Vankyo Leisure 530W projector review: 100 inch projection with screen included Review

The Vankyo Leisure 530W is the most up-to-date in the Vankyo Leisure projector series aimed at both the small-medium office, and the household theatre person. Compact and portable, it will guidance 4K video clip, is Wi-Fi enabled and arrives with a projection display screen in the box

Inside the box there is the 530W projector, a distant manage (you want to offer two AAA batteries) and a energy cable. There is also a short HDMI cable, an audio cable, and a person guide.

Furthermore there is a synthetic display screen cloth and adhere-on hooks. Position the display screen on the wall and stretch the cloth out making use of the hooks. Alternatively, if you have a pale colored wall, just job the picture straight on to the wall. The display screen would be valuable if you had a darkish colored, or patterned wall.

The projector by itself is 1920 x 1080px resolution with 10,000:1 contrast, and upgraded brightness. The 530W provides 310 ANSI Lumens which offers a fair picture in moderately darkish rooms.

You can mount the projector in front of or driving the display screen, stand it on a horizontal floor, or mount it to the ceiling making use of a ceiling mount that fixes to the 4 screw holes in the bottom of the projector.

The rear of the projector has the socket for the energy lead, and the speaker grille. There is a guide keystone and focus knob on one side — along with an air inlet.

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The other side of the unit contains the supporter exhaust, and slots for USB, two x HDMI, AV-in, and audio-out. There is also a TF card slot.

There is a contact display screen panel on leading of the 530W to entry the menu and a established of controls to participate in, pause, modify the enter supply, and go as a result of the menu controls.

Keystone correction can be manually or quickly modified up to an offset of about 50 levels — valuable if you location the projector in different areas each individual time.

I located that manually tweaking the keystone worked ideal when the projector was a little bit off-centre. It is ideal to use the distant manage to do this.

The 530W connects making use of both two.4G or 5G and has a array of enter possibilities such as HDMI, AV, TF card, or USB. You can also use display screen mirroring (casting) from your Android or iOS system more than Wi-Fi. Relationship to my Android system was rapid and straightforward and worked perfectly.

On-board sound is truly great from its 3W speaker and there is very little distortion throughout the ranges. Use the distant manage to zoom the display screen to about 50{d11068cee6a5c14bc1230e191cd2ec553067ecb641ed9b4e647acef6cc316fdd} of its exhibit measurement to get the picture measurement you want.

In accordance to the person guide, you can get up to a two hundred inch exhibit if the projector is twenty feet away.

In actuality, any text on the display screen is blurred if the display screen is a lot more than 10 feet away from the projector — even when the focus ring is turned round to the optimum placing. Even video clip is blurred at twenty feet, so the person guide ought to be up to date to reflect this.

I was a very little dissatisfied in the display screen brightness in daylight. Other Vankyo projectors like the Leisure 520W, and Leisure 510W appeared to be substantially brighter than the 530W — and the V600 brighter nevertheless. On the other hand, for household theatre, and darkish assembly rooms the picture is great.

All in all at less than $230, the Vankyo Leisure 530W is a wonderful compact projector with great sound, Wi-Fi display screen mirroring and a fair picture.

Make confident your display screen measurement is less than one hundred inches to avoid blurriness, and tweak the keystone and focus manually and you will get a great working experience for your small office or household theatre established up.