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Yaber K2S 4K Smart Projector Review | 7000+Apps
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Sep 22, 2023
Photographer Dustin Abbott shares a review of the Yaber K2S Pro 4K Smart Projector with over 7000 Apps. Is this your entertainment solution? | Purchase at Amazon https://amzn.to/3ZpvZNg or Amazon Canada https://amzn.to/3LyIel8 Check out the DA Merch here: https://bit.ly/TWIMerch | Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/dustinabbott | On the Web: http://dustinabbott.net/ | Sign up for my Newsletter: http://bit.ly/1RHvUNp | Instagram: http://bit.ly/DLAinsta | Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1nuUUeH | Flickr: http://bit.ly/1UcnC0B | 500px: http://bit.ly/1Sy2Ngu Follow Craig @ https://www.instagram.com/craigstoffersen/ Want to support this channel? Use these affiliate links to shop at: B&H Photo: http://bhpho.to/1TA0Xge Adorama: https://howl.me/cjU0LKdp3LN Camera Canada: http://bit.ly/DLACameraCan Sony Canada: https://www.thesonyshop.ca/?ref=abbott Amazon: https://amzn.to/3HrY64d Amazon Canada: https://amzn.to/3qG1p18 Ebay: http://bit.ly/DustineBay Into the AM Clothing: https://bit.ly/intotheAMda and use code DUSTIN10 for 10% off Make a donation via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/dustinTWI ============================= Table of Contents: ============================= 0:00 - Intro and Concept 2:24 - Fantom Wallets
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Hi, I'm Dustin Abbott, and I'm here today to give you a review of something a little bit different
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and that is a projector from the company YABR. This is their newest, kind of highest-end projector
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It is called the K2S Pro. I had a look at Yabber's products and the customer feedback to them when the company reached out to me
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months ago and I saw that there had very very high reviews on Amazon there was a lot of just positivity
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about the brand in general although I had no experience with them myself I've always been
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interested in projectors for photographers for the simple reason that I think one of the best ways
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for photographers to make sales particularly in a setting where they're displaying maybe some portraits
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or at a wedding to kind of kind of expand on that application is for people to actually see their work
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to see beautiful photos displayed. And obviously trying to show people photos
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just on the back of a camera is very, very limited. And of course these days
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there is a whole lot of other applications for a projector. And frankly, when I said yes to doing this projector
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I thought it was more of a compact device than what it actually is. This is obviously more of a full-size projector
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And so while it does still have some applications, as I'll get to in just a moment for photographers
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in general, I found that the real strength of this was as a media device
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particularly because this is by far the most fully featured when it comes to being a smart projector
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than what I've seen to this point. Because of my work in business and in church, things like that, I've worked with a lot of projectors over the years
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But I've never seen one that is quite so well integrated as what this particular one is
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It's a smart projector with more than 7,000 apps available for it
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including all the modern streaming services. It's Amazon Alexa compatible. and it's very, very easy to screencast by NFC
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There's a place to tap right here, Apple Play, Chromecast, all the typical ways for doing a screencast to a projector or TV-type device
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So some of the basic specs here to look over quickly. As far as the brightness, it is rated at 800 ANSI-rated lumens
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And so that is bright. It's not exceptionally bright like for a professional setting
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I typically am looking at for in a church site type setting, I want projectors that are at least 2,000 lumens, if not brighter
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And so it's not as bright as that. But for more of a home application, portable application, 800 lumens is bright enough
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Bright enough for most applications, even outdoor movie night at dusk, you know, where it's not quite fully dark
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And then after dark, it's plenty bright. No problem there. Its native resolution is full HD or 1080P
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That's at 60 hertz, but it does support 4K, and so you can scale up to a 4K type resolution
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Projection range, you can shoot from as close, as small of a screen as 40 inches, up to 200 inches
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and so that's at a distance of 4.5 feet, up to 22.4 feet
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So obviously, if you're going to get a full 200-inch projection, you're going to need to have some room to do that
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over 22 feet. And so in more typical application, you know, for example, the screen I'm using is out 100 inches
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That's more of about a 10 to 12 foot type range, which is more manageable for actually doing indoors
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Sound is actually fairly good for a projector, which are not known as media devices when it comes to the audio side of things
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However, the audio here is provided by the company JBL, and it has two 10-watt JBL speakers, one on each side
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and actually has pretty decent sound for a projector. And the other thing that's interesting about it
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is that it can actually be used also as a Bluetooth speaker You can connect to it via Bluetooth and just stream music through its speakers as well with the actual lamp turned off And so you not burning any of your hours off the lamp So another
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interesting application. Now, kind of the heart of this is that it has a built-in TV dongle with
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over 700 native apps. It came already installed here. However, it is a separate device that is
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but is integrated into the chassis of the projector itself. It comes with its own remote as well
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more on that in just a moment. One thing that I am really happy about is that this is a Wi-Fi
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6 device and so that means that it can not only handle faster internet speeds but at lower latency
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really important for a streaming type device and that comes into impact also when it comes to
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the range and where you're placing it and how well it's going to work for streaming. It's also
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very quiet and particularly if you go to the quiet mode it's just 28 decimals which is the
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sound they say of a very quiet library. So it is very very quiet and even in normal
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operation. There's very little sound to hear. It's not going to be enough to distract you at all
