I believe that when you start a smart projector, the main parameter to pay attention to should be "ANSI lumens", the high and low anSI lumens also determine whether this smart projector can bring high-level, high-brightness projection effects. Of course, ANSI lumens are important, but if the rest of the experience is "crotch", such as: sound effects, system fluency, focus function, etc., then the comprehensive experience of this smart projector is not good, just like smart phones, although the processor performance is good, but the system optimization, battery life is not good, will you pay for it?
So, is there a smart projector with an all-round experience that is OK? The one I recently experienced came from Dangbei's newly launched flagship smart projector: Dangbei F5, which I think is very much in line with the above requirements. In the following article, I will talk to you about this new smart projector of Dangbei, and see how The Dangbei F5 is OK for a comprehensive experience.
Tough and calm appearance, double 10W power audio, rich interface design
The first thing to understand is that the Dangbei F5 is a smart projector using DLP display technology, positioning the flagship level, which can be used at home or for small meetings of some small people.
When the Bei F5 is a cube shape, the appearance style gives me a tough and calm feeling, and the material process of the whole machine is composed of environmentally friendly resin, aviation aluminum and glass. The front left side of the fuselage is a projection lens, and the right side is equipped with a ToF time-of-flight sensor and a COMS camera module. The role of the projection lens is to project the picture; the ToF time-of-flight sensor and the COMS camera module ensure that the Dangbei F5 can achieve fast and silent insensible autofocus, so that the projection screen remains clear at all times.
ToF time-of-flight sensor, COMS camera module close-up real shooting.
When the Bei F5 put aside the "identity" of the intelligent projector, it is also a high-quality audio, the fuselage has two low-distortion full-frequency speakers with a power of 10W and a DSP digital power amplifier, and has also passed the Dolby and DTS sound certification, the external amplifier effect is full of low frequencies, the middle and high frequencies are clear and bright, and it is not lost to an independent speaker at all.
At the bottom of the left and right sides of the Body of the Dangbei F5, you can also see the Dolby Audio (Dolby) and DTS logos.
The power supply and other interfaces and heat dissipation ports are designed on the back of the fuselage of The Dangbei F5, you can see that the types of interfaces that the Dangbei F5 has are quite rich, and the above figure has a total of power interfaces, LAN interfaces, S/PDIF interfaces, two USB interfaces, an HDMI (eARC) interface, an HDMI 2.1 interface and a 3.5mm interface, these rich interfaces are enough to make the Dangbei F5 competent for playing games (connecting game consoles), offices and other types of use scenarios.
In addition, in the actual experience I found that the sound of the cooling fan when the Bei F5 was running was very small, almost negligible, and later learned that the cooling system of the Dangbei F5 was composed of a subwoofer cooling fan, a pure copper vacuum heat pipe and an aluminum heat dissipation fin, this cooling design was rarely seen in the flagship smart projector I had contacted, most of them only had a subwoofer cooling fan, and would not add a heat pipe like the Dangbei F5.
The details are seen in the heart, because when the top and back of the Shell F5 are different from the materials used on the front, left and right sides, it is inevitable that there will be some workmanship problems if you do not care, such as: the gap between the joint positions of different materials is too large, and the edge treatment is too rough. For example, the left and right edges of the aviation aluminum material like the Dangbei F5 are curved inward, which gives people a delicate, natural transition feeling, and the connection gap between the left and right sides of the fuselage and the top and back is very small and flat.
The top design of the Dangbei F5 is also not simple, with four radio MICs and touch-type power, volume and other buttons.
The four small round holes in the above figure are the radio MIC, which also shows that when the Bei F5 supports the far-field AI voice function, that is, like some smart speakers at present, the Dangbei F5 can complete some shortcut operations through voice commands, such as: quick search for movies, no longer need to use the remote control to operate slowly; you can also directly download the application and retrieve the remote control through the far-field voice, which is quite practical for the vast majority of families with children. In addition, because of the far-field voice, the Dangbei F5 also supports the off-projection function and is used as a stand-alone smart speaker.
