The LARGEST 4K Monitor I've Ever Reviewed - NexiGo Aurora Pro Short Throw 4K Projector

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9 ай бұрын

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At LTX 2023, I stumbled across NexiGo and the Aurora Pro 4K Short Throw Tri-Color Laser Projector... an impressive combination to say the least, especially when you consider their asking price of $1699. But is this an instant-buy for those looking for a home theater projector, or are there better options out there?
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@Sythemn 9 ай бұрын

I had that same Casio and used it as my primary display for probably 8 years before it had a problem. Unfortunately I didn't put much effort into figuring out what was wrong and "upgraded" to a halogen based 4k projector.... A projector that has had nearly constant issues since about 6 months after I bought it. Wish I still had the Casio.

@robtongue 9 ай бұрын

Athletic Brewing has been almost single-handedly saving my butt from a relapse. I love their stuff, and with over 3 years sobriety now, it's been super helpful.

@Sythemn 9 ай бұрын

FYI for anyone interested. VRR is being beta tested on it as of Aug 31st.

@gustersongusterson4120 9 ай бұрын

That would be big for me honestly

@xpaja02 6 ай бұрын

Hi, thanks for the review. What are some better ust projctores in the price range around 3000 usd that you hinted at? Thanks

@Manchesterlad85 7 ай бұрын

Just got this off a reviewer program I'm on for free, luckily I get to keep and don't have to return. Image is fantastic but the native apps are horrific. I can't even log into half of them and they're all 1080p. HDMI wise with it being 2.1 I've found it brilliant apart from eArc. The volume is seriously reduced. I've also found it produces a strange hiss on the main screen, for some reason my phone shows as connected when this was never set up. Just bought a Vividstorm Pro 100" which will take a few weeks to arrive but finding the image overall brilliant.

@guinhill 9 ай бұрын

The campaign was suspended by Kickstarters Trust and Safety Team

@ShantalhaitianPrincess 6 ай бұрын

yeah but they still shipped out projectors to people i got mine

@joeydelmarsjr.646 7 ай бұрын

awol came in @ 1st place followed by Nexigo and 3rd was the LS800, pros and cons with all of them but this was overall

@Kvantum 9 ай бұрын

Athletic Brewing's All Out stout is another really good one. Amazing that they can get all of the flavor of a good, dark stout, other than the alcohol burn, into a non-alcoholic beer.

@YZKMNY 9 ай бұрын

I mean JMGO has done a kickstarter as well, selling their units at a massive discounts with their N1 Ultras. Their full retail prices did NOT go down from what was listed afterwards however so the early birds did get a bargain. Don't know about Nexigo however, as JMGO's product was pretty unique in its category with the gimbal design.

@MD_Builds 9 ай бұрын

Envy!

@CavemanPerson 9 ай бұрын

Does this actually have a 2160p panel? The reason I ask is that most -- if not every -- other consumer "4K" DLP projector currently on the market actually use 1080p panels + some sort of panel shifting technology. AFAIK, the only "consumer" projectors with true 4K panels are the JVC and Sony LCOS/D-ILA units, but those go for _at least_ $7K. If this machine has a true 4K panel in it, then wow! Bloody wow!

@CraftComputing 9 ай бұрын

Yes, this is true 4K, though they do try to advertise 120Hz input with only 60Hz refresh rate on the output.

@AlexTheStampede 9 ай бұрын

I see that no matter the price, the trick is always the same… I have a 70 euro one running Android that does “4K and HDR”. In practice it’s 1080p (probably) on a monstrously underpowered chip boasting a whole gigabyte of storage. A Fire TV stick and it’s a perfectly serviceable cheap option lol

@justinbeamon6624 9 ай бұрын

This is NOT true 4k. No single chip DLP projector is. This is 4x pixel shifting to achieve 4k. Also it only accepts 4k/120 signals but outputs 4k/60hz

@TheHookUp 9 ай бұрын

Like basically every 4K UST on the market right now the Aurora Pro uses a 0.47" DMD from Texas Instruments that has 1920x1080 micro mirrors. It uses 4x pixel shifting to achieve 4K resolution. In practice there is no difference in resolution between a native 4k imager and a pixel shifted one, but it is easier to achieve higher contrast ratios with larger chips.

@Merril_39 9 ай бұрын

This does look interesting. I am just weary of a non brand name trying to include everything. Either support for apps will drop off. Speaker replacement issues. 3d incompatibility with newer standards. Like you said, if that’s the price and it were not a kickstarter, damn.

@metaldreams3595 9 ай бұрын

Well Merril I may have good news for you mix ago is not a non brand name co. They make other products and have been making projectors for some time now and they're all very good and highly recommended by experts like Hook up

@Sunlight91 9 ай бұрын

Is the big screen good for immersion games or simulators like Universe Sandbox?

@piplup10203854 8 ай бұрын

So with that price of it being 2,999.00 what would you suggest as an alternative then that is cheaper?

@Joetoep 9 ай бұрын

How dB does this projector produce ? I can't find details on this one.

@gustersongusterson4120 9 ай бұрын

Good explanation of projection technology. One thing about lasers that people often overlook is that their contrast ratio is much higher than traditional lamp projectors. This makes a drastic improvement in image quality especially in dark scenes. It's kinda the OLED of projection tech, though it's not nearly as high in contrast obviously.

@petergplus6667 9 ай бұрын

I don't like ultra short throw lasers. I tried a 2k LG once that literaly was a quart of a size of this bohemoth. They emphasize every little crease in your cloth or wall rendering them literally unusable unless you have a perfecet screen for it. I bougt a ultra short throw Acer DLP. That has ok image and covers up creases.

