Small, bright, and wireless: a potent trifecta of win for an ultra-portable projector. LG's new HS200 DLP projector is here at IFA sourcing DivX video off local USB media and throwing the audio over its embedded FM transmitter. And because it's LED-based, it racks up numbers like 200 ANSI-Lumens and 30,000 hours of operation before burn-out -- that's 4 hours of operation per day for oh, say, 20 years. The 80-inch, 800x600 pixel moving image that we saw was reasonably bright in a demo-room where ambient lighting was on par with a daytime living room, curtains closed. The viewing and listening experience was more than passable, enjoyable even, and far superior to what you'll get from a pico projector. Jacks include HDMI, RGB / component, and composite with an expected price of €499 when it lands in Europe this month (coming to the US a few months later). See it for yourselves in the video after the break.
posted Sep 6th 2009 2:48PM
Now, if only I had enough money... This would be perfect for Quake III Arena PC!!!
LG must have a totally wrong idea about the size of people's pokets
I'd hit it!
JIMP!
make it hd and i'm down.
Yeah it's a pity about the resolution, would be great a few years back but this is well into the HD age.
It\s funny, the res is just too low, or the size just too big, smaller size you'd forgive the res.
Mind you if you have a large collection of DVD"s this is perfectly OK and nice, or if you powerpoint on the go.
Sorry but pocket projectors have got to be one of the least useful modern gadgets. For a handful of commercial uses I can see the value, but what's with EnGadget's incessant lusting over them? (Granted they have been a bit better recently.)
Pocket projectors are still more useful than the totally ridiculous pico projectors. IMHO, that is.
Since when does a gadget have to be useful? Smaller, brighter, with more connections? Great. I have a regular size projector, and it gets hauled around to friends' homes for movies and video game sessions often enough that I like knowing what's going on in that segment.
LED lifetimes are really making me smile, even though I haven't yet burned through the original bulb in my unit..
Anyone else read "pocket protector" at first glance?
ok...first, my on topic comment lol - that is a pretty sweet device. the fact that tech is quickly becoming so much smaller and more personal is thrilling. one day, not too far off i think, we will see devices