The bad news (which sounds like good news at first): this projector is cheap. We appreciate it when things are inexpensive, but $170 is suspiciously cheap for a projector. Even one that doesn't display in HD. Of course, we aren't sure we'd trust sensitive equipment like this from the same company that brought us the dashboard sensor bar stand at any price.
According to the website, it displays in a resolution of 960*234, which is definitely a mistake of some kind. We hope it's a mistake in the product description and not in the product design. Check after the break for a screenshot from Ghost Squad, resized to 960*234. We didn't use a widescreen game for this exercise, but at a vertical resolution of 234 pixels, it wouldn't be much better.
[Via MaxConsole]
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9-27-2007 @ 1:12PM
Jeff said...
I think I will stick with my optoma HD70.
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9-27-2007 @ 1:14PM
EricLMcCormick said...
Not only is that resolution wack, so is the light output. It uses a 50watt bulb and puts out "8-120 ANSI Lumens. My LED flashlight puts out more then at. You picture is going to look like shit if you can see it at all.
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9-27-2007 @ 1:57PM
Sam Nova said...
960 sounds right to me.. but in a WRONG way. I have seen this trick of information once for a digital photo frame. They just take the resolution of 320 'pixels' and since they got independent RGB they multiply with 3, so you end up with 960 which sound way better than 320.
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9-27-2007 @ 2:14PM
Jay said...
LOL. Dragon Wii Sparkling Projector!
For some reason I love the word Sparkle when it comes from an offshore product. I wonder if it's related to Mr. Sparkle.
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9-27-2007 @ 3:57PM
Michael Sliczniak said...
It's a composite cable so 234 interlaced would be about right for NTSC considering overscan if they simply did the horrid dead of displaying one frame of all even fields followed by one frame of all of the odd fields.
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9-27-2007 @ 9:28PM
Max Headroom said...
Now I know why Nintendo decided not to support HD yet: they are already planning the next generation of formats - super ultra wrap-around widescreen!
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