@rydmike 9 ай бұрын

The lack of motorised zoom and position image position shift is also a show stopper on current ultra short throw projectors for me, as it means I cannot zoom out to fill my 21:9 screen for a more immersive movie experience.

@CraftComputing 9 ай бұрын

This has 8-way keystone correction, and it was trivial to get the screen squared up.

@rydmike 9 ай бұрын

@@CraftComputing Yes digital keystone correction the ultra short throw projectors tend to have, and they do a good job with it too. Sadly as soon as you use digital keystone correction you are loosing pixel fidelity, but since usually people project video and not computer screens with text, that is usually fine. What I miss on all UST models I have seen so far is optical motorized zoom and image shift, with memories, so you can swap between 16:9 format and zoom out to fill a 21:9 cinemascope screen for movies. For that, long throw projectors still seems to be the only game in town.

@KiraSlith 9 ай бұрын

I hate to be that guy, but the "Smart Features" are actually a big turn-off. I don't want my display devices attaching themselves to the network. Servers go down, services get hacked and leak user data, embedded processors have hardware vulnerabilities and forgotten back doors once used for software development or chip fault debugging, I'd rather just carry a NUC equivalent since you can find those hilariously cheap these days and they're reliably vulnerability checked (and recycling is always good for the environment).

@matpearson9711 9 ай бұрын

Mythbusters & DS9! Nerd! 😂

@DanielMReck 9 ай бұрын

Not just DS9, but DS9 on Lower Decks! LLAP

@matpearson9711 9 ай бұрын

@DanielMReck sweet, I didn't realize DS9 was on lower decks. I've only seen a couple of the cartoons. I might have to rethink my reluctance to watching it lol

@DanielMReck 9 ай бұрын

@@matpearson9711 Lower Decks is a love letter to 90s-era Trek. Watch and enjoy. My headcanon is that Lower Decks is a cartoon inside the Star Trek universe, one that a crewman might load up to chill with after a shift. There is, curiously, a crossover with Strange New Worlds. Kind of messes with the headcanon, but it's still a whole lot of fun.

@CraftComputing 9 ай бұрын

You need to just watch. It's Star Trek not taking itself too seriously, but with some very classic feeling episodes and amazing characters.

@russelldye5506 9 ай бұрын

So does it have built in speakers?

@DarkFiber23 9 ай бұрын

He mentions it right at the start. 1:25. "Dolby Atmos certified sound bar". He also brought it up again from 4:02-4:13.

@freednighthawk 9 ай бұрын

Just so you know, the S in Fresnel is silent. It's pronounced "Frennel"

@Bear-form 9 ай бұрын

Hmmm no.

@freednighthawk 9 ай бұрын

@@Bear-form Hmmm yes. I've been a gaffer for over a decade, and use more of them in a week than you've seen in your life.

@Bear-form 9 ай бұрын

@@freednighthawk In Dutch we just call it Fresnel. In German too. Experience your way out of that one.

@theoriginalrecycler 9 ай бұрын

@@Bear-form big deal , French word, silent S

@freednighthawk 9 ай бұрын

@@Bear-form So you're saying you're wrong in 3 languages. You can just google it if you don't believe me. I'm sure Augustin Jean Fresnel, the French physicist who invented it, would love to know that you a willfully butchering his name.

@QueenLISA_Cutee 9 ай бұрын

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@CraftComputing 9 ай бұрын

CFAST is just USB Mass Storage. Flash it like a USB drive.

@Th3_Gael 9 ай бұрын

OK, not interested in the projector (I'm too poor to gamble with it) But that thumbnail,,,,,,, Damn

@apileofrocks5142 9 ай бұрын

Cool tech, but no thank you on the "smart" stuff. I'll stick with my 1080p ViewSonic for even longer I suppose.

@CraftComputing 9 ай бұрын

....it still has 3x HDMI inputs. You don't have to use the built-in software.

@apileofrocks5142 9 ай бұрын

@@CraftComputing Yep but I simply don't want the software at all. I don't want to start the projector and be handed off to a smart interface. It's bloat. There's projectors out there that would fit my bill, just not this one.

@badbradmagic 9 ай бұрын

I needed a minute after you said, "this one just blacked out your bingo card".

@Gioxtream 8 ай бұрын

Does it plays 3d?

@ShantalhaitianPrincess 6 ай бұрын

yes and very well

@Andreas-w 9 ай бұрын

You shouldn't take their values as truth, many of these projectors have much lower lumens for instance

@pixel_vengeur391 9 ай бұрын

> Kickstarter Aight, next. Sorry Jeff, but this ain't it. If they ever bring it to market, then it is a product. For now, it's a marketing stunt.

@agentj642 9 ай бұрын

Lower Decks! Lower Decks! Lower Decks!

@Arachnoid_of_the_underverse 9 ай бұрын

The problem is Kickstarter project can also fail and not send you the item but keep your money ,also warranty is questionable.

@Kurama1907 4 ай бұрын

To bad. No 4k 120hrtz output

@General_Whoflungpoo 7 ай бұрын

Warranties per projector: Nexigo Aurora Pro = 12 months NOMVDIC = 1 year AWOL = 1 year limited warranty & 1-year free extended warranty (total 2-year warranty) Formovie = 2 years LG HU915QB.AUS = Labor 1 Year, Parts 1 Year (Excluding Battery), Battery 6 Months Epson LS800 = 2-Year Limited Warranty Hisense PX2 Pro = 2 Years limited Warranty Ultimea = 2 years