For a “mini” projector this UMOVIEE BL-41 is very well featured and compares well with my full-sized projector, and even surpassing it with some of its capabilities.
While it maxes out at 1920 x 1080p Full HD it gives a crisp and bright image and has the best onboard sound I’ve heard from any mini-projectors, featuring a 4W stereo output that can be hooked up to headphones, speakers or BT speakers.
In addition to BT functionality it also has 2x HDMI inputs along with mirroring (wired or wifi) Wi-Fi USB, VGA, AV and SD card with a 3.5mm mini-jack audio output.
A Remote Control handset is included (sans batteries) and quite mystifyingly there is no three-pin plug, the power lead has a two-pin plug. Fortunately it can utilise a standard power lead that can easily be acquired in the event you don’t already possess one.
All projectors make a certain amount of noise due to the fan required to dissipate the heat, but this is if not quiet, one of the least noisy projectors I’ve come across.
One thing to note is that DRM protected movie files from the likes of Netflix, Disney + etc will not play on this, or any other (legit) projector, so if you have files that won’t play it’s not a fault with the projector.
And of course it come in a handy protective carry case.
Despite the unfortunate choice of plug I’ll rate this at five stars because even though it won’t project to the same size or definition as my large projector, it is in nearly all other respects superior, and I’m particularly impressed by the stereo audio, which can be routed for excellent sound or listened to direct from the projector for convenience while still having perfectly acceptable sound.
I’ve found that the onboard audio of most mini-projectors (if it exists) is simply too poor quality or too low volume to bother with, so I’m particularly impressed with this aspect.
A nice little package.
This is supplied with a useful (somewhat padded) carry case, lens cap, a screw-in centre leg for front height setting, an instruction booklet (18 pages in English language, plus others), a 1.5m HDMI cable, a 15 cm TRRS 3.5mm jack-to-RCA AV splitter cable and (in my example) two 90 cm power cables, one with two-pin Euro plug and one with UK plug. The 90 cm length is a bit too short in my opinion, it won’t reach to a dis-board on the floor from a typical height projection stand. The projector has the little ‘figure-8’ two pole connection, UK plug was fitted with a 13A fuse, too large for a device of 90W consumption, a 3A or 5A fuse should be more than sufficient to cope with any start-up surge.
I have described it as “Basic” above, the reasons are outlined below, but this must be balanced by the fact I found it gave very reasonable results on brightness, image quality and colour saturation in a domestic environment when running via one of two HDMI inputs. For context – I have no home projector and my previous experience is limited to setting up and using a DLP projector in a hall once per month. I take issue with the description of this as a “mini” projector, I’d say it is a compact, standard-size projector, measuring roughly 23 x 19 x 10 cm and weighing 1.4 kg (plus accessories).
The cooling fan seems to be a single (quite high) speed device and was noticeable in a quiet house room. The UMOVIEE is fitted with a single small but very effective speaker, which by default, took over audio from my laptop when connected via HDMI 1 or 2 sockets. This obviously lacks bass response; the instructions suggest optionally Bluetooth connecting a sound bar to improve sound. The built-in speaker can be driven to quite high levels (for a house room, not a hall) without distortion and the remote’s volume control works independently from Windows audio volume. The volume range is graduated 0% (silent) to 100%, which takes 12 seconds to span.
The UMOVIEE does not have a Zoom lens, which is probably the biggest feature missing from its repertoire. According to the instructions, digital zoom is possible, but that will inevitably reduce resolution.
Inputs must be manually selected, via menu controlled by buttons on top of projector, or the remote control — there is no autosensing. One initial annoyance was the difficulty removing the cover from the remote’s battery compartment, eventually, with persuasion from a screwdriver, this sprung off and shot across the room and I could insert two (not supplied) AAA batteries. In doing so, I caused minor deformation of the plastic lid and I wasn’t sure it would clip back on, but it did. At least this shouldn’t be a regular task.
