Acer's P5260i WiFi projector beams imagery sans wires
By Darren Murph 
posted Jun 12th 2008 6:35PM
posted Jun 12th 2008 6:35PM
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posted Jun 12th 2008 6:35PM
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Wow, P5260i thats some resolution!
And does that mean its progressive or interlace?
Ehhh que? P5260i is the model number, as the text says resolution is 1024x768 so that is no biggy.
/sarcasm
HD streaming of 4:3 720p?
hmm. Personally, i'd like to see a bit more emphasis on 'theoretically'...
lol, the video's HD till it hits the chip of the projector, when it gets downscaled to 1,024 x 768 and letterboxed ;)
what you really need, is a dongle that you can attach to any projector to make it wifi compatible...
that would be something...
How about an apple TV?
In before "thats great, but will it blend?"
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
but is that wirelessly and i find that very hard to belive with only 2.2 ghz , unless it takes forever to load?
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...
Good thinkin', JuniorMint... you could project the drive-thru menu on the side of the building...
Hey now...jabber...watch it kid...
me and my kind where getting chucked into bodies during operations before you or google came along
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.