I’m sure someone else has already said this, but the “corruption” at the bottom of the genesis display is caused when the Genesis changes palettes. Very common.
This projector gets the job done pretty well. th-cam.com/users/postUgkxS9P8zTOcmQg-hH0QeUi3dspOLyYgQ6dH Bear in mind it's a mini projector but all things considered the picture quality is pretty good. The attached photo is of the projector projecting onto my white closet doors. I still have not messed with the settings but I can't wait for our first family movie night on a larger scale. If you have issues with volume not working with your firestick, go into volume settings and you will find your solution there.
My brother used to work at Menards and he and his co-workers used to sing the Menards song as " shave big hunnies, we shave big hunnies when we shop Menards." I figured you would get a kick out of that
I have seen in my past a mechanical keystone on a really old projector I don't remember anything else. Usually it's just done in Software however processing time, resolution drop and more expensive chips.
I have some sort of no name mini projector that was given to me a few years ago. Has HDMI, VGA and I think RCA. I have been tempted to hook it up and use it as a huge terminal screen. The leftover glue isn't for catching dust. They purge the tip of the glue gun so they can start gluing up whatever. Sometimes they will glue something down for transport so the next factory or whatever will just break it off and install it in the final location.
6:03 "The dots are caused by writing to CRAM while the VDP is reading from it. Most likely a real console uses a single data bus for reading and writing so it will read the value being written instead of the value in CRAM." CRAM = Color RAM, so just the small palette RAM that's on the VDP chip. IIRC, the colour palette is 64 colours (four lots of 16 colours), and are 9-bits wide, so that only needs around 72 Bytes of RAM. The CRAM dots are nostalgic to some people, presumably because their TV overscan wasn't quite adjusted correctly, or they were using a fancy PVM. Or maybe people just started noticing them more when LCD TVs became more popular in the 00s? On the MiSTer FPGA core for the Genesis, the CRAM dots were actually a requested feature. You can turn them on and off. lol
One other interesting thing there, is it looks like the console is using every available line in the Vertical Blanking area to update the VDP regs. So as soon as the image hits the first black line at the bottom of the screen, that's actually in VBlank already, but the VSync pulse hasn't quite happened yet. The VBlank interrupt is then triggered, and the code starts writing to the VDP to update it for the next frame. (things like writing to the scroll registers, writing to VRAM to update tile graphics, and writing to the sprite table to move the player and enemies around.) I'm not 100% sure about the exact Vblank and sync timings, but that's roughly how it works.
I wish all projectors had a physical lens shift rather than digital keystone correction. Digital keystone makes small text and details look terrible, even when we started seeing more XGA/SXGA projectors way back when.
I projected onto a ceiling for a couple weeks after hurting my back. Unfortunately, that projector was every bit as janky and low-res as this one. I don't think it even had HDMI, just VGA. It varied from "it'll do in a pinch" to "actually not bad" depending on the application.
The monitors we use at work are VGA still even though the computers we have use two DisplayPort outputs. we have to use converters to make them work because they don't want to buy new monitors for all of us.
I think the last side of the standard CLV Jurassic Park Laserdisc release might have been in CAV. Sometimes when there's only like 20 minutes left in a movie, they'd do the third side in CAV and have an amusing picture of a cartoon turtle flipped on its back with a Laserdisc for its belly on the fourth side just to tell you that you're watching the wrong side.
Remains of glue? Just spluge a pile in the middle and scoop it up from there to use during assembly? Or as someone else mentioned, sticky stuff to collect dust that gets inside.
Great Video and good for the Projector, that you'll keep it . Maybe the result is better if you connect the HDMI devices to the VGA input via an HDMI to VGA adapter
I remember back in the mid 90s, if someone wanted to play Sega games on a large screen, they'd have to spend $1000s of dollars on a rear projection TV. These TVs were dim and you had to be at the right angle to see it correctly. This $80 device has an image 100 times better. Also the big screen televisions from the 90s always had convergence issues. That Jurassic Park movie looked better on the $80 projector than it did on an old projector TV from the 90s.