Comparing against another (borrowed) projector demonstrated that this UMOVIEE model has a wider-angle lens, giving a bigger image on the wall for shorter distance between projector and wall, useful in a household environment. At the same distance, the UMOVIEE image was brighter than the DLP projector, although that is several years old and must have a dirtier optics by now.
Focusing the UMOVIEE required alternating attention to both the focus and keystone adjustments to ensure an image which was sharp at both top and bottom edges. If I tried to set keystone for a rectangular screen, then set focus, either the top or bottom was blurry, but if done right, results were good.
The menu screen provides several pieces of useful information such as precise model, the firmware version (8.02.43), PIN, IP and MAC addresses.
Projection examples (1920 x 1080@60fps):
The closest the projector could focus was 1.7m from front of lens to wall/screen, this corresponds to the figure in the manual. A more sensible 2.3m ‘throw’ gave an image diagonal of 78″, or almost 2m. The borrowed DLP projector gave about 51″/1.3m diagonal even at widest angle of its zoom range for similar ‘throw’ distance. Moving back to a 2.8m throw, the UMOVIEE gave a 2.3m/90″ diagonal image, that’s 2.03 x 1.15 metres of wall covered. With doors, light switches, and wall decorations, I found this was all I had room for in a room measuring 3.8 x 4.7 metres. The manual shows that a 6.8m throw should give an image of 220″ (5.5m) diagonal, how bright this would be is yet to be proved.
The first page of instructions (and name) state the projector is good for movies and videos, not PowerPoint, Excel or Word!
A scan for Wi-Fi signals to connect to did find both 2.4 and 5 GHz bands from both my router and extender (all have different SSIDs), there’s no indication of signal strength though. Entering my long, secure Wi-Fi password via the up/down/left/right and OK buttons via the on-screen keyboard was tedious, but I achieved it first time and the buttons were responsive. To show video, I failed to get my Android phone to connect, but a Windows 11 laptop did find the projector and allow me to connect via Wi-Fi and transmitted both audio and video. Initially the connection was very glitchy and unusable, but after a few minutes, it settled down and displayed a reasonably consistent ‘screen mirror’ from the laptop. I have my suspicions the frame rate and resolution were not full bandwidth though. Plugging the HDMI cable back in restored the quality and removed audio latency issues with built-in speaker.
Apparently, Bluetooth is only for connecting audio to an external (better) speaker, I tried this, and it worked (albeit at a reduced maximum volume), but it inevitably suffers Bluetooth latency delay to audio over video, which can be annoying on some video content. Also, when I turned off the Bluetooth speaker, this was not detected, and the sound disappeared until I manually turned off the Bluetooth option via the Sound settings menu, reinstating playback via the built-in speaker. Note there is only one of these, although the audio is processed in stereo and the Sound settings also contain a Balance option with a range of +50 to pan the audio output from the two source channels.
For those requiring different mounting options, the image can be flipped one of four ways to cope with “Front Table”, (inverted) “Front Ceiling” projection, or the same two but for rear projection, all easily accomplished via the Projection Mode setting menu. Other video menu settings available are Reduce Image Size (100% or step up from 75% to 99%), Colour Temp (Standard, Warm, User {R,G,B} and Cool), Picture Mode (Standard, Soft, User {Contrast, Brightness, Colour, Sharpness} and Vivid.
I didn’t get a chance to try the SD card slot or USB input with image and movie files, will add to review if anything astonishing is revealed.
Basic domestic projector, happy with quality via HDMI
Initially, testing out the ‘UMOVIEE’ projector was a bit of a nostalgic experience, which reminded us of how we used to watch 8mm film reels on an old movie projector many years ago. Of course, things have changed quite a bit since the 1970s, but nevertheless, watching movies with this projector has been great fun, and our grandchildren love the idea of having a cinema performance when they stay over.
