NothingProjector was established in 2020, specializing in ultra-short-throw projectors and ALR screens, as well as laser TV cabinets. The NothingProjector One NP25001, which debuted in July 2025, is a 300 ANSI lumen, 1080p projector with an LED light engine and LCD technology. It has Google TV and official Netflix licensing. The projector is suitable for kids, teens, young adults, and those who want a compact projector they can take on the go.

The NP25001's MSRP is $199. Starting October 7th, however, the projector can be found at the promotional price of $159 on Amazon. The NP25001 also comes with a 45-day price match. If you find a lower price from any other retailer, send them a product link and a screen shot of the lower price, and NothingProjector will match it. This also works if you've already bought the projector—if you find a lower price on their own website within 45 days of purchase, send the product link and screenshot and they'll review it, then refund the difference.

Features

The NothingProjector One NP25001 is a compact, portable smart projector with an LED light engine rated to last up to an impressive 40,000 hours. That light engine is hermetically sealed to prevent dust from settling on the optics and causing visually disturbances like black spots on the projected image.

It employs TFT LCD technology and a three-layer coated lens to produce a clear, 1080p image. It does support 4K and HDR10, so you will be able to watch any of your 4K UHD Blu-ray disks from a connected player. The catch is that it only supports 4K through HDMI and it downscales to 1080p. If your games support HDR10, that will trigger HDR modes. All other content will be delivered in 1080p.

At 4.80 by 6.89 by 5.55 inches (HWD) and only 2.75 lbs, this projector is compact enough to fit in a backpack, tote, or large purse for easy transportation. The NP25001's auto-setup features—screen alignment, focus, keystone correction, and obstacle avoidance—work well with no need for manual adjustment.

Though NothingProjector claims the NP25001 is 300 lumens, its brightest mode measured 151 ANSI lumens in our tests. This relegates its use to nighttime or fully darkened room conditions only, especially if you want to project at screen sizes larger than 60 inches.

The projector can be mounted on a table, compatible ceiling mount, or on any tripod. If you go the tripod route rather than tabletop, you will get a lot of placement flexibility. This is the setup I used for my testing. The NothingProjector One NP25001 can handle screen sizes from 40 inches up to 120 inches—though I wouldn't recommend larger than 80 inches—and has a throw distance of 1.20:1. Use ProjectorCentral's throw distance calculator to accurately place the projector within your space.

The NP25001 is powered by Google TV. That OS is intuitive and gives access to all the major streaming apps, including Netflix, Prime Video, Max, Hulu, Disney+, Apple TV, and many others. You can choose to add any of these to your home screen on setup, or they can be downloaded for free via the Google Play Store. Google TV also has live TV with a variety of channels.

While there is no input lag claim for the NP25001, its lowest measurement was 37.1ms with Game Mode activated. This makes it suitable for casual gamers, while more competitive gamers will want a projector with lower latency. In my performance tests, there were no issues with lag or video stuttering, and gameplay was smooth. Most games will perform just fine in terms of lag, but you will want to pay attention to the findings in the gaming performance section when it comes to picture mode limitations.

The lightweight remote control is much like any other Google TV remote. It is not backlit, so in a fully darkened room, memorizing the configuration is your best bet. The power button is in the top right corner, with buttons to switch profiles, use Google Assistant, and access settings in an arc configuration. The navigational controls are underneath that, with a mirroring arc of three buttons below. Those are for back, home, and quick access to live TV. The volume controls are beneath those, and buttons for Netflix and YouTube are next to them. Usually, lifestyle projector remotes have a quick access button for Prime Video or Disney+. Although the NP25001 does not, all of your apps can be launched from the Google TV menu.

The projector's dual 3-watt speakers feature Dolby Audio, which needs to be toggled on to reveal its multiple sound modes. These are: Cinema, Game, Music, Soft, Sports, News, and Custom. I used Cinema mode when projecting a video from one of my classes, and it sounded clear without any tinny bass. I didn't have issues with any of the sound modes, but preferred Cinema, Game, and Music. It is likely you will find a mode you like best and stick with that.

The NP25001 features Chromecast for screen mirroring. Its abilities in this area are much like the other Google TV projectors that I have reviewed in this price range. I projected my class via Chromecast, and there were no voice syncing issues. The video did occasionally stutter, which I've seen with Chromecast on other projectors. There was also the issue of the projected image becoming blurry and not righting itself, a phenomenon that had nothing to do with the projector's focus and everything to do with Chromecast. I've seen this with other projectors as well. To fix the issue if it occurs, just stop casting and recast.

The projector comes package with an adapter, power cord, remote control, user manual, and warranty card.

NothingProjector offers a one-year, hassle-free warranty, a 30-day money back guarantee, and free lifetime tech support.

