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.
[Via
Akihabara News]
posted May 12th 2009 at 7:37AM
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
htd @ May 12th 2009 7:49AM
$642! that's pretty cheap!
CreepinJesus @ May 12th 2009 8:35AM
The excitement didn't last long though :(
bdav @ May 12th 2009 7:54AM
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.
singj40 @ May 12th 2009 8:45AM
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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j_g_puff @ May 12th 2009 10:11AM
Thank you for your valuable contribution, you fetid slab of nobcrust.
zargon @ May 12th 2009 8:50AM
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.
bdav @ May 12th 2009 9:13AM
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.
superhobo @ May 12th 2009 9:13AM
$6,445! that's pretty expensive!
Rick @ May 12th 2009 9:32AM
So it's windows only? There's no mac software that it would stream/work with? That blows.
bdav @ May 12th 2009 9:39AM
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.
zboot @ May 12th 2009 12:47PM
This is not the first draft 802.11n projector. I've been salivating over them for almost two years now.
Gordon @ May 12th 2009 2:56PM
This has 1200x800 resolution. Those did not. Read.
Gordon @ May 12th 2009 2:56PM
er 1280 whatever