We found the sound from the built in speakers to be perfectly acceptable when watching some old Black and white movies with a mono soundtrack, but due to the size of the speakers, stereo reproduction is not the best. With that in mind, you really do need to connect external speakers in order to have sound quality to match the picture quality (especially for all the musical numbers in Disney movies).
A price of 179.99 at the time of ordering is a little expensive, although the current price of 159.99 is a more sensible figure, which makes the product a viable option if you are looking for a decent mini projector for home use.
When trying this projector I found that the sound quality wasn’t amazing for the price of the product, and would recommend getting an alternative sound source that you can connect to the projector to fully enjoy the experience. I was very happy with picture it presented it was very bright and clear, I played a movie through my fire tv stick which connected with ease, it was very responsive.
The packaging was very well done, it was nice to open and everything you needed had its own place neatly packed away in the portable travel case, the travel case is well made and seems durable. It comes with all the wires you will need to use the product including an EU and UK plug option.
Overall I am very happy with this projector and would recommend it to others just would prefer better sound for the price.
Comes with a lovely travel bag, that contains all items
This UMOVIEE projector is very compact (24 x 19 x 10 cm approx) and quiet, and projects a good (and bright) picture, even from a distance as short as 1.7m. It can be placed on a desk (there is an adjustable foot to change the height of the picture), or mounted via the standard tripod screw in the base. In terms of connectivity, it has VGA, 2x HDMI and AV inputs, can read movies from a USB stick or SD card, and it also has WiFi, so it’s possible to cast (screen mirror) from an Apple or Android device. It comes in a rather nice carry-case with room for extra cables and the remote control. I think this is a very good package.
This is my first projector but i have worked with projectors over the years.
Brightness – I didn’t even need to close the curtains to see the screen properly and the sun was shining outside.
Focus – Really easy to focus the picture to your distance and adjusting picture size.
Sound – Well, i was very impressed with the little speakers involved here. You can link it to your own speakers with a lead or Bluetooth but the sound from the projector is really impressive and i would be happy to watch a whole film using just the internal speakers.
Leads – So this unit comes with HDMI lead and power lead. The HDMI is nice and long but the I would like the power lead to be a little longer as it may limit some, it is about 1 meter ish.
Case – it comes with a nice handy case to carry it around and if you transport your projector often this could help you, although added care and/or padding may help protect it more. The case looks very smart and quite hard wearing.
User friendly – This took about 10 minutes to set up. We couldn’t figure out how to stream Netflix, etc, via Wifi but maybe a bit more fiddling will sort this out. Saying that it was so easy to connect to the laptop and you can use a data lead to connect to your phone. It comes with a remote control which helps if giving lectures or talks to public/students, etc.
Overall, this is a really nice projector. I wouldn’t call it “Mini” as it is the same as most regular size projectors but it is portable and pretty lightweight for transporting. The instructions are clear and a good bit of kit. You will be able to set it up on the ceiling or on a surface, it is adaptable in that way. Perfect for movie night or presentations, although I will be mostly movies.
This is my first projector so that can’t compare it to another but I’m absolutely loving it. Movies, live concerts, sports it’s great for them all. I invited friends round to watch a rugby match and they all loved it to. The built in speaker is quite good and the fan is quiet enough, I didn’t notice it at all while there was sound. I bought a universal mount to attach it to my garage roof and the mount come with the correct size screws to attach the projector. .. colours and contrast is great in a nearly dark room. It isn’t watchable in daylight but I expected that… at 4.6 meters I got about a 180 inch screen. So impressive.
Let me start by saying I’ve had a lot of different projectors in the past so have a good reference to compare other units at different price points. I would say this one is on the more expensive side (of the budget range) but in a lot of ways it is worth it.
Firstly it comes with cables, remote (standard generic, nothing special) and handy material carry case making it fairly portable however in my opinion it is not ‘mini’. I’ve got a mini projector and it’s half the size of this. This is by no means huge but you may want to check the dimensions if you’re expecting something super portable.