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It obviously can play files directly from USB. There's both USBC and USBA ports on this
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And so you can display through that a wide variety of different formats, including MP4, MKV, WMV, 3GP, V-OB, T-P-T-S, D-A-T-S
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D-A-T, MOV, FLV, TRP, 4KH-264, H-265, et cetera, et cetera. So a lot of different formats, which means that for those of you that have, you know
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maybe media that's been ripped into various formats, it is quite flexible in terms of
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the playback on that, which is useful. Now, on the ports here, on the backside, we have a range of the typical ports
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That includes HDMI. We've got a USB-A, USBC, and then also we'll
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We have got a headphone monitoring jack along with an AV output
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And so you actually have two different audio outputs there, which obviously is going to be handy and useful for that application
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So those are the raw specs, but how does the thing actually work? Well, I'll tell you very quickly the different applications that I used it for
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I used it just setting up for indoor viewing to see how it work as a media device set up indoors
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maybe as a, you know, to give someone a larger screen. I also used it as a kind of a backyard movie night
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It was set up outside the house, and I will note on that that even though I was outside the house, it picked up the Wi-Fi signal without problem
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There was no lag in streaming. Streaming was pretty much instantaneous and without any kind of hiccups as far as that
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So I was actually really, really pleased with the Wi-Fi quality for this as a streaming device
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I also used it in more of a wedding reception location to display wedding video
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And so one of the things that stood out to me here is that because it has really great keystoning and auto keystoneing
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I was actually able to kind of position the projector off a little bit more to the side where it was out of the flow of traffic
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And it could still display over to a screen. And so we could have the wedding video displaying there in the background while the reception was going on
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And it was a really positive addition to that particular application. Also, just as a quick way to show photos, you know, either from a wedding or a port
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portrait shoot, but to get them up to a sizable screen where not just people can see them better
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but also more people can see them at a time. And it worked really, really well for that application
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as well. Though I will note on that application, it's not as portable as some smaller projector
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that you can bring along for that simple purpose. I don't know if that alone it's the best
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application for it, but it certainly worked fine for that as well. So let's talk about some things
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that are great before I talk about some things that are not so great over my time of testing
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So what's great about it is that it is very, very easy to set up
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It's very plug and play. There's a lot going on obviously with the streaming device, a variety of different services
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you're going to interact with, but it basically just plays pretty much like a Google Play type
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device and that you are able to set up streaming services and apps that can be installed right to the projector itself And so it works If you ever set up something on a phone or a tablet that is Android
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then you're going to be very, very familiar with this process. It was also very intuitive in terms of being able to interact with my phone
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And so I didn't have to try to do everything just from a remote
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which can be a little bit of a tedious process. And so, anyway, I was really, really impressed
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by that. I was able to very quickly stream. I tested about three or four different devices and I was
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very quickly able to sync up and to stream from them to the projector, which tells me it's going to be
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a very, very useful device for that application, where it's not going to be difficult to hook up a
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new device and to get very quickly up to displaying it. And frankly, if it doesn't work like that
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then people are going to just tire of using something, unless you're using it in the same, you know
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situation again and again and again. The fact that it is plug and play and easy to use
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means that it's more user-friendly for a lot of people. And that's, I think, part of the reason why the Amazon ratings
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have been so positive is that people with a varying range of technical ability are able to actually use the projector
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and to stream to it without issue. I also was quite impressed with the quality
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of both the auto-focus and then also the auto-keystone correction. And so if you move it around
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it instantly will pick up on that. It will quickly cycle through an auto focus and an auto keystoneing
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And I found through manual work, I was not really able to hardly improve over what it did
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And so it actually works. It's very user-friendly. It's not something you have to worry about
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And so it just means that you don't have to be perfect in your viewing angle. The camera will correct for that quite effectively
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Now, I will note on that note that you're always going to get your largest picture at your shortest distance by being as square on as possible
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When it's not having to correct for keystoneing, you actually get more image area
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And so best application is if you can shoot directly at it, but if you can't do that
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note that you do have great keystoneing capabilities on that. I also found that for the various applications that I tested, it was bright enough for all of those applications
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That included covering that 100-inch screen. And so it wasn't like some of these devices that I've used to where it's just, they never really felt bright enough
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This is not overpoweringly bright, but it does feel bright enough for its intended purposes
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I also felt like the picture quality and the colors looked good. You do have the ability to tweak all of those things, but out of the box, it also looked quite good
