Friday, August 17, 2018

Review: Dr. J LED Micro-projector

A technology resource article by Mary Harrsch © 2018

I bought this micro-projector to present music videos at my 50th high school class reunion when I saw it advertised as an Amazon Lightning deal for only $60. (It is regularly priced at $98.99) It was very positively reviewed, although for the price I, quite honestly, wasn't expecting a lot. When it arrived, though, I was very pleasantly surprised.

The unit is solidly built and comes with a remote as well as having adjustments on the projector itself. I had copied my videos to a flash drive and inserted it into the USB port then turned on the projector and selected USB as my video source using the setup menu. Then I navigated through the flash drive folders to the folder containing my videos and selected the one I wished to play. I was quite pleased with the color reproduction and thought the sharpness was also quite good as well.

The unit has built-in speakers, a big plus for such a compact unit, and they put out a decent amount of sound.  If you need more volume for a larger room, you can use the included RCA cable to connect external speakers.  Quite honestly, I was totally amazed at the quality of the output for such a small price. When I was an education technologist at a major university ten years ago before I retired I had to spend over a thousand dollars to get the results this micro-projector produces.

Note: The projector shipped with an HDMI cable which is great for those with a newer laptop or other HDMI-compatible devices.  However, if you are using an older laptop you will need your own VGA cable and audio patch cable to connect your laptop's VGA port and headphone jack to the projector's VGA port and AV jack as they are not provided.

In short, this economical micro-projector offers great portability, is easy to set up and adjust, and has very good sharpness and color reproduction for a terrific price!