Nick supervising very well back there! Good job nick!

I love how Nick is taking a nap on the couch!

I just like how Nick is just hanging around waiting for the gaming to start ^^

Virtually all projectors are designed to project the image with the lens at either the bottom of the screen (table top) or the top of the screen (ceiling mounted). If you place the projector at either of those heights and it’s centered and perpendicular, you don’t need any keystone adjustment. Home theater enthousiasts don’t use any keystone as it degrades the image quality somewhat. Just take some care in projector placement and you’ll be fine with not having any digital image adjustment.

I just want to mention the camera work in your videos. For example, in this video there was a lot of essentially "talking head" where a static shot would normally be used. However, Phil's very subtle "hand-held" motion and zooms into a closeup of you and back out to more of the room just make the video feel more alive and like I'm in the room listening to you. In the real world, if I were in a room listening to you, I would be making eye contact with you and looking back and forth at the thing you're talking about, and Phil captures that extremely well. And I'm not quite sure how Phil does it, but it's a very smooth and stable hand-held, not the super annoying shakey cam. Anyway, this is something I've noticed and really appreciated about your videos for a little while now and wanted just just mention that I notice it and I appreciate it and I think it makes your videos better. Merry Christmas!

Just want to clear something up on theater projectors. You can find 4k but most theaters are only 2k. I've had a couple of my films make into festivals and I have to have DCP (Digital Projection File) file created to playback on the theater projector. I only did a 2k file for my last 2 films because 4k was useless. It was surprising to learn this.

I bought a projector specifically for Halo CE LAN party's and it was an incredible experience. After the party I remember playing on legendary difficultly and flying through the game. To this date my dream setup was running three projectors on PC with convergence software on an oval screen with Nvidia 3D Vision and as I was waiting for the projector and processing tech to improve Nvidia killed off 3D Vision. This was before Linus demonstrated this on his channel.

I remember having 144" projector for 720P back in 2012 playing my Xbox. Epic my friends.

The main use cases that I've seen for gaming on a projector is for video game tournaments. You have a huge screen for the crowd to see the action easily and clearly

120" screen with an Epson LS12000. 4K/120hz. No VRR support, but with a 7900XTX it hasn't been an issue. It has been glorious.

FYI Cinema still maxes out at 4k. The projectors are either using a Xenon lamp, which is the majority of equipment installed, or lasers which have been slowly rolling out over the last 4 years. It will be 2025-2026 before the majority of cinemas are 4k laser systems and at least 10 years before anyone might see a wider rollout of anything 8K or above. Even the top of the line IMAX laser system that they partnered with Barco/Cinionic on is only 4K.

I liked how you imagined a 1000in screen and then thought that was too small and referenced a 40ft screen, which is half as large.

Hey Jay, just wanna say thank you for all your videos and expert information! I just built my first PC and used your insight to help. Thanks again and Merry Christmas!

Back in "the day," I worked for a large corporation's IT department and we did a lot of A/V work. With traditional bulb projectors that are on like 4 to 8 hours a day for presentations and training classes, they go through bulbs like every 6 months to a year; and those bulbs cost around a hundred dollars sometimes. LED has been fantastic for projectors.

Not a bad product for the price, if only I had the room for it. As the year is coming to a close wanted wish you, Phil and Nick and the whole JTC family a happy holiday season! Best of wishes for 2024!

I like your background design, feels very comfy, sofa feels soft

This is a great topic, I'm interested in this and picking one up for movies and gaming on my PC just never found a video as detailed and informative as this one ! Great choice for a new vid !

I have the ViewSonic PX748-4K. I have used it for gaming streaming from my PC but mostly for TV/movies via Apple TV 4K. It'll do 1080p 240hz or 4k60. Looks very good with decently low latency. Can confirm the bulb does take a few minutes to warm up and cool down since it's not LED.

Merry Xmas to you Jay, all your relatives and your minions, Phil and Donkey Kongey ❤❤❤❤ Thanks for all the great videos and stuffs this year !

perfect for calling friends (something that is becoming increasingly rare) and playing a sports or fighting game.

Back in the 90s, I hooked up a PlayStation to the office projector in the conference room. The image wasn’t great, but playing Teken with 6’ tall characters was freakin awesome!

I looked for hours to find a high quality projector screen under 500$ and I finally found the perfect recipe. I forgot the channel name I discovered that showed me the materials needed. But all ya need is polyester fabric and get grey, black, and white material. Then layer them together and stretch them over your frame. Depending on the type of picture you want depends on how you layer the fabric. And the screen is viewable from both sides and in a mildly lit room with a cheap(300$) projector. Definitely worth doing if your into projectors.

