GoKawiilXGIMI Vibe One The XGIMI Vibe One is an affordable all-in-one Google TV with built-in speakers, battery, and stand that you can carry everywhere.
I’ve had my brand-spanking-new 65-inch Samsung The Frame Pro TV for less than a year, and it has been nothing but trouble since. It has random and frequent CEC issues with my Google TV Streamer and Samsung’s own soundbar, and it arbitrarily turns off when it shouldn’t in the middle of watching something. A few weeks ago, this $2,200 TV completely gave up. Any time I turned it on, it lasted all of five seconds, then turned off by itself. Samsung support in France has been extremely slow to react — it took them two weeks to pick it up for repair — leaving me with no other TV for weeks. Or maybe not?!
When my Frame Pro completely gave up on me in the middle of Real Madrid and Benfica’s UCL second-leg tie, I ran up to the bedroom, picked up the XGIMI Vibe One projector I’ve been sporadically using there, and set it up in the living room. And boom! I had a pseudo-TV right there, on my wall, just in time to catch Vinicius’ brilliant counterattack and 80-minute goal. So I’ve been using the $250 Vibe One for the last few weeks as my TV and, for the price, I couldn’t recommend it enough.
A $250 Google TV anywhere, anytime
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Pictured above is my dismounted, dead Samsung The Frame Pro, with the XGIMI Vibe One’s image projected on the wall right above it. So let’s rip the band-aid first: No, the 1080p image with 250 ISO Lumens isn’t as good as my Neo QLED 4K TV’s display, especially the luminosity and contrast. I have to completely close all shutters and curtains to be able to enjoy what I’m watching. In these situations, I can almost forget that I’m watching a projection and not my TV.
However, in anything but a pitch-dark room, the image appears even more washed out, just like in the photo below, where there’s daylight streaming in from one shutterless door behind me. But is it watchable? Yes, it is. Does it do the job as a secondary, portable TV experience? Of course, it does.
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Even the two 3W built-in JBL speakers with Dolby Audio have been doing a good job when catching music videos, watching YouTube, following football matches, and watching TV series. Again, it’s obviously not the same experience as my soundbar, but I have to remind myself that this is a $250 all-in-one 65-inch (and larger) TV that I can carry up and down the stairs between my bedroom and living room in a second.
This is a $250 all-in-one humongous TV with built-in battery, speakers, and stand, that I can carry up and down the stairs in a second.
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