Look, I bought two of these last time and I know it’s super fashionable to crap all over these, but these are excellent for the price. They are not particularly bright, and the housing is four or five times the volume of similar-spec consumer projectors from other manufacturers. But if you’re willing to put up with those downsides, then for less than a hundred bucks you can have a 1080p display several feet wide, with nicely readable text if you choose to use it as a monitor. Hell, throw two of them side by side, and have an epic full-wall-dual-display for your home workstation. Herk a Roku stick into the back, and you have an 8-foot display for the kids or guest room for under 200 bucks. Smash one in a drunken tirade, and then replace it with one of the other two you bought from Meh, and ponder that all three projectors cost less than two cases of decent wine from that other site. Can you do better? Sure. But not for less than double the price, maybe triple.
I’m just saying: this is a mighty shiny turd at an unpolished-turd price.
@blaadnort Well that’s a good point. Essentially a “disposable*” cheap video setup for kids, etc. About 10 years ago a friend had a nice 1080 projector where just the bulb assembly cost about $400 and his kids would use it to play video games (PS3 I think) or watch DVD-type video. Eventually he got tired of replacing the expensive bulb, and the kids got older, and he took down the projector and turned the space into a music studio. So, yeah, for a cheap setup in a darkened room, this probably isn’t too bad as long as you accept what it is (and isn’t).
always try to recycle e-Waste properly. Too bad Meh doesn’t take back all the e-Crap and failed powerbanks and bluetooth devices they send us for proper disposal. I.e. Mehcycle.com
250 lumens reflected from a standardized specified section of the screen is damn bright, and that’s what the ANSI spec is measuring. (And they’re actually mis-stating the spec, but that’s pretty much par for the course with custom-box generic hardware.) It says NOTHING about the lumens produced by the internal light source.
That said, I think my personal response to this deal is going to sound like “No vankyo.” My only query to them, seeking clarification of the specs on a different model, made it clear to me that the Vankyo people are a sales force, not a tech outfit.
@werehatrack Say what? I think you’re getting your specs mixed up. Projector brightness is measured in Lumens. ANSI lumens are based on some gray value I think. ANSI lumens will always be a lot lower than the lumens of the light source. You can’t rate a projector on how bright it reflects on a screen of unknown size and reflectivity.
@skrubol It was misdescribed; ANSI measures the light incident upon a specified standard area of the screen under a specific condition. But if I recall correctly, this is measured in lux rather than lumens. Regardless, the given performance spec actually describes reasonably decent and more than minimally adequate luminance of image. It’s neither crap nor stellar.
@werehatrack ANSI is the American National Standards Institute. I don’t believe they measure projectors at all, in this context they just define a standard way to measure brightness of projectors, called ANSI lumens. Not sure if they have any standard on projector light intensity (lux).
I have one of these. I wanted a disposable projector to watch movies from my hot tub. I didn’t want to expose a $500 projector to the corrosive fumes and outdoor humidity.
Good points: Works well enough, and the USB port on the projector has enough juice to run a firestick, so you only have to run one extension cord to it. Uses LED for light, so no bulbs to replace. It is really 1080P, as far as I can tell from test patterns. It has low enough lag to play video games on it. The refresh rate/ghosting is adequate enough for decent movies.
Bad points: No provisions are made to service or clean it. It does not have a sealed light path, or even an air filter, so it will get dust inside it that you have to live with. If you want to place it at the top or bottom of your screen, the corners get blurry when you adjust the angle slider to the max. There is no real warranty or way to get service, replacement is the only option. Black levels are poor. Contrast is not great. Color accuracy is notably off.
Bottom line, if you need a disposable projector for occasional use, in a situation where a real projector might be at risk, this is a good enough option. This is not a home theater projector by any means. It will not give you results comparable to even a low end name brand projector.
I am considering ordering one as a spare at this price, it is a little over half what I paid for mine from A-Z.
Caveat - these Cheap Chinese Crap projectors are known to change parts and specs at random, with no notice, so my V600 experience may not be comparable to your V600 experience. Also, last time I looked, there were at least 5 other “Brands” selling what appear to be this same projector with different color plastics.
@bigpolar “Caveat - these Cheap Chinese [FILL IN THE BLANK] are known to change parts and specs at random, with no notice, so my experience may not be comparable to your experience.”
