I fancy a small portable projector I can use in the truck and for camping etc. Connection via usb stick or a freesat receiver etc. Screen size up to 30~40 inches?

Seen Mini HD LED PROJECTOR HDMI+USB+SD TV VGA WII DVD PS3 | eBay on the bay and wonder if its too cheap?



What do you guys use??

Merry xmas/Bah humbug

Steve

Buy it and let me know, quite fancy one of those!

+1, as it would be cool on the side of my caravan

Poor definition at 640 x 480 vga might be disappointing.

What about this LED one for £133.99?

Portable Home Theater LED DVD Projector MP4/Game/USB/SD/AV/TV 20000 Hours MP6 | eBay

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It's really naughty how most of these plaster 1080p all over the advert when the native resolution is barely vga...

They will work but don't expect them to compete with more expensive projectors. You get what you pay for etc.

[Edited on 20/12/11 by hobbsy]

Thats annoying 1080p should be 1920x1080 pixels, not that crap

My younger brother has a Optoma Projecter

(i know jack **** about them to be honist)

I just asked him he says they that company make cinima stuff ..

I was impressed with the quality of picture id say a really good tv is better quality but for the huge extra screen size its worth it (im being very fussy ) he uses his laptop and xbox360 on it as well ideall if your half blind and cant see the laptop screen


Not sure witch model it was around £550 mark .....

Watch out for ones with "ordinary" incandescent bulbs. Replacements can be nearly the same price as the projector was!

The cheap LED ones are very dim so you can't get a very big picture from them without it becoming unusably dark. 480p is fine for general viewing though, I have a 90" screen with a proper 480p projector in my spare room and it still looks pretty good from a suitable viewing distance. However, 640x480 is a 4:3 aspect ratio, so if viewing a 16:9 widescreen you will only be getting 360 lines. Any remotely decent home cinema projector will have a native 16:9 aspect ratio.

Note that whatever projector you use, you only get a good picture if there is no ambient light and as little reflection from the screen as possible. Any ambient light destroys the contrast and gives a very washed out picture.

Optoma make some thoroughly excellent projectors, but a replacement lamp will cost more than one of the toy LED ones.

EDIT: Check the contrast ratio of these toy projectors, 100:1 is very poor. Just about adequate for business presentations (if it had enough light output, which it doesn't) but not enough to get a half decent video picture if you are remotely bothered by image quality.

[Edited on 21/12/11 by MikeRJ]

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Originally posted by steve m
+1, as it would be cool on the side of my caravan

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until recently I was using an Optoma ES520 for my gaming rig, if cheap 1080p TVs where not available I'd still be using it to be honest. It gave a grand picture in a room at a native resolution of 800X600. For a big screen I don't think you would want to go below this resolution though.

If you where a bit closer I'd invite you round for a shuftie at it as it's basically up for sale at the moment due to gathering dust packaged away in it's original box in my cupboard.

Regards

Geoff

You could try this pocket-sized one:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003BZY6E2