XGIMI Horizon Max Projector Unboxing: Premium Design and Smart Features

XGIMI Horizon Max Projector Unboxing: Premium Design and Smart Features

An unboxing of the XGIMI Horizon Max projector reveals a premium package including a leather-like carrying case, soccer ball, hat, mug, and jersey. The projector features a sleek metal remote, four unique legs, and a briefcase-style storage. It offers 4K resolution, optical zoom, lens shift, auto keystone correction, and built-in Harman Kardon speakers. The device is designed for cinema-like home theater experiences with high brightness and contrast, suitable for gaming and streaming.

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Big box. I got a big box. Which sometimes that makes for exciting unboxing videos. Woah. Yeah, items. Leatherish Titan War Max X Jimmy. Let's go. I like this bag. What This is nice. EA Sports collaboration FC 26. Not real leather, but still. Look at this little duffel bag here. Got the soccer ball. And the hat. Football or soccer? Tell me in the comments is it football or is it soccer? Ryan, can you blow this up for me or what? Look at this. We got the special edition treatment in here. I got the mug. World's number one home smart projector brand X Jimmy. Oktoberfest.

Woah. This is all soccer branded or football. What is going on in here? Got the scoreboard, soccer stickers, soccer glasses, like fan glasses. Oh, those are crazy. Wow, we got the jersey. We got to give this to Ryan for sure. Ryan, where you at? Oh, wow. And these are legit. Those are long hair. They're legit. You put the shin pads and everything. Nice. I'm going to be honest with you guys though, the bag I kind of like the bag. And we have another bag. It looks like cork. Huh. Coffee filters? The steel cup. Coffee filter. Oh, a little kettle. It's a whole little kit they got. Then these go together like this. And there's your little coffee kit to go with you. Okay, the main attraction. I mean, those are some fun

items, but look at this baby right here. Woo! Titan Max Noir. Briefcase-style storage, and this is some serious flagship status for XGIMI right here. Boom. Man, they even have this way of transporting it? Unbelievable. Cool to the touch. Ooh, and check the design on this guy. Oh, we got a soccer ball back in the house. So, okay, let's see what he's got. Oh, five. So, here's our accessories. A little bit of paperwork, batteries included, power cable included, remote included as well. And this is actually a nice remote.

Metal construction, once again, cool to the touch. Sleek, simple, shortcut buttons, we can map them to whatever it is that we want. D-pad in the center, plus, minus, home, back. Everything you'd expect. Oh. Got the rapid load. You didn't think I was going to catch it. I'm going to miss this one. No, I'm not. Sometimes they'll make a beautiful projector and give you a cheapo remote. They did not do that here. Very unique design with these four legs that it stands on. Modern, cuz it looks kind of less like a gadget and more like a piece of modern furniture that you're going to want to put on display. On the front here, we have a cover over our lens.

Ooh. IMAX Enhanced, Harman Kardon. And flip it around the other way, and you're going to see a variety of inputs. Here we have our DC in, optical, USB, USB again, HDMI 1, also eARC compatible, HDMI 2, 3, audio, that looks like a mini jack analog connector. There's a LAN port and a power button. And just look at the cooling capacity of this device. So, now it's time to go and set this up so I can show you what it can do and why it's special. So, we have the device set up now. You can see it here on this coffee table and it's projecting on this wall, which is about 120 in the way we have it set up right now. Kind of optimal. Obviously, in your setup, you're probably not going to have a white wall made of

fabric that's optimal for projection like we do in here. They do have screen recommendation as well. I'll link those details in the description, but essentially 120 in is a really nice balance of scale and resolution, of course. And it is important to note that at this point like we have a 7,000 lm projector, but we are leaving some ambient light on so you can see what I'm talking about and see me, but we're going to also throw in some demonstrations of what the projector looks like with the lights off, which is the ultimate usage. Sometimes some like yellow and pink banding can show up. I promise you that is not happening in real life. The image is pristine. What is the intended use of a device like

this, a projector of this caliber, is in a cinema environment in your home movie theater because of the features and functions and the ability to get in there and really tweak the performance in a manual way if you choose to. You also have optical zoom and lens shift. If your room has some boundaries, that mean you can't place this as far away as you'd like or if you have a projection screen that's a different size, you want to make sure it fits that framing. This is true optical zoom just like on your camera, so there's no loss in quality like there would be in some kind of digital zoom. Instead, it's this physical lens adjusting its zoom level in order to give you a bigger or smaller

picture. Now, lens shift is also really cool because you might want to have this thing up on a shelf where it's a little bit higher or maybe it's down low, but your screen is not. Rather than having to tip this thing and get some like weird like stack some books or something strange, you just use the lens shift. I get a of play in what I can achieve. You can tell I could have this thing up very high at ceiling level if I wanted or on the floor, it wouldn't matter. Through lens shift, I'd be able to get the perfect projection. This is a premium feature. Like to have these features right on the lens, it's not common and certainly your lower end projectors are not going to have these features.