It's actually a huge diappointment for the audio out options. Just a single 3.5mm jack and that's it. What about opitical? What about 5.1 channels, or 7.1 channels? Considering the price, I would've highly expected much more audio out options aside from just a single 3.5mm jack

Merry Christmas, Jay!

I like how Nick is just casually in the background doing various things the entire time. It was amusing/cool (I get that that's their space and Jay is "on the floor" as he put it & nick was purposely playinh something in the background to test the projector more, so yes I know that's why, I'm just saying it is funny to see).

Having nick chilling in the background is under rated! Took a very informative video about a product but set the mood to be like you are chilling in the same room added a sense of immersion that I never knew I needed!

4K 60 rocks for city builders like Terraformers, certain simulations like Kerbal Space or Flight Sims, strategy titles like Civilization, most types of office work, video editing, 4K youtube, 4K Netflix, etc

This was very cool thanks for covering it!

I would love to see this tested on a PC tower or laptop! Let us see what it can truly do with powerful hardware =D

Nick just casually chilling back there...love it! lol

3:02 Nick; "Let the Boss work, I will take my break on the sofa!" love it. LOL

Lol at Nick just chilling on the couch in the background.

I have been 4k gameing on my benq for years. Its amazing. Its hard sometimes to go from 120” to my 43” pc screen sometimes.

We used to play Halo with 4 splitscreens on a projector with the XBox 360. Linked to another 360 with also for splitscreens on a projector. Pure chaos and fun

I’ve had this thing for some time now and I LOVE IT!

bought a 120hz projector early this year and i love it, has its weaknesses for sure, but i still prefer it most of the time for gaming

Great production work. The cinematography, cuts etc are cool. Not sure it works for every subject but for a video like this one I think it makes for a more interesting presentation. Thanks!

Good job Nick! Sitting there and working telepathically through Jay.

Nick is waiting for you to draw him like one of your french girls haha

On the same note, I decided to pair my Bravia XR A80K, with the Sony HT-S2000 because it had integrated services on the home bar. The option to change things should be integrated with automation. The need for an integration is needed to support the x-box ecosystem and that is always a challenge across platforms or product lines. I tried the LG Samsung soundbars and the integration wasn’t there. Is there similar cross platform issues with Gpu AMD, and Intel? That’s something I have been looking at when I build a new system?

Projectors have a special niche case for splitscreen and couch coop gaming. it's so much easier to give a good view for 4 people when you're not scrunched up in front of a small screen.

Gaming on projectors is awesome for certain things. There's no better way to play party games.

Some careful position calibration happening on the couch

Actually, the benefit of an HD projector is you can make the pixels NOT visible by simply having the focus at 90% to 95 % focus, not at 100% focus. The very slight faint 5% or 10% blurriness hides the sharp pixel edges. But you also have to slightly tweak the color settings when doing that because the tiny blurriness causes the RGB to cross each other causing a very barely noticeable shift of colors and brightness. You just have to slightly change the tint and darken the brightness just a very tiny bit to restore the intended colors and brightness. That is why an out of focus projector image at a theater makes the image look washed out. It's the colors lights crossing each other.

I remember running Halo on the massive school project. Playing on a movie theater size screen is just a different experience.

This is the 3T Gaming Comment Pro™. It features all of the nits and very wow fps with so much Dolby Atmos super-sonic silence.

I had a mitsu hc1500 dlp projector back in 2009. Shone it on a 120inch screen with my xb 360. Was glorious. Only way to go imo.

Was Nick getting paid for laying on the couch then Jay LOL

Liked for Nick chilling in the background.

Reminding me of all the hours I spent playing World of Tanks and Minecraft on my old projector pointed across our landing. Good times

I remember being at a party years ago where they used a projector to play Wii sports games on the wall. Kinda have wanted one ever since.

Hearing that FH5 is capped at 60hz on console is wild, I've been playing at 165 with frame gen and it's out of this world

I have an Epson home cinema projector, and it does have a "game" mode and you lose several features including digital keystone, but thankfully it has a manual keystone dial right next to the zoom and sharpness dials.

I used to work at a cinemark. The xenon gas lightbulbs we used on out projectors are the size of the xbox series x. We were forced to wear protective equipment when changing them after 1000 hours of usage.

