DBPOWER RD828 Native 1080P WiFi Projector

I watched a few movies and pictures was sharp. Then the picture on the right side became blurry to the point it's useless... The unit looks great but looks can be deceiving.

We bought a few of these about two years ago. On one of the units, the bulb has a big, dark spot on it. On the others, the bulb has simply dimmed. I tried and tried to find a replacement bulb for this device and even this very company, DBPOWER, does not make a bulb for it. Basically, once your bulb goes bad, if it isn't still under warranty, it's a two-hundred dollar piece of garbage. Do not buy this. I never will again.

Trying to figure out why when I connect my iPad through an apple HDMI connector to my projector I get a very strange double screen, with a big green box underneath. When I connect to my iPhone 11 through the HDMI adapter it works flawlessly, one picture as it should be.
Screen mirroring works on both, but is no longer supported by Netflix or prime video from what I understand as I keep getting error messages. I would prefer to connect directly to my iPad Pro or iPad with the hdmi adapter as I always have. If I upgrade my phone I’m up the creek as my sons iphone14 has the same display problem when connecting with the usb c port.
Any ideas would be helpful.

I. bought this 2 summers ago and used it often on the back patio for movie nights. It was simple I could plug my hdmi cable in from my receiver and stream through a firestick. The sound would play over the four speakers i had surrounding the pool. Well we sold the house and stored the projector. This week we moved into our new house and I went to have a movie night out by the new pool with a simillar setup for speakers. For some reason the projector will not play via HDMI alon it requires me to connect it to the hdmi/usb cable and plug them both in. If i only plug the hdmi in it shows weak or no signal. When plugged in with the usb cable and hdmi off the jumper cable the sound will only play via the projectors speaker. I honestly love the omage and loved the summer of movie nights we had I just feel like it should be a little more durable.

This is the 3rd projector weve tried. This is was also our first opportunity to really use it since we bought several months ago. The first one quit 3/4 if the way through the very first movie, but that one wasn't nearly bright enough anyway. The second one we tried was bright enough but picture quality was terrible. This one is perfect. The picture Ive posted was about 7:40 at night on September 17th to give you an idea of outdoor light conditions. Weve only used it once so far, and watched 1.5 movies before the kids all melted down and just had to go to bed. But the projector worked flawlessly. The audio from the projector itself is terrible, but they are all terrible from this price point so I cant even fault it for that. The screen mirroring works well, however, you cannot watch movies through streaming services that way due to copyright laws. We plug our firestick directly into the projector, and use the firesticks bluetooth capability to connect to an external bluetooth speaker. That gives us what we want for picture and sound. All of our guests were impressed and thought it was very cool. We are happy. I will update review if I run into any issues.