Next the setup was pretty easy and within about ten minutes I had it positioned and running with a nice high quality rectangular image which fit my wall. I’ve done this with loads of projectors but found this one easy to get a decent image fast.
Onto the most important thing – picture quality – I was pretty impressed! There seems to be a lot of variation here across different units but I watched a concert on prime through my Amazon firestick and it looked great. I’ve had units at a similar price point and the picture was not good (they went back). The only problem, and here comes the first issue, is there appears to be a dust spot in the middle of the screen. It’s not a huge problem and must have happened in transit, but once you see it you can’t un-see it. It seems to be internal so am not sure how to clean it but will have to go through the manual properly to try and sort it out. This kind of thing can be disappointing and if I had bought this (I’m reviewing as part of vine) it would probably be going back.
Regarding settings, lumens etc check the listing for more info but everything you really need is there and you also have the wifi and bluetooth possibilities included which is good and definitely what you’d expect for this price.
My only other problem was the fan noise – this is a standard thing with projectors but it does seem quite loud with this unit and I would expect it to be a bit quieter for this price, but it’s easy to ignore when a film is playing through the surround sound. Which brings me nicely to audio quality – please don’t bother with the internal speaker – do yourself a favour and get a good bluetooth speaker or even better 5.1! The sound never matches up to the picture on these things (nor is it meant to). I run mine into a surround amplifier, and that way you can always really on excellent sound quality regardless of the projector you’re plugging in.
Over all I like this projector – could you get something similar for slightly less money? Possibly, but I doubt it and think this is worth the cost for the picture quality alone. It’s difficult to choose the right model with so many budget ones out there but I would recommend this – just watch out for dust spots!
Very good value to get over 100 plus inch 1080p picture on your wall in a compact form in a carry case. Has loads of ports including 2 x HDMI. Using an iPhone it was easy to mirror screen and watch YouTube and watching films from a memory stick, I just haven’t tried connecting a firestick to hdmi yet. The room is best dark to get the best picture and I was first impressed by the sound quality of the built in speakers only lacking at quiet scenes involving just talking. Overall I think this is a great starter projector and would definitely recommend right now.
The Umoviee projector produced good clear images and has an impressive key-focus function so that you can correct orientation of the frame while keeping focus from top to bottom – not always the case with budget-price projectors that usually produce blurred sections of the frame at top or bottom. It’s fairly bright and produces good quality images even with some ambient light. The photos on the Amazon webpage make it appear that the images produced are projected at an upwards angle, but that’s not the case and standard projector positioning relative to the screen would be required.
Running noise isn’t too obtrusive but it’s there. The built-in speakers are OK, good with treble and mid-range but lacking in any real bass. Bluetooth connection to external speakers works easily and gives good sound (if the external speaker is good) but, as with any set up, there’s a subtle time lag with the images when broadcasting sound like that which some people will find irritating as they are slightly out of sync. I can live with it to get a better bass response, especially for watching films with decent sound designs rather than simple TV.
Using either a Firestick or external Blu-ray player into either the HDMI 1 or HDMI 2 socket, will probably require some tweaking to be carried out for full functionality. Most entry-level projectors can deal with Dolby outputs (or the “best quality available” setting on a firestick) but for the Umoviee projector you need to change the audio settings of the source to PMC specifically otherwise you get silence. There’s no description of this in the printed manual or any help with audio in the brief FAQ section. The Online support reacted quickly to an e-mail to help me fix this issue.
Overall: a good entry-level projector that gives a strong image and – with tweaking to PMC outputs – reasonable audio.
Very happy with this projector! It’s amazing how cheap they’ve gotten now for such good quality!
Although the projector is small compared to others, It really is an amazing one.
The kit that the projector comes with provides an easy to set up guide and all wires included.
I have installed this in my gazebo and it works a treat.
