazing but it's clean there's no buzzing there's no hissing it's just clean audio at a good volume the lower frequencies are missing it's not great with bass but considering the size of this thing I mean it's probably physically impossible to get a good bass out of this thing so I'm happy considering what this thing is the fan noise is actually pretty average to me I wouldn't consider it louder or than most of the many projectors that I've used but because of the bigger and better speakers I feel like it kind of compensates for fan noise the battery life on this thing they claim for hours on the website I'm getting actually a little bit more than that but I think it depends on what you're doing with the device so I'm able to get a little bit more than four hours with the thing at max brightness but I'm streaming video if you have this thing connected to a USB device or some kind of physical drive that's feeding the data to the machine I think it's a little bit less but I'm getting around four hours of streamed content so the image is bright way brighter than any of the other mini projections that I've tried it's rated at 100 ANSI lumens or a hundred an SI lumens I'm not sure exactly how they describe that thing but this is literally double the brightness of your average mini projector often they come in at 50 the colors on this thing are also really good so that's something that a lot of mini projectors screw up on it's just really muted colors this thing nice colors it's a little bit oversaturated but considering what you're doing with this thing like you're not watching these like super color accurate images this thing has a nice color profile it has vertical Keystone correction so you can have it tilted or even use it on your bed now there's one issue with the image and that is its resolution so before I looked up the resolution on this thing when I was just looking at the image on the wall I always assumed that this thing was like 720p maybe even Tandy Peet like my I can't really tell when it comes to projection because they're never super super sharp this thing is actually a 480p projection and it's on paper that's terrible like that's straight-up pathetic I think for a lot of people they're like 840 P screw that not interested but visually it looks totally acceptable to me if you're looking for like a 4k super crisp image then don't even look at these products but if you're just looking for like a large screen with decent image quality that's super portable this thing fits the ticket okay in terms of the screen size you can get up to 100 inches that's what they say but you got to be in a really dark room to project it like that but I can get like a 62 maybe 70 inch image without going to a super dark area so what else is that there's a remote it's like kind of your standard remote and there's also an app that you can use on your phone to control the device and it's surprisingly good there's no hiccups it's not janky and there is mouse control it's actually a pretty good app there's some things I don't like about this thing the big one for me is frame rate so I don't mind the resolution loss because visually I just it's not that important to me at this screen size and at this viewing distance but the reduced framerate limits this thing for my use so if I'm watching twitch or even playing games I'm used to just watching things at 60 frames per second this thing is not I want to say it's like 24 or maybe even 30 frames per second it's not really listed in the instruction manual so I'm not sure what it is but it's definitely not 64 inch or second another thing I don't like is that you can't log into the YouTube app so maybe they'll fix that in the future but in its current iteration because you can't log in you don't see your subscription feed or anything like that you there's still a search history so you can kind of see the videos that you've looked up in the past but there's no custom feed in the YouTube app right now okay my favorite thing about this device though is seriously this thing paired with one of these things those like retro gaming consoles from Nintendo this kind of combination is super fun like this is already a portable system they can bring around do whatever you want with it and then you plug it up to the projector and now you can play big screen Mario Cart wherever the heck you want it's freaking awesome so this is a device that is gonna be different for everyone who uses it some people want something like this some people want to stream for the phone through airplay cast or Android whatever it is there's just so much utility with this thing and I think for a lot of people it's a really good pick up so this thing starts at 350 bucks it's obviously not cheap but it's got a lot of utility and for the right person it's a really cool device okay hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs we liked it subs we loved it see you guys next time