 This is the Kiway A12 Plus home theater projector and as you saw from the title of this video, this has to be one of the brightest LED lamp based projectors I've ever reviewed, coming in at a max brightness level of 1450 ANC lumens. I've reviewed a lot of projectors on my channel and the highest brightness for an LED projector I've tested has been at 600 ANC, so I'm excited to see how this performs especially in daylight conditions. This comes in roughly around £400 with global shipping, so do make sure to check the description for up to date pricing with any discounts. Before I go into all of the other specs this has, let's see what you get in the box. Now you do get the basic and minimal set of accessories, you have yourself the power plug, a HDMI cable, user manual and then a remote control. It requires two AAA batteries that don't come in the box so you'll have to source this yourself, but you have all of the different function buttons that you would expect from a projector remote control. In addition to all of those things, you actually get yourself an anti-light 84 inch projector screen. This is a grey one and if you guys are familiar with anti-projector screens then this is a really important thing to have, especially if you don't have a projector screen at home, you just unfold it, you do get these sticky pads inside there to connect it on your wall, so if you have a large wall that has a lot of space to put up something like this, then all you have to do is just open this up, make sure you iron all of the creases out with low to medium heat, stretch it out and it is anti-crease, stick it up on the wall and it will look something like this, so that's a really good option for those that don't have any projector screens at home at the moment. So let's take a look at the design of the projector. I really like this kind of space grey with a blue trim design. It is quite heavy duty, it's not a very compact portable one, so you'll notice first there's a cover on the lamp there as well, to open it, it actually has a slider, a nice hidden design which I think that looks quite nice. Instead of taking a lens cap off, this is quite good just to close it at any time you're finished using the projector. You also have yourself the infrared sensors there on the front. This does have a manual focus wheel just inside there, so you can just twist that to get the best focus. You have all of the main function buttons on the top here if you don't want to maybe use the remote control at any time. On the right hand side you have your power port there, on the sides, on the right and the left. This is the air fan, so I will be testing out the fan noise to see how loud that may be. On the bottom, just on the right hand side here, you have yourself the filter. This is removable, so you can clean this after a certain period of time, which is quite nice. Then you just push it back in and there you have it. One other question that I get asked quite often is, can this be mounted upside down on a ceiling? Yes you can. These rubber pads on the four different legs in the corners, you can actually remove them and they will showcase two different screws that you can mount a different type of universal ceiling mount for a projector. To elevate the projector a little bit higher, there's a little push button here. If you press this, it pops out with a little kickstand. You can actually set this in various different positions. I believe there's about four different positions and then you can close it quickly. I think that's a lot nicer than actually having those ones that actually you have to screw, but it gives a good option to very quickly close that. And then finally, let's take a look at the ports on the back. If you've got your infrared receiver there, you actually have an ethernet port as well, if you want to connect directly to the internet to allow you to stream content from the inbuilt Android TV in this projector very easily. Headphone jack, AV port, VGA, two HDMI and two USB ports. So plenty of connectivity options to satisfy pretty much everybody's needs. This silver part on the back is actually the rear-firing speaker. So this is where you will hear all of the audio. Now let's take a look at all of the key specs on this projector. It is 1080p by native design, but it does upscale to 4K support. In terms of 4K, it does have a H.265 decoding and it does go up to 8K at 24 frames per second. Now like I mentioned, it is 1450 ANSI lumens, which is extremely bright for a projector of this price range and this quality, so I'm very excited about that. You can also get up to 300 inches of projection, depending on how far you do project it, and it has a very high 16,000 to 1 high contrast ratio, and it does actually have HDR10+, and HLG decode, so you can be sure that you're going to get all of the different high dynamic range on the spectrum for the highest quality picture available. This also supports the latest Wi-Fi 6, and it does have 2.4 and 5G Wi-Fi connections as a dual support there. Like I mentioned, it does have two 10W speakers on each side, and it does support DTS and Dolby Audio. And like I mentioned, this does have Android TV built into it, so you can stream all of your favorite content on all your favorite apps. Okay, I've just turned on the projector for the first time. Of course, the first step is I'm now going to manually focus this to get it back into a very clear picture. There we go. And as you can see by default on the Android TV, you have all of your favorite apps listed there right on the home page. So you have Netflix, YouTube, Disney+, you have Spotify. That's a very convenient thing. Obviously, when you do set it up, make sure you connect to Wi-Fi first, log into all of your apps, and you're pretty much ready to go. Now, before I jump into the settings and all of the different capabilities of this Android TV, I just wanted to highlight about the fan noise, because that's also a question I do get quite often when I review projectors. This is quite a large projector, and as you guys can probably hear, I am standing next to it. And there is quite a bit of fan noise coming from it. But of course, you can also connect this via Bluetooth or via the auxiliary port to maybe to external soundbars and speakers. Or even if you wanted to use headphones, you can do that. But just to highlight to you that there is quite a bit of fan noise, which I think is as expected for something that's this large and packs this many features. But we will test when we do play back some demo videos to see how much of the audio coming from the speakers drowns out that fan noise. Right, so let's go ahead and showcase to you guys the settings. If you go in there, you can connect to the Wi-Fi via network. You have Bluetooth options. If you go into projection settings, you have 4D keystone correction. Let's go in there and just fix this up a tiny bit. There we go. You also have the option to zoom in and out, depending on how far you want to place the