Performance

Color Modes. The NothingProjector One NP25001 has six picture modes: User, Standard, Vivid, Sport, Movie, and Game. The preset picture modes have adjustment options for brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, and sharpness. The advanced settings menu allows for further refinement in color temperature, DNR, MPEG NR, adaptive luma control, local contrast control, flesh tone, DI film mode, blue stretch, gamma, low blue light, color tuner, and 11-point white balance correction. The following findings are for the out-of-the-box picture modes with no color tuning, using a 12-color, multi-toned color wheel as reference:

In Standard mode, brightness measured 150 ANSI lumens. The overall color was noticeably desaturated, with warmer tones most affected. Teal was the most accurate shade, though it skewed slightly bluer than the source. Red was the least accurate, leaning toward orange.

Fuchsia also appeared bluer, while red-oranges shifted to a salmon hue. Oranges and yellows were generally accurate, though yellow-orange looked muddy. The blue bias was most apparent in cooler tones: yellow-green and green both appeared with a blue tint, blue and light blue looked too similar, and purple shifted toward a desaturated plum.

Vivid mode measured 151 lumens. Colors were oversaturated and generally appeared lighter than the source material. Overall, yellow was the most accurate color, while blue was the least.

Among warm tones, fuchsia leaned more toward pink, while reds were heavily oversaturated, with many red shades blending together. Red-orange shifted pink as well, resembling salmon, while orange, yellow-orange, and yellow looked the most accurate. On the cool side, yellow-green was reasonably close to the source, but teal, light blue, blue, and purple all skewed bluer. Blue stood out as overly saturated compared to the rest, while purple shifted toward lavender.

In Sport mode, brightness measured 143 lumens. Its color balance was nearly identical to Vivid mode but with less saturation, giving it a more natural and pleasant overall look than Vivid.

Movie mode measured 124 lumens. Colors appeared desaturated and muddy overall. Yellow was the most accurate shade, while red-orange was the least.

Fuchsia shifted toward plum with a strong blue influence, while reds looked decent, though the darkest reds took on a wine-like tone. Red-orange skewed bluer, appearing brick-colored and fading into salmon. Orange was muddier than the source, yellow-orange was close but muted, and yellow looked accurate though somewhat desaturated. All cool tones leaned bluer, with purple the most affected.

Game mode measured 135 lumens. The overall presentation was desaturated. Yellow-green was the most accurate shade, while fuchsia was the least.

Fuchsia appeared bluer than the source, red leaned orange, and red-orange shifted toward a brick hue. Orange, yellow-orange, and yellow were fairly accurate aside from desaturation. All cool tones carried a blue bias, though yellow-green remained close to accurate apart from a slight tint. Blues were more saturated than the rest, while purple leaned toward lavender.

In User mode, brightness measured 151 lumens. Its color profile closely resembled Standard mode but with greater desaturation.

I used the integrated Google TV, a Sony UBP-X700 4K player, and a PlayStation 4 to test video content performance.

1080p Streaming. I started off on HBO Max with Game of Thrones season 2, episode 6 in Game mode, but quickly switched to Standard. Game mode had poor shadow detail, which was thrown into sharp relief in the scene where Tywin Lannister is berating one of his men for sending a missive to a house pledged to the Starks, then later when Lord Baelish meets with him in the same room at Harrenhall. Standard fixed the issue. Changing both adaptive luma control and local contrast control to their highest settings improved things, especially the following scene where Jon captured Ygritte, with no highlight clipping on the snow.

Next, I watched The Last of Us season 1, episode 5, also on HBO Max, in Standard mode with the same settings. In the dark scenes with Henry and his little brother Sam while they were holed up in the attic of an abandoned building, and later when they come upon Joel and Ellie sleeping and hold them at gunpoint before deciding to trust them, the projector had low contrast. While daytime in the show looked much better with only slight highlight clipping and skin tones looked natural, the overall performance prompted me to explore other picture modes.

I switched to Sport and then Vivid, and found both to be suitable, though I favored Sport. There wasn't too much of a sacrifice in terms of color, and it could be further improved by changing some of the settings within the color tuner and color temperature. There was some more highlight clipping than in Standard mode. However, it wasn't too much of a tradeoff to be able to see better in the darker scenes. Changing the gamma setting to bright also aided in visibility during dark scenes.

The 100 on Netflix looked best in Sport mode with the highest adaptive luma control and local contrast control settings, gamma set to dark, and the color temperature set to warm. Color can further be improved by messing with the color tuner settings. Skin tones looked quite natural, though there was some highlight clipping, seen on Clarke's face as she looked over a map when the prisoners first land on the ground. I was able to significantly reduce them by lowering the contrast.

SDR Blu-ray. I used to regularly watch The Hunger Games in my performance tests for skin tones when I worked with another review site, and as I have my mom listening to all five of the audiobooks, The Hunger Games is on the brain again for me. If you are a fan and haven't listened to/read the new book, Sunrise on the Reaping, I highly recommend that you check it out.