You definitely need cool air moving past the LCD, they absorb a lot of heat energy from the light source and will quickly die without cooling. That's why the fan on the cheap projector was positioned so some of the air went past the LCD and some through the LED heatsink. A decent quality projector will have air filters to ensure no dust contamination on the LCD and optics.
In a series of escalatingly profitable videos of projector tear downs, Ben realized it had went too far when he hit 50 millions views and was considering tearing down a SONY SRX-T615 for his next video...
My parents always sang "you spend big money" when the Menards add came on. I've now realized that Menards was actually a good deal, we just always spent way too much money there 😂😂
I've seen similar mechanical keystone adjustments on other cheap projectors before. A mechanical adjustment in theory should be better though I'd agree it's done solely for cost and "marketing" reasons. As far as I'm aware all consumer units on the market use software for correction. I believe larger commercial units do (or did) use mechanical adjustment but it's been quite a while since I've been in that industry to say for sure.
To be honest I like this better, the software one makes the pixel stretching stand out for me, and it will project a not quite blacked out border on the narrow side of the keystone.
The commercial units usually tilt the DLP unit and they can tilt in more than one direction, as well as shift. Tilting the fresnel like this may mess up your focal plane while tilting the imaging unit itself would correct for the focal plane offset you introduce by angling the projector towards the screen.
I wonder if running HDMI at less than 60fps (24/25 maybe, for movies?) would help the buffer cope with the data. I don't really know how any of the stuff works but it would seem senseful that if too high bandwidth is the problem, lowering the refresh rate should cut it down?
I doubt any projector does keystone adjustment in software, otherwise you'd always be interpolating and essentially wasting a lot of the LCD's resolution. Maybe more like a stepper motor for fine adjustment? For the HDMI, might want to check the settings and turn off anything that looks like processing. It looks like it might be trying to smooth motion and miserably fail. All failing, trying its native resolution (720x480?) might bypass the interpolation and be a bit smoother. It doesn't feel like a processing power thing otherwise 1080p should be worse than 720p. Or maybe this thing runs at 30fps?
I professionally install projectors for businesses, and I tried to avoid keystoning at all costs because they do exactly that, they just interpolate and waste resolution. It's a blurry disgusting mess, and I always die inside when they request to have the projector on their desk pointing straight up at the screen.
Never seen a mechanical keystone adjustment? You haven't had many projectors, have you. Top-tier projectors have always had mechanical adjustment keystone correction. They have oversized projection lenses and the lens mount is adjustable in both Vertical and Horizontal planes... no loss of image quality at all. As the image is forced to move off-center of the lens, it begins to cause keystone, which is used to counter offset projection positioning.
It occured to me as soon as he said he'd never seen a mechanical keystone adjustment, "What do you think they did BEFORE digital projectors?" This is an already solved problem, no need to do the adjustment in software when we already know how to do it with a simple hardware adjustment.
@@evensgrey In most CRT projectors it's done by manipulating the video signal. Of course with a digital chassis it's done in a different way, but the signal still stays analog.
I wonder if the hdmi input would be fine if you fed it 480p, like from a gamecube or something. Perhaps the judder is caused by the projector downscaling the image
9:30 Same sort of tearing happened when I used a composite to HDMI converter that actively changed it from 4:3 to 16:9 (for N64). Switching to a composite to HDMI that left it native 4:3 eliminated the tearing.
Great review! Can you do a small follow up of the Bluetooth capabilities? These projectors are very popular for “digital decorations” for the holidays, but some suffer from noticeable audio lag when used with external speakers.
That last bit: Foreshadowing and breaking the 4th wall at the same time, delivered with no nuance so even the 8 bit guy will know what’s going to happen next. Or maybe he’ll say “we’ll, he didn’t really make that clear (chuckle)”. And so on.
