True, Sanyo's LP-WXU700 is limited to a WXGA (1280 x 800) pixel image. But it's still the world's first to transmit that video over 802.11b/g/n (draft 2.0). Grabbing wireless video off your Vista PC is a snap thanks to the projector's Windows Embedded CE 6.0 software with Video Streaming Function that links back to Vista's Network Projector Function. Spec-wise we're looking at a 0.74-inch 3LCD panel capable of projecting a 100-inch image at a distance of 2.5 to 4-meters at 3,800 lumens with a 500:1 contrast ratio. Sanyo even tosses in a single HDMI jack in addition to the usual analog inputs. While, it's targeted at offices and schools, it wouldn't surprise us to see this ¥
62,790 (about $642) projector show up in make-shift home theaters and gaming rooms when it launches in June.
Update: Oops, dropped a 0 from the price. It's actually ¥627,900 or about $6,445 according to the native English press release -- but even that doesn't sound right.
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posted May 12th 2009 7:37AM
$642! that's pretty cheap!
The excitement didn't last long though :(
Pretty sweet inclusion. Can't see it taking off in home theater grounds but for a portable projector seems like a great idea.
Does seem too cheap though - either the brice is wrong in an absolute way, or when(if) it comes out west it'll be marked up to the hilt.
802.11 n is the future. If you're getting a wireless adapter, go for the 802.11n instead of 802.11g.
It only adds about $30 to the price of a laptop.
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Whether this is around $642 or $6,420, I think you are better off going with a true HD projector then add a media streamer like a Popcorn Hour.
I'm not sure thats quite the point of this PJ - its not a home cinema projector per se as the article says - either for fixed data or portable use, with HT on the side. I dont think the built in CE will play nice with anything other than windows remote PJ, quite different from a PCH/atv style streamer.
$6,445! that's pretty expensive!
So it's windows only? There's no mac software that it would stream/work with? That blows.
If there was wide uptake, I would imagine someone would hack the embeded CE to run something crossplatform like VNC,but I doubt there will be wide enough take up (unless its a common modular unit) for there to be a large hacker community pushing it.
This is not the first draft 802.11n projector. I've been salivating over them for almost two years now.
This has 1200x800 resolution. Those did not. Read.
er 1280 whatever