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Hello and welcome to this week's Better Offline monologue.

I'm your host, Ed Zittron.

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And today I'm talking about stuff I actually like, specifically the anchor nebula x1 projector.

For many years, I've dreamed about a projector that you could just kind of sit down and project with.

You don't have to fuck around with it too much, down it to suspend it from a ceiling or sit perfectly in front of a screen.

And in as much as possible, you could just

point it out a wall or a screen and it would work and you could just start watching stuff,

and the X1 is about as close as I think we're ever going to get. It's fairly compact. It's maybe

the size of a subwoofer or half the size of a carry-on suitcase, weighing in just under 14

pounds with a handle that pops up with a satisfying click.

It does 4K resolution, uses something called triple laser technology that anchor has a great

deal of marketing material about that mostly just comes down to it.

It looks very, very good.

And it bloody well should, because the X1 costs just over $3,000 with the wireless speakers,

which I'll get to in a little bit.

And yes, I bought it with my own money. I don't really spend money on myself outside of Diet Coke and baseball tickets anyway. Really, though, it looks really, really good, like a very high-end 4K TV, though perhaps not as contrasty as a high-end OLED. It's clear, it's crisp, and looks that way if're projecting onto a wall or in my case, something called an Epson Duo 80-inch screen. I chose the duo because I'm using this projector in a cramped New York apartment with no big wall to project onto, and the geo-o literally clips onto a tripod and pulls open in 15 seconds. I'll link to it in the episode notes. I love this screen. It's just you put the

tripod down, you slide the thing on and you pull it open. I had a few bolts pop out on mine, but you can just screw them back on. It's very much a working presenter type thing. You can imagine some horrible salesman wheeling it around and trying to sell you. I was going to say ties. I don't think you really get door-to-door salesman of ties.

Anyway, the X-1 for the moment. it around and trying to sell you. I was going to say ties. I don't think you really get

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