You can get composite out from the N64, so that's probably the best use for it. Maybe some N64 smash bros or mario kart for the kids or something. Oh or some of the other slightly less old consoles like the Gamecube or the Wii. Actually can't you get composite out on SNES if you have the right cable? I think it's the same cable the N64 uses
SNES, N64, and GameCube all use the same cable for composite out. The issue is they have 3 male plugs and the projector's cable also has three male plugs so they can't be directly connected. I suspect Ben has the needed couplers lying around to make it work and if not he probably has the parts to throw one together.
@@DesignedbyWill2084 Oh good lord. He can spit it out any way he wants. We *know* what it is. We know what it does. The man finished high school, and apparently is smart enough to be able to do this stuff. He can FREZ-nell his butt off if he wants.
Since moving away from the Midwest, I don't know how to save big money. Nor will I remember a jingle telling where to go in order to save big money. Someone please help me.
fre-NELL. Emphasis on the second syllable. :-P I used to tease our stage manager (also a stickler for pronunciation) by saying 'freznel' all the time (type of spot light, obv. named for the lens). :-) Never failed to spin him up!
To preemptively correct myself, better protectors are designed to sit or mount level with the floor (or more correctly, perpendicular to the screen). They then use some magic "lens shift" mechanism to move the image up or down without keystone distortion.
Maybe the glue in the bottom is a work palette for the artist, there are dapping the glue around it the factory so the parts not flapping around in the brise.
Re-purposed TV input board, which makes sense & hence the unpopulated position for a HDMI on what would be the back of the TV. Probably made by UMC, same OSD as my UMC set anyway
Whenever you mention Menards I think of this: th-cam.com/video/qqCZe3WA-zE/w-d-xo.html PS If the gopher guts are tacky I guess that's for mopping up dust.
Thanks! This would make a better Halloween or Christmas decoration than the other, especially with the SD card slot. In the "US, at Walmart, would this be ONN?
I'm thinking that the lag and jutter on HDMI input is the down scaling processing of a 720p/1080p 60 picture down to 480p. I bet if you watch a 24 fps film it would look fine, or if you gave it a 480p signal over HDMI. Do you have a Retrotink5x?
I’m sure someone else has already said this, but the “corruption” at the bottom of the genesis display is caused when the Genesis changes palettes. Very common.
Love your channel! Happy to see this "crossover" of sorts
Nope! You're the first to've said it on this video.
Whenever im feeling low Ben Heck is always there so i dont drink alone
Love this comment! 🤣🤣
Man that kind of sucks, this dude is so obnoxious lol
This projector gets the job done pretty well. th-cam.com/users/postUgkxS9P8zTOcmQg-hH0QeUi3dspOLyYgQ6dH Bear in mind it's a mini projector but all things considered the picture quality is pretty good. The attached photo is of the projector projecting onto my white closet doors. I still have not messed with the settings but I can't wait for our first family movie night on a larger scale. If you have issues with volume not working with your firestick, go into volume settings and you will find your solution there.
As a Wisconsin expat from 14 years ago, I love the Menards jingle...
Former Minnesotan, here, I concur... Whodathunkit that goddamn MENARDS would make a person feel homesick?! 🤣
The glue is for airborne dust to attempt to stick toi
The Digital Foundry reference had me laughing way more than I should have!
My brother used to work at Menards and he and his co-workers used to sing the Menards song as " shave big hunnies, we shave big hunnies when we shop Menards." I figured you would get a kick out of that
I love how you casually play a notoriously difficult game while dropping technicaly verbose dialogue without missing a beat. Absolute legend.
mechanical keystone is actually pretty cool because doing it digitally sacrifices pixel resolution on the part of the image that becomes narrower.
It may also eliminate some input lag due to extra image processing. I'd be curious what the total delay is on this beastie.
I have seen in my past a mechanical keystone on a really old projector I don't remember anything else. Usually it's just done in Software however processing time, resolution drop and more expensive chips.
That's actually not terrible. :) Obviously wouldn't replace a $7,500 home theater projector...
I have some sort of no name mini projector that was given to me a few years ago. Has HDMI, VGA and I think RCA. I have been tempted to hook it up and use it as a huge terminal screen.