Allowing the choice of 4k or 240hz is a good choice. Led Is also great for longevity in not having to change a bulb. However, they've never been able to reach quite the same brightness, and that 2000 lumens might not be enough to give you the best image quality. You'd need a fairly dark room to get the full contrast, but then you also have to take into account hdr. My BenQ has 3000 lumens, and while I bought a spare bulb, I havent had to change it out yet. It might also be worth it to buy a good screen. Even lesser priced screens have 2 layers of black and white to help reflect and prevent it from bleeding out the back.

I actually HAD to buy a projector because I couldn't buy a TV in Japan and bring it back home to my country after two years, while a small, relatively cheap projector was portable enough, and kinda cool. I literally DID just use an ironed bedsheet pinned to my wall, and it worked GREAT with my Xbox One X when I used the black-out curtains in my room. I mainly play single-player games, but ancient Greece and Egypt (Assassin's Creed) looked AMAZING projected onto a wall! If I had the space and budget, I would definitely consider a projector for gaming again, so absolutely recommend people with the space and budget to at least try it!♥️👍

I would like extra HDMI port just for eArc support especially thought on sound bar as you mentioned like Sonos Beam. That would be better offer for the price since it's high. When it says it will support 4K with 60Hz and not up to 120Hz, it has HDMI 2.0. I would like it to be HDMI 2.1 that would also be better offer for the price. Not interested in projector at home, but just an thought when I looked on this projector I/O.

When the lag with keystone correction gets greatly reduced/eliminated. This is an easy a must have purchase. As Jay stated when fast mode is enabled it dose look like a monitor that is slanted. I also have a product request could an OLED projector be made similar to how LCD projectors are made. Or bring this technology to laser projection.

i love how people are probably asking in all the videos "wheres nick?!?" Jay said: You want Nick!?! I'LL GIVE YOU NICK!!!!

00:22:05 Yeah you are indeed not going to experience Netflix in 4k on a PC but that's because Netflix doesn't support anything above 1080p on almost all browsers, don't even know if there is one that does, the desktop app maybe does but not so sure about that either

Thank you for including Nick in the background!

Nick back there just chilling.

nick in the back ground doing poses lol i still remember back in highschool when someone brought their xbox 360 and we all started playing halo and cod on the last few days of school it was pretty fun back then but i bet this would be even better (probably even better than my tcl 50" 4k60 hdr10 roku tv)

Just nick chilling on his phone in the background changing positions everytime it cuts.

A cool option for a projector. I love that its an LED.

Nick making sure you stay in line. Watching you like a hawk.

My son built his own 12.5 foot highly reflective screen on one end of the basement. It's a masterpiece. He uses an overhead projector, I'll show him this one.

They should made buttons on the remote to switch the resolution. Think that would have made it nice.

I have a 150€ blitzwolf projector for movies in my backyard. It's 1080p and hooked up with the cheapest 5.1 souround system I could find( another 150€)We are having a blast using it with only 300€. You don't have to over spend to have fun and enjoy an almost cinema level movie experience.

My wife just bought me a cheap projector off Amazon and it’s actually not bad I was playing some older CoD’s and fall guys just to see what it’d be like and it’s not bad. So this was perfect timing because I was wondering if there was a projector for gaming!

Love the channel man! I just built myself recently a brand new Pc! I went from a prebuilt Ryzen 5 3600 with a gtx 1660 super to a custom one. Ryzen 7 7700x, aorus b650m Elite Ax, g-skill trident z5 6000mhz, Gigabyte 4070 Windforce oc, 360mm Link AIO from corsair, 3tb of storage, Psu 850 gold and the case is a Sama Ar01 black. I'd love to know your thoughts on it! Either way keep what you're doing! It also lets me get more knowledge about Pc's and more! 😎🤘

Hey Uncle Jay, just wanted to say Thank you. I've watched some of your videos, and you have taught me a lot about Computers. You are a great teacher, Uncle Jay.

The input latency for this is different for each resolution. With gaming mode on at 4k it’s 16 milliseconds which is not noticeable at all. You only start to notice latency at 17 or higher. For 1440p 120 it’s 12 milliseconds, and 1080p 240 it’s 8 milliseconds. All resolutions and frames rates on gaming mode have great latency performance. With gaming mode off I’m not sure of the exact numbers but it didn’t seem so different at all.

I mean, unless you go for the newer style, Ultra Low Throw 4K Laser projectors, which save on space.

