Chinese projector manufacturer JMGO Thursday held an event where it officially announced a new home projector. The JMGO Smart Wall O1 home projector is a close-range projection device equipped with innovative projection technology developed by JMGO. The Smart Wall O1 is a brand new category from JMGO Projector and it doesn’t need to be placed very far from the screen in order to achieve a large picture size. Instead, at a distance of just 27 cm from the screen, it can project a picture the size of a traditional projector.
The product adopts a brand-new design with
improvements in form and function. In terms of appearance, the JMGO Smart Wall
O1 draws inspiration from the arc of the runway, and the color scheme of
moonlight silver brings a minimalist design style. It uses ultra-short throw
technology and its biggest feature is the fact that it can be projected very
close to the wall, and its projection ratio (ratio of projection distance to
screen width) is as small as 0.25:1, while the projection ratio of traditional
high-end projection is generally 1.2:1. This means that users can place the
product 27 cm away from the wall and project an 80-inch screen.
The projector has a resolution of
1920×1080 pixels. It equally has the smallest picture distortion rate and the
highest coverage color gamut so far among JMGO’s products. The company says it
took their engineers 12 months to achieve a reduction of the projection
distance while ensuring that the image quality is not affected as much as
possible. One major advantage of the shortened projection distance is that
users do not have to worry about blocking the projector when walking around at
home. Also, users don’t have to rearrange the home furniture to achieve a
suitable projection distance.
Further, the JMGO Smart Wall O1 is also
equipped with a color temperature sensor, which adjusts the color temperature
for different colored walls. In terms of the hardware, the Smart Wall O1 is
equipped with the MediaTek MT9669 chip, which can realize intelligent noise
reduction, support high dynamic range imaging and motion compensation. Thanks
to the zero-perception picture speed correction technology, the product can
automatically adjust the picture skew caused by the machine placement problem
and refocus.
For sound, JMGO partnered with Dynaudio,
and the speaker is tuned by Dynaudio. The projector is equipped with two 7W
speakers. The projector features four customized sound effect modes: standard,
movie, event, and music modes. JMGO also added during the press conference that
there is a Smart Wall O1 Pro projector in the works. For that model, the
company is teaming up with Leica for joint optimization of the optical and
mechanical designs, lens selection, imaging standard formulation, image
optimization, and other aspects tailored towards enhancing the picture quality
experience.
The JMGO Smart Wall O1 home projector has
a starting price of 3899 yuan (US$ 598). The product will go on sale from April
29 but is already up for pre-orders in China via Jingdong (JD.com).
