Projectors Reviews, price and comparision

Whether you are looking for a low-cost XGA (1,024 by 768) projector, lightweight model as a regular travel companion, or both, 6, 9-pound, use should Epson PowerLite 93++ ($ 549 direct) on your list. Although its 2,600 lumens rating according to today's standards is a little low, it is so bright in its class projector is like most previous generation. More importantly, it is easily bright room enough for small and medium-sized conference its meant for, and bright enough for editors' choice.

It is not difficult to competing projectors such as the 3,000 lumens NEC display solutions NP-V300X ($ 779 direct, 3.5 stars), the higher price tags, as well as offer higher brightness reviews, but they come with. In addition, many of them, including the NP V300X and the still more expensive editors' choice Optoma TW610ST ($ 1,000, 4 stars) based on a DLP chip, i.e. suffer a rainbow effect - one more or less strongly to break the trend for light areas surrounded by dark areas on the screen, in small red-green-blue rainbow above.

These Rainbow artifacts grow from the art and fashion a-chip DLP projectors create color. Some people are more sensitive to the effects than others, and some DLP projectors show it easier than others, but there is always a potential concern. A three-panel LCD projector as of 93++, on the other hand every opportunity eliminated the rainbow effect. This is a major plus when you fear that some people in your audience artifacts can find annoying Rainbow.

The basics
The 93++ is a little large for his weight and 3.7 of 13.6 10.3 inches (HWD) - or 4.2 inches tall, if you include the feet. However it is small and light enough, to 6.9 kg, without much effort. It doesn't come with a carrying case, though, so be sure, costs add one on the price if you compare it with other models, the one.

Installation is standard. Simply plug in the appropriate cable, change the zoom 1.2X and focus the image. The connections for image sources include an HDMI port on a computer or video source, two VGA connectors for computer or component-video and a composite video and S-video connection. Can also send a picture from your computer to the USB port or the computer mouse from the remote control link, although you not both at the same time.

Image quality and other issues
Belongs to the projector enhance image quality for data and video. The 93++ sailed through display materials are ordered without serious problems. Colors were alive and fully saturated and color balance he was excellent, with all levels gray from black to white accordingly in all but one of the presets color neutral. Impressively, I saw bring no pixels with an analogue line display jitter to tremble. It is also a lot reference value that both black on white and white on black text were crisp and very well up on the smallest sizes we test.

Video quality was what would you want from a home theater projector, but excellent for Beamer well. I saw a hint of sound separation (suddenly change colors, where they are to be changed after) and a moderate loss of shadow detail (information on the basis of shades in dark areas), but only to test clips that are especially difficult to treat. The most viewers not much worse. And neither problem showed up on typical scenes.

The integrated audio with a 16-Watt mono speaker, is yet another plus. The speakers in the most viewers in this weight class are hardly worthwhile. 93++ Speaker is loud enough to a small to medium-sized conference room or classroom and high enough quality every word of a monologue low volume in a particularly challenging clip in our test suite to fill. In contrast to most viewers in this weight class even if you good sound quality, very easy you get by without an external sound system.

The Epson PowerLite 93++ offers a more than attractive combination of brightness, portability, data image quality video quality, audio quality and price. Its relatively low brightness by today's standards is a small blow against them, but it is important that the projector is bright enough for the intended use. The overall balance of the features is easily enough to the Epson PowerLite 93++ of the reasonably priced editors' choice for a portable projector XGA.

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