For this viewing, I changed the gamma setting to dark, which improved the overall look of the image. There was some minor highlight clipping on the leaves in the woods where Katniss goes to hunt on Reaping Day, as well as the uniforms of the workers setting up the stage in the town square and the Peacekeepers' helmets. It wasn't horrible, but I found that HDR content did better than SDR Blu-ray in this regard.

There was good black level performance when Katniss was on the train going to the Capitol, as she watched previous Hunger Games recordings in the dark. Skin tones looked natural in the train car where Katniss and Peeta questioned Haymitch about how to find shelter.

The chariot parade of the Hunger Games where Katniss and Peeta are revealed to the world looked fantastic. While there was some minor highlight clipping on some faces, like President Snow's, black levels were well done, and the overall color was rich. Katniss and Peeta's skin tones looked natural.

During the interviews, the color depth was good. Katniss looked lovely in her red dress. The projector struggled with highlights all throughout the film, but there were moments when it was worse than others and none so bad that you would write this projector off. The overall performance for SDR Blu-ray was better than you might expect from a $200 projector.

HDR Blu-ray. The NP25001 connects to a 4K player to play 4K UHD disks, but I had to force 4K output via the Sony player's menu for the projector to recognize HDR. This changed all the picture modes to have (HDR10) at the end of it. I watched in Game(HDR10). If you don't see the 2160p notification pop up, you may need to do this as well.

I noticed strong yellows in my observations during the picture mode performance tests. The color correction of Top Gun Maverick is quite warm, and I was curious to see how the projector would handle this, so I chose it first for my HDR tests. It performed well in most scenes—better in some than in others.

Skin tones looked natural for the most part, especially when Pete is in the aircraft attempting to reach Mach 10. In other scenes, there was a definite yellow tint to skin tones that would be unlikely to bother most people. It handled blues well, too. The NP25001 delivered a sharp image with strong textures.

Other modes like Standard (HDR10) and Movie (HDR10) looked good, but Movie (HDR10) showed a significant dip in both brightness and contrast. Black levels were excellent and there was good shadow detail in Game (HDR). There was no highlight clipping in HDR.

The sound was excellent in Cinema mode; it handled bass well. This film is one that either allows projector speakers to shine or reveal their weaknesses, and these speakers did not disappoint.

Ready Player One had a clean, sharp image. There was no highlight clipping all the way through the opening scene in the Stacks, but in the following shots inside Wade Watt's rig, there was significant clipping on one of the cases and on his treadmill. Within the Oasis, highlight details were well-preserved.

There were natural looking skin tones in Game (HDR10) as well as in Standard (HDR10), but Game (HDR10) had less highlight clipping than Standard (HDR10). Nolan Sorrento's skin tone looked great, as did the hair of avatars within the Oasis. The projector delivered excellent black level performance and good shadow detail, like it did with Top Gun Maverick. I was able to get better results from Game (HDR10) by changing some advanced settings in its picture mode. Those were: Adaptive Luma Control — Strong, Local Contrast Control — Low, and Gamma — Dark.

I was able to get Movie (HDR) to look good with these settings as well, but there was still more highlight clipping than in Game (HDR10). This was particularly evident on Parzival's car hood as he warned Artemis to "bail" before she got zeroed out by the gorilla at the end of the race for the first key.

The audio was plenty loud enough to fill a large living room or be heard over ambient noises in a backyard or camping movie night scenario.

Gaming Quality. Input lag was measured using a Leo Bodnar 4K Lag Tester. With Game Mode activated, the NP25001 came in at 37.1ms, making it suitable for all but the more serious and/or competitive gamers.

The first game I played was Kingdom Hearts, in the Halloween Town world, where I was helping Jack Skellington make a heart for the ghost Heartless so he could "control" them for his Halloween show (a singularly bad idea). Right away I noticed the Game picture mode was too dim with low contrast and poor shadow detail. The world itself didn't have much contrast to begin with—mostly consisting of muted grays, purples, and black. Game mode did it no favors, so I had to switch to Sport mode where black level performance was better.

Lock, of the game Lock, Shock, and Barrel, had a more rust red-orange to his outfit, rather than the usual desaturated red. The green of the HP bar was a bit off. Changing to Standard helped only slightly. There was a bit less contrast than Sport mode, but it was usable should that be your preferred mode. Gameplay was good, with no lag issues or video stutter in the more action-heavy moments.

Ghost of Tsushima is an HDR-compatible game, and the projector started me off in the Game (HDR10) picture mode. I suspected most of the picture modes would struggle in night scenes, and I was right. It was difficult to see at night in the game unless I had Vivid (HDR10) or Sport (HDR10). Although I could see better in Vivid (HDR10), it had excessive highlight clipping in the moon's reflections on wet roads. Sport still had the same issue, but a little less so, making it a better choice for nighttime.

