5G Wifi Bluetooth Projector Support 4K，Auuner AR650 8500 lumens Full HD Native 1080P Outdoor Projector with Electric Focus & Zoom，300’’ Display，Movie Projector for TV Stick,IOS,Android,PS5

 

Where to start with this projector, well I guess the best place to start is with the design.

This projector is beautiful, the attention to detail here is fantastic. I have reviewed many projectors from various brands over the last year and this one is by far the nicest design I’ve seen. Esthetically, it’s gorgeous to look at.

The outer edges are black and the top is an almost metallic looking silver, everything also has film on it to project, no fear of marks here when setting up. If you look at my pictures you can see how this looks and it’s really well designed. In my view, It would suit any room, I’ve had others that looked somewhat out of place, this honestly would suit any room no matter what your decor looks like.

The box that it comes in looks premium, others are generally plane with their brand name. With this box it stands out and punches above the rest. Inside the box everything fits nice and securely, attention to detail again here. I particularly like the separate box for cables and the power cord. Others just seem to wedge everything into the box and this for me is normally a let down, plus you don’t want damage to your projector.

Upon opening you will find the projector itself; remote (you need 2 AAA batteries, no real issue there), the power cord, manual, an s-video cable and an HDMI cable.

The power cord is actually a decent length but obviously if you’re ceiling mounting you’ll want a socket at hight to plug into.

I found the remote to be very responsive, I could point at the projector or screen and it would shuffle through the settings no problem.

The s-vid cable I didn’t need as all my devices are mainly HDMI but it is female which is great for connecting old consoles or dvd players.

On the projector you have a decent lense protector. It’s solid plastic and clips on nicely. I’ve had others which are rubber types and really awkward to put back on, especially when ceiling mounting. This one just clips nice and tightly when your done.

The main front section has touch sensitive buttons which allow for menu changes and toggling. In order turn on you have a power button on the rear which also allows for vertical keystone alignment.

You will obviously be using the remote and the functions are the same on there but it’s nice to have this level of capabilities on the unit itself. Others generally have only power on and off within this price range.

I was hoping that this would have an auto source function. I’ve used others where you can automatically select the HDMI to start on that connection. Unfortunately this goes to the main menu when turning on. I would have really expected this function in this price range. It saves time and if like me you’re looking at HDMI as your primary source, it can be annoying to keep toggling to the device input wanted.

On the rear you will find 2 X HDMI ports, 2 X USB ports, one headphone jack and the AV in for the s-vid cable. Your IR sensor is here but as mentioned your remote works pointed pretty much anywhere.

It takes around 20 seconds to load and the first menu you will see is where you can select multi media, input source and settings. Now the OS for this device is similar to others I’ve used, in fact it’s identical to several. In order to navigate you will find it strange at first.

For example, if you go to input source, you will see HDMI 1&2, AV and an option called multiscreen. Upon clicking multiscreen you’re then met with different casting types but there’s settings menu in here for casting. Once you get used to where things are it becomes second nature but it can seem somewhat difficult to navigate at first.

Also on the main remote you have the ability from the home screen to select your the input source menu but if you select multiscreen and then press this button you’re met with a list of quick toggle inputs. This menu button as well, when held then loads a further menu which you can’t access from the main ones.

This is where you adjust when in playback, it’s a bit all over the place but you’ll get used to it.

With that, when watching via HDMI or whatever input, if you wish to change the image you need to hold the menu button. Otherwise you have to keep exiting the playback and adjusting the image blindly as you’re no longer on that input.

By holding you can select the colour tone, aspect ratio, scaling and projection mode but in order to refocus you have to exit and go back to the main menus. To do this you press once and select multimedia, then pick the settings option and focus. You have no idea what the HDMI image will look like as you do this focusing from a focus projection (you’ll see this on my pictures)

You essentially focus so that the wording in each corner is readable. I found this to be somewhat off, I could get the bottom or top perfect but never both. I did however find it didn’t impact on the image when movie viewing but I’ll come to that further down.

Now this project allows casting via Bluetooth, it works well and I had zero issues connecting to my portable speaker, headphones or devices around the house.

It has WiFi but I did have issues here. For whatever reason this OS will not allow inputting of more than 18 characters for your password, others using it also were capped at this limit. My WiFi spots are all around 24 characters. I had to pick a specific wireless switch and then change that password to allow this connect. That then meant my other devices weren’t on my network, one is a wireless camera and the other is a printer. I can’t change my WiFi CCTV cam as it’s now on my outside wall, so after using the projector I had to change back the WiFi password for that access point.

Personally I don’t see the need for the WiFi, I checked whilst connected and it was up to date.

