 Welcome to Road Gear Reviews. I'm Tom from Mortons on the Move and today we're taking a look at the new projector, Hoelight from New Vending. So this is the new projector. This is the Hoelight model and this is a portable projector. As you can see it's relatively small and this is designed to be able to go with you wherever you go. There is a battery built into this and it is an LED based DLP projector. Even though this projector is relatively small it has about a 1200 lumen output which is considerable for its size. On the front here you'll see there's this cover that you pop off and now you can see the lens on the front. This wheel here dials in the focus of the lens. Here you have controls buttons that once you turn it on they light up and you can press them to control the on-screen interface. On the back of the projector here you can see that it's got a lot of different ports and options. It has your two standard HDMI and this is what your provost most likely going to use for video inputs. It's got two USB ports that can be used either for power for say powering a Chromecast or something or for actually data. You can put a flash drive into this and read files directly from it. It's also got an SD card slot reader so you can put a micro SD in here and read files off of that as well. The charging port and a standard computer lock port so you could put a cable lock on it. It's also got digital optical out 3.5 millimeter audio in and out and a wired LAN port. On the bottom of the projector you'll see it's got a standard quarter inch tripod port so you can easily put this on a tripod and and set it up anywhere. On the sides you'll see these vented ports they are speakers. It's got two speakers that actually have decent stereo sound out of it. On the front the lens of course and then over here is just ventilation. This does have a fan in it to draw air through it and keep it cool. So that's it for the exterior features of this projector. Everything else is inside it. This is a smart projector and it actually has an Android operating system built onto it. When you turn it on you'll actually see the interface and you can scroll around to make selections. You can select the HDMI ports which one that you want active or because it's an Android operating system you can actually run apps directly on it. That's really cool because apps like YouTube or Netflix are already on it. You don't have to plug anything into it. Now you can plug say a Chromecast or a Firestick or something like that into it so that you can cast to it but it's got a lot of those features built right into it. It's basically like your smart TV except in a projector format. So this projector is capable of accepting a 1080p high definition input from the HDMI cables. However its native resolution is 720p meaning that's the number of pixels that it actually broadcasts. So as this is a portable projector it does have a battery built in and you can turn it on even when it is not plugged in. To turn it on you press and hold the power button on the back. The fan kicks on and you will see it starts projecting almost immediately. Now when it's running on battery it does decrease the lumen output just a little bit. The screen gets a little bit dimmer so it saves battery and lasts a little bit longer. In my testing it appears that this will last for about an hour and a half to two hours on battery. When plugged in you get the full 1200 lumens and that's actually really pretty good. I mean it's not as bright as a professional projector that you'd see hanging in a conference room but it's bright enough that usually you can see it during the day. The wall charger that comes with it is relatively small and has a decently long cable as well so you can move the projector around. So to control this projector you can use the buttons on the top that control the interface or you can use a mouse. Now NuVending does sell another mouse called the NuNet Air Mouse and you can turn it on, you plug it into the back of the projector just like so from the USB and control the mouse just by holding it up and pointing at the screen. This is also neat because it has a little keyboard on the back. Another neat feature I found is that using just a standard wireless USB mouse you can also control the interface just like a computer. Now being a smart projector this does have Wi-Fi capability too. You go into the settings and you connect it to your Wi-Fi network so that it can stream shows, make updates, download apps and everything that you do on a smart device. Another neat feature that it has is it also has Bluetooth which is cool because you can connect a Bluetooth speaker to it. We have a pretty nice Bluetooth speaker so what we would do is set up the projector, set the Bluetooth speaker in front by the screen and have it stream the audio from this to the Bluetooth speaker so it sounded really good. We did notice that there was a little bit of a delay in the Bluetooth. It seemed to be worse using the apps on here versus using an HDMI input like our Chromecast but it was not that bad. We got used to it and it was still really nice feature. It also has keystone corrections so that if you're projecting at a funky angle you can change the shape of it which is really nice. It actually has an auto keystone function too that you set it up level and you say this is level and then it will matter what angle you put it at it will automatically change it to be a square on the wall. So for traveling and for us living on the road a projector like this is really nice because it allows us to project a really large screen without having a really giant TV that takes up a ton of space. In the past when we had a big house we had a big home theater system in our house with a really big projector and a nice big screen and we really enjoyed that and missed it but there was no way we were going to take up full-size projector on the road with us and lug it around. This though is so easy with the battery we can easily move it around and still set up a nice projection screen to watch a movie or project a presentation or really anything that you'd need a big screen for. A small projector like this can work really well and because this is bright enough that you can even see it during the day it seems to be a really good option for traveling. So not being a projector expert but having set up home theater systems in the past and such I have an idea of what a good projector looks like. I think the color on this is pretty good. The grays and blacks it kind of crushes the blacks a little bit but most projectors do. It's just inherent to them. The grays kind of turn black a little bit fast but the color is really good on it. It is a DLP projector so fast moving scenes can break the color up a little bit. Typically it's only to really sensitive people that you can see that. You know it's a standard DLP projector in that regard. Because this projector is LED it doesn't get real hot and it's supposed to last a really long time. They have a guaranteed life on it of 30,000 hours which is nice because when we had our big home theater projection system we replaced the bulb every three to five thousand hours and it was extremely expensive. Being small it does have the fan in it but it is relatively quiet which is nice. We set it up above our heads in our bedroom and the fan doesn't bother us at all. There are adjustments you can manually control those fan settings but it's probably best to leave it in auto so that if it does get hot it can cool itself down. I also found it extremely easy to control. The Android operating system on it seemed really solid scrolling back and forth selecting things. It never crashed on me and it seemed to work really well. It did have the latest update on it but you can update it via the internet if it's lacking. It did download a few apps on it that seemed to work just fine. This projector does come from China and in the Android operating system there was quite a few Chinese options and things that I needed to actually change the keyboard from Chinese to English. That's a little bit of a drawback but once you get that figured out it still works just fine. Some of the cons on this that I've found the zoom functionality is digital. It's not actually like a lens correction so what it does is it crops in on the available pixels on this so you lose some light and you lose some resolution which is not ideal. As I said earlier the Bluetooth has a little bit of a delay which wasn't a deal breaker for us. As I said it was worse with the apps internal but once we kind of get used to it it didn't really bother us that much. You also get slightly fewer lumens when you're on battery but you know that makes sense so that you get a longer battery life out of it. Overall we've been really happy with this little projector. We think it's really worth the price. It's not really a branded unit. This whole light is not a name brand that you're going to recognize but it seems to work really well. We haven't found really any issues with it and for being so portable and being able to travel with us it's worked really great. We've enjoyed movies under the stars with it. We've even used it to do some light painting outside and take some pictures of things that we've projected images up on and just set up movie theaters in our in our little in our RV and really enjoy big screen movies in a small space. So this has been the new projector whole light from the new vending. Thanks for watching. Give this video a thumbs up and be sure to subscribe for weekly videos uploaded every Wednesday. I'm Tom from Morton's On The Move and we'll see you next time. If you have any questions or comments please leave them below. Also be sure to subscribe to our channel for weekly uploads of our travel product reviews.