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Home Theater Review has a positive writeup of the Aurzen EAZZE D1R Air, pitched as a sub-$200 portable. Full HD panel, autofocus and auto keystone that reportedly land quickly, small enough to move between rooms, and Roku built into the projector rather than hanging off an HDMI port. That last part is the actual selling point for me. Every cheap projector I've handed to a relative has ended with a dongle dangling off the back and a second remote lost in the sofa.
The review is honest about the two weak spots. The speakers are described as adequate and not much more, which is what you'd expect from a chassis that size. And it wants more brightness once any ambient light gets into the room. That second point is where I'd push harder than the review does, because there's no lumen figure quoted anywhere in the piece, and Aurzen isn't a brand whose numbers I'd take at face value even if there were one. "Very good in a dark room, loses punch with the lights on" is the honest description of essentially every sub-$200 LED projector I've used, and the ones that claim otherwise are usually quoting a figure measured with the colour wheel out.
So the way to read this: it's a dark-room, dedicated-wall, weekend device with a decent OS, not a living room screen. At that price with real Roku on board, that's still a reasonable thing to exist.
Has anyone measured one of these Aurzen units properly? I'd love to see a real ANSI number attached to this class of projector for once.
The review is honest about the two weak spots. The speakers are described as adequate and not much more, which is what you'd expect from a chassis that size. And it wants more brightness once any ambient light gets into the room. That second point is where I'd push harder than the review does, because there's no lumen figure quoted anywhere in the piece, and Aurzen isn't a brand whose numbers I'd take at face value even if there were one. "Very good in a dark room, loses punch with the lights on" is the honest description of essentially every sub-$200 LED projector I've used, and the ones that claim otherwise are usually quoting a figure measured with the colour wheel out.
So the way to read this: it's a dark-room, dedicated-wall, weekend device with a decent OS, not a living room screen. At that price with real Roku on board, that's still a reasonable thing to exist.
Has anyone measured one of these Aurzen units properly? I'd love to see a real ANSI number attached to this class of projector for once.
