For the money, this is a really feature-packed projector. I was looking for a projector that has 3d support. Most of the cheaper projectors, the “bluetooth” ones don’t support it. I couldn’t understand why they had every other feature, but didn’t add 3d in. However, this Viewsonic projector does support 3d and it looks really great. As far as the usual projector stuff, this projector has decent brightness — it looks ok even in a room that isn’t pitch dark (we had a few lamps on). It looks nice in a dark room. If you’re looking for a super bright picture in a bright room, you might want to consider a larger, more expensive projector.As far as 3d, to produce a 3d image you need three things. A projector (like this one) that supports 3d and projects the 3d image, you need a player that can play 3d disks (I bought an LG Bluray player that plays 3d disks) and you need 3d glasses. For glasses, I’ve seen a few people say you need to buy the Viewsonic PG-something glasses. Well, those glasses don’t appear to be made anymore. However, don’t worry, you just need to buy any regular old active shutter glasses that are for DLP projectors. Buy one of the brands that say they support all kinds of DLP projectors–this Viewsonic won’t be in their supported list, but they will work with this projector. I had a little difficulty with the glasses, probably because I was turning them on incorrectly. But, if you mess with them, you’ll get it.Also, another nice thing about this little projector is the sound. Wow! Its very impressive for such a little box. Its good enough to use to watch a movie, unless you’re really after that thunderous sound of a movie theater, then you could explore the bluetooth option and connect a bluetooth speaker to this projector.There’s a few things I don’t like. First, if you use the built in arm as a base, on mine at least, the display is crooked. Also, the projector is so light that the HDMI cable will move it. So, to get the projector properly placed, you need to mess with the HDMI cable or even tape the cable down to the table where your projector is. I mostly solved the problem by attaching a tripod to the projector — your tripod will just screw into the bottom of the projector. A pretty cool feature.It does have the ability to play movies from micro SD cards and external hard drives. I haven’t messed with any of those. Its also connects to WiFi–that went very smoothly for me. That’s nice in case there are any firmware updates, you can get them instantly over WiFi.So, overall, this is a really great budget projector with alot of features. One of its biggest strengths is that it supports 3d–very, very rare in this price range.

Most reviews on here are for some older models, for the M2 its nice and bright, very portable, the autofocus works well and it’s unlocked where you can get root access if you want to get super technical with different app stores (although since it’s a custom version of Android 6 most newer streaming apps like Disney+ will give errors if you install from a third party app store) to do that install apps via the built in chrome (be extremely careful what you install so you don’t get malware or brick it) with a keyboard / mouse connected. They fixed the issue where motion smoothing was on all the time, the keystone adjustments work well but add some lag so don’t ever use them for gaming or anything. Too much lag for FPS games but it’s great for movies. I use mine with a yard master 2 elite screen indoors or outdoors. You can power it via usb-c for several hours with a 100w hyper juice battery bank. The Bluetooth range for audio on it is really bad (like 6 ft and it starts cutting out) and the smart features are kind of a joke, but if you just use hdmi and pair it with a tablet or laptop it is excellent for movie night, use the laptop to send audio to a bluetooth speaker, I’d recommend the marshall kilborn 2. The onboard app can also play h265 mp4 nvenc files fine from USB drives if you want to save on space. Onboard audio is decent for its size but it’s much better with external audio devices with subwoofers. Card reader doesn’t work with big microsd cards. All in all its great for portable movie nights. Also works ok streaming to it directly from an android phone, but the built in YouTube app is buggy. Photo is it projecting on a 100″ screen.Edit: 2021 update, with a 3080 laptop it works at 1080p120 (120hz input but it still only outputs at 60hz) and lag is minimal for gaming with keystone adjustments turned off.

