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The Nebula X1 with the optional battery-powered Wi-Fi outer speakers installed. | Image: Anker
Anker’s caller all-in-one Nebula X1 astute projector has everything you’d privation from a “cinema-grade outdoor amusement system.”
It produces a agleam 4K representation from a triple-laser airy motor susceptible of 3,500 ANSI lumens, automatically finds the champion spot to task an representation optimized for the environment, has Google TV built-in to unlock 4K Netflix streams, and features 2 battery-powered Wi-Fi outer speakers to make a morganatic surround-sound experience. The lone happening missing is simply a portable screen.
The X1 tin task a 200-inch representation from a region of 13 to 22 feet acknowledgment to its optical zoom. It’s besides fitted with a gimbal that tin tilt the output up to 25 degrees to automatically find the champion placement connected a surface oregon partition wherever the representation is keystone corrected, focused, and adapted to the ambient airy and aboveground color. A fastener connected the distant power tin initiate each that spatial adaptation whenever you privation and the X1’s representation diagnostic tin sphere settings for repetition locations. And its 5,000:1 autochthonal opposition and Rec.2020 colour enactment should assistance marque the X1’s Dolby Vision certification much than conscionable a selling stunt.
It’s the X1’s dependable system, however, that’s the existent prima of this show. The projector includes 4 built-in speakers (two 15W and 2 5W). Those speakers tin beryllium combined with a brace of optional battery-powered Wi-Fi speakers bully for up to 8 hours of audio. Each outer talker contains a 40W brace of beforehand drivers, a 20W upward-firing driver, and a 20W side-firing operator to adhd width and tallness to audio. The effect is simply a 4.1.2 surround-sound acquisition erstwhile the audio drivers wrong the X1 are switched into subwoofer mode. And portion the outer speakers diagnostic IP54 absorption to particulate and rain, the X1 projector itself offers nary specified assurances.
Lastly, the X1 is besides liquid cooled — an manufacture first, according to Anker. That not lone reduces the size of the portion by omitting the high-powered fans, it besides drops the sound to a comparatively quiescent 26dB. There’s adjacent the enactment for a two-pack of wireless microphones to get your karaoke on.
Anker’s Nebula X1 won’t travel cheap. The projector unsocial volition outgo $2,999 starting connected May 21st, oregon $3,298 for the X1 bundle, which includes the projector, 2 mics, a question case, and a brace of those outer speakers.
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