Jay I like you are not a video projection enthusiast until it comes to having a device that can easily be transported from local to location. Would not have one in my home unless I had a media room just for watching content. So I am very much a large flat panel display type of person. Then I would look at highest rear screen solution I could find as working for Photo & Sound Company in its day we installed a great number of these solutions for media presentations. In the rental part of the company we had a GE Talaria video projector know as the "Lightvalue" that was used in high end convention style presentations in its day. This was well before LED solutions. In fact we had an employee whose main job was to travel the nation with this device, along with a high-end audio speaker solution. The speaker solution was such that you would not have the delay issue in the large convention halls, Use to love the staying about this system "Your eyes will water before your ears bleed" when it came to cranking up the volume.

Also, as I'm watching the video, with the issue of fast mode dropping functions. All of those function, warp, keystone etc, need processing time. Even on the "big boy" projectors that cost ten of thousands of dollars, we still have some latency with those options turned on. Not mention the moment you turn those on and use them, you are losing resolution. I haven't come across a projector that doesn't add latency once warp, keystone, digital zoom etc is turned on. (25 years of being a live event/ broadcast video engineer) So to expect that in a $1600 home projector is kinda asking a lot.

I wish projectors had some sort of vent system in the lens that blew any potential dust away from ever landing on the lens.

Happen to try it out with a dedicated PC/PS5? Just a curiosity thing on my part

I’d consider it if it were brighter (higher lumens) because I don’t have a home theater that I can make super dark during the day. I have 1080p projector that maxes out at 60hz, but it’s 5,000 lumens. I can see the image even if the curtains are open during the day. The switching between 4K/1440/1080p doesn’t bother me. I’ll leave it set up for gaming almost always, and I don’t mind the settings menu dance.

Nick in the back of the shot......on Jay's casting couch!!!!😂

My assessments in no particular order: - I don't mind the readjustments when switching from sources. That's a source limitation - Remote can be magnetically stored on top and sides of projector - Flat surface height adjustment changed to scroll wheel foot - 2-part dust cover for rear I/O for protection, access, and aesthetics. - Backlit controls on projector. - Support for a wide variety of wireless, low latency HDMI devices.

Projectors usually work best in a room with enough space to do it justice, eg cinema room, the price would suggest it’d be of more interest to someone with greater means, or decent disposable income. Having to manually fanny about with the 4K switch would get old pretty quick but if you did want to make use of the different refresh rates for different sources, I suppose you’d put up with it. Should have auto detect though. Looks like it’d be ideal for party games, but I don’t have room for that in my man cave. Or any friends I’d care to let in there… 😂

Nice "guy on the couch" (half baked movie) 😂😂

I'd love to see videos on TV HDMI-CEC. I've had so many problems with my LG tvs and am ready to get rid of them.

Lol. I like how ya boy in back got real comfortable as Jay keeps goin about specs and reasons to buy

I use my 100" short through 4k tri-laser projector for my switch, it somehow still looks glorious playing Tears of the Kingdom..(though I tend to use a 48" OLED mostly and leave the project for the missus to watch tv).

Just a heads up for anyone interested in getting this, I would HIGHLY recommend it, and the screen he has, I have as well and it also works well. I got this because I couldn’t fit a tv bigger than 75 inches in my basement so I knew this would be a great alternative. I use a 100 inch screen in my basement.

Remember if you're running through a receiver/processor, the video section of that must also support the resolution and refresh rates you're desiring from the projector (or any display). HDMI will always default to the lowest common denominator.

I have an older one. Acer. Not happy with the resolution (720p) Looking to upgrade. For me tvs have got to big to move. I like the portability.

Over a year ago, I had this thought of just shining the projector onto the wall & have the light blown up to the size of the wall to try to achieve a life-like size; like you could be standing there with CJ in GTA SA standing against the wall & seeing cars in life-like size driving around &/or parked.

3:05 nick Says "draw me like one of your french girls"

Is this a standard throw( min of 8' distance) or short throw?

"An order of magnitude of half" LMAO

Is it short throw? Could be great for golf sims

LOL "Body by gaming" love that

anyone know what game nick was playing from 8:00 ? from the UI it looks like forza horizon, but with the snow when he first starts playing it makes me think it's not FH5 as there's no snow there

Hi Jay, Quick question in a field you may not be as good in as pc's. The PS5 box says 4k @ 120fps (doesnt state if thats native or quality settings etc)and also 8k. Is this an out and out lie or would the system be capable of either or both? Cheers

Add another processor/chip to handle the settings or something clever to not have to abandon settings when going into fast mode.

As someone with a similar setup, fast moving games can make you feel sick. It is absolutely great for local multiplayer games though.

Nick chiilin' like a boss at the back.😂