Philips Screeneo UL5 Smart Projector Review

A Closer Look

It’s such a great looking product, with a white exterior, matched up with a bit of grey fabric on the front and sides that doubles as the speaker mesh, ensuring the built-in stereo speakers are pointing towards the user. That’s a nice change, as long-throw projectors tend to pump the sound from behind you, so having speakers up front is obviously a big advantage of short throw projectors.

There’s a power button here, simple enough to understand.

Down the side, there’s a large amount of ventilation, with a built-in fan that can keep the DMD chip and laser light source cool. There’s also some Type-C inputs here for power and video input.

Down the other side, there’s an HDMI 2.1 input, as well as USB-A that you can use for a flash storage device. There’s also Bluetooth 4.2 built-in to hook up peripherals, speakers, headphones, etc.

The projection comes from this V-shaped wedge that’s cut out on the top where it hits a mirror system to reflect up towards your wall. Well, actually, away from the projector would be more accurate, as it can be placed to project forward, on your ceiling, backwards, or rear projection, and can even be stood on its tail to projector a floor or table.

There’s a built-in auto focus system, as well as a manual one, with a small sensor on the front to take care of that. The unit can be mounted on a tripod screw too, which should come in handy.