BenQ Joybee GP1 mini Projector review

Review showing this very compact and light 3LED projector, one of the first in the world (available at https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B002DUD1UQ?tag=archosfcom-20&camp... ) with built-in USB host functionality to playback DivX mpeg4 files from a USB flash memory or from a FAT32 formatted hard drive. It has great colors and performs great for its size. Having a built-in USB reader means you can play movies on it directly without the need to use a computer or a video player device to playback the video formats. Yet the BenQ Joybee GP1 mini projector does not yet support Mp3 audio nor AC3 audio in DivX/XviD Mpeg4 files, thus audio contents has to be re-encoded mostly thus far to the PCM or the AAC format. BenQ can update the firmware so I will update this description if I hear any confirmation by them that they are adding Mp3 audio support on it.

You can buy it on Amazon.com here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B002DUD1UQ?tag=archosfcom-20&camp...

These type of super compact 3LED projectors are getting cheap enough, bright enough, sharp enough, with very nice colors and easy to use enough so I think that it may become a very popular product.

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[kryonikx]

thanks for this nice review, but next time please compare two beamer with the same movie shown.

[Charbax]

@kryonikx The same movie is shown

[anquelmartho]

I'm really interested in buying this projector, but I can't find reliable information about supported video codecs when playing directly from an USB source. The BenQ site does not show any information or says that it can play only MPEG1 video. Most of videos from internet are MPEG4. You say this GP1 is able to play MPEG4; now I'm REALLY in doubt about the whole thing. So, what's the true story?

[Charbax]

@anquelmartho Maybe BenQ decided to remove Mpeg4 at least on a portion of the devices they are selling, for licencing cost issue, and because of the not supporting the Mp3 audio codec issue.

[kuffiNET]

Hey man, thanks for the video, can you help me out though, for some reason EVERY video I put on my USB stick doesn't seem to be supported. I've tried everything; AVI (xvid, divx), MPEG, WMV, MPG, MP4, seriously NONE of them worked.

All that seemed to work was one random MPG I had somewhere on my HD.

Really don't know what to do since the USB function was really what I wanted to use.

Of course PHOTOS do work fine.

[Charbax]

@kuffiNET You can see in my video, sadly benq has decided not to support Mp3 audio codec in videos. Your videos probably have Mp3 audio track. You will have to re-encode just the audio for example you can do that with Super Encoder, VirtualDub on Windows. You don't need to re-encode the video, only the audio, it usually can be done in 3 minutes per movie, something like that.

[airskeeter]

Is that Borat's brother?

[sergio240581]

he sounds like borat...

[ihopetillmyend]

do u think beamer is better as a standerrt flatscreen for homecinema ?

[garbuja6666]

why do u sound like borat lmfao

[WelfareSymphony]

High five!

[link8675309]

tommy wiseau

[aaaakar]

you sound like Borat!!! Are you Borat?!!! Dude Borat, you are my personal hero!

[theshadowplayer09]

love the accent

[alexandre2012]

Nice video. Thanks for helping people out with all this info. By the way, does it read power point slides from the pendrive? Are there other mini projectors as good as this one or better?

[josefhatorihanzo]

hahaahahahahha.love the accent and the trembling of his voice

[bluelondon]

I went from thinking you're Chinese to realizing it's a French Canadian accent