The vertical keystone capability is nice, but it still won’t make up for an image that’s way too distorted because of the angle between the projector and image surface. With the M1 Mini you have to figure out a way to elevate the projector so that the image doesn’t appear at floor level or is unreasonably distorted. Using a tripod allows you to easily position the projector at a 90-degree angle to the projection surface. Unfortunately, the bottom of the projector lacks the tripod mount that the M1+ offers, a feature that’s sorely missed.
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You’re not going to blast the neighbors if you are holding an outdoor movie night, but in an inside room, it sounds great.Ī fold-down lens cover also serves double-duty as a stand for the projector, and as with its big brother, can be raised upward to provide a handy carrying handle. Inside the case is a 50-lumen LED light source, a battery good for a maximum of 2.5 hours of play time, and a really nice-sounding 2 watt JBL speaker. Other thank looking pretty, they seem kind of pointless, as they don’t do anything more than change the color of the top of the projector. I don’t really know why they did this, it kind of seems like putting lipstick on a pig (with apologies to Miss Piggy). The top of the projector has a pop-off color panel that lets you swap out the teal panel that the projector has out-of-box with a gray or yellow one included in the box. The M1 Mini really is a very compact unit, measuring just four inches square and an inch high. When Viewsonic named the projector, it hit the nail on the head. But for many, that won’t be a deal-breaker. For less money, you get fewer features and less flexibility. In some ways, the M1 Mini is similar to the larger and brighter M1+, but it’s not just a shrunken version of the more expensive pico projector.
The Viewsonic M1 Mini, the little brother of the M1+ we reviewed a short while ago, is the newest addition to Viewsonic’s video projector family.
Then they kind of disappeared for a while, and are now experiencing a renaissance.
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Pico projectors-small portable video projectors-were popular about a decade ago. Wait! Is That a Projector in Your Pocket?