I would recommend this to anyone who’s been thinking of getting a projector.
For a “mini” projector this UMOVIEE BL-41 is very well featured and compares well with my full-sized projector, and even surpassing it with some of its capabilities.
While it maxes out at 1920 x 1080p Full HD it gives a crisp and bright image and has the best onboard sound I’ve heard from any mini-projectors, featuring a 4W stereo output that can be hooked up to headphones, speakers or BT speakers.
In addition to BT functionality it also has 2x HDMI inputs along with mirroring (wired or wifi) Wi-Fi USB, VGA, AV and SD card with a 3.5mm mini-jack audio output.
A Remote Control handset is included (sans batteries) and quite mystifyingly there is no three-pin plug, the power lead has a two-pin plug. Fortunately it can utilise a standard power lead that can easily be acquired in the event you don’t already possess one.
All projectors make a certain amount of noise due to the fan required to dissipate the heat, but this is if not quiet, one of the least noisy projectors I’ve come across.
One thing to note is that DRM protected movie files from the likes of Netflix, Disney + etc will not play on this, or any other (legit) projector, so if you have files that won’t play it’s not a fault with the projector.
And of course it come in a handy protective carry case.
Despite the unfortunate choice of plug I’ll rate this at five stars because even though it won’t project to the same size or definition as my large projector, it is in nearly all other respects superior, and I’m particularly impressed by the stereo audio, which can be routed for excellent sound or listened to direct from the projector for convenience while still having perfectly acceptable sound.
I’ve found that the onboard audio of most mini-projectors (if it exists) is simply too poor quality or too low volume to bother with, so I’m particularly impressed with this aspect.
A nice little package.
This is supplied with a useful (somewhat padded) carry case, lens cap, a screw-in centre leg for front height setting, an instruction booklet (18 pages in English language, plus others), a 1.5m HDMI cable, a 15 cm TRRS 3.5mm jack-to-RCA AV splitter cable and (in my example) two 90 cm power cables, one with two-pin Euro plug and one with UK plug. The 90 cm length is a bit too short in my opinion, it won’t reach to a dis-board on the floor from a typical height projection stand. The projector has the little ‘figure-8’ two pole connection, UK plug was fitted with a 13A fuse, too large for a device of 90W consumption, a 3A or 5A fuse should be more than sufficient to cope with any start-up surge.
I have described it as “Basic” above, the reasons are outlined below, but this must be balanced by the fact I found it gave very reasonable results on brightness, image quality and colour saturation in a domestic environment when running via one of two HDMI inputs. For context – I have no home projector and my previous experience is limited to setting up and using a DLP projector in a hall once per month. I take issue with the description of this as a “mini” projector, I’d say it is a compact, standard-size projector, measuring roughly 23 x 19 x 10 cm and weighing 1.4 kg (plus accessories).
The cooling fan seems to be a single (quite high) speed device and was noticeable in a quiet house room. The UMOVIEE is fitted with a single small but very effective speaker, which by default, took over audio from my laptop when connected via HDMI 1 or 2 sockets. This obviously lacks bass response; the instructions suggest optionally Bluetooth connecting a sound bar to improve sound. The built-in speaker can be driven to quite high levels (for a house room, not a hall) without distortion and the remote’s volume control works independently from Windows audio volume. The volume range is graduated 0% (silent) to 100%, which takes 12 seconds to span.
The UMOVIEE does not have a Zoom lens, which is probably the biggest feature missing from its repertoire. According to the instructions, digital zoom is possible, but that will inevitably reduce resolution.
Inputs must be manually selected, via menu controlled by buttons on top of projector, or the remote control — there is no autosensing. One initial annoyance was the difficulty removing the cover from the remote’s battery compartment, eventually, with persuasion from a screwdriver, this sprung off and shot across the room and I could insert two (not supplied) AAA batteries. In doing so, I caused minor deformation of the plastic lid and I wasn’t sure it would clip back on, but it did. At least this shouldn’t be a regular task.
