Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This isn't an $1,800 and certainly not a $5,000 projector. It doesn’t compare with a professional, business or theater projector. But that’s OK. What it is, is an inexpensive, lightweight projector that does great an home in a darkened room. Watching videos with the kids and playing video games was great, and the kids love the big-screen experience. It was fairly dim, as I expected for the price (3800 lux does not equal 3800 lumens, it’s more like 700 lumens in my opinion—I don't have a way to measure it). But other than that it surprised me at how good it was. The zoom being fixed means you need to move the projector around a bit to find the spot that fills your wall space appropriately, and the throw is kind of long. I had to put it back quite a ways from the wall, and in a smaller room it did get in the way of at least one person being able to see the screen as the keystone and other adjustments limit where you can position it. You can flip and mirror the picture, so ceiling and behind-the-screen mounting are all possibilities. It also has a built in multi-media player (to play pictures and movies from a USB drive). I went through the menus and the controls were pretty intuitive and the on screen menus were attractive. Pros: * Inexpensive * Fast warmup (picture comes up within a few seconds) * No cool down time * Smallish and lightweight * LED Bulb (which hopefully means no buying replacement bulbs) * Included HDMI cable * No noticeable lagging when playing videos * Good enough quality for watching movies and casual gaming * 3 Mo Satisfaction Guarantee and 2 Year Warranty Cons: * The 3800 Lux rating does not equate to anything like 3800 lumens. It definitely needs a darker room. * While the title says "Full HD 1080P" all that means is it accepts a 1080P input, but the projector itself is a lower resolution (720P). However it scales very well to that resolution. * The lower resolution isn't great for putting up detailed graphics or small text on a web page. However it was fine for watching movies, YouTube, and a little web browsing * The built-in speakers weren't loud enough to be very useful * Keystone/focus adjustment is pretty fiddly to dial in. I’m used to auto-keystone and focus—also used to having more adjustment settings. But was able to get it close enough. * Didn't include the AAA batteries for the remote * Fixed zoom You might think you could get something brighter and more professional used on eBay for about this much money, and would be true: BUT chances are it would need a new $400 bulb right away, which would make that pretty expensive. In contrast the 50,000 hour bulb on this projector is a really awesome perk: time will tell if it actually lasts that long. Overall if you want a cheap projector for use at home, and you have the ability to make the room dark, this is surprisingly good for the price. Add some good speakers and you have a really cheap, in-home, kind-of cinema experience!