YABER Y30 Native 1080P Projector Full HD Video Projector 1920 x 1080, ±50° 4D Keystone Correction Support 4k & Zoom,LCD LED Home Theater Projector Compatible with Phone,PC,TV Box,PS4

So I wanted a projector for some time now. I finally decided to splurge. I asked my community which one I should get because I knew a few people use some out here to host movie nights outside during the pandemic. This is the one I was told to get. I waited a bit to try it out because we had Christmas decorations over running our house. So once it was all packed away I finally tried it in the house. First was in the dining room in a corner so that’s the weird angle you see in the first picture. But my light was on even though it was dark outside. Then I tried it without the light and even better. The next night I tried it in the living room on a free wall. The picture gets huge! The wall color is a light grey so not a white background. The picture was still bright! And if you look at the right corner you will see my window. I had no blinds at the time and it was a bright sunny day! The picture was still good! Then once it got dark you could see even better! It was fun watching cartoons and movies on such a big wall! I haven’t tried it outside yet because I don’t like the cold but I can’t wait until summer to enjoy outdoor movies in our own back yard!! There is a school behind us so there will be lots of street lights but I think it will be ok still. Will update in the summer. At this time I’m super pleased. Sound is just fine for us but I think you can hook up speakers to it as well. Pay attention to the directions. There is a hint in there about Netflix and if I would of paid attention I would of realized I had it hooked up correctly. I use mine with a fire stick. Works perfectly! It’s worth the money! I’m so happy I asked neighbors on their opinions. Since I got this I have shared it with my friends and other neighbors and five of my friends have purchased one! Some are using them for camping. How fun!

Starting off, can't beat the quality to price on this projector, but I think expectations should be proportional to the product and price. Its a good budget projector for causal use, its not in the same league as high-end projectors nor should you expect it to be. Its not going to be super bright in a bright room, color accuracy isn't great but Im not trying to watch 4k movies on it either. I have been using this projector as my bedroom TV for watching tv and movies with my wife after the kids go to bed for almost three years, It sits on a dresser at the foot of the bed and is projected about 8 feet against a light-colored wall with no screen. Overall, it's been great. I suggest keeping the box for as long as you have the projector in-case you have any issues. -Setup was simple. (Blu-ray and Google TV) The projector uses a digital keystone correction so not great but honestly not a big deal for my use case. I used a YouTube video with test pattern to get it all aligned and focused. - Picture Quality is clear and Bright even with our bedside table lamps on. During the day if we have the curtains closed to block out direct sunlight its dimmer but still watchable. See my warranty exchange below for some more details. - Sound It does have stereo speakers and for the first year that's all we used, and is more than adequate for most casual usage, however as I don't move the projector around, I got a nice set of PC Speakers with subwoofer and connected it to the projector' 3.5mm audio out for much fuller sound. - The remote works and is basic, but I only use it for getting into the settings, otherwise I use my google tv remote to turn it on and adjust volume. **Warranty Exchanged** As noted on other reviews I did start to get some brown spots appearing on the screen (again this is not a high-end projector and it was 2 years after I got it that they appeared), however this projector has a three-year warranty. I contacted the company, and they had me send my old one back and they sent a new replacement. This is why I say keep the box. To be honest I didn't realize the projector had the three year warranty until I was about to throw out the box. The projector does have a filter in the front that needs to be cleaned out. My projector was not in a dusty environment but even with regular dusting and cleaning it must have gotten too warm.

Things I wish I had known before I bought it: 1) Contrary to the description, there is NO motorized zoom. The only zoom functions are the X and Y zoom controls which digitally scale (down) the image into a smaller area. You will not have full resolution if you use the zoom. 2) The keystone control is also digitally scales the image, and you will not have full resolution if you change the keystone. 3) The image is centered in front of the projector. The projector will always be in front of the middle of the image unless you use the digital keystone function. Many projectors offset the image so the projector is close to or even below the bottom of the image. This one does not. 4) A note in the manual "Part of the video in Netflix and the main video formats can not be exported externally due to copyright protection (HDCP protocol)." I take this to mean that the projector is not a valid HDCP device. That is very disturbing for a display product with HDMI inputs. Other notes: It is nowhere near as bright as my 6,000 ANSI lumen Panasonic projector, but it is close to my 2,400 ANSI lumen HP Projector. I'm currently using it with VGA input, so the HDCP issues mentioned in the manual aren't affecting me. The quality of the glass seems pretty good. It carries pretty even brightness and focus across the whole screen. The mount points are 155mm x 225mm and require four 10mm M4 screws. It is nicely light weight at less than 8 lbs. The focus range is about 5' to 18' For every foot of distance from the projector to the screen, you get abut 9.6 inches of diagonal screen size (16:9 aspect ratio). So at 5' distance, your screen is about 48" diagonal, 8' gives 77", 10' gives 96", 14' gives 135" and 18' gives 173". For indoor use under conference room lighting on a good projection screen, you probably don't want to make it much bigger than 96" diagonal (for a presentation. Obviously, screen size and brightness are a direct trade off. If you want it brighter, use a smaller screen.) The 15 second power on time and the instant power off time (fan doesn't continue to run) are really nice. I'm sure I'll use this projector from time to time. I wish the seller wouldn't claim a motorized zoom when there is no mechanical zoom mechanism at all!