@bigpolar@radi0j0hn And any specs claimed for battery capacity, or flashlight or laser output, of products sold from China should be assumed to be far beyond merely preposterously inflated. (When I last looked, the record Big Lie was a pocket laser with a claimed output of 99000000 lumens from 5mW, but it has been more than a month since I last went digging through the cesspool at wish dot com.)
Got one. Works great. Barely works in daytime. Perfect. If the sun is out we should be too. Honestly was amazed at the quality. Obviously I’m not a huge TV person and don’t need super duper but for the $79 I paid I was very happy and it has been working since last deal. Can play Xbox just fine too. It is a little loud, it does get dusty.
250 lumans is pretty damn low. Need 500+ to get a nice picture. 250 might give you a crisp 80-90 inch picture at best. Still that’s not too bad. I guess for $89 that sexy hot? Too much?
I bought one on Black Friday, you can’t get a better one for the price. I use it to watch movies outdoors around a campfire. Street lights and a roaring fire and this thing is plenty bright
@stinks Given the number of brand-provided promotional images that are shared by both, I suspect that “same product, maybe newer model, different box” is likely to be applicable.
@ohhwell The rating is for the light incident on a specific area of the screen at a standardized distance specified in the ANSI doc. But it’s supposed to be stated in lux, not lumens. The number given would be reasonably bright for a projected image, but not even close to what you’ll get from a flat-panel TV in a well-lit room.
…has a built-in speaker (or you can attach your own)
“a speaker”
One.
Soooo… how does it support stereo? Or, for that matter, with a (singular) 5W 4Ω speaker, how does it justify claiming “Well-designed speaker system produces clear, stereo, and all-around sound to complement your viewing experience”?
Methinks their prose runneth over (their lunch) and drippeth into their shoes. And it smells…peculiar.
I agree these are actually pretty sweet. This is my go-to projector in my living room, on a 6-ft screen, and it does pretty well. Have it hooked into a receiver for sound from the Roku and it will fill the room. Brightness has never been much of an issue, since I don’t generally watch things except at night.
I actually bought a second one for my wife to use when she teaches ACT prep classes
Of course…YMMV
Snagged one months back and will say; for the price you can’t go wrong. Like other reviewers mentioned, it’s not going to blow you away but will get the job done. I have mine set up to about 100+” or and the picture is surprisingly crisp. Fan is a bit on the loud side but this seems to be the case with any projector under $300-500. Screen is okay but will do the trick for outdoor sessions
Gee, that’s misunderinformative. I’m sure those hooks and ropes are for the screen, not the projector. I suspect that the “stickers” are one-use self-adhesive pads of some sort, of unpredictable design, characteristics, and suitability. And I’m pretty sure that the quoted text was a direct cut-n-paste from the brand’s own materials.
Pretty nice for native 1080. Shame there’s no wireless connectivity and the light output is low but I’m in for one. Should be good for camping with a generator or battery/inverter.
Look, I bought two of these last time and I know it’s super fashionable to crap all over these, but these are excellent for the price. They are not particularly bright, and the housing is four or five times the volume of similar-spec consumer projectors from other manufacturers. But if you’re willing to put up with those downsides, then for less than a hundred bucks you can have a 1080p display several feet wide, with nicely readable text if you choose to use it as a monitor. Hell, throw two of them side by side, and have an epic full-wall-dual-display for your home workstation. Herk a Roku stick into the back, and you have an 8-foot display for the kids or guest room for under 200 bucks. Smash one in a drunken tirade, and then replace it with one of the other two you bought from Meh, and ponder that all three projectors cost less than two cases of decent wine from that other site. Can you do better? Sure. But not for less than double the price, maybe triple.
I’m just saying: this is a mighty shiny turd at an unpolished-turd price.
@blaadnort Well that’s a good point. Essentially a “disposable*” cheap video setup for kids, etc. About 10 years ago a friend had a nice 1080 projector where just the bulb assembly cost about $400 and his kids would use it to play video games (PS3 I think) or watch DVD-type video. Eventually he got tired of replacing the expensive bulb, and the kids got older, and he took down the projector and turned the space into a music studio. So, yeah, for a cheap setup in a darkened room, this probably isn’t too bad as long as you accept what it is (and isn’t).
@blaadnort I’ve always wondered why one would want to polish a turd to a brilliant shine only to look into it and see your own reflection.
