okay, hear me out. You know what would be a cool movie night? But in the pool, like outside, like with a projector. Yeah, this feels like when you asked me to put a TV in the bedroom. You begged for years, and you used it one time. So, just make a video. If they can find a sponsor, I'll do it. They're not going to find a sponsor. I found a sponsor. What a... okay, fine. But if we're going to do this, I'm doing it my way. Sick movie-watching experience, but easy to deploy and tear down and tuck away for when my family inevitably doesn't flipping use it. And we're going to do it with the C2 Ultra 4K projector from Hisense and my world-class team of helpers. That's me. No extra holes, no promises. Do you want to drill the holes? I do not trust myself. Why do you always sound surprised with these things? Come on, let's go. After I was assigned to this video, my first task was to actually figure out more details from Ion. How big of a

screen does she want? How important is sound? You know, that kind of thing. And oh, too late now that we're committed. Then we need to come up with a plan for where all of this is getting mounted. We were originally thinking hot tub viewing, but that limits the number of people who can watch, and realistically, you can't hang out in the hot tub for an hour and a half at a time. So instead of mounting the screen here, we settled on the longer beam right over here. Except looking at it now, I think that's actually really stupid, and we should probably put it on that one. Why? Because you could totally see this from the shallow end of the pool anyway. Yeah, but you want to be in the deep end. Why? Jaws. The experience of Jaws. I've never seen. You have never seen. Realistically, we could put it anywhere we want though because it actually reaches 300 in size thanks to its 3,000 lumens. Now, to be clear, that's not enough for daylight viewing, but as we make our way into the

evening. It's going to make a big difference to the perceived contrast. The screen was actually really difficult to find, mainly 'cause I was looking for two key things. One of Avon's requirements was that it needed to be a drop-down screen, so that way it could be moved out of the way whenever she wanted it. And the other one was a rear projection screen, 'cause I don't want the projector in the pool, right? Or out in the rain. You guys might have noticed we live in Vancouver. Our weather isn't always great. It's powered. Yeah. Why'd you get a powered one? Well, 'cause you know you can hit a button and it goes up and down. Yeah, but then we have to wire it up. Yeah, you got power right there, dude. I know you follow Evon's requirements. What about my requirements? Your requirements was a sponsor, and thankfully Elite screens sent this over. They recommended the 100 in, so that it's big enough for movie enjoyment, but not so big that we lose some of that brightness from going

too far back. Okay, so just, uh, roll it up, put it on the tip, then unroll it. I'm working. Did you not attend sex ed, Claz? I just can't believe Yard Master is an actual line of projector screens, and this is longer than a yard. What's a yard? A meter? It's an American meter. Question for you: have you given any thought to how we're going to handle power for now, both the projector and the screen? Yeah, you have an extension cord, and then I have a power bar. Oh, okay, I have thought about it. Not much, but a bit. Why don't you go ahead and run that, and then I'm going to go take a look at the projector. Sounds good. Inside the box, we find the remote, complete with, oh, probably the app shortcuts you would actually use, as well as a power cable and the star of the show, The C2 Ultra. The mount swivels and tilts, giving you a ton of versatility, and it even has a 1/4-20-in threaded hole on the bottom if you wanted

to ceiling-mounted or put it on a light stand or whatever the case may be, or if you don't want to mount it, you can pick it up and move it to any room in your house, and the auto keystoning you'll see in a second will fix that. [Music] Here we go. Theoretically, it should look pretty good. It uses Hisense's pure tricolor laser, which is a fancy way of saying that it uses three laser lights and then combines them before they shoot out the lens. This contributes to a brighter picture than conventional lamp projectors and even than some single laser ones. Hisense also boasts much better color accuracy with a Delta E of about 0.9. Oh, here we go. Oh, I love that auto image correction with cameras on the front. Oh, I probably shouldn't do that with the keystone done. You can see it's doing autofocus now and having a look at the I/O. It's pretty solid. They've got two HDMI ports, including one with E, and some USB ports for media file.

playback naturally. We're going to be streaming most of our media, so let's go ahead and get logged in and fire something up. Have you come down to check on your completely impractical project? No. Is it cool? I don't know. You tell me. This is really small. Let it never be said that I've never done anything for love. Using just whatever magnets Linus had left, we actually took the cable red along here underneath the floor mat and all the way up to here. But now I need to mount the screen so I know actually where that cable is coming out, which is why we've ended it here for now. But I don't know, it looks pretty slick, dude. This looks pretty good. And the brightness is apparently at 50. That is really not making much difference. Let's put it back to 50. Oh, here we go. It's cranked. This might be kind of usable, Elijah. Yeah, they also partnered with Dolby and IMAX for Dolby Vision and IMAX Enhanced certification. Employee movie nights, let's go. You don't

want to sit in the pool. I will fight you on this. You got an ear infection last time you swam in the pool. Maybe clean your pool. My pool was clean. Yeah, I just didn't to get the water out. Your ear was dirty. Wow, you did a really good job of that. The cable management while we were in there. Why do you always sound surprised with these things? Best part about modern cases. Take this off, please. Do not tell Lonus I put like five extra holes in someone's wall. What? And it meets my requirement of being able to be tucked away easily because it's all using our magnetic cable management stuff. Heck yeah. Boop boop. Sick. Um, I couldn't help noticing you didn't finish, though. Well, we need to mount the screen 'cause I don't know where the cable comes out of that screen to be able to route to that point. Got it. I'm fine. Okay, I don't know. My hand was there. Why is there a camera here? Well, we need two angles for later when we're in the pool relaxing. We're not.