The leftover glue isn't for catching dust. They purge the tip of the glue gun so they can start gluing up whatever. Sometimes they will glue something down for transport so the next factory or whatever will just break it off and install it in the final location.
Love that the cheap projectors have the same osd as my LCD TV that isnt branded as anything but does have a touchscreen
that cat looks extremely realistic, thats a pretty awesome feature for a cheap projector to have, even if its just a gimmick.
I could tell it was cheap CGI. ;D
@@brianm6337 Cat Generated Images?
6:03
"The dots are caused by writing to CRAM while the VDP is reading from it. Most likely a real console uses a single data bus for reading and writing so it will read the value being written instead of the value in CRAM."
CRAM = Color RAM, so just the small palette RAM that's on the VDP chip.
IIRC, the colour palette is 64 colours (four lots of 16 colours), and are 9-bits wide, so that only needs around 72 Bytes of RAM.
The CRAM dots are nostalgic to some people, presumably because their TV overscan wasn't quite adjusted correctly, or they were using a fancy PVM. Or maybe people just started noticing them more when LCD TVs became more popular in the 00s?
On the MiSTer FPGA core for the Genesis, the CRAM dots were actually a requested feature. You can turn them on and off. lol
One other interesting thing there, is it looks like the console is using every available line in the Vertical Blanking area to update the VDP regs.
So as soon as the image hits the first black line at the bottom of the screen, that's actually in VBlank already, but the VSync pulse hasn't quite happened yet.
The VBlank interrupt is then triggered, and the code starts writing to the VDP to update it for the next frame. (things like writing to the scroll registers, writing to VRAM to update tile graphics, and writing to the sprite table to move the player and enemies around.)
I'm not 100% sure about the exact Vblank and sync timings, but that's roughly how it works.
I wish all projectors had a physical lens shift rather than digital keystone correction.
Digital keystone makes small text and details look terrible, even when we started seeing more XGA/SXGA projectors way back when.
I have actually thought of a ceiling projection. I totally agree, it seems to be a great retro video device. Cool!
I projected onto a ceiling for a couple weeks after hurting my back. Unfortunately, that projector was every bit as janky and low-res as this one. I don't think it even had HDMI, just VGA. It varied from "it'll do in a pinch" to "actually not bad" depending on the application.
100 million subs is right around the corner now. Can’t wait for the $100,000 projector.
Going from a $32 to a $82 projector in only 4 days? Ben is really moving up in the world!
The monitors we use at work are VGA still even though the computers we have use two DisplayPort outputs. we have to use converters to make them work because they don't want to buy new monitors for all of us.
I think the last side of the standard CLV Jurassic Park Laserdisc release might have been in CAV. Sometimes when there's only like 20 minutes left in a movie, they'd do the third side in CAV and have an amusing picture of a cartoon turtle flipped on its back with a Laserdisc for its belly on the fourth side just to tell you that you're watching the wrong side.
I started to choke on my spit from you stating are you tired of having large heavy monitors crushing you in your sleep. Great video as always
Remains of glue? Just spluge a pile in the middle and scoop it up from there to use during assembly? Or as someone else mentioned, sticky stuff to collect dust that gets inside.
I wonder if you could somehow extract the FW from this one and burn it onto the cheaper one, enabling the AV-IN
I like how Ben really struggled to think of any uses for a cheap projector that didn't involve Halloween or video games.
Great Video and good for the Projector, that you'll keep it .
Maybe the result is better if you connect the HDMI devices to the VGA input via an HDMI to VGA adapter
Since it's gonna downsample to 480p anyhow, you could also go HDMI to composite since it seems to do that quite well.
Just now Menards has it for $39.99. If there was a Menard close by, I would grab one.
That would be something I'd look into. Cheap and cheerful.
Oh. I got an idea. Homebrew a Space Invaders' cabinet.
