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1080p Projector Battlemodo: Optoma HD20 Vs Vivitek H1080FD
5:00AM Sean Fallon | The idea of a $US1000 1080p projector is enticing, but are the first products to reach this price, the VIvitek H1080FD and the Optoma HD20, any good? Yes, yes they are. More »
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Teardown: The Beatiful Precision Inside Pocket DLP Pico Projectors
9:00AM John Mahoney | Tech-On got out their tiny non-standard screwdrivers and tweezers and took apart an Optoma PK101 projector, revealing an engineering miracle–the components necessary to squeeze a DLP projector into your shirt pocket. More »
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Japanese Apple Stores to Sell Optoma Picoprojector in December For $US500
7:54PM Kit Eaton | Way back in June Optoma promised to release its picoprojector this year, and now there’s news that indeed it will. Still reportedly the world’s smallest and lightest, it’ll go on sale December 1st in Japan at the Apple store, of all places. In case you’ve forgotten the DLP device is just 1.7 x 5 x 10.4 cm and can produce an image up to 60-inches at a modest 480 x 320 resolution and 1000:1 contrast for 2 hours from its battery. Its expected price in Japan is around $US500, though there’s no news yet on when it’ll be coming to these shores or what it’ll cost. [AVWatch] More »
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Optoma To Launch ‘World’s First’ Pico Projector in 2008
11:08PM Benny Goldman | Optoma is winning the race to build the world’s first pico-projector, the near-mythical mini projector that can throw up a display much larger than the source device’s—think iPods, digital cameras and smartphones—screen. Optoma’s pico will use the DLP chipset, support composite video quality and run on Li-ion batteries. The projector will make it to market later this year in Europe and Asia, before coming stateside in 2009. No word on pricing. [Optoma] More »
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Optoma’s Cheap 1080p HD803 Projector and its 720p Friends, the HD65 and HD71
1:17PM Sean Fallon | Optoma’s got a new 1080p projector coming out in December, dubbed the HD803. It’s new but its sits right below Optoma’s HD80, one of the first to break the $US3000/1080p barrier, in price and performance. The crib sheet on the HD803 reads as follows: 8000:1 contrast ratio, 1200 lumens of output, and a DLP DMD chipset from TI. The projector’s also armed with dual HDMI inputs, on top of the usual suspects. The price? $US2599, which isn’t bad for a 1080p DLP projector, even if we’ve seen brighter ones. Optoma also unveiled two 720p projectors. More »
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