http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/ Engadget Comments for Optoma's DLP PK101 pico projector up for pre-order at $399.99 http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/Dec 31st 2008 6:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/
Normal projectors are at least $800ish.

Still, given the limited utility of these small projectors (because of how dim they are... i have the Dell pocket one), it is a bit expensive, but for one of the first ever to market, it's not bad.
-Taylor

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http://www.penpaperpixel.org/tutorials/tabletopprojection/

Doesn't really have to be particularly high resolution either. $400 + some parts could be a bit cheaper, but on the other hand, it's well within possibility... with the added benefit that it's portable.]]>Dec 31st 2008 6:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/Dec 31st 2008 6:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/Dec 31st 2008 6:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/Dec 31st 2008 6:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/Dec 31st 2008 9:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/Dec 31st 2008 6:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/
(And that tired joke came out also last time Engadget showed a picoprojector)]]>Dec 31st 2008 8:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/Dec 31st 2008 9:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/
Thanks]]>Dec 31st 2008 7:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/can't speak to other phones, but you can get an AV cable from Apple that lets you send the video (and stereo audio) out through the dock connector to either component or composite video there are 2 cables available. One of the Optoma selling points is you could use it to show the contents of your ipod on the back of the seat in front of you on a plane. As far as I know, video out is only supported for real video (or video podcasts) so you can't, for example, show a browser or anything else. with the cable, you could send the video out to anything with either component or composite "ins"

regarding projection. yes. If you watch the MacWorld keynote when the phone was initally announced, Jobs has real video out (shows the whole phone screen on a huge screen so the audience could see it). the phone he was using was connected via what looked like a standard dock cable - a docking station would be trivial (i assume Apple used special software on the phone and a mac to pull it off though)]]>Dec 31st 2008 7:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/Dec 31st 2008 7:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/
IIIIIIIIIIIIIII dno't get it. I used to be a gadget person, but even the useless USB printer toaster was more interesting than this. And more practical.]]>Dec 31st 2008 7:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/Dec 31st 2008 7:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/Jan 1st 2009 3:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/You can do that with every phone with TV out.
Right in front of me are a Samsung Omnia and an HTC touch HD that both offer this possibility, actually all HTC models offer TV out (at least those sold in Europe) my old Nokia N95 -8gb came also with the cables to connect to the TV or projector, or pC monitor, so did the older N95 and I think all Nokia N series and I'm pretty sure that many other phones offer TV out capability, most of them surely providing a better result than the Iphone, which Apple has provided only with a subpar camera and no DTV-B , showing its absolute neglect of multimedia capabilities on this device]]>Dec 31st 2008 9:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9159206&st=optoma&type=product&id=1218039110416

Best Buy has had this for weeks.]]>Dec 31st 2008 10:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/Jan 1st 2009 12:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/Jan 1st 2009 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/http://www.tekgear.com/index.cfm?pageID=90&prodid=612§ion=209&nodelist=1,209]]>Jan 1st 2009 9:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/optomas-dlp-pk101-pico-projector-up-for-pre-order-at-399-99/
I took it out of the box, charged the battery and fired it up. Since the iPod cable was missing, I had to connect my 120GB iPod Classic via the lo-res composite cables (red/white/yellow). I played several minutes of "Goya's Ghost" and "Into The Wild". I chose these two movies because Goyas Ghost has a lot of dark & black scenes while Into The Wild has a lot of bright white scenes. Sadly, it didn't matter because the predominant hues (tints) were a bluish-green caste. I switched the source to a COBY portable DVD player with Dark Knight and Planet Earth via lo-res composite cables included. Again, the whites looked greenish while the blacks looked blue.

The screens that I projected onto were a Da-Lite and also a 30" Nuvi. Then, I tried projecting onto different flat surfaces around the house and the most impressive in terms of color, contrast & sharpness was the side of my white refrigerator. I played Led Zeppelin's "The Song Remains The Same" on the side of my refrig and it looked nearly true! Odd...I know..

So, all in all as the first reviewer...I gotta warn, don't waste your money unless you really wanna impress friends/family with "cutting edge" tech. Truly, the image quality was a 2 out of 10 and the customer support was even worse.

One final note, the iPod cable only works for Video iPods that are older like Gen 5, Gen 4...it will not work with 80GB/120GB/160GB Classic! This info is found in the manual, the photos on Optoma's website are misleading. I have placed my PK-101 on eBay for sale...I will continue to use my Cinego D-1000 ]]>Jan 6th 2009 6:50PM