The media could not be loaded. VIEWSONIC M2 MODEL ( NOT THE M1)UPDATE JUNE 29th, 2020So now we have tried the projector several times.1. Photos: I Included one at sunset to show that image is amazing with the sun not fully gone. A second photo to show our set up using apple TV. The video clip shows movie in darkness, with all my accent cafe light and tree spot lighting on behind us and did not effect the image. This was good so you have some light to walk around the yard and be able to see and not trip.2. Speaker: YES, YES, YES YES… it connects to SONOS!!!!!! We were able to finally get it connected vie APPLE TV. We bought the new Sono speaker that has been sold out and it has AMAZING sound…. SO HAPPY!!!!3. Customer phone service: Positive, they pick up phone calls fast and try to help. Negative, they really cannot help you trouble shoot anything and are not familiar with products enough to help. To their defense this is during Covid, when company’s may not have normal staff working.4. The 2.5 hours of cordless viewing…is for the other model, NOT the M2. Because the listing has many models I miss read. Bummed out, but was not a deal breaker as I found that I can use the C PORT to plug projector into a POWER BANK ( has to be Min 45W or the port will not work).ORIGINAL REVIEW:We LOVE IT! I spent hours researching and made a list for OUTDOOR movie theater. There were a lot of reviews online for the M1 but that model is so different that M2. This is why I had to leave a review as there are not that many and based on customer purchase videos found online it looks like it has been more popular outside if USA. I took that as a good sign as I worked for a European company for 20yrs and was amazed how in last 10 years they seem to be more advance / tech savvy customers.1. Picture amazing, I was worried because a lot of web site say for outdoors you need min 2,200 Lumens.2. Sound, not bad. Will be connecting speaker via cable, until we can research more the Bluetooth situation. From all the research I know a lot of projectors are struggling with offering Bluetooth feature. I hope we can figure out how to connect to SONOS!3. WIFI all good, we used apple TV with this projector.4. Looks AMAZING, I really did not want to get a big and clunky looking projector. I had back up Epson and BenQ in this price range in case this one did not work. This one is slick and looks so good with out home decor. I was worried that at 100″ + size image would loose quality, but did not. Looks great.5. The 2.5 hours of cordless viewing was key. Have not tried this out, but this is another reason I chose this. I want to be able to move it around the house if needed and especially for CAMPING or California blackouts were are stuck with not electricity.I will add photos as soon as my projector screen is up end of this month.PS. There is one consumer video online, were he plugs the Viewsonic WIFI stick to the back, That is possible, but get in the way of adjusting projector. Thanks to watching another video in a language I do not speak ( picture speaks a thousand words) I say they hooked it right in the same place compartment it comes in. The instructions book makes it a bit confusing.PSS. I wish they did not clump all these Viewsonic product in one Amazon listing, as I had to go through all 30 pages to find the 3 reviews on this model.

I’ve owned two ViewSonic Projectors, the M1 and the M1+ and while I liked them both, the picture was not bright enough for daytime or nightime viewing with lights on in my living room. But both of them were very good, small, QUIET, easy to use projectors. The M2 really raises the bar. Here is a summary of why it is so good:-> Dead quiet. No fan, period. For viewing indoors this is a must. I tried other more traditional projectors and just could not get past the sound of a fan running constantly.-> Bright enough. I had to keep the lights off in my living room, drapes closed, skylight blinds closed with the M1 and M1+. No longer with the M2. Easy to watch with lights on or during the daytime.-> Autofocus – All three ViewSonics have been good for keystone adjustments, but both the M1 and M1+ requires you to manually turn a focus knob on the side of the projector. The M2 autofocuses every time it powers up and any time you want with a push of the remote button.-> Complete control – the remote works better on the M2 than either of the M1s – not requiring you to point it precisely at the projector. The ViewSonic remote app for the iPhone works great. And the Amazon Alexa integration works great too.The only downside to the M2 is it doesn’t have a built in battery like the M1s both do – if you want to use it for business or educational presentations where you have to setup and project quickly the M1s could be superior, but the lamp brightness of the M2 is so much better that it really shouldn’t be an issue to have to plug it in.

Again, if u look, most reviews are for the M1 and not the M2, the M2 is really good, if you have realistic expectations. Projectors much like in a normal theater, work better in the dark. It’s not 4K sadly but at $560 it’s fine, it checked off ALL boxes for me.Small, Bluetooth, WiFi, DLP, 3D ready.Image quality is great for what this is, it’s bright enough for my needs. As it is people coming over feel they are in a legit theater as I project on a bare wall at about 135”.The 3D (if you have fun with it) works at pro levels. I have zero issues, a few said they do but you need to make sure you’re using the right HDMI to push the bandwidth right, and get good active shutter glasses.The projector supports DLP-Link and I went with Xpand glasses, they are the best quality, I get zero stutter and ZERO ghosting with those glasses and this projector.The UI sucks, immediately use a Fire stick or Apple TV or Roku. Do not expect super crazy bright, that 1200 Lumens is a Viewsonic marketing thing, it’s been honestly measured to be 550ish ANSI Lumens.Get it on sale, $680 is to much, but lots of tech crammed in.