I remember back in the mid 90s, if someone wanted to play Sega games on a large screen, they'd have to spend $1000s of dollars on a rear projection TV. These TVs were dim and you had to be at the right angle to see it correctly. This $80 device has an image 100 times better. Also the big screen televisions from the 90s always had convergence issues. That Jurassic Park movie looked better on the $80 projector than it did on an old projector TV from the 90s.
You definitely need cool air moving past the LCD, they absorb a lot of heat energy from the light source and will quickly die without cooling. That's why the fan on the cheap projector was positioned so some of the air went past the LCD and some through the LED heatsink.
A decent quality projector will have air filters to ensure no dust contamination on the LCD and optics.
Great point!
A decent quality projector will have _replaceable_ air filters.
In a series of escalatingly profitable videos of projector tear downs, Ben realized it had went too far when he hit 50 millions views and was considering tearing down a SONY SRX-T615 for his next video...
Hey, if it still works afterward, and _we_ paid for it... why wouldn't he?
It's finally dark out because it's 5pm. That made laugh. You should have more bud the cat be in more of the videos.
That sticky goo on the bottom MAY be to trap dust/dirt that gets near the lens or mirror assembly.
This looks like my BlitzWolf projector bought from aliexpress for 80€. Although the blitzwolf has presumably a 1080p display.
It would be interesting to watch you pimp out one of these cheap projectors. Just to see if you can improve them in any way?
The cat was the best performance of that projector.
My parents always sang "you spend big money" when the Menards add came on. I've now realized that Menards was actually a good deal, we just always spent way too much money there 😂😂
Maybe it would do better with 720p over hdmi? Maybe down scaling the higher resolution is too much for it. Thanks for the vids Ben.
The RetroUSB AVS that he was playing Super Mario Bros. on outputs 720p
Camera Obscura is a pretty chill band.
Maybe an external HDMI to VGA adapter could solve the HDMI issue.
I've seen similar mechanical keystone adjustments on other cheap projectors before. A mechanical adjustment in theory should be better though I'd agree it's done solely for cost and "marketing" reasons. As far as I'm aware all consumer units on the market use software for correction. I believe larger commercial units do (or did) use mechanical adjustment but it's been quite a while since I've been in that industry to say for sure.
To be honest I like this better, the software one makes the pixel stretching stand out for me, and it will project a not quite blacked out border on the narrow side of the keystone.
The commercial units usually tilt the DLP unit and they can tilt in more than one direction, as well as shift.
Tilting the fresnel like this may mess up your focal plane while tilting the imaging unit itself would correct for the focal plane offset you introduce by angling the projector towards the screen.
@@Stoney3K That may be, but I have these old Hitachi lcd mirror projectors, and they keystone by software scaling, and it's not pretty.
I have seen a mechanical keystone projector at least once and not the cheap kind.
I wonder if running HDMI at less than 60fps (24/25 maybe, for movies?) would help the buffer cope with the data. I don't really know how any of the stuff works but it would seem senseful that if too high bandwidth is the problem, lowering the refresh rate should cut it down?
Or maybe even just set the device that's plugged in to 720p, maybe that would help
@@donotatme the RetroUSB AVS he was playing Super Mario Bros. on outputs at 720p, it was having as the same issues the Xbox One at 1080p
@@adimifus whoops, I missed that detail!
I doubt any projector does keystone adjustment in software, otherwise you'd always be interpolating and essentially wasting a lot of the LCD's resolution. Maybe more like a stepper motor for fine adjustment?
For the HDMI, might want to check the settings and turn off anything that looks like processing. It looks like it might be trying to smooth motion and miserably fail. All failing, trying its native resolution (720x480?) might bypass the interpolation and be a bit smoother. It doesn't feel like a processing power thing otherwise 1080p should be worse than 720p. Or maybe this thing runs at 30fps?
I professionally install projectors for businesses, and I tried to avoid keystoning at all costs because they do exactly that, they just interpolate and waste resolution. It's a blurry disgusting mess, and I always die inside when they request to have the projector on their desk pointing straight up at the screen.
@@PhotonVideos And on low contrast projectors you can see the trapezoidal effect.