Wow, that image is just Woo! Once you get the lights even lower, they're not off completely actually. They're still kind of on. That is punchy and plenty of resolution at 120. If I was sitting on this couch and this was my setup, I would actually drop the image a little bit lower. I would go here and then I would go here and I would drop this down even more comfortable like right around here. See what I mean? There's also some cool settings for playing games where you've got a fast refresh combined with a low input lag and you have a game mode on the device. And of course, it will also adjust the image settings to be more ideal for

gaming. You have your auto keystone correction which is built-in, manual keystone if you prefer. A lot of this is going to depend on if this moves around at all. This is intended as a true cinema experience so I suspect in many circumstances it will kind of live in one location in which case you might go in and manually tweak it and then just like leave it where it is. And you have wall color adaptation. If you do happen to project on a wall that isn't say perfect white, slightly off white or something so this can actually make an adjustment for that. Now again, with a projector like this of this caliber, you want to project onto white to get the most out of it. But if you can for

whatever reason, it's nice to have that ability built in there. White balance, gamut index, dynamic black levels, noise reduction, super resolution. If there's a projector setting, it's probably in here. Anyway, very snappy interface as well to move through. But it is important to note that because this is a sort of cinema target, there is no smart streaming aspects to the device at all. You're going to connect your source, whether that's a game console, an Apple TV, or any other content source. I think for me, Apple TV makes the most sense. I have a ton of content already in there. But anything you want to connect over

HDMI, I think it's the reason they gave you such an array of ports to have multiple devices connected at the same time in a more sort of permanent or semi-permanent setup. Now, even though I've suggested that you have this thing in some sort of semi-permanent setup, if you do have it out, like on display, if that's part of how your setup is, this is a pretty looking projector with the legs the way they are. It's definitely not the worst thing to look at. And the fact that it has built-in speakers makes it a little bit more versatile from that standpoint as well. I still think most people are going to have external sound hooked up to this thing. But having a built-in speaker is a welcome thing to

have in a pinch. Why not? Listen to me. This is not the best environment for this lens. So, the speaker gets loud. Way louder than I expected. Look at that image, Mom. on the Great Wall. Yeah. Actually got some low end on the speaker. Did you see that shot where it's me on the Great Wall? Did you see that? They knew I was coming. Look. Saw that? So, I got to say the entirety of it. I mean, even me standing there, there's only so far I can see. And in some cases, using the I was kind of downplaying the built-in speaker cuz I just assumed if you have a projector of this caliber, you're going

to hook up some speakers. But this speaker is actually useful. It Some of them just sound like pure tin. This one at least has some low end to it. Ideally, depending on your setup, but ideally, I would be sitting just in front of it and have it mounted up high above the seating, just like a movie theater. And then I can make the most of that sound. I could actually get away with it. I'm not saying you're going to do that. You It's still going to be better if you set up sound. But it's some of the better sound I've ever heard out of a standalone projector.

Great Wall, but being enabled to do so, it's now something that I would definitely recommend. And if you can, travel to the section a little bit further from Beijing. So, in this case, I guess we went all the So, the key with this projector compared to others, and the reason it's called the Noire Max, has to do with the black level performance. And this is going to give you up to 10,000:1 native contrast, or up to 100,000:1 dynamic contrast. Now, they're going to be putting out a couple of different models. There's the Noire Max and the Titan. The price is going to be a little bit different, and what's going to happen there is you're going to get more brightness as

you move up the range and more contrast. ahead and check these guys out on Kickstarter. They've already raised over the link will be down in the description. external gear just like holding the phone on its own. So, it's you know, 2026. I'm in China. I'm on the Great Wall. Whole thing shot on a smartphone. 4K high frame rate. Come back here. Movie theater in a box. Looks incredible. 2026, not you know, there's some It's not that bad. We're going to have to serve her

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