Comparing against another (borrowed) projector demonstrated that this UMOVIEE model has a wider-angle lens, giving a bigger image on the wall for shorter distance between projector and wall, useful in a household environment. At the same distance, the UMOVIEE image was brighter than the DLP projector, although that is several years old and must have a dirtier optics by now.
Focusing the UMOVIEE required alternating attention to both the focus and keystone adjustments to ensure an image which was sharp at both top and bottom edges. If I tried to set keystone for a rectangular screen, then set focus, either the top or bottom was blurry, but if done right, results were good.
The menu screen provides several pieces of useful information such as precise model, the firmware version (8.02.43), PIN, IP and MAC addresses.
Projection examples (1920 x 1080@60fps):
The closest the projector could focus was 1.7m from front of lens to wall/screen, this corresponds to the figure in the manual. A more sensible 2.3m ‘throw’ gave an image diagonal of 78″, or almost 2m. The borrowed DLP projector gave about 51″/1.3m diagonal even at widest angle of its zoom range for similar ‘throw’ distance. Moving back to a 2.8m throw, the UMOVIEE gave a 2.3m/90″ diagonal image, that’s 2.03 x 1.15 metres of wall covered. With doors, light switches, and wall decorations, I found this was all I had room for in a room measuring 3.8 x 4.7 metres. The manual shows that a 6.8m throw should give an image of 220″ (5.5m) diagonal, how bright this would be is yet to be proved.
The first page of instructions (and name) state the projector is good for movies and videos, not PowerPoint, Excel or Word!
A scan for Wi-Fi signals to connect to did find both 2.4 and 5 GHz bands from both my router and extender (all have different SSIDs), there’s no indication of signal strength though. Entering my long, secure Wi-Fi password via the up/down/left/right and OK buttons via the on-screen keyboard was tedious, but I achieved it first time and the buttons were responsive. To show video, I failed to get my Android phone to connect, but a Windows 11 laptop did find the projector and allow me to connect via Wi-Fi and transmitted both audio and video. Initially the connection was very glitchy and unusable, but after a few minutes, it settled down and displayed a reasonably consistent ‘screen mirror’ from the laptop. I have my suspicions the frame rate and resolution were not full bandwidth though. Plugging the HDMI cable back in restored the quality and removed audio latency issues with built-in speaker.
Apparently, Bluetooth is only for connecting audio to an external (better) speaker, I tried this, and it worked (albeit at a reduced maximum volume), but it inevitably suffers Bluetooth latency delay to audio over video, which can be annoying on some video content. Also, when I turned off the Bluetooth speaker, this was not detected, and the sound disappeared until I manually turned off the Bluetooth option via the Sound settings menu, reinstating playback via the built-in speaker. Note there is only one of these, although the audio is processed in stereo and the Sound settings also contain a Balance option with a range of +50 to pan the audio output from the two source channels.
For those requiring different mounting options, the image can be flipped one of four ways to cope with “Front Table”, (inverted) “Front Ceiling” projection, or the same two but for rear projection, all easily accomplished via the Projection Mode setting menu. Other video menu settings available are Reduce Image Size (100% or step up from 75% to 99%), Colour Temp (Standard, Warm, User {R,G,B} and Cool), Picture Mode (Standard, Soft, User {Contrast, Brightness, Colour, Sharpness} and Vivid.
I didn’t get a chance to try the SD card slot or USB input with image and movie files, will add to review if anything astonishing is revealed.
Initially, testing out the ‘UMOVIEE’ projector was a bit of a nostalgic experience, which reminded us of how we used to watch 8mm film reels on an old movie projector many years ago. Of course, things have changed quite a bit since the 1970s, but nevertheless, watching movies with this projector has been great fun, and our grandchildren love the idea of having a cinema performance when they stay over.