In addition to the power button, the remaining four touch buttons need to be activated before they appear in the glass panel at the top. At the same time, the addition of the top glass panel also improves some of the appearance of the Dangbei F5, making it look no longer monotonous and more quality.
When the bottom of the Bay F5 is nothing to say, the only design point is the four adjustable foot pads. However, when the Bei F5 also came with a bracket adapter plate when it left the factory, it was quite intimate, because when the Bei F5 did not have a bracket adapter hole at the bottom, anyway, I did not see the attached adapter plate in the smart projector I contacted.
In order to control the cost, some projector brands may make compromises on the design that users do not pay much attention to, for example, the projector's remote control button layout design is not simple enough and not humane enough. The back of the remote control of The Dangbei F5 is made of aluminum alloy material, which has a good grip and feel, while the button layout is reasonable and simple, and the difficulty of getting started is low.
When the remote control of the Shell F5 also has two buttons on the side, the red is the focus key, click is the manual focus, then the system interface will appear focus ring, through the remote control of the up and down keys can focus, and auto focus is a long press the key; as for the following button click is to open the shortcut center, you can quickly set some projection functions.
I personally feel that the design of the side buttons effectively reduces the front button layout of the remote control, take the focus key, some of the brands I have used before have designed the focus key as focus +, focus - and autofocus three buttons, and also laid out on the front of the remote control, which will cause too many front buttons of the remote control, and may also bring some difficulty to the elderly and child users.
When the remote control of the Bei F5 is powered by 2 AAA batteries.
In addition, I also found that when the Bei F5 remote control battery actually has the brand English of Dangbei, you may think that this is nothing, but I think that when bei even the battery design of the remote control is not spared, it is not difficult to see that When Beibei has a serious attitude towards the product, the design of the entire projector is hands-on and meticulous, can the products created under such an attitude be good?
Equipped with a self-developed custom system, there is no advertising at boot, and the operation is "silky and smooth"
Dangbei F5 is equipped with a self-developed and customized Dangbei OS system based on Android 9.0 in terms of system, and the main interface of the entire system is very concise, which is basically based on film and television content recommendation. Through a period of use, the biggest feeling that When Bei OS gives me is silky smooth, simple and convenient operation, and when Bei OS boots up without any ads, it is basically a "second-in" system.
In fact, when Bei OS can have such a performance, I am not surprised at all, I don't know if you have ever understood, when Bei has not yet launched a smart projector, it has been doing app market APP, desktop, etc. on smart TV, and smart projector is equivalent to a screenless TV, so this is naturally handy for Dangbei to do a smart projector on the system, APP. In addition, the pictures in this part are screenshots, not projection effects, please do not misunderstand.
The picture above is the wake-up interface of the AI voice assistant of The Bebe F5, in addition to on-demand film and television content, it can also carry out voice command operations such as weather query and question encyclopedia. By the way, through the above screenshot, I believe you can also see that some of the system APP of Dangbei F5 is also relatively high, like: screen projection, player, etc. are all developed by Dangbei itself, without using a third party, quite careful. Many projectors have appeared to have advertising when the screen is cast, and dangbei self-developed dangbei screen projection is also a complete solution to the problem of screen projection advertising.
The picture above shows the setting interface of Dangbei F5, which can be seen to support trapezoidal correction and automatic correction. It is worth mentioning that when the Bey F5 has a new hardware-level trapezoidal correction chip built-in, combined with the ToF time-of-flight sensor, COMS camera module, 6-axis gyroscope and space algorithm, it will be faster and more accurate when performing automatic trapezoidal correction.
Dangbei F5 also supports automatic screen entry and intelligent obstacle avoidance. The screen automatically enters the screen, that is, when the Bei F5 intelligently captures the curtain border, the projection screen will automatically align the screen, without manual scaling and other adjustments; as for intelligent obstacle avoidance, when the automatic correction is turned on, obstacles will be avoided, such as: wall plugs, wall lamps, etc., which is more suitable for projection when the white wall is used.