1-month review. Per the price tag, this is a budget $200-225 generic projector. That said, there looks to be 1000's of entries in this weight class. My projector application is ceiling mounted in a garage which we've converted into our in-home gym during quarantine. Projector needs to be bright enough to handle some usage during dusk hours with the garage open and daytime hours with the garage closed despite ambient light from windows along the top of our garage door. Night time any/all projectors should work. It's the ability to work with ambient light that I care about. I am not picky about video quality; 1080P is the minimum. Primary source is a TCL Alto 8+ Soundbar with built-in FireTV so the projector audio has never been used. Based on reviews, decided to replace my another budget (lightning deal) projector, the GooDee BL98 with this YABER Y30 model. Both models are in the $200-225 range. The GooDee had pretty terrible, washed out colors with a clear lack of brightness in my application. The Yaber was significantly better across the board. Best part is that the FireTV remote can control the Yaber project power on/off so I could ditch the Yaber remote entirely. The Yaber is the rare projector with both vertical and horizontal keystones making it more accommodating for different throw environments. Lux vs Lumens Name brand projectors all advertise lumens as it is the total output of visible light from a light source making for easy comparison between products. It's how you compare all light bulbs! The generic projectors choose to report lux as a way to confuse consumers. Lux is the amount of light that is cast on a surface and is dependent on the distance and angle from the bulb to the surface. Never do the generic projectors tell you the distance and angle they're using to calculate the lux of their product. Moreover, the consumer's application will undoubtedly vary from the manufacturer's chosen angle/distance. Thus, the generic manufacturer chooses an arbitrary angle/distance so that they can report much higher lux values giving the appearance that their projectors are in the same class as their competitors / more expensive projectors. As an example, they could decide to throw at 1m (3 ft) away from the screen, dead center on a tripod and report 15,000 lux. Is that better than a 4,000 lumens projector? Probably not! Is it useful? Nope, nobody sets their projector up like this. Does let me report a big number for my product and do consumers like big numbers so they buy more of my product? Yes, they do. tldr; lux is a joke. Since lumens isn't provided, the only real test is to get it, mount it, and see for yourself. Return it if it's not to your liking and punish these manufacturers for providing fake brightness metrics. Yaber Y30 advertises as 7200 L which is in lux. The GooDee BL98 used to have 6800 lux on its product page but that's been replaced with 1 candela lux (LoL). My original garage projector was the Anker Nebula Mars II which is rated at 300 lumens. This was not good enough unless it was the darkest of nights. The GooDee is probably 2x that but with poor picture quality. The Yaber is likely 2.5 - 3.0x the Anker with decent picture quality. My living room name brand projector (Optoma HD39HDR) is rated at 4000 lumens and would blow away all of these garage projectors but at 4x the cost. Because I was able to try an inferior model in this same price class, the Yaber looks like a champion and a keeper at this price point. Your mileage may vary.

The full HD (1920 x1080) and decent light (5000 lumens) made for a nice picture in our meeting room even without all the lights turned off...though we did have to turn off at least a few. I would say the 5000 lumens measured by Yaber for this unit was about equal to the 2400 lumens Epson rated our older projector. Given that the Epson cost over 6 times as much, though, I was not surprised and in fact was pleased that this projector was as bright as it was. Be aware that you should have an active video feed while trying to adjust zoom or keystone settings...otherwise, it's difficult to know what you're adjusting. The feature set is really good. The ability to adjust both vertical and horizontal keystones is something normally found only on $1000+ projectors. It's pretty quiet compared to the projectors we used in the past. This is our first projector with an LED bulb...I'm hopeful that it's lifespan is as great as I've heard. Though the projector definitely matches the description and it's a good machine for it's price, I would suggest improvements in a couple of areas. 1) Have a separate ring with lever for focus...having to screw and unscrew the lens itself by grabbing the rim of the lens increases the chance of smearing the lens with your fingers. 2) Use an analog zoom with easy controls on top of the unit instead of a digital one where you have to go through the onscreen menu and separately zoom the X and Y axis. Sort of strange you have to zoom each axis separately...not sure of the practical use? 3) It would be nice if keystone adjustment could be made on the unit itself instead of through the menu. Self-adjusting vertical keystone based on angle of unit may be too much to ask for in this price range, but would be nice.