We found the sound from the built in speakers to be perfectly acceptable when watching some old Black and white movies with a mono soundtrack, but due to the size of the speakers, stereo reproduction is not the best. With that in mind, you really do need to connect external speakers in order to have sound quality to match the picture quality (especially for all the musical numbers in Disney movies).
A price of 179.99 at the time of ordering is a little expensive, although the current price of 159.99 is a more sensible figure, which makes the product a viable option if you are looking for a decent mini projector for home use.
When trying this projector I found that the sound quality wasn’t amazing for the price of the product, and would recommend getting an alternative sound source that you can connect to the projector to fully enjoy the experience. I was very happy with picture it presented it was very bright and clear, I played a movie through my fire tv stick which connected with ease, it was very responsive.
The packaging was very well done, it was nice to open and everything you needed had its own place neatly packed away in the portable travel case, the travel case is well made and seems durable. It comes with all the wires you will need to use the product including an EU and UK plug option.
Overall I am very happy with this projector and would recommend it to others just would prefer better sound for the price.
This UMOVIEE projector is very compact (24 x 19 x 10 cm approx) and quiet, and projects a good (and bright) picture, even from a distance as short as 1.7m. It can be placed on a desk (there is an adjustable foot to change the height of the picture), or mounted via the standard tripod screw in the base. In terms of connectivity, it has VGA, 2x HDMI and AV inputs, can read movies from a USB stick or SD card, and it also has WiFi, so it’s possible to cast (screen mirror) from an Apple or Android device. It comes in a rather nice carry-case with room for extra cables and the remote control. I think this is a very good package.
This is my first projector but i have worked with projectors over the years.
Brightness – I didn’t even need to close the curtains to see the screen properly and the sun was shining outside.
Focus – Really easy to focus the picture to your distance and adjusting picture size.
Sound – Well, i was very impressed with the little speakers involved here. You can link it to your own speakers with a lead or Bluetooth but the sound from the projector is really impressive and i would be happy to watch a whole film using just the internal speakers.
Leads – So this unit comes with HDMI lead and power lead. The HDMI is nice and long but the I would like the power lead to be a little longer as it may limit some, it is about 1 meter ish.
Case – it comes with a nice handy case to carry it around and if you transport your projector often this could help you, although added care and/or padding may help protect it more. The case looks very smart and quite hard wearing.
User friendly – This took about 10 minutes to set up. We couldn’t figure out how to stream Netflix, etc, via Wifi but maybe a bit more fiddling will sort this out. Saying that it was so easy to connect to the laptop and you can use a data lead to connect to your phone. It comes with a remote control which helps if giving lectures or talks to public/students, etc.
Overall, this is a really nice projector. I wouldn’t call it “Mini” as it is the same as most regular size projectors but it is portable and pretty lightweight for transporting. The instructions are clear and a good bit of kit. You will be able to set it up on the ceiling or on a surface, it is adaptable in that way. Perfect for movie night or presentations, although I will be mostly movies.
Value for money, easy to used, smaller, easy to install, quality of picture is normal.
This is my first projector so that can’t compare it to another but I’m absolutely loving it. Movies, live concerts, sports it’s great for them all. I invited friends round to watch a rugby match and they all loved it to. The built in speaker is quite good and the fan is quiet enough, I didn’t notice it at all while there was sound. I bought a universal mount to attach it to my garage roof and the mount come with the correct size screws to attach the projector. .. colours and contrast is great in a nearly dark room. It isn’t watchable in daylight but I expected that… at 4.6 meters I got about a 180 inch screen. So impressive.
Let me start by saying I’ve had a lot of different projectors in the past so have a good reference to compare other units at different price points. I would say this one is on the more expensive side (of the budget range) but in a lot of ways it is worth it.