The cat mugging the gta guy was too funny.
Never seen a mechanical keystone adjustment? You haven't had many projectors, have you. Top-tier projectors have always had mechanical adjustment keystone correction. They have oversized projection lenses and the lens mount is adjustable in both Vertical and Horizontal planes... no loss of image quality at all. As the image is forced to move off-center of the lens, it begins to cause keystone, which is used to counter offset projection positioning.
It occured to me as soon as he said he'd never seen a mechanical keystone adjustment, "What do you think they did BEFORE digital projectors?" This is an already solved problem, no need to do the adjustment in software when we already know how to do it with a simple hardware adjustment.
@@evensgrey In most CRT projectors it's done by manipulating the video signal. Of course with a digital chassis it's done in a different way, but the signal still stays analog.
I wonder if the hdmi input would be fine if you fed it 480p, like from a gamecube or something. Perhaps the judder is caused by the projector downscaling the image
A DVD deck with HDMI out would be a good test.
Maybe the gunk was to collect dust that makes it into the projection chamber.
9:30 Same sort of tearing happened when I used a composite to HDMI converter that actively changed it from 4:3 to 16:9 (for N64). Switching to a composite to HDMI that left it native 4:3 eliminated the tearing.
Great review! Can you do a small follow up of the Bluetooth capabilities? These projectors are very popular for “digital decorations” for the holidays, but some suffer from noticeable audio lag when used with external speakers.
That last bit: Foreshadowing and breaking the 4th wall at the same time, delivered with no nuance so even the 8 bit guy will know what’s going to happen next. Or maybe he’ll say “we’ll, he didn’t really make that clear (chuckle)”. And so on.
I’m curious if this is a rebranded version of the $49 RCA Walmart sold online for Black Friday week.
laserdisc FTW can't wait for my copy of Street Fighter to get here
You can get composite out from the N64, so that's probably the best use for it. Maybe some N64 smash bros or mario kart for the kids or something.
Oh or some of the other slightly less old consoles like the Gamecube or the Wii.
Actually can't you get composite out on SNES if you have the right cable? I think it's the same cable the N64 uses
SNES, N64, and GameCube all use the same cable for composite out. The issue is they have 3 male plugs and the projector's cable also has three male plugs so they can't be directly connected. I suspect Ben has the needed couplers lying around to make it work and if not he probably has the parts to throw one together.
Both pronunciations of fresnel are accepted. One is considered American, the other British.
And since he was French, they are both wrong.
It's a Dj scratch lens. Good for magnification OR rap music.
@@DesignedbyWill2084 Oh good lord. He can spit it out any way he wants. We *know* what it is. We know what it does. The man finished high school, and apparently is smart enough to be able to do this stuff.
He can FREZ-nell his butt off if he wants.
"I am Menards"
New notification sound. Thanks!
Slightly OT:
Can you still get leaded solder in the US?
Yes. It's readily available.
Side-note, but your couch looks comfortable as hell.
Lower the output resolution of the Xbox and switch to see if it helps with tearing.
Since moving away from the Midwest, I don't know how to save big money. Nor will I remember a jingle telling where to go in order to save big money. Someone please help me.
th-cam.com/video/jpejyzzZOQA/w-d-xo.html
Oh man, getting crushed by falling giant CRTs while coding in bed is a daily problem, maybe I should get a projector...
I think the blob of glue is to catch some dust.
fre-NELL. Emphasis on the second syllable. :-P I used to tease our stage manager (also a stickler for pronunciation) by saying 'freznel' all the time (type of spot light, obv. named for the lens). :-) Never failed to spin him up!
22:37 Maybe a place for particulate to attach itself instead of flying around?
Your AVS is 720p so it will show the same downscaling issues as the any other high res source.
Ironically, higher-end projectors use lens/prism based "mechanical" keystone. Really high end have menu-driven physical adjustment
To preemptively correct myself, better protectors are designed to sit or mount level with the floor (or more correctly, perpendicular to the screen). They then use some magic "lens shift" mechanism to move the image up or down without keystone distortion.