As a flagship smart projector, the Dangbei F5 naturally supports HDR10+ dynamic compensation, global MEMC motion compensation, and 3D playback (active shutter-type 3D glasses are required) to take the viewing experience to a higher level.
There's not much to say about the AF5 autofocus function, but the depth focus below takes longer than normal autofocus.
When the System of Bei F5 also has some laboratory functions, like this one-click dust removal, it will increase the fan speed and remove chassis dust, which is very interesting.
The 2800ANSI high brightness lumen blessing, no fear of light, turn on the lights can also easily cast a large screen
Finally, let's take a look at the projection effect of the Dangbei F5. When the Bay F5 adopts the new generation of LED lamp group of Osram P1MR, the brightness of the projection stream reaches 2800ANSI, which is a high level of brightness in the home DLP smart projector, and even does not lose to some laser TVs, even if it is used in the light and light environment, the Use of the Benny F5 is completely stress-free, and the projection picture is still clear. The DMD chip used by the Bey F5 is 0.47 inches, and the projection resolution is true 1080P, that is, 1920 * 1080.
The main reason why most users choose to start a smart projector instead of a smart TV is that the former can bring a "broad" viewing effect, as long as it meets a certain projection distance, the projection screen of the Bei F5 can become larger and larger.
When the Bei F5 also has a "must kill" projection function, that is, the built-in AI zhencai engine Pro, the engine can intelligently reshape the picture, optimize the color details and texture of the projection screen, and make the projection picture look more vivid.
When the Bay F5 more projection effect real shot.
Of course, if you don't like the projection screen is too vivid, you can open the shortcut center through the system settings or use the remote control side buttons to select the image mode to set the projection screen. It is worth mentioning that this shortcut center can be triggered by the shortcut of the key when watching movies and playing games.
Note that the above projection effects are taken in an on-light environment.
Here's another shot of the effect of dangbei F5 projection anime.
More projection effects are actually shot.
When the Bey F5 projection document effect is real shot, it is completely stress-free for small meetings.
Because of the principle of diffuse reflection imaging, and the Dangbei F5 has also passed the hardware-level low blue light eye protection certification of Rheinland, so the children are given some edutainment audio picture books, cartoons, online lessons, etc. The stimulation of the eyes is smaller than that of the LIQUID crystal device using direct imaging.
In addition, when the Bei F5 detects that an object is close to the light source, it will instantly open the eye protection mode, reducing the projection brightness to the minimum, thereby reducing the stimulation of the projection brightness to the eyes.
When the Bay F5 also supports the game mode, but the mode needs HDMI to connect the peripherals to open, and after opening will reduce the signal delay, so that when the Shell F5 projection game screen delay will be reduced, so when the Bei F5 is also a suitable for connecting the host, the computer to play the game "game-type" intelligent projector.
When the Shell F5 more projection effect real shooting, note that this is still the effect of projection on the white wall, if you change to the curtain, the projection effect will be upgraded by a grade.
However, then again, when the Bei F5 can be used without pressure in a lighted and light environment, I think this will lose the so-called "sense of atmosphere", to give a very simple example, if you watch a movie in a movie theater, the theater directly shows you the lights on, can you accept it? So when the movie experience of The Bey F5 is better, I think it is better to use it in a low-light and off-light environment.
The flagship smart projector full of "highlights": the Dangbei F5
After a period of experience, I think that when the Bei F5 basically has no shortcomings, the appearance of the workmanship is meticulous; the brightness of the projection stream, the resolution of the industry is high; the system boots up without advertising, the experience is smooth; the external sound quality is also quite good. Of course, this does not mean that there are no disadvantages when the Bei F5, just like the outer layer of the projection lens is protected by glass, but I feel that it should be best to design a lens protection cover; secondly, the remote control is to power the battery, if it is a charging design, it is better.
If you want to get a flagship smart projector with high flow brightness, balanced experience and no bias, then you can try the Dangbei F5. To be honest, when Bei entered the smart projector industry, it did not last long, but its research and development level and product experience even exceeded many old brands, I think this may be the reason for doing it with heart.