Firstly it comes with cables, remote (standard generic, nothing special) and handy material carry case making it fairly portable however in my opinion it is not ‘mini’. I’ve got a mini projector and it’s half the size of this. This is by no means huge but you may want to check the dimensions if you’re expecting something super portable.
Next the setup was pretty easy and within about ten minutes I had it positioned and running with a nice high quality rectangular image which fit my wall. I’ve done this with loads of projectors but found this one easy to get a decent image fast.
Onto the most important thing – picture quality – I was pretty impressed! There seems to be a lot of variation here across different units but I watched a concert on prime through my Amazon firestick and it looked great. I’ve had units at a similar price point and the picture was not good (they went back). The only problem, and here comes the first issue, is there appears to be a dust spot in the middle of the screen. It’s not a huge problem and must have happened in transit, but once you see it you can’t un-see it. It seems to be internal so am not sure how to clean it but will have to go through the manual properly to try and sort it out. This kind of thing can be disappointing and if I had bought this (I’m reviewing as part of vine) it would probably be going back.
Regarding settings, lumens etc check the listing for more info but everything you really need is there and you also have the wifi and bluetooth possibilities included which is good and definitely what you’d expect for this price.
My only other problem was the fan noise – this is a standard thing with projectors but it does seem quite loud with this unit and I would expect it to be a bit quieter for this price, but it’s easy to ignore when a film is playing through the surround sound. Which brings me nicely to audio quality – please don’t bother with the internal speaker – do yourself a favour and get a good bluetooth speaker or even better 5.1! The sound never matches up to the picture on these things (nor is it meant to). I run mine into a surround amplifier, and that way you can always really on excellent sound quality regardless of the projector you’re plugging in.
Over all I like this projector – could you get something similar for slightly less money? Possibly, but I doubt it and think this is worth the cost for the picture quality alone. It’s difficult to choose the right model with so many budget ones out there but I would recommend this – just watch out for dust spots!
Very good value to get over 100 plus inch 1080p picture on your wall in a compact form in a carry case. Has loads of ports including 2 x HDMI. Using an iPhone it was easy to mirror screen and watch YouTube and watching films from a memory stick, I just haven’t tried connecting a firestick to hdmi yet. The room is best dark to get the best picture and I was first impressed by the sound quality of the built in speakers only lacking at quiet scenes involving just talking. Overall I think this is a great starter projector and would definitely recommend right now.
Easy to set up and a really fun way to watch a film!
Easy to set up and a really fun way to watch a film!
Easy to set up and a really fun way to watch a film!
Easy to set up and a really fun way to watch a film!
The Umoviee projector produced good clear images and has an impressive key-focus function so that you can correct orientation of the frame while keeping focus from top to bottom – not always the case with budget-price projectors that usually produce blurred sections of the frame at top or bottom. It’s fairly bright and produces good quality images even with some ambient light. The photos on the Amazon webpage make it appear that the images produced are projected at an upwards angle, but that’s not the case and standard projector positioning relative to the screen would be required.
Running noise isn’t too obtrusive but it’s there. The built-in speakers are OK, good with treble and mid-range but lacking in any real bass. Bluetooth connection to external speakers works easily and gives good sound (if the external speaker is good) but, as with any set up, there’s a subtle time lag with the images when broadcasting sound like that which some people will find irritating as they are slightly out of sync. I can live with it to get a better bass response, especially for watching films with decent sound designs rather than simple TV.
Using either a Firestick or external Blu-ray player into either the HDMI 1 or HDMI 2 socket, will probably require some tweaking to be carried out for full functionality. Most entry-level projectors can deal with Dolby outputs (or the “best quality available” setting on a firestick) but for the Umoviee projector you need to change the audio settings of the source to PMC specifically otherwise you get silence. There’s no description of this in the printed manual or any help with audio in the brief FAQ section. The Online support reacted quickly to an e-mail to help me fix this issue.
Overall: a good entry-level projector that gives a strong image and – with tweaking to PMC outputs – reasonable audio.