JIMTAB M18 Native 1080P LED Video Projector, Upgraded HD Projector with 300”Display Support AV,VGA,USB,HDMI, Compatible with Xbox,Laptop,iPhone and Android for Academic Display (Dark Star)

For the price it is good. Fairly cheap and it works as advertised. However if you want real quality I’d recommend coughing up a couple extra hundreds and clearing your head. I bought this to get a cinema-like feel for my house and I was departing from the traditional TV setup. However, it isn’t incredibly picture accurate. You can tell the colors are warped -though not in a massive sense- and the darks are too dark. That’s annoying but livable for the price. BUT the real deal breaker for me was the fan noise. It is really noticeable especially coming from the controlled environment I set up. I will admit that the speaker in itself is very loud and covers it up well and made me regret buying a sound bar but using the sound bar the fan noise is too noticeable and irks you during the movie. Overall, I believe it is a great budget projector but not so great general home theater projector.

Late 2019: I ran into a couple issues with my first projector where it was making some extra noise when powered on. It sounded like the fans were grinding a bit, this ultimately caused there to be a burn in the light bulb where the center of the screen would be a white circle and the outer edges would be a dark shadow. I also ran into an issue where the projectors sleep timer does not calculate correctly. It would divide the time selected by 5. For example, if you selected for it to sleep in an hour, it would turn off in 12 minutes. The projector is good when it works correctly. The support was great!

Lets start with this is a really good projector for what it costs but its not watchable in my home theatre. When I first set this up the picture was beyond awful even after adjusting the keystone and focus and I didnt expect it to be great considering the low price. I felt something was wrong with my setup and spent several hours researching before I blamed the projector. I read the digital keystone adjustment lowers the resolution so I lowered my Xbox video output to 720p and that was a huge improvement. From what I read a sharp angle will reduce the quality of the image on most projectors so Im going to fix that as my projector is hanging from a 9ft ceiling when most are 8. I have the projector in an all black room and the image is projected onto a projector screen and its almost unwatchable set at 9ft away from the screen. I think this will be a great projector for the price if its installed where I dont have to use keystone adjustment and its closer to the screen so the projected image is 75 inches or less. Im probably going to return it and get a TV or a more expensive projector. If I dont return it Ill use it for playing movies outside l. Ill update the review after reducing the angle the keystone has to adjust to. Do your research before deciding to buy a projector if you plan to use it everyday. Its not like a TV where you hang it on the wall and your done. This is a more work and higher potential enjoyment scenario. Id like to see this brand create a mid range projector Im very impressed for the money spent but I got what I paid for a budget projector. I tried adjusting it again with a flush mount and than moving it closer so the screen was 75 inches. It looked better but I wasnt feeling it. This is a good projector for the price.

This projector is amazing. I got it as a gift for Christmas. It looks super big and bright on my gray wall and the sound quality is good too. You cant see it that well when the lights are on but thats a given. You can also adjust the quality. I use Apple Tv for mine but Im sure you can connect it to a phone or Laptop.

UPDATE (left the original review below). The replacement had the same issue with Chromecast (crackling sound, sound ahead of picture) while working fine with a Roku. The real problem? I use this for about 1 to 2 hours an evening. This replacement came is early March. It is now early April and in the middle of a film last night the picture died but the sound kept working. I tried all the troubleshooting steps and nope, just a dead visual. Suffice to say, this time its just a return. I guess you really do get what you pay for... And yes, the fan is LOUD. For the price, the picture is fine; probably not true native 1080p, but if youre only looking to spend a couple hundred bucks you could do much worse. The issue here is the sound. The fan is CRAZY loud. But thats not my issue. After about two weeks of using about 2 hours a day for movie nights, the speakers started crackling and popping like when youre on a road trip and youre just starting to get out of range of the radio station youre listening to. Amazon was great about an exchange, so when the replacement comes well see if I just had a bum unit or if this is a product-wide issue. UPDATE So it seems the issue is casting. If I plug a Roku into it, no problem. But a chromecast? Bluetooth? Sounds lags behind the choppy picture. Deciding whether or not this is reason to simply return the product and find something else.

This projector is great value! I bought this projector to watch movie and play ps 4 when I am in bed. It’s been about 3 weeks since I bought the projector, it pretty good with the picture quality and resolution. I mounted the projector on my ceiling and directly projects to the wall, works great so far. With the lamp in the room on and off, the picture is clear and bright. With daylight on, it is not as clear as at night(I think this is a common issue with projectors though). The USB port allows me to directly connect a hard drive to it and play some movies, but I’m not a big fun of downloading stuff, so, it’s kinda extra to me. The sound of it is acceptable, bass is not as good as my Bose soindlink mini. So I mounted the small speaker on top of the projector and then use the USB port to charge the speaker. Overall, it’s a great projector with $200 budget. Everything works just fine for me.

Iv had for a while the picture was nicer than I expected. I like that you can hook up what you want even gaming console. I only dislike the sound quality but it’s better than nothing and maybe you can get a small sound bar for it then it will be perfect! But def recommend !

The AVI cable included is much too small for any use, I have seen longer ones and I dont know why an inch long one was included. Other then that the idem seems to work perfectly. I like how for a first one for me personally it seems to work great. I was going to go for a cheaper option, but after watching a few youtube vids I went with what I call mid range price. The picture quality seems fine to me and I like the little remote included as well.

Love this projector, I was skeptical on buying one with so many budget projectors that I ran into this and saw reviews on youtube as well and dam this thing is worth it, very happy with my purchase, very bright, sound is pretty good as well , fan noise is there but the sound blocks it out which is a plus

I picked this up on a whim to see how it might perform vs. more expensive projectors. As the old adage goes - you get what you pay for! The claim that this projector somehow reaches 6,000 lumens is totally and unequivocally false. If it was that bright it would be as bright as a television (if not more so) in a suitably lit room. This one falls short. Way short. Its very dim - so dim in fact that it looks about the same as other more reputably marketed projectors that advertise 500 lumens of brightness. Compared to my decade old 720p projector that operates at 2500 lumens its night and day. So where did they get this lumen figure from? Well they likely just stuck their light meter in the lens - even when I did that with a white image I only measured about 4500 even with the upgraded version of their projector. In the real world the image youll get even at a 75 projection size is dim and low quality. I found it nearly impossible to get a clean focus. The edges are always blurry no matter how perfectly aligned the projector is to the surface. The bottom line is that this is no shortcut to quality. Youll get a projected image for a low price here price but not a good one. You do indeed get what you pay for!