(EDIT: The projector lens started to “burn our” with a fuzzy blue blob overtaking the picture. The company sent us a replacement projector and after another year or do it happened again. Not recommended for long term use.) Overall this is a very good projector with one (fixable) sound problem. Due to a licensing issue, products made by the company will not play Dolby sound. We hooked up our Apple TV and while there was sound on Amazon prime, there was no sound on Netflix because Netflix uses Dolby. The workaround was to go into the settings on our Apple TV and switch the sound from Dolby to normal stereo. Once we did that it worked fine. We thought we might have issues with our other devices (Roku, Blu-ray player, Xbox) but all of those were fine. So basically if you are OK with only stereo sound and can make adjustments to your settings if necessary, it should work. Also, I wish the volume was a little louder. We watched a movie with the volume all the way up to 100 and while it sounded fine, there were a couple of quiet scenes where I wanted to turn it up louder and couldn’t. So we may eventually buy speakers for that reason. But they are not a necessity. The fan is very quiet. One other thing to point out: if you use the keystoning feature, which is a necessity if hanging from the ceiling, it will throw off the focus somewhat. You can either have the top of the image super crisp and the bottom of the image a little blurry, or vice versa. This is the third projector we have used and in my experience this is coming across all projectors. It’s a physics issue, not an issue unique to this device. I adjusted the focus halfway so it is just slightly blurry on both the top and bottom, and barely notice. Picture is great! Very bright and colorful. We can have all the lights on in the room and still easily see what is happening on the screen (though it is a little washed out of course). In the dark it is fabulous.

I just want to say off tops that this is my first projector. I recently added on a 14’x16’ screened porch and was in the market for a 1080p native projector. This review is based on that need and purpose. I have fairly high standards for picture quality. Bought a Panasonic VT50 plasma back in 2012 and had it professionally ISF calibrated. Still love that TV. Point being, I’ve been down that rabbit hole enough to where I can’t go back to inferior picture quality. I quickly figured out that puts me in the $650-$800 price range. Or so I thought. In comes the Yaber. It was named as the best budget projector on one of the dozen best of websites I checked (2 dozen). So it goes on the list. It has a ridiculously low price tag and I think, yeah right. After convincing myself not to buy it numerous times (26), I bought it...with the highest hopes and lowest expectations. On paper, this thing is a beast. It seems to have everything the higher priced brands have and more. “More” meaning, one projector may have this while another has that, but I noticed the Yaber had them all. Immediate red flags went up on my end given the price, but what the hell. I just bought a screened porch I can’t afford, right? I’ve used it now a dozen times or so and it does what it says. Paired it with an Elite manual B 100” screen. I couldn’t be happier with this combo for this price. Used the provided HDMI cable to hook up my old ROKU 3 and it all just works. Zero problems. The Picture Quality is great. Not once have I hesitated to set up the Yaber on the porch when I’ve got a 65” 4k inside. I get the full 100” 16:9 from around 13’ and it’s a real draw for the family. The brightness is perfect for that size room. Colors are distinguishable. I was worried they’d be washed out, but this thing is legit. For outdoor viewing, dusk is about as early as I’ll venture out. She really shines at night. Check my pix for proof. Go Cubs! The Y correction worked as advertised and is a must. I didn’t need the X correction, but it’s there and works. The built in speakers will get you watching straight out of the box, but you’ll soon be connecting it to external speakers. Proof of a review will get you a gift, but this projector deserves my review. I’ve waited over a month to make sure there are no issues. I’m still happy with my purchase and will provide updates if anything changes. Otherwise, I recommend. I just can’t imagine those bigger name brands are worth the extra money given what this can Yaber-dabba-do.

