a lot of people give this projector horrible review , but you have to keep in mind it do cost less than $ 100 . yes the brightness be lack , but consider I get mine for $ 40 at target I can not compain . it be all about how you use and set it up . we use ours to turn we garage into a kind of a drive-in theater . we `` screen '' be a thick white shower curtain from a dollar store which be tape to the wall with white duct tape . a table be set up 10 ft away with the projector , the Xbox we run through it , and the sound system . the sound the projector produce itself be pretty decent and be still audible over the fairly loud fan . we want more out of it though so I take a $ 60 radio with movable speaker I have lay around , fit it with indoor\/outdoor speaker , and run that through the projector . one of the first major problem we run into with the whole set up be the fact that you need it to be pitch black for a good picture , but it be in the garage and unfortunately people need light to see where they be go . so a lot of time be spend pause , slowly walk over to the light , turn it on and temporarily blind everyone , do what you need to do , shut off the light and slowly walk back to the couch because you be slightly more blind from turn the light on in the first place , sit and unpause . I remedy this by purchase two strand of red xmas light , and run one strand on each side of the screen , go along the wall away from the screen . this work amazingly well . it provide enough light to walk around and whatnot , but more importantly it do not effect the project picture at all . we find that orange work well too , but not as good as red .