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I second the Happrun. Money is tight for me, I bought one to get my home theatre running on a budget. I’m quite happy with it.

I bought the hy350pro on AliExpress and after 3 or 4 maybe movies, and let say 5 hours of tv shows, I started noticing some black stains. I thought it was from the wall but it sure is dust in the lenses. So I won't play and try to clean it, I send it back. My next pick will be the happrun h1 (I dig dipper, in the cheap projector mud). But this one as a little door to clean the dust. Hope it helps, sry for my English.

Please, please, please watch some videos over at [www.youtube.com/thehookup](http://www.youtube.com/thehookup) \- He covers cheap models and better models and talks about the tech. It will help you get WAY more informed. Brands like Vankyo, RCA, Kodak, Miroir, etc. are using single LCD panel projector tech which is absolute bottom of the line. It is super unreliable, and you are lucky to get more than a few hundred lumens from most of the projectors in this class. My opinion: If you are going cheap - GO CHEAP! Models like the Happrun H1 are under $100 and look quite good for the money. Get a Amazon Fire TV Stick ($25) to go with it. That will give you streaming and Bluetooth audio capabilities. There are better models that are closer to your top budget, like the XGimi and Anker models that are out there. It is their low end models and they aren't very bright. Read the specs on their models for claimed brightness, but again, a few hundred lumens is about the most you will be getting, which is a LONG way from the 2,000+ lumens you get from many of the $1,000+ models. So, any ambient light will significantly impact the image with these low-lumen models.

Magcubic is a cheap no-name Chinese company that sells extremely low end product. They are bought a lot, but also have a ton of issues. They are very dim, and not appropriate for any serious home theater. You REALLY want to check the videos over at [www.youtube.com/thehookup](http://www.youtube.com/thehookup) as he just put out a sub-$500 projector shootout. The Nexigo PJ40 was ranked best, with some other options in there. He also has done a similar shootout for sub-$100 projectors. Here's the deal: At this price point you are getting mostly no-name models which use single LCD panel technology that is prone to failure. Understand you aren't buying long term quality, and that's half the battle. Then you don't get brightness, or sharpness, or quiet operation. Whatever issues you have will rarely get any support from the manufacturer. The single LCD often doesn't get proper cooling and it (literally) burns up, or the from polarizer burns up. This appears as a brown spot in the image. I personally bought the Happrun H1 for about $70 on Amazon. It was inexpensive, and it is okay, at best. I hooked up a Amazon Fire TV Stick to it, and it showed an image. Yay. It filled my 110" diagonal screen with what was a usable, but dim image. The noise was significantly more than my branded higher end projector (JVC) and my used BenQ models (HT2050a, W1070) but the Happrun only put out about 1/10th the light output. Audio should generally be considered an afterthought on most projectors. Not all of them, but in general, audio isn't that good. A decent Bluetooth speaker is often a significant step up in audio quality.

Yes, and no. I can't stand projector noise. The audio should not have to be cranked way up to drown out fan noise, but decent projectors have fairly silent fans. My Happrun H1 ($60) compared to my JVC DLA-X590R ($4K+) is about 10:1 noise. I run the JVC in low lamp mode and the fans are very quiet. But, the noise is still there, and when the movie gets quiet, I hear them. The XGimi Titan Noir? Damn near silent. I need to be a few inches away from the projector to hear it at all. The same 10:1 audio level I heard between the Happrun and the JVC is repeated with the JVC to the XGimi. I am truly blown away that modern laser projectors can be so damn quiet for the money. I expect that the general electronics noise of a TV may be barely more quiet than the XGimi. I haven't compared UST projectors and likely won't get the chance to do so anytime soon.

I don't know who is paying $3K for a 100" TV when there are well reviewed models at $1,500. If you're comparing like to like, then that's more like a $5,000 UST projector to the $3,000 100" TV. Most people don't move around every couple of years. Most people have a family room with windows. This is why 100" televisions make a ton of sense. They are designed for bright room use. You hang them once, then you are good for the entire time you live in the home. If you bump it, then it doesn't knock everything out of alignment. If the wall is warped, the TV doesn't care. If there are big windows in the room, the TV cares, but looks 100 times better than the UST projector could hope to look. A TV doesn't require a $1,000 screen to make it look it's best in a bright room. A projector is a projector is a projector. Even with good UST/ALR screens, at $1,000 or more, you aren't getting nearly the brightness, punch, or contrast that a $1,500 television delivers. On the other hand, in a room that is always kind of dim, and dark at night, and a screen size of 120" or more, there is simply no television that can match the size for the money. You also don't get that reflected projector look and vibe from any television. But, there are real reasons to not get a projector for your family room, and that is mostly about it being a far better image from the television for WAY less money.

i'm heavily against the hy300 because it's the #1 garbage that gets posted here about it having a problem. if you want something cheap get the happrun h1

The Happrun H1 is the only projector I'd recommend in your price range.

The[ Happrun H1](http://amazon.com/Projector-Bluetooth-100Screen-Compatible-Smartphone/dp/B0B28G5Y4R/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3TBD0A2UYN3XA&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.jd1-AvMPZZUQ-7mYtbaTqV0kBCDlHJhCZ9GU_ltvb5mcbsWBO9YsERCSUQySQ6UvkiN-PkYVJITxyu7TZFDyz8XfFwFyA8K2FUnBbPbTTQ1ZtT4PuYlF_zPI9tkXGMAVzgJ2r2xWFCT44Hc-f3gcZMJoJpu4G_vXTM_KRA19ZOFAw4FdN1QlzBo-QTmtfbqSOXyy5YxCSBEGF6mnS51oh1CLa4NblawoU-a_bE0lhq4.9cZDKOjGC4e08284EVNx9JDYGKD0S9PLNDPI4P3NfDk&dib_tag=se&keywords=happrun+h1&qid=1780698030&sprefix=happrun+h1%2Caps%2C167&sr=8-1) is the ONLY projector I'd recommend under $200. Not affiliated with them, but have owned and used one for years. It's not bad, especially for $90.

It won't be perfect but it will totally get the job done