Customer Ratings & Reviews

At times, I can be a video snob. I own multiple high-refresh rate OLED gaming monitors, I use OLED TVs...I'm about quality with my videos. With that said, I have to admit, at this price point, I originally really liked the Vankyo Leisure 470 Neo Projector...that is until I struggled hard with a feature it stated it is supposed to have. This thing is small, which is awesome! Traveling with the Leisure 470 Neo would be relatively easy. It comes with a cover to block the area that projects, keeping it safe in a bag, throw that in any backpack as small as it is with its remote and you're good to go...as long as you have another device with it. Set up on this thing is super easy. Plug it up, bam. You're ready to go. Now, using it, mileage varies in regards to difficulty. HDMI, super easy. Plug in your device, you're good to go. I plugged in my PS5, it worked like it would anywhere else. Mirroring my phones...that was different. Mirroring my iPhone was easy. I followed the instructions on the device, it worked fine. Now, when I went to watch a streaming service via that method, I got HDCP issues (audio, no video). Mirroring my Pixel, didn't work. My pixel 8 Pro didn't recognize the device. I checked for updates on my phone, on the device, my phone didn't recognize it. I tried DLNA, it didn't work on either phone. Again, checked for updates, checked the networks repeatedly, turned off my cell network and used just wifi...no go. This could just be a hiccup and over time it could work, but this shouldn't be that hard. I mirror/airplay on other devices with no problem. As for video quality, it's not that bad. No, it's not 4k with the blackest blacks...but with the size of this device, to be able to just take it anywhere, pop it out and have a huge display...it's nice. Still, my issue airplaying from this device means it goes from something you can take anywhere with a screen and your phone, to something you can take anywhere with a screen, and an HDMI device. The portability of the Leisure 470 Neo combined with its price point make it something I want to love, but my issues with airplaying streaming services make it something I struggle to recommend. With HDMI devices, or maybe an external drive, it's great, but with the amount of hoops I jumped through to try to airplay to the device and it still not work, at this moment, I wouldn't be able to recommend it.

This projector has no dial to adjust the focus. I am using this to project murals and without the ability to adjust the focus it is pretty useless. I missed my return window by two days. Not happy with this purchase at all.

Not easy to mirror with my laptop or android.But my friends apple hook up easy.

The Vankyo Leisure 470 Neo is a tiny, Wi-Fi capable projector. By tiny, the footprint is half of a normal sheet of paper with a height of about 3.5 decks of cards. It's not going into a pocket, well, maybe on some large cargo pants, but it is eminently portable. Comes with a power cable, HDMI cable, and remote with everything nicely wrapped in a bunch of plastic. The projector itself is pretty simple, you've got physical buttons that allow accessing everything and the menu system felt intuitive to me. Pretty much, you can switch inputs (2 HDMI and one AV input), do keystone correction, or connect to a smartphone. You can also flip the input which is nice for rear screen projection (my favorite way to use projectors). There's also some status you can look at. I experimented with both HDMI and wireless screen mirroring using my Android phone. For that, I've got a USB-C to HDMI adapter which the HDMI cable plugs into then into the first input on the projector. The projector is specced as 720p but can downconvert 1080p. Picture quality was ok. Not great but acceptable for something mobile if you're outdoors or just watching a tv show or movie on the go. I would not use this as a business/presentation projector - for text it never seemed to be sharp enough no matter how I adjusted the throw - focus is fixed. Similarly, as I wouldn't use this for reading or presenting text, I also wouldn't use this for gaming unless it was really simple kid like stuff. The contrast ratio and brightness are also pretty low so for most people, this will only be useable in a dark room which may be inconvenient at times. Because yeah, you can take it around anywhere, but you can only really use it at night or when you can darken the area you're in. Rear projection is a technique I've used for relatively lower brightness projectors in a room that's otherwise daylit. What you do is keep the room behind the projector screen (typically a frosted transparent film like a shower curtain) dark but in front of the screen can be lit. However, one typically fixes the projector in place and so you'd likely want a higher res, higher contrast, or both for such use as you're typically not moving it around. Sound also sucks from the projector. As you're likely playing or streaming content from something else capable of sound (I think it's unlikely people are lugging around a standalone dvd player to use with this), you're probably better off having the sound come from there. Unfortunately, you may not be able to have that happen with either the HDMI connection or it's screen mirroring unless your device has as special mode to also play local sound. Speaking of mirroring, this is another failure point of the Leisure 470 Neo. It works, but it's clearly not Chromecast. Maybe Miracast. Essentially, while HDMI let's me output my phone screen or replicate it, the mirroring just replicates the screen. Which means your phone must be on the entire time you're playing content to the projector. So, make sure you also have your phone charger handy. Also, because it's not a Chromecast receiver, certain apps don't actually let you mirror video wirelessly but they will if you use the USB-C to HDMI adapter. So yes, portable, but also yes, you still need to carry around a lot of cables. Then, the other portability hit is no battery. 3.3lbs is great. That's the weight of many "light" laptops and even Chromebooks. I'd gladly double that and maybe extend the width a bit for 3.3lbs of battery. That plus being a Chromecast receiver would almost make this perfect - the poor speakers and brightness/view limitations would be acceptable. Instead however, we're stuck with a bunch of compromises that were made just to be able to say this is among the most compact projectors out there and it doesn't seem worth it.