I’ve never written a review before. People need to know about this. I decided to redo my room because it was looking drab and saw a video on Tiktok of someone using this projector. It looked decent enough in the video so I decided to check it out. I saw it was only $139 and I had reward points for $100. Surprisingly I got a $30 coupon as well so I ended up only spending $9.00 on it all together. I can tell you that after using this for only a week I would have spent $200 on it if I knew what I know now. Seriously why do people ever buy TVs anymore. I’ll admit I’ve been completely sleeping on projectors because I had all those memories from being a kid and watching ugly grainy movies. Come join 2020. The picture quality on this thing is incredible especially for $130. I’ve seen the price recently dropped down to $80 so seriously what are you even waiting for ? As you can see the brightness is also excellent. The functionality is awesome as well once you know what to do. I had an old Apple TV hooked up to my old 43 inch Samsung tv in my room but it requires too many cords. So I’ll describe my set up to help you guys understand how you can use this to replace your tv and turn your room into a movie theater. Make sure you project it onto a wall. I’ve seen pics of people projecting onto a projector screen and it looks much different . Project onto a wall and you will get a full range of colors and detail. The first few pictures I have are from when I used the HDMI cable to hook up to my MacBook to watch media. It had a pretty incredible picture too but once I purchased a roku streamer stick. I noticed when I turned on HBO the quality got significantly better with a streaming stick attached. The HDMI to laptop is not ideal it’s just an option. In my case I move around too much on my bed and there’s also the fact that you can’t use your laptop while streaming. So do yourself a favor and go pick up a $30 roku streaming stick 4K version is preferable because that model is how you are going to get your sound to an Alexa bluetooth speaker as long as you have an iphone handy. I don’t think the earlier models of roku streamer have the Bluetooth Alexa capability. Then you are going to pick up any of the Alexa speakers anywhere from $20-40. I also am in the process of purchasing a projector tripod stand from Amazon because it’s very important to have a nice straight flat surface you won’t believe how I have it set up right now next to my bed I’m using an old Adidas shoe box to hold it and angle it right now. Silly I know but I had to get the spot I wanted the projector just right so I could apply my pictures to the wall to frame the screen. Anyway the reason I recommend the roku streamer is because it’s cordless. You just plug in the HDMI port and the other end for the power adapter into the USB charging slot and wala you don’t have any extra messy cords for streaming. The only cord you will need to plug into the wall will be the power cord for the projector. Which I confess is a little short but since I had planned to put it next to my bed to project on the wall I have an a outlet right there. So now that you have your roku streamer all set up on your projector you are simply going to pair your Alexa speaker to your iphone . You are then going to download the correct official roku app on your phone. Then pair your iphone separately in the settings on your phone to add a Bluetooth device. Once it’s connected open your roku app which has all your channels like HBO, Netflix etc. Watch your content through the roku app on your phone and hit the headphones button icon. Then bam your sound will play through your Alexa speaker and your video will play through your projector creating a theater like experience in your room. I have a small room as you can see so keep this in mind but the Alexa speakers are portable and small so you could theoretically keep a speaker closer to you if you have a big room. There are other sound options if you are trying to use this projector in a bigger living room setting but I’m simply trying to help out the people who don’t want to spend a lot of money but have a tv replacement that’s awesome . I seriously hate leaving my room now that I have this up. I’m also now looking at my MacBook like it’s obsolete it’s kind of sad. Remember you have to pair your iphone in the Bluetooth settings to your Alexa Dot or speaker first then open the Roku app on your phone. If you don’t feel like using your phone for that then you can just play the sound through your projector which is decent but I prefer the clarity of even a cheap Alexa speaker. All in all I saved about $400 on a new tv by buying this instead. I was looking at 4K TVs so I could watch the new Lord of the Rings 4K release. I would have had to buy a 4K player a tv and of course the movies. What I have now is 10xs better. I have to say I’d much rather be inside of Middle Earth on my wall then far away on a tinier screen that is less immersive. I was shocked how immersive it was. I’m actually not a big movie watcher but I knew part of the reason was because of how far away the movie was from me. I had a TV set up on my dresser across from my bed so this is just a big improvement from what I had. I find myself just zoning out in bed after work and even taking naps which I’ve literally never done in my life. My room is just so relaxing now. Also for all you that watch it Anime looks incredible and is more immersive than you can imagine. I can’t wait to watch the new season of Stranger Things on this thing. Also don’t judge. I’m not finished with my picture wall. My printer ran out of ink and it’s on back order.