ViewSonicM1 Portable LED Projector for Home & Family Entertainment with Harman Kardon Audio,Silver

This is dictated excuse typos, it’s important to keep everything in context here, this thing cost 300 quid and that’s cheap for what it does, it can do airplay from Apple, it’s got Wi-Fi and Bluetooth built-in, the speakers are Stella, the battery life is great, in a dark room or outside the picture is more than acceptable but not full HD, The android system isn’t the best but given you can airplay from your device or put an ST card in it or connect via HDMI, are you getting the point? It’s so specced up for the price it’s stupid. They will no doubt be new products that will be better than this in time but right now for the reasons I’ve listed this is king, I can go in the garden and put the boxing on 100 and scream zero wires good sound good picture happy family, my daughter froze how movies on to my bedroom wall and then put it away when she’s finished with it, she takes it to grandmas and plays movies no wires no need for Internet, come on for £300 really! It even connects to my daughters Nintendo switch by USBC , I don’t know another device that does that and get this it even charges it. We have laid in bed and projected 75 inch picture on the ceiling even though there is a 50 inch TV in the room just because it’s fun. I think I’ll summarise and say this is not a replacement for a full-time TV, but it will bring hours of fun for kids make sporting events joy and I even use it for work, time will tell how long that will last but ViewSonic are no mugs and I don’t think they’ll let me down

I bought this instead of a tv for a caravan. I don’t watch regular broadcast tv so just wanted a device I could watch streaming services or downloaded film/tv shows on.It works great & we use the blinds in the caravan as a screen, or if we have the awning up, the side of the caravan. My son has used the inside of the inner tent & uses it to play his play station through.I link my iPhone via hdmi using a certified Apple hdmi connector & it works fine.It’s not HD or Dolby so sometimes you do have to download alternative versions of downloads for it to play through the projector but all in all we’re extremely happy with the projector. It takes up no room, a tv would.The sound is great, the image is great & the automatic keystone is easy for plug & play. You can manually adjust it if you’re viewing in a weird angle to suit your own viewing desire.I’m a little worried I’m going to lose the remote as it’s small & the unit is controlled by it alone, meaning if the remote packs in you’re stuck. I wish it had buttons on the projector itself but I guess the more expensive versions have that.For the money it’s great as long as you’re not overly hung up on picture quality being Ultra HD quality.

I initially purchased this projector for showing educational films and power point type presentations at university. I chose it for the compact size, the name I knew (it wasn't some strange unknown Chinese brand), the audio features, overall brightness and the connectivity options. It also had some good reviews.When I first received it and set it up, I quickly realized that the resolution was too low for doing presentations. At 60" the text is legible but blocky, and photos and other graphics are similarly unsophisticated. Considering that I had bought it for this purpose, my first instinct was to send it back, but I kept hold of it for a few days to look into other uses. We started to use it to watch tv and movies and found it was actually very watchable. With video the low resolution isn't so noticeable, I guess because it's a moving picture. The colours are bright and vivid, and the high contrast ratio makes even dark scenes fairly distinct. It works best in total darkness, but is also good in low light situations, not much use in a day-lit room. We now use it as a second TV in the bedroom, and during this lockdown period it's getting a lot of use!For portable use the onboard Harmon-Cardon system is loud enough, and reasonable quality, like a $30 blue tooth speaker. The stand is useable as long as you're careful not to knock it off something, or trip over the power cable and bring it crashing to the ground, which I have done already (still worked afterwards).At home I use a photography tripod for stability, and play the audio through my amp.The amount of input options is great, and I especially like the micro sd and USB readers. I load them up with content and then it just plays out of the unit, recognizing most formats. My macbook pro and android phone can both wirelessly connect to 'cast' content, but make sure you have a good wireless router, mine is ancient and can't really keep up. I've not managed to use the usb C port as I don't have a compatible device, and the HDMI connecter works as you'd expect for connecting laptop etc. I'm sure there are other ways to connect that I haven't discovered yet. The unit connects to the Wifi network easily and can run apps, which I haven't really bothered with. Remote works well by just pointing at the screen, or the front of the unit.The main negative point for me is the focus wheel, it's very sensitive, fiddly and really difficult to get the focus bang on. My unit also slightly loses focus over time, so during an ad break you have to fiddle with it. Also when you power on the unit the focus needs readjusting even though the projector and screen are in the same position. This is something Viewsonic need to sort out for the next gen.Overall: Seems well built and is so far stable and reliable, it's great fun for portable cinema/TV use and is small enough to throw in a bag for travel. Also good for light home use. The resolution of 480p leaves a bit to be desired, but for the price this is basically what you get. Pay more if you want 720 or 1080p sharpness. I kept the projector and use it everyday, actually grown quite fond of it.Tip: First thing to do is upgrade the firmware to latest version.

Sent it back after a day. Nice idea but hardly any features work.1) films from memory stick only work off small memory sticks. Would not play from my hard drive or 128gb memory stick.2) pretty much no apps would screen mirror. I tried amazon, Netflix, sky go and Apple TV.3) has built in APP store. Where you won’t find any apps like Netflix etc so you will still need a fire stick or laptop.4) not really in clear in the description is you need a laptop sized power supply to charge it. I had assumed it was charged by usb C. You don’t get a case that carry’s everything. So the total size of this with the power supply is the same as a normal mini projector as I hardly see any times when I would not need to take it with you.5)turning up the brightness seems to do nothing.6) every time you turn it of it defaults back to eco mode when powered back on.So summary for the negative points is you pay a lot extra for features which don’t really work.The picture quality is ok for its size. Does feel well build and the speakers are excellent. But it’s not worth the price tag. £150 and I might have kept it.