projector and how big your screen or wall size may be. So right now this is at 100%. I can go down, whichever works best, down to 50% or back to 100%. So the size that you're seeing right now is about 110 inches of projection. But like I mentioned, this should be absolutely capable to go all the way up to 300. You can also do a quick keystone correction as well, just by using the up-down left arrows, like so. And you also have the option to change the projection mode. So if you select this, you can do front projection, rear desktop, front ceiling, rear ceiling. So pretty much you can mount this and place this wherever you find convenient. If you go into image, you can change the image mode. You can set it from user selected to maybe cinema, sport, bright or standard. I'm going to go a little bit bright just because there's a lot of daylight coming in. You can also go into advanced settings, do noise reduction, turn on dynamic contrast, change the color temperature, white balance and all various different other options here. Zoom mode, you can set to auto. If you're going to audio settings, let's go to audio mode. You also have the option to go into sport, cinema, music and natural. I will go into cinema, audio and showcase that. Volume by default is at 70 and it is pretty loud. I can hear the little beeps as I'm using the remote control. Advanced settings for audio. You can change the bass, treble, sound, balance, audio delay. So plenty of good options, which I think is a nice touch, especially in a system like this. You can have arc input switched on from here and you can also reset audio settings from there. Go into general. You can change your language, your input method, the time on the projector. You can set a sleep timer, boot upon a power restore and you can turn the key tones on and off. I will actually switch this off. Then you also have some about information there. If you go up to the navigation, this is the homepage. If you go into apps, you'll have the option here to look at all of the different categories of apps that you can have. And you can also go into the app store to download even more apps. If you wanted to Wi-Fi screen mirror your iPhone or Android phone, you can use Wi-Fi display sync and air screen there, which I think is a nice touch as well. A lot of people do want to just showcase videos that they've saved on their phone very quickly. So you can use something like this once you have connected to Wi-Fi and just screen mirror directly onto your projection screen. If you go back up to the top, you can go to video, you can go to music. And then you can access the projector settings directly from here as well. So you can change the source. You can go into a USB if you do connect it and playback video, music, pictures, documents, anything you like. So that's everything from the system itself. Let's go ahead, play back some demos that I've got for you from YouTube. And then let's see how the audio quality, the video quality and just how the picture looks in both daylight and dark conditions. Okay, now I'm just playing back a video here in broad daylight. There's a lot of sun coming through the windows. And as you guys can see, even in some of these nighttime clips on this video, it actually is pretty clear from where I'm standing and watching this. In terms of the fan noise, I was actually correct. This does go very loud. And I'm only about one meter away from the projector. And I can't hear any of the fan noise anymore because the speakers do go very loud. And I do have this set to volume 50, as you can see here. So if I actually did want to watch this in daytime, I think yes, it is pretty clear. I can use this. I can maybe set up my PlayStation and play some games on this during the day. And I still would be able to see pretty much everything I need to. Of course, when it does go darker, that's when you're going to get the most cinematic experience. And that's what I also want to test with a couple of demo videos for you. Okay, I've now made it black out in this room. It's very dark. And now you guys can see the demo of how this would actually look if you do watch this at nighttime and to get the full capabilities of the brightness levels, the HDR quality, the contrast ratio, and all of those things that give you the highest picture quality. So let's go ahead and take a look. So hopefully you enjoyed that demo. This was actually a 4K video shot at 60 frames per second. The details in this was so sharp, very clear. The colors were very vibrant. Even when it got to a little bit of the darker blacks, you saw how clear that was with the high contrast ratio and high dynamic range. I really can't fault the quality of this. This was super bright, even though it is very dark in this room. I just feel like this is a very good comparison to almost like a laser projector. But I also want to dive in a little bit more about the deep blacks and see how well this performs in all different types of range of dark content, which I'm going to now show in the next video. Now in this next demo, I'm going to get a little bit closer because I'm showcasing a video here that will really test the deep blacks in here to see the quality of how that comes out when you are watching maybe movies or TV shows that are very dark in nature. So let's go ahead and play back this video and see how the blacks actually perform. So there you have it guys. I was seeing something slightly different to what the video was showing, but I actually see all of the deep black because in this space video, the stars in the background behind all of these planets and moons is very clear to me. And hopefully you guys saw a little bit of that in the video as well. Just remember that how I see it and how I hear things would be slightly different to how maybe you guys are watching the video and how you are listening to it. But honestly, this is probably one of the most highest quality projectors, especially the LED lamp based ones I've ever reviewed. You know, you can see the clips here. It's super clear, super sharp. I would honestly say that this is as close as you're going to get from a lamp based projector to being very close to being a laser projector. I know that's quite a bold statement, but especially in daylight, that's where I do a lot of my comparisons. This is something that I really can't fault with the Kiway A12 Plus. So there you have it guys. It's an absolutely brilliant choice of projector and the fact that you do get that free anti-light screen to set up anywhere in your house on a wall. I think it's just a bonus and check out the link in the description. As always, if you guys do have any other questions about this projector, drop a comment down below and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Make sure to subscribe and make sure to check out all of my previous projector videos that I reviewed in the past. The playlist is also linked down below. Make sure to like this video and I will catch you guys at the next one. Take care.