Excelvan BL-59 HD Multimedia Projector - the cheap android
If a silly projector isn’t enough, don’t buy anything worse than that.
Our article presenting another Excelvan projector became relevant just for this week, so it's worth taking a look around to see what else the company has to offer. For example, the BL-59, which is now considered new, is nothing more in terms of hardware than the machine named Q7 presented in the article, but it is still much better in terms of software. The simple reason for this is that while the Q7 is a "dumb" projector, the BL-59 can be said to be smart because of the Android running on it.
Anyone who has ever used an Android TV box knows that we get a lot of smarts, essentially we can turn any device into a multimedia center and, with sufficiently powerful hardware, into a game console. Well, the Excelvan BL-59 can be suitable for this as well. The central unit is an Amilogic S905X, which operates with four ARM Cortex-A53 cores and a clock signal of 1,5 GHz. In addition to the processor, this graphics is accelerated by a Mali-450 GPU. Those who are somewhat familiar with the world of ARM processor cores know that this configuration will not be enough to run the latest games, but if we consider that not an FHD display, but "only" an HD display should be served, then it is already much more encouraging thing. So, by dumbing down the graphics a bit, this iron will still be able to run many games, so we can consider the console part completed.
Of course, most will not take advantage of the player side of the projector. I think it's obvious that there won't be a problem with an HD or FHD video, on paper this configuration may be enough for up to 4K. This is of course only theoretical, as the official specification promises 1080p compatibility, so it's not worth trying with 4K, especially that the real resolution, as I've written above, is only HD, i.e. 1280 x 720 pixels. Among the capabilities of the projector, it is important to highlight that this structure is not LED, but lantern. The bulb has a lifespan of 20 hours, according to the manufacturer. This means a little more than 833 days, meaning more than 2 years of continuous use. If we take domestic 5 hours of television a day as an average, we can expect to not have to replace light bulbs for 4000 days and 11 years. I think these are good values.
The Excelvan BL-59 is an entry-level but already smart projector with Android, and it is very well priced in this segment. Projectors with similar hardware are more expensive than this in most cases without Android, we only have to pay $ 59 for the BL-200. So the Excelvan will still be worth paying attention to, because the projector we visited was also convincing, and this BL-59 also looks particularly good.
You can find more information about it here: Excelvan BL - 59 HD Multimedia Projector
You can read our article about another Excelvan projector here: Excelvan Q7 World Cup Memorial Projector Test