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And as noted, it has an easy learning curve. Basically, things just work on there and are fairly self-explanatory, and so that was useful
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One of the thing that I did notice is that obviously, anything you have time you have a fan
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it's going to suck in some dust. It was very easy to open up a back housing and to extract a filter
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You can clean that filter and then reinstall it and put that housing back on
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And so it was, I think, cleverly designed for long term use and kind of keeping up on that
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So what's not so great about it? The one thing that really kind of stood out to me that I missed is that it didn't come with the case
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And so I've actually been looking for an appropriate case. I ordered a hard case off Amazon
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And I think, as sometimes happens on Amazon, that the, actual measurements listed on the website for the case were not correct. And so as a byproduct
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on paper on screen, it should have fit, but when I actually got the case, it didn't fit. And so I'm
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still actually actively searching for a case or a bag to put this in to store it in. I did note
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if you're sitting right next to it, say for that outdoor movie night, I had to move my chair back
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Initially, I was sitting right next to it and it did push out some heat through the side vents
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And so you might want to note that that if you're really, really close to it, it does kind of blow out some heat there
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If you try to use Bluetooth speakers, which was my hoped for application for simplicity and having as little wires as possible
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there some definite lag between the audio and the video And my brief time going through the menus and trying to correct the problem I didn find a way to correct for that lag through some kind of menu setting
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So unfortunately, I don't find that Bluetooth speakers are an effective way to use this because of
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that sync issue. If that doesn't bug you, then no problem. But it definitely bugs me
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As noted, it's not as compact as what I thought it might be. Now, that's just really my misconception
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I could have looked at the measurements online and quickly picked up on that. And so this is a fairly typical projector size
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It's also fairly thick. Now, the upside to that is that the sound quality, as noted, is really not all that bad
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Now, I don't want to oversell it. It sounds good for a projector. However, you will, on bassy notes, you'll get some rattle in the housing
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It's not a high-end audio device, but for a projector, audio is quite good
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And I think that that is, at least in part, why we have a little bit more girth to it in terms of that
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But it's not a tiny device. It comes with two remotes, which frankly is one remote too many
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And so there's technically a remote for the projector, and then there is a remote for the TV dongle that is embedded inside
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Now, what I did find that for the most part, I actually could do all of the navigation with the one remote
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I haven't really come into a situation yet, even if I'm navigating in the play environment and with streaming apps
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this remote seemed to continue to work okay. So I think that this is one that could probably go away and be stored and not used
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Maybe I'll run into some scenario that I haven't yet where I actually need that remote. But frankly, it seems to me that they could have done just fine with one remote
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and maybe just made it a little better, a little fuller featured type remote
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And that would have been very useful. One thing that some people have pointed out, which is absolutely true and highly annoying
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is that even on these two remotes, the position of home and back is reversed between the two of them
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And so on the Donga Remote, home is the center. button underneath this, you know, directional pad. On the, the actual projector remote, the center
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one is the back button. And then with the home button to the left, and on this case, the back
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button is to the left. So that's obviously a little bit of an annoying thing that should have been
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corrected. And again, I think they should have just had one remote to cover everything
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Otherwise, someone's going to end up losing one or both of those. So anyway, the other thing
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that I would have liked to have seen changed is that we have a protection cap to go over the
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front lens here to kind of keep dust off of it. But it is, you just kind of use a little bit of
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pressure to remove it. But there's nothing to keep this connected to it. And I can see this getting
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lost fairly quickly. I actually would prefer, you know, more of an auto type iris that's integrated
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into that to where it can just cover over the top of that when you're storing it and not wanting
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to use it. It would just be a better application than the... separate device. At the end of the day, however, there is a lot of value for money here
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This is a device that does a lot of things really, really well and also has very good picture
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quality to it. And it is very reasonably priced right now. You can get it for about 400 US
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dollars on Amazon.com or here in Canada, it's 509 Canadian, which relatively is actually
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an even better value for Canadians. And so that's a very good value for money for a device
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like this that is so well integrated when it comes to the smart aspects of it. And so it is
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it's a great media device. And if you're looking for something like that for your various
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applications, you know, I have obviously some limited complaints there, but overall, I've actually
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really enjoyed using the Aubur K2S Projector. And so if you're looking for a smart
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projector for media applications, this is definitely worth checking out. It's a great value for money
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I'm Dustin Abbott. And if you're looking in the description down below, I do have links where you can check that out further. Please like and subscribe if you haven't already. Thanks for watching
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Have a great day and let the light in
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