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BenQ Joybee GP1 "Almost Pocket" LED Projector Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips

2010-01-05
so today I'm going to be taking a quick look at kind of a neat product from benq it's the joy p-gp one mini projector and I guess the first thing I apologize I'm not unboxing it today it's already set up so I'll just show you a quick overview of the accessories that comes with first it comes with a remote take special note that the top buttons are for the projector and the bottom buttons are for the card reader that's going to come in handy when you're trying to control this thing oh I knocked it oh well never ok it comes with a little case that houses the projector itself but not the not the AC adapter so it's kind of not quite there yet you'll need another another holder if you want to hold the whole thing so inside the box I actually haven't even looked at what's in here it's probably a manual and probably ok so you've got a user's manual on a disc then you have a quick oh this is Kennedy you have a quick little chart that shows you what formats are supported what resolution is supported so ntsc goes up to 720 x 480 and that seems to be the highest resolution supported by the GP one okay you've got your warranty information card your safety manual you know safety is important when you're projecting things at a wall then there's something else in here yeah there we go ok so this is a quick start guide so there is the quick start guide for the joy be so the thing i have it set up with right now is with the USB card reader so i'm going to go ahead and use my little remote here to show you that i can show you pictures ok these aren't particularly great pictures i apologize for that basically it's a ok select there now we'll play back my pictures i'm going to turn down the lights so you can get a better the joy be here is capable of okay I'm going to go turn off the other light as well and then I'm going to skip ahead to the next picture there we go so you can see that in the dark and I hope you can see that yeah you can see that in the dark the joy v is actually quite quite bright and I can make Shadow Puppets okay so this is my first attempt at UV lighting in a computer you can see that I wasn't quite there yet and the other one is my parents can't Batman wearing a Christmas hat so he's quite enjoying that as you can see now that's not all the joy be can do I mean first of all again I haven't even showed you them here come look at the projector okay so you have buttons to control the projector up on the top these are all touch sensitive buttons maybe what touched when I hope I didn't do anything okay and then you have a focus wheel right here which was quite easy to dial it in terms of inputs you've got the power input on this side and I can you see that enough okay good and then you have a USB port on the back which is where I'm viewing these photos off of and you can also read video then at the back you have a little proprietary port here which is good for a composite as well as vga in which I have plugged in right now and then there's pretty much nothing on the other side can you come around and have a quick look at the front of the unit here I realize it might be a little bit bright but there you go you've got like a white finish and the fed is a little bit loud the exhaust comes out the front and it's a touch loud but it's not going to be too obnoxious if you're giving a presentation or whatever else it is you're doing now in terms of the other mode here I've got it hooked up to my laptop so if you were into okay so I'm going to pick a source oh yeah and there's a coming support for an ipod dock which is kind of cool so you can either use up went away so you can either use vga composite the USB reader or an ipod dock so i'm going to select this one enter do all signal searching and there we go we got warcraft 3 so on the pc it says the max supported resolution is 800 x 600 and you wait I think that pretty much concludes it thank you for checking out my unboxing are wide and really unboxing thank you for checking out my product showcase of the benq joy be gp1 so one thing that we didn't really tell actually two things we didn't really talk about three things first of all the joy bgp one has built-in speakers there only two wat but they are there in case you need them for the composite input another thing is how big of an image can you get out of it well you can see we have a very bright very satisfying image right now it's a a boat yeah I guess it's about 33 something feet tall ok and then however many feet wide and wheres to be still got our warcraft 3 running the colors are quite vivid and i am actually looking forward to playing around with this with some gaming test particularly driving games thank you for checking out my video blog
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