“Stay-In-Ema” doesn’t sound very fun, no matter how you pronounce it.
@PooltoyWolf is that like “Don’t look Ethyl!”?
@PooltoyWolf Yes that was a masterpiece of uncomfortable triple entendre.
And now the dismissal of the specs begins.
250 lumens reflected from a standardized specified section of the screen is damn bright, and that’s what the ANSI spec is measuring. (And they’re actually mis-stating the spec, but that’s pretty much par for the course with custom-box generic hardware.) It says NOTHING about the lumens produced by the internal light source.
That said, I think my personal response to this deal is going to sound like “No vankyo.” My only query to them, seeking clarification of the specs on a different model, made it clear to me that the Vankyo people are a sales force, not a tech outfit.
@werehatrack Ergo, take all specs with a half-ton salt lick.
@werehatrack Say what? I think you’re getting your specs mixed up. Projector brightness is measured in Lumens. ANSI lumens are based on some gray value I think. ANSI lumens will always be a lot lower than the lumens of the light source. You can’t rate a projector on how bright it reflects on a screen of unknown size and reflectivity.
@skrubol It was misdescribed; ANSI measures the light incident upon a specified standard area of the screen under a specific condition. But if I recall correctly, this is measured in lux rather than lumens. Regardless, the given performance spec actually describes reasonably decent and more than minimally adequate luminance of image. It’s neither crap nor stellar.
@werehatrack ANSI is the American National Standards Institute. I don’t believe they measure projectors at all, in this context they just define a standard way to measure brightness of projectors, called ANSI lumens. Not sure if they have any standard on projector light intensity (lux).
I have one of these. I wanted a disposable projector to watch movies from my hot tub. I didn’t want to expose a $500 projector to the corrosive fumes and outdoor humidity.
Good points: Works well enough, and the USB port on the projector has enough juice to run a firestick, so you only have to run one extension cord to it. Uses LED for light, so no bulbs to replace. It is really 1080P, as far as I can tell from test patterns. It has low enough lag to play video games on it. The refresh rate/ghosting is adequate enough for decent movies.
Bad points: No provisions are made to service or clean it. It does not have a sealed light path, or even an air filter, so it will get dust inside it that you have to live with. If you want to place it at the top or bottom of your screen, the corners get blurry when you adjust the angle slider to the max. There is no real warranty or way to get service, replacement is the only option. Black levels are poor. Contrast is not great. Color accuracy is notably off.
Bottom line, if you need a disposable projector for occasional use, in a situation where a real projector might be at risk, this is a good enough option. This is not a home theater projector by any means. It will not give you results comparable to even a low end name brand projector.
I am considering ordering one as a spare at this price, it is a little over half what I paid for mine from A-Z.
Caveat - these Cheap Chinese Crap projectors are known to change parts and specs at random, with no notice, so my V600 experience may not be comparable to your V600 experience. Also, last time I looked, there were at least 5 other “Brands” selling what appear to be this same projector with different color plastics.
@bigpolar …and in case you do nude hot tubbing, remember, objects on 120" screen may appear larger than they really are.
@bigpolar “Caveat - these Cheap Chinese [FILL IN THE BLANK] are known to change parts and specs at random, with no notice, so my experience may not be comparable to your experience.”
@bigpolar @radi0j0hn And any specs claimed for battery capacity, or flashlight or laser output, of products sold from China should be assumed to be far beyond merely preposterously inflated. (When I last looked, the record Big Lie was a pocket laser with a claimed output of 99000000 lumens from 5mW, but it has been more than a month since I last went digging through the cesspool at wish dot com.)
@shahnm
Keep firing Assholes!
Got one. Works great. Barely works in daytime. Perfect. If the sun is out we should be too. Honestly was amazed at the quality. Obviously I’m not a huge TV person and don’t need super duper but for the $79 I paid I was very happy and it has been working since last deal. Can play Xbox just fine too. It is a little loud, it does get dusty.
@qazxto So in other words, the definition of “craptastic” – both good and crap at the same time.
250 lumans is pretty damn low. Need 500+ to get a nice picture. 250 might give you a crisp 80-90 inch picture at best. Still that’s not too bad. I guess for $89 that sexy hot? Too much?
I bought one on Black Friday, you can’t get a better one for the price. I use it to watch movies outdoors around a campfire. Street lights and a roaring fire and this thing is plenty bright
I’m still using candles and shadow puppets. So, what is this thing called Tell-A-Vision? Do people share their hallucinations?