I went with Yuna to rescue her brother Taka from the Mongol camp—a quest that must be done at night. After I assassinated one of the Mongols, breaking the Samurai code, there was a flashback to a time when Jin was tracking a bear with his uncle. That sequence was bright and yellow, and Sport was too vivid for it. I temporarily switched to Game mode.

I forgot to switch back and was able to see while I went through the camp and rescued a prisoner, even though it was at night. Later, I found an early morning ride through the woods to have poor shadow detail. It was fine since I wasn't fighting anyone, man nor beast. The best mode to use will depend on your preferences and the conditions within the game.

It does help to change the gamma to bright, but the improvement comes at the expense of contrast and black level performance. I did that for Hogwarts Legacy when I went into this witch's tomb on a quest. It was quite dark, even with the gamma change. Luckily, you can cast Lumos in this game and get your own magical torch to light the way.

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I got a jump scare when I accidentally deployed a venomous tentacula while trying to figure out a puzzle. There is something to be said for the immersive nature of gaming on a big screen paired with realistic sounding audio. The speakers did their job in that moment. I used Game mode for all three games and found them to be quite robust.

Conclusion

The NothingProjector One NP25001 delivers a lot for its $199 price point. Projectors at or below $200 don't always work well, and this one does. The biggest issue I have with it is how its brightness measured much below its claim, but I have reviewed higher priced projectors that performed similarly in terms of lumen output.

If you don't think of the NP25001 as a 300-lumen projector, but rather as a 150-lumen projector, you might be quite happy with it—provided that you plan to use it only at night or in a fully darkened room. This compact, portable projector can be used inside or brought outside for a backyard or camping movie night if you have a power source, either by plug or power bank with a regular outlet.

It has Google TV with licensed Netflix, HDR compatibility for HDMI content, and surprisingly solid audio performance. Casual gamers will find the 37.1ms input lag acceptable, and movie watchers can achieve good results with some careful tweaking of the advanced picture settings.

This is not a projector for large, bright rooms or for those seeking reference-level color accuracy, but for students, young adults, families, or anyone wanting a budget-friendly portable projector for nighttime viewing, the NP25001 is a strong contender. While it doesn't perform as well in terms of color as some projectors in the $300-500 range, if your budget sits firmly at $200, the NP25001 is worth considering.

Measurements

Brightness. NothingProjector rates the NP25001 at 300 ANSI lumens. Unfortunately, it measured only half that, with its brightest modes being User and Vivid, both coming in at 151 ANSI lumens. Of the two, User has better color. Its best mode, Game, measured 135 lumens. As such, this projector would be best used at night in a fully darkened room, or else in very low lighting that does not hit the screen directly.

A brightest mode should only measure up to 25% below claim, but it is not unusual to find projectors at this price point coming in between 40-50% below claim. I would like to see these manufacturers either market their projectors as what they are actually capable of delivering or else make the effort to bring the lumen output closer to their claim. The false claims only harm the consumer and the manufacturer's reputation.

NothingProjector One NP25001 Lumens

Color Modes	Lumens
User	151
Standard	150
Vivid	151
Sport	143
Movie	124
Game	135

Brightness Uniformity. The NothingProjector One NP25001 has 66% brightness uniformity, which was evident from the visible dimming seen in each corner of the screen. Luckily, this was only visible when projecting solid colors, such as white or red, so the only time you should be able to detect it would be when projecting menu screens, like from Blu-rays.

Fan Noise. NothingProjector rates the fan noise of the NP25001 at 34 dBa in laboratory conditions. My testing room's noise floor was 30.7 dBa at the time of measurement, which was done with my sound meter just over three feet away from each side of the projector. The measurements were as follows:

Standard
Front — 32.8
Rear — 32.1
Right — 33.1
Left — 32.6

Input Lag. There is no published input lag rating for the NP25001. Input lag was measured using a Leo Bodnar 4K Lag Tester in its Game Mode, PC Mode, and ALLM setting. The best measurement was in Game Mode, at 37.1ms. While that measurement doesn't make it a gaming projector, it is fast enough for casual gaming. Single-player role-playing games, platformers, puzzle games, or cozy online multiplayer games would work just fine on this projector.

Game Mode
1080p @ 60 fps — 37.1ms

PC Mode
1080p @ 60 fps — 59.2ms

Game Mode + PC Mode
1080p @ 60 fps — 53.6ms

ALLM
1080p @ 60 fps — 75.8ms

Connections

• 3.5 mm Audio Jack
• HDMI
• USB Type-A
• DC In (Power)

For more detailed specifications and connections, check out our NothingProjector One Smart projector page.

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