Boxlight BumbleBee LED/DLP Portable Projector Review: Image Quality

As seen in the image here, reds and yellows are handled pretty well by the Boxlight BumbleBee.

Within the limits of the BumbleBee’s brightness, the projector does a very respectable job for presentations. Of course, the limited brightness requires a room that is very close to fully darkened, and screen sizes should be limited to no more than 60″ diagonal, even with the very low lighting. Forty to fifty inch diagonal is probably a better recommendation that pushing out to about 60 inches.

Feeding the BumbleBee a DVD video source produced a very reasonable looking image (Gandalf, below, from Lord of the Rings). The Bumblebee cannot match a home theater projector, in terms of color accuracy, nor black levels, and, for that matter isn’t particularly close, but, that’s not so say that you can’t enjoy watching a movie on a smaller screen, relying on the Bumblebee, and perhaps its battery pack, far, far, away from the nearest AC power outlet.

Evenness of color across the entire screen is pretty consistant, and not an issue.

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With a native resolution of 800×600, the BumbleBee produces a nice sharp image when fed SVGA (800×600), as shown immediately below.

Feeding the BumbleBee the more common XGA resolution signals (below), the compression technology of the BumbleBee, is about typical for SVGA projectors.

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Smaller type is soft, but readable from XGA sources, on siz es down to 8 point type (barely) on an XGA source (10 is easier to read, for sure). The image above shows the Bumblebee handling an even higher resolution, 1280×800, from my MacBook Pro.