The main reason for the WiFi is DLNA, however I couldn’t get this to work. See my images, my pc wouldn’t connect to this to stream via DLNA. I know exactly what the issue is, the projector assigns itself a bizarre static IP. It doesn’t match the protocols for my internal network. You can’t adjust this and so devices cannot network stream to it. For me this isn’t an issue but if you’re hoping to send via pc via DLNA it won’t won’t.

What you have to do is cast from desktop or your device can mirror. So you can mirror from laptops, tablets, iOS, phones etc.

I tested this via MacBook, laptop, Samsung Tab, Huawei mobile and a Samsung. It works exactly as it should. So DLNA isn’t needed really.

This is the first projector that has actually read my USB dongles. I can confirm that you can playback media, hurrah! Every single other one I’ve tested wouldn’t do this.

Now you’re going to be using this via HDMI, let’s be honest, so I’ll talk about the image and sound quality now.

I found the volume level pathetic if I’m honest. Maximum volume was like listening on a phone, the projector itself isn’t noisy and within the same scope as others I’ve reviewed previously, so I’m not sure why the max volume is so low.

Let’s be honest though it you’re going big screen you’re not going to be playing with the speakers built-in. They’ll be fine for presentations but just use the Bluetooth for your speakers or like me have it connected to a decent surround.

I have my projector on HDMI 2 out from my AV receiver. It’s 7.1 and I have zero need for internal sound. Make sure you turn the volume down when playing back via a receiver, otherwise you’ll have the mute logo bouncing around if you try just muting audio.

Now as mentioned earlier with focusing, you do that on the main settings and then go back to your source. I tested the image (see pictures) using my pc first. I have a GTX 1080ti FTW.

When on my desktop I noticed areas which weren’t in focus. I’ve demonstrated this. If you look carefully you’ll see areas in focus and others slightly blurred.

It was impossible to get this perfect, I had the projector flat, adjusted the keystone to be in line and used the focusing menu. I’d get the bottom perfect but noticed the top blurring slightly.

On the desktop this was evident, but saying that, the writing on the screen was tiny so this blurring can be expected. You’re wanting this for movies not reading after all.

I had the image projecting from around 4.2m on a flat surface. The screen I used was 120″. I needed to adjust the scaling to fit as the image was larger than the screen. I struggled with this at first as I kept going back to the main screen and adjustments weren’t visible until returning to the source. Essentially the main projection remains equal, the scaling reduces but is only evident upon viewing that source.

I soon realised that via holding the menu button I could then adjust the scaling whilst viewing the source. So if you’re having trouble getting your percentage correct, this is how you do it.

I found the keystone worked well for alignment but the degree of tilt is very limited. If you’re angling at more than 10% you may notice issues focusing. Unfortunately there is no horizontal keystone, not major but you will have to have this centrally firing.

The image quality was great. I tested with three different scenarios. One was curtains open, darkened room and then ceiling light on.

All preformed brilliantly, the image was visible with light sources and obviously fantastic with the room blackened.

For daytime viewing it was really good. I could see everything and preformed better than others I’ve had.

Obviously you should use in a room as dark as possible but the fact that it worked in those situations is fantastic.

I found the colouring to be perfect, I didn’t really need to do much adjusting. The standard setting is near enough right. It does a really good job at projecting straight out of the box.

I made some adjustments which you’ll see on my pictures to tighten the levels but there’s no reason why you couldn’t just watch happily from plugging in.

I found the black levels and contrasting were in line with more expensive brands I’ve had and gave a richness to the colouring. You sometimes find blacks look grey but on this they looked great. It allowed for popping colours that were bold and punchy but not over saturating. It looked identical to what you would expect in a cinema, the image looks really nice.

The toning was natural and when playing movies back I found all areas looked to be focused. No blurring, smudging or doubled vision. No real need to worry about making sure the focusing was 100% all over. I set the focusing to make sure the bottom two zones were perfect.

The motion was smooth and reactive. It flowed perfectly between action scenes and panning images.

The projector is native 1080p. Again if you check my pictures you will see the output from my GTX 1080ti. This GPU is capable of 4320p resolutions. It’s ordinarily connected to my pc screen which outputs at 2160p. This would only output at 1080p to this.

I then checked via Sky Q and it wouldn’t recognise 10bit 2160p. I have said this many times but I don’t know why manufacturers are claiming 4k on native 1080p devices. If you want a 4k native capable projector you’re looking at four times this price.

Now I played 4k back on it but only because I used VLC. That renders the image.

All in all I think this projector would look excellent in any home and it performs extremely well. Just make sure you have it central and use a screen, it makes all the difference.