Acer's P5260i WiFi projector beams imagery sans wires

Add one more to the WiFi projector heap, as Acer has just blasted out a new one. The P5260i features 802.11b/g WiFi and can theoretically support HD streaming of MPEG1/2/4, WMV, AVI, DivX, XviD, ASF and VOD files. Of course, the native 1,024 x 768 resolution puts a damper on all of that, but other specs you may be interested in includes the 2,700 ANSI lumens, 2,000:1 contrast ratio and VGA / DVI / HDMI inputs. We haven't seen a price / release date just yet, but don't count on it being exceptionally cheap.

[Via SlashGear]

[Low Ranked @ Jun 12th 2008 6:41PM]

Wow, P5260i thats some resolution!

And does that mean its progressive or interlace?

[Bjarke Andersen @ Jun 13th 2008 1:40AM]

Ehhh que? P5260i is the model number, as the text says resolution is 1024x768 so that is no biggy.

[Low Ranked @ Jun 13th 2008 5:16PM]

/sarcasm

[John @ Jun 12th 2008 6:54PM]

HD streaming of 4:3 720p?

[j_g_puff @ Jun 12th 2008 8:09PM]

hmm. Personally, i'd like to see a bit more emphasis on 'theoretically'...

[computer.dude.28 @ Jun 12th 2008 10:53PM]

lol, the video's HD till it hits the chip of the projector, when it gets downscaled to 1,024 x 768 and letterboxed ;)

[Niki @ Jun 12th 2008 7:14PM]

what you really need, is a dongle that you can attach to any projector to make it wifi compatible...
that would be something...

[nacnud @ Jun 12th 2008 8:02PM]

How about an apple TV?

[orky @ Jun 12th 2008 7:24PM]

Why would they not put draft-N Wi-Fi? If they want this to really be able to handle HD streaming, it would be in their best interest to have more speed and range. Putting it on 5ghz would be even better to reduce all the noise on 2.4ghz. Oh well, it's still a new product category so let's give the industry time to work out these kinks.

[BobfromVegas @ Jun 12th 2008 7:26PM]

In before "thats great, but will it blend?"

[JuniorMint4u @ Jun 12th 2008 7:33PM]

This has been available for a while. Was thinking of having a vendor come in and demo it for me at work.

http://www.infocus.com/Accessories/Wireless/LiteShowII.aspx

[Sly Fox @ Jun 12th 2008 7:55PM]

Looks cool, but the only bad thing about projectors is it has to be dark for them to look really good. I mean if your gonna spend that much just for the wifi just buy a huge flat panel LCD and do it the old fashion way with the monitor hook up.

[Sly Fox @ Jun 12th 2008 7:57PM]

Also, when they talk about the streaming is that from the internet or of the hard drive, either way ur gonna need a hell of a good computer and a very fast ISP

[patsy @ Jun 12th 2008 8:13PM]

Yeah, but when it's dark they look "REAL GOOD". Once you've watched movies on a 100" screen you can't go back to 60" or whatever. The only thing about this projector is that it's not a HT projector--the aspect ratio is wrong, and it's way too bright. It probably has a white segment, which makes it pretty much crap for HT.

[John @ Jun 12th 2008 9:11PM]

what are you talking about. I can stream 720p (I don't have any 1080i/p) from windows media player to my PS3 with Vista, 2 gigs of ram, and a 2.2 GHz dual core processor

[Sly Fox @ Jun 12th 2008 9:22PM]

but is that wirelessly and i find that very hard to belive with only 2.2 ghz , unless it takes forever to load?

[John @ Jun 12th 2008 11:42PM]

It works pretty well wirelessly. The processor doesn't have any problems unless I'm doing something more intensive than just basic stuff like web browsing or AIM, but it does start running disturbingly hot. Doing anything like fast forwarding makes it stop for a long time, but with straight up playback everything runs pretty smoothly. It works better wired, of course...

[jabber @ Jun 12th 2008 8:06PM]

Good thinkin', JuniorMint... you could project the drive-thru menu on the side of the building...

[JuniorMint4u @ Jun 13th 2008 8:09PM]

Hey now...jabber...watch it kid...

me and my kind where getting chucked into bodies during operations before you or google came along

[Ypocaramel @ Jun 12th 2008 8:43PM]

Well, it's hardly a home theater projector. It's a data projector. The size, brightness and resolution is all wrong. Different strokes, different folks.