A Closer Look
Design-wise, Philips hasn’t reinvented the wheel here, this projector looks like many that came before it and likely many that will come after it. It’s a relatively compact design, and at just 2.5KG, it’s reasonably lightweight too. It can simply be placed on a table or tripod mount to suit your needs, making it easy to unpack and deploy in any work or personal space.
There’s plenty of ventilation, with cold airflow drawn in from one side via some built-in cooling fans.
Warm air is then expelled out of the other side, again, pretty standard stuff for a projector of this design. It can operate at just 29 dBa in Eco Mode, which you should think of as the normal mode, while the normal mode should be thought of as a performance or extra brightness mode, and will require more cooling and lower the lamp life a bit quicker.
The lens is an all-glass design, and it’s a manual design too, allowing for quick and easy focusing by simply turning the wheel via a small cut-out at the top of the lens. I prefer this to digital focus or auto-focus as I find them to be hit-and-miss, but a manual one can be done in seconds.
On the underside, there is a screw foot at the front, which can be extended or contracted to adjust the projection angle.
Around the back, you’ll find a power socket, and a pair of HDMI ports, as well as the RS232 and audio jacks. Sure, it’s not the most complex setup, or the most advanced, but it’s really all you need for hooking up a laptop, PC, NUC, or other smart devices.
It comes with a simple remote too, again, nothing too crazy, but this isn’t a home cinema projector or riddled with smart apps, it’s a projector, nothing more, nothing less.
