The rich saturations don’t come at the expense of icolour tone subtlety either, as even the finest colour blends and skin tones are delivered without striping or blocking noise issues. The Freestyle’s unexpected light output helps it deliver more vibrant and natural colours with HDR sources, too, than you would normally expect with an ultra portable projector. The latter of which, of course, depend on a much wider light range for their eye-catching charms. The Freestyle’s brightness is intense enough, in fact, to even deliver a marked sense of the difference between standard dynamic range and high dynamic range sources. Which are, of course, three of the core constituents of any good TV or projector picture quality. While its usability in bright rooms enhances its practicality and flexibility, though, its unexpected brightness and punch is best appreciated in as dark a room as you can manage, since in these circumstances the brightness becomes a way of delivering more contrast, brightness and colour vibrancy. We’re not talking about direct sunlight or the middle a field on a bright summer day, but on a dull day or in typical muted evening living room lighting conditions the Freestyle’s pictures hold up fine. Samsung claims it can deliver 550 lumens (around double what you might normally expect from such a small projector), and this appears to be much more than just marketing hype.įor starters, the picture is bright enough to remain watchable - so long as you don’t try and push the image size much beyond around 75 inches, anyway - even if there’s a bit of ambient light around. The Freestyle comes out swinging with one of the brightest pictures we’ve ever seen from such an ultra-portable projector. But does all this flexibility mean Samsung has had to compromise The Freestyle’s performance? Picture quality We can’t think of any other AV product that offers so many uses, in fact. If you’re thinking this sounds like a heck of a potential duty roster for something that only costs £499, you’d be right. So out of the box has Samsung’s thinking with the Freestyle gone, in fact, that there’s even an optional attachment that allows it to be screwed into a light socket, where it can do double duty as either a ceiling-mounted projector or the world’s smartest bulb. Add the official battery pack accessory to its bottom edge, pop it into its waterproof carry case accessory, and it becomes a video player/music player/torch you can take anywhere - even garden parties or campsites. It ships with built-in ambient artworks and a diffusion lens that enable it to function as an ambient lamp. The ease with which it can be moved and set up makes it feel like a pocket-sized replacement for a portable TV. It’s also got the built-in connections and Bluetooth/Wi-Fi support to be an impressively flexible multimedia player. As you might guess from its unique ‘barrel in a cradle’ design, though, it’s really much more than that.Ī ‘ring’ speaker running all the way round The Freestyle’s bodywork, for instance, means that it’s capable of working as a perfectly serviceable portable speaker. Please fix all mentioned issues with upcoming firmware release.Samsung’s Freestyle projector isn’t just unlike anything else we’ve ever covered on Sound Advice - it’s unlike anything the entire AV world has seen before.Īt heart I guess you would describe The Freestyle as an ultra-portable projector. Every ~30 min there is laud voice Network is disconnected (but WiFi is working properly) Some TV channels via HDMI ARC has very very low voice almost not hearable Connection via Bluettoth with soundbar is stable, but not supporting Atmos. This issue is easily reproducible and needs to be fixed asap by new firmware release. Latest firmwares installed on both devices. Reproduced every time when mentioned connection is established via WiFi, all other sources disconnected like HDMI, Amazon Alexa unpaired, but still the same. Same behavior's on different sources like YouTube, Netflix, IPTV etc. Both devices are connected to same 5GHz Wi-Fi. The problem appears after 10-15 minutes when there is no sound anymore from HW-S61B Soundbar and can't be connected anymore, The Freestyle gets supper lagging, unresponsive and even power off/reboot. Last week I have purchased Samsung The Freestyle projector and Samsung soundbar to connect it via WiFi HW-S61B Soundbar (WiFi Atmos).Ĭonnection has been successful via WiFi and The Freestyle confirmed connection that Atmos supported device is connected, so far so good
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