@MrNews “Share their hallucinations” is Facebook. This is more useful for “see expensive, fancy, high-quality commercially-created hallucinations.”
Is Se7en pronounced “sesevenen”?
Inquiring nitpicky minds want to know.
@werehatrack Were you asking for a friend?
@comeatmebro But of course!
@werehatrack
/image brad pitt seven
So how much better or worse is this than the crappy projector you convinced me to buy last April?
@stinks Given the number of brand-provided promotional images that are shared by both, I suspect that “same product, maybe newer model, different box” is likely to be applicable.
@werehatrack Oooh, good sleuthing (though I haven’t double checked you, admittedly. blind trust i’m telling you).
/image well done ole chap
5W speakers. Louder than a non-speakerphone… Maybe.
Around $80 on ebay without the screen.
With that low of a Lumens rating, I would have liked to seen the light source be Led or am I missing something?
@ohhwell The rating is for the light incident on a specific area of the screen at a standardized distance specified in the ANSI doc. But it’s supposed to be stated in lux, not lumens. The number given would be reasonably bright for a projected image, but not even close to what you’ll get from a flat-panel TV in a well-lit room.
“a speaker”
One.
Soooo… how does it support stereo? Or, for that matter, with a (singular) 5W 4Ω speaker, how does it justify claiming “Well-designed speaker system produces clear, stereo, and all-around sound to complement your viewing experience”?
Methinks their prose runneth over (their lunch) and drippeth into their shoes. And it smells…peculiar.
I agree these are actually pretty sweet. This is my go-to projector in my living room, on a 6-ft screen, and it does pretty well. Have it hooked into a receiver for sound from the Roku and it will fill the room. Brightness has never been much of an issue, since I don’t generally watch things except at night.
I actually bought a second one for my wife to use when she teaches ACT prep classes
Of course…YMMV
Spaceballs is my favorite movie of all time, thanks for that!
LUDICROUS SPEED GO!
@tourdawg They’ve gone Plaid!
Snagged one months back and will say; for the price you can’t go wrong. Like other reviewers mentioned, it’s not going to blow you away but will get the job done. I have mine set up to about 100+” or and the picture is surprisingly crisp. Fan is a bit on the loud side but this seems to be the case with any projector under $300-500. Screen is okay but will do the trick for outdoor sessions
Specs
Product: Vankyo V600 1080p LED Projector with 120" Projector Screen
Model: V600
Condition: New
V600 1080p LED Projector
120" Projector Screen
What’s Included?
1x Vankyo V600 1080p LED Projector
- 1x AV Cable
- 1x HDMI Cable
- 1x Power Cable
- 1x Charging Cable
- 1x Carry Bag
- 1x Projector Remote
- 1x User Manual
1x 120" Projector Screen
- 1x Projector Hooks
- 1x Projector Stickers
- 1x Projector Ropes
Price Comparison
$199.99 w/o screen at Walmart
Warranty
3-Year Warranty for V600 1080p LED Projector
Estimated Delivery
Thursday, May 19 - Monday, May 23
Toy
@srubery But pretty much guaranteed not up to Fisher-Price standards for durability.
How far does this have to be from the wall to get to 120 inches?
@Bigbearballs Depends on his/her/their vision…
@Bigbearballs About 12 feet.
Agree! Great around a campfire!
No WIFI? No internal battery? Meh.
Can I get a speaker dock to go with it?
@sohmageek Sharpie sold separately.
Gee, that’s misunderinformative. I’m sure those hooks and ropes are for the screen, not the projector. I suspect that the “stickers” are one-use self-adhesive pads of some sort, of unpredictable design, characteristics, and suitability. And I’m pretty sure that the quoted text was a direct cut-n-paste from the brand’s own materials.
Anyone know what’s the closest focus this can do? i.e. projecting in a smaller room/space? Like even inside an RV? (assuming darkened).
@pmarin (reply to my own post – too late to edit).
I see in the specs:
Projection Size: 50-300 Inches
Projection Distance: 5.5 - 30 feet
Though as noted the actual performance/specs of these off-brand devices may vary a lot.
Pretty nice for native 1080. Shame there’s no wireless connectivity and the light output is low but I’m in for one. Should be good for camping with a generator or battery/inverter.