As good as it’s to have a projector wired up in your house cinema, the flexibleness a transportable mannequin presents is equally beneficial. It means you’ll be able to arrange an impromptu massive display screen in your again yard throughout these wonderful lengthy summer season evenings. However transportable projectors additionally carry that whiff of not being pretty much as good, or being compromised, with much less highly effective sound and imaginative and prescient. It’s this subject that Nebula is seeking to sort out with its newest flagship transportable projector, the X1, which is designed to supply the facility of a house projector within the physique of a movable one.
The X1 is a triple-laser unit promising 4K UHD, Dolby Imaginative and prescient video with 3,500 ANSI lumens that ought to simply fill a 300-inch display screen. You may place it on a stand, desk or the ground, with the array able to tilting as much as 25 levels to seek out wherever you’ve positioned your display screen. There’s a 14-element glass array contained in the physique, which the corporate says ought to present dependable picture high quality for the lifetime of the unit. It’s versatile, too, with an optical zoom letting you solid on a display screen as much as 200 inches large from between 13 and 22 toes away.
The opposite massive drawback with projectors is the sound high quality, however Nebula thinks it’s solved that subject as properly. The X1 not solely has a quartet of side-firing inner audio system, however you’ll be able to pay a little bit extra to select up a pair of wi-fi 20W satellite tv for pc audio system with their very own built-in batteries. Every satellite tv for pc connects to the X1 over Wi-Fi and has a rated battery lifetime of eight hours, plus they’re IP54 rated to make sure they received’t break in case your film night time will get interrupted by a rain bathe.
Nebula can be proud to boast that the X1 is the corporate’s first transportable projector to get its personal inner liquid cooling system. Liquid cooling is commonplace on increased finish wired projectors, and Nebula says that its inclusion right here permits it to get the fan noise all the way down to 26 dB. Which will or will not be factor relying on the expertise ranges of your mates given it’s also possible to purchase a pair of wi-fi karaoke microphones with a rated battery lifetime of 40 hours.
The remainder of the spec record is what you’d anticipate, with the X1 working Google TV, plus a pair of HDMI ports (one with eARC). It’ll be obtainable to buy within the US on June 20 for $2,999, whereas the accent pack by itself will set you again $999, however you’ll be able to bundle each for $3,298. It’s an analogous state of affairs within the UK, the place it’ll be prepared to purchase on Might 21 for £2,199.99, with the accent pack costing £500, however in case you order between Might 21 and June 15, you’ll get each for £2,350.