going in the pool today, are we? It's a pool movie theater. We have to test it. It's cold and raining. Well, you're not going to notice the rain 'cause you're in the pool. You know it's not heat this time of year, right? Turn the computers on. Isn't that how you heat it? I think we're ready to drill some holes. Um, there you go. There's one. Well, I mean, you got to no dud. You got to check the size. I'm aware, sir. I just gave you. You're aware, sir. What, you turn into you like wear a suit at the full moon? Oh, awar, sir. Do you want to hold the projector or do you want to drill the holes? I'm holding the projector screen 'cause I do not trust myself. Good answer. Uh, okay, so like there, sure. Wait, did you measure it? What do you mean? Like, did you get a measuring tape? Like, do you actually know or are you just? I was eyeballing it. No, we're not eyeballing. Oh my goodness, 362. So that's 181. 181 is our

Mark, and then conveniently, there's a little thumbtack in here from putting up decorations for some birthday party. So, I'm just going to use that as our center mark. Well, that's not 181, I know, so I'm going to move it. Okay, we're going to go right, uh, hold on, let's see. It needs to go all the way up. I'm going for it. A, I mean, good is a really, really strong word to describe what that is. But you think we can get the other side up there? I'm working on it. I'm working here. This is really bad. This is very bad, Elijah. We're going to have an extra hole, and it wasn't me. Okay, hold on. Okay, just let it down. Let it down. We're going to, you know what, we're going to go for gold here. At least it's kind of level. It's fine. The auto keystoning will fix it. That's not how that works. Okay, we ready? Look at that. Here we go, boys. I think it might need to be turned around, Elijah. You know what? No, this

makes sense. No, this makes sense because the facing on this is this way. I was just going to say so this has got to be it. Okay, we're good. We got it. We have to 'cause if you were going to wall mount it, this is on the side. You would wall mount it, yeah, and then you would see the... yeah, we're... I'm pretty sure this is right. Elite, if we got it wrong, send me an email. Now I really don't know if I want to commit to mounting this projector up there yet. I think I need to see it in action first. So for now, I'm just going to use that quarter 20 Mount and throw on a tripod. That might actually be usable. No way, this is pretty sick. It's not even that dark out right now. Could you imagine like in the summer, super late at night, pitch blackout? We definitely don't have it perfectly leveled. No, no, no, there's still alignment things to do. Okay, one sec. Okay, I think we can adjust this. Elijah, move it a little farther away. Oh, here we go. Oh

nice uh okay. I definitely need it bigger. There's a little bit of water. Stop, don't touch it. There's water, don't touch it. There's water, don't touch it. This might be usable. I'm so happy. Do you want to get in the pool and test? Well, get in the pool. We haven't even set up the audio yet. Oh yeah, but we wanted to test the speakers that are included. It's got 2.1, that whole base is a sub. I don't think I need to be in the pool for that. Okay, what am I trying to do again? Crab Rave? No, I'm trying to change the language and location. Germany? Yeah, there's your problem right there. I said it so no one could docks you. Uh yeah, wait, Canada's not even an option. Hi sense, sense the United States is not. Oh, we must have gotten a Euro model. Okay, I don't know, whatever. We're in the UK. I mean, we could set up speakers. Yeah, but this is only Center Channel. We want surround. What was your plan exactly? I saw

a receiver. There were you going to like ceiling mount that or like what did you think this through yeah it's easy to roll up and pack away so we'll just put it on a chair and then we'll cut speaker wire for speakers that I bought off Facebook Marketplace. We'll just drag them in the yard. I thought this through. I probably should have expected that he wouldn't want to go with the speaker route. That's not really easy to pull out and easy to put away you know especially a big sub like this um but I also didn't expect him to actually get in the pool so I guess I actually need to get to inflating the pool floaties I bought. I bought four of them. Oh man the rain is really coming down. Are you sure this is a good idea Elijah 100% confident. Oh good oh great we put it over there. Well you can get in from the ladder. It's so cold. This is so unpleasant dude. No no you're going to like it once you use it. No I come back.

there's a hole in the middle where your butt gets in the water. No, I'm not coming back to. I need the other one. You get your own floaty. Well, push me, push me, not into it. How am I supposed to get it back to you now? Oh, I'll go from the other side, Elijah. Sorry, can you spin me? No, how am I supposed to spin you? I see a flaw now. Okay, hold on. Maybe if I like stick my foot through the dut hole, I can kind of... It's propellers. No, no, it works. Works, dude. It works. It works. Oh, dude, no, I'm so maneuverable now. All right. Oh, dude, these have hooks. We can hook each other. Neutral hooker. Nice, nice. Now I can pull you. Oh, now I don't have to do anything. We have the power, dude. This is awesome. It actually looks shockingly [Music] good. Oh, man. Normally, I'm against like r/ TV too high, you know, like this would be too high, but I... But when you're reclined this much, it's kind of fine. Does it look

pretty good on camera, Andy. It's a little bright. It's a little bright. It's a little bright. That's actually a good thing. I'm not sure if I can fix that, Andy. This is so ridiculous. Do you want to try some gaming? Yeah, I guess so. No, I want the Alpha seat. No, I want the Alpha SE. I want the Alpha seat. You move at this distance. There is a little bit of input latency on the control. Oh, that makes sense. Yeah, hold on. I'm working on it. I'm working on it. Yeah, get me closer. I'm working on it. I can't kill demons even with like the pool lights on and stuff. It doesn't really bother it. I thought the extra city lighting would honestly be more, but like it's pretty good. Yeah, all right, Elijah. I got to give it to you. It's pretty sick. Heck, all right. Thank you for convincing me, and thank you, Hisense, for sending the projector and sponsoring this video. If you guys enjoyed this video, why not go check out our coverage of the Hisense booth.

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