Wireless DLP Projector Introduced by Toshiba

[Audioholics]

<P><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><A href="http://www.audioholics.com/news/pressreleases/wirelessDLPprojector.php"><IMG style="WIDTH: 125px; HEIGHT: 88px" alt=[ToshibaTDPS20front1] hspace=10 src="http://www.audioholics.com/news/thumbs/ToshibaTDPS20front1_th.jpg" align=left border=0></A>Toshiba's Digital Products Division today introduced the TDP-SW25U wireless DLP projector priced at $1,299 which is geared towards&nbsp;mobile professionals, educators, corporate customers and small-to-medium-sized businesses. Toshiba will be offering a 10 percent instant rebate for the TDP-SW25U when pre-ordered or purchased now until June 15<EM> [Note: website shows $100 instant rebate]. </EM>The TDP-SW25U features 1,800 ANSI lumens, a 2000:1 contrast ratio and native SVGA 800 x 600 resolution.&nbsp;In addition, the DLP projector&nbsp;comes with integrated IEEE 802.11b/g wireless functionality that delivers fast set-up time and enables presenters to connect to the projector from anywhere in the room and deliver sequential presentations without the need for cables. The wireless projector's PC card slot even allows users to store presentations on a PCMCIA type II storage card, enabling "PC free" presentations.</FONT></P><P><FONT face=Arial size=2>[Read More]</FONT></P>

 

[HookedOnSound]

I can't understand why SVGA is still around considering that almost all projectors that I see being used today (referring to the intended use of ad-hoc presentations) are connected to laptops that output natively to 1024x768?

I have seen many issues with image quality if you try and downconvert to 800x600.

My only advise is don't buy anything less than XGA for multi-media presentations. The $200-500 you save today won't mean much when you try to fumble through adjustments during an important meeting.

 

[BMXTRIX]

Most laptops aren't native anything - they have video cards that can be set to whatever you want on the output side and anyone making presentations should be aware of how to set their laptop up correctly for a presentation.

IE: My laptop has an attached LCD monitor that has a resolution of 1680x1050 (WSXGA+), but that has no impact on the native output from the back of my PC which can be set anywhere from 320x240 to 2048x1536 or something like that. If I set the output from my laptop, on the VGA port, to 800x600, then it will be displayed perfectly on that projector. I don't force the projector to rescale the image from 1600x1200 down to 800x600 or anything crazy like that.

The main reason I know of for SVGA projectors is based almost entirely around price. Not sure I would ever buy one that low, but if I'm looking for a cheap, ready to go projector that could possibly be damaged, lost, or stolen, I might consider the chepeast projector I could find that gets the job done.

Then know how to use it correctly.