First, I was extremely disappointed the product box came damaged (although the shipping box was fine). Clearly, someone had at least attempted to open this box before (see first image). The remote control back was also partially snapped on (and in an illogical fashion if you are trying to emphasize how to remove the back). These issues lead me to believe I may have received a previously used unit. Factor that possibility into the image quality portion of this review . . . Even though the box is black and the image on the box depicts the black/silver/charcoal projector, I did receive a white projector (which is what I ordered). The projected image is fabulously bright in (even) a not-perfectly darkened room. I used this in a space with three skylights AND one large archway with an all-glass atrium attached. This room is NEVER fully dark. Even so, at night the image is fantastically bright (even though there is always a fair amount of ambient City light coming in from the skylights and atrium). The image is very good in the evening and even decently visible during the day, although one skylight then washes out a part of the screen. [This was expected, of course, and OK as the projector is intended for use mostly during nights. I might make a retractable shade for the one skylight to enhance daytime use if ultimately necessary.] I am attaching 5 images displayed by the projector, including 2 used in the WORST case scenario -- full daylight. [ Projected images are from the movie "A Prairie Home Companion" (2006, PictureHouse, distributed by: New Line, Director: Robert Altman). This is from a DVD up-scaled to 1080. I have no doubt Blu-Ray would look even better, but my Mom (for whom I am installing various A/V equipment) surprisingly doesn't have one available at the moment. Three images taken in the dark show great brightness. The MPAA rating screen and the white screen with text show pretty decent uniformity (most projectors -- especially inexpensive ones -- have problems in this area, often with greater center brightness and/or edge washout). The Harold Lloyd ad is a 4:3 aspect image -- the black bars left and right (in a 16:9 projected image!) are, indeed almost perfectly black -- virtually no bleed. So far, so good! In the two daylight images you will note the light wash of the left side of the screen from the skylight just above and to the left of the screen. [This is NOT the projector's fault, obviously!] The displayed images are still viewable, although obviously only a fraction as good as during the night. [I have included one medium-to-dark image (singer) and one image with dramatic contrast between light and dark. Much of the detail is visible even in a very bright room. ] Unfortunately, I am disappointed with the apparent resolution and focusing abilities of the Yaber Y30 projector. The projector's menus were initially almost unreadable when significant (about +37) vertical keystone adjustment was applied (clearly this adjustment is digital, so it drops a LOT of pixels to achieve it!). It also seemed just about impossible to focus at such an angle. I then raised the projector another 17 inches or so and was able to reduce vertical keystone to +16. At that point the menus become reasonably clear and the whole image seems in pretty good focus (which is how all photos accompanying this review were taken). Long term, this shortcoming would not be an issue in THIS installation as a permanent ceiling mount is envisioned, enabling fairly on-axis throws. However, the projector claims to have STRONG keystone adjustment capabilities. It is true in specifications, but not true in image quality (too many pixels dropped? see above)! [I do, however, leave open the possibility that the unit may have been damaged (see first paragraph).] One other significant negative is that the focusing ring is AWFUL. It is extremely thin, not properly knurled and barely protrudes from the housing when focused at "optimal" projection distance of 9 feet or so; in other words, it is difficult to grasp. Someone with no previous projector experience would likely NOT know how to properly focus this (the manual is very weak in this area, BTW, with just one mention on the graphical features listing). To give an idea how awful this is, I half-expected a MOTORIZED focus feature -- and of course could not find such on the remote or in the menus (since there is no motorized focus at this price point!). [If the projector is ceiling installed and eventually goes out of focus (heat, building vibration, other factors can cause this) -- imagine what a pain (and danger) this POOR FOCUS RING DESIGN could be when up on a ladder. In this particular installation the ceiling is at 10.5 feet! ] If you are planning to often place this projector in different environments, these two issues (keystone and manual focus) are in my opinion a total deal breaker. Another significant disappointment is the remote. The whole back snaps on with very thin, brittle looking/feeling clips; there is no battery compartment door. I'm pretty certain these clips would break after replacing batteries once or twice -- especially with an impatient user like my Mom. Also on the remote: projector orientation (front, rear-screen, upside down/ceiling mount) is a very prominent button. An unskilled newbie (again, like my Mom) might hit the button and be freaked out that everything is mirrored/backwards/upside down. A better option would be to have that button invoke a graphical menu which displays all 4 options on screen (in proper orientations, that would be EASY!) -- and then select the proper one with the <>^v buttons . . . The speakers are barely adequate (although, again, in this installation moot due to a sound system being available). Be aware of this if you are contemplating traveling presentations. I am trying the "WiMiUS Newest P28 6800 Lumens" tomorrow. It seems to address all the issues and their website is significantly better maintained/updated. They seem possibly more trustworthy in this sphere. This Yaber is going back. While the brightness is impressive, there are just too many shortcomings to ignore, especially if my Mom decides she doesn't want to use it (installed) long-term and it becomes a travel companion to someone else.