When are we gonna get a sequel to Port Washington Ben? ;)
Been asking about Port Washington 2 - The Continuation for years man.
@@ashasaur im glad im not the only one!
Hdmi to vga converters are very robust and cheap solution to crappy tvs and projectors hdmi issues. And they don't add any lag
Maybe the glue in the bottom is a work palette for the artist, there are dapping the glue around it the factory so the parts not flapping around in the brise.
The IR remote might be more valuable than the projector. They're good substitutes for user interfaces.
21:10 in fact you do want to move some air across the lcd, since it will absorb the energy where the screen is dark and thus heat up
The sticky clue on the bottom is probably there to get the dust that gets in sticks to it and does not spin around on the inside..
and any mice that get in.
is that display ribbon cable compatible with a rasberry pi?
that is what i was wondering about his and the $34 one as well😁
I wonder if that gob of goo is designed to damp The hollow sound of the plastic.
Awsome review as usual. Ben please next time do a food review at the same time
Will it play doom? Install doom on the projector.
you have a pretty cool channel and a good personality to do this I’m surprised I haven’t come across it yet 👍🏻
3:03 I don't know how you print... but I use printers that look very different from yours.
it prints to the wall 60 times a second without paper, very eco friendly
I have a question Ben... could you calibrate the picture quality to Rec 709 standards? That would be amazing and an interesting challenge as well.
The dreamcast with software mod is a vga beast
Leave it to Ben to show me a Castlevania game I’ve literally never heard of before
Are the mirrors in these first-surface, or just simple mirrors?
that goop is probably to break up the flats in both projectors prior to the lens, and diffuse any incident light reflections
Re-purposed TV input board, which makes sense & hence the unpopulated position for a HDMI on what would be the back of the TV. Probably made by UMC, same OSD as my UMC set anyway
I was almost tempted to buy this when I saw it, just for fun.
For 80$ you can probably get VERY good used projectors lol. 720p projectors with HDMI came out almost 15 years ago.
@13:25 😯 I have that same laser disc!
Whenever you mention Menards I think of this:
th-cam.com/video/qqCZe3WA-zE/w-d-xo.html
PS
If the gopher guts are tacky I guess that's for mopping up dust.
Ben uses the back of his hand to write measurements. Here I've been using the inside of my wrist all the time like a pleb.
Does that rear VGA port work? If so, you can try using an HDMI to VGA adapter.
Feed it a 480p signal from a PC and see if it still tears
Maybe try a 480p HDMI source?
And 720p. If one of those fixes the issue, then reprogram the EEPROM (on at least one port) for the lower resolution.
@@NiHaoMike64 The RetroUSB AVS he was playing Super Mario Bros. on outputs at 720p
Thanks! This would make a better Halloween or Christmas decoration than the other, especially with the SD card slot.
In the "US, at Walmart, would this be ONN?
15:19 Is that Joel or Mike?
Would love to hook that projector up to a GameCube and play phantasy Star online on the outside of the garage door
Hopefully Joel!
Audio out? It's better than my Epson
i have one i found in the dumpster like that.. i took it apart to salvage the led and speakers. the lens was trashed it was badly scratched
He's pretty good in one of the hardest games ever👍
Why are Menards always so big... Should I get them checked out??
if this was any good on HDMI i'd consider upgrading the COB light to something that's way too powerful for this projector
I'm thinking that the lag and jutter on HDMI input is the down scaling processing of a 720p/1080p 60 picture down to 480p. I bet if you watch a 24 fps film it would look fine, or if you gave it a 480p signal over HDMI. Do you have a Retrotink5x?
03:08 So its a printer now?
03:04
Dreamcast outputs VGA, if you still have one
So does Xbox 360! If you have the right cable.
Oh that's so weird that you're not pronouncing the s in fresnel lens. 😆
"someone complained I said it wrong" proceeds to pronounce it wrong still XD
Isn't it French? Ben could just say that saying it with the s is just translating it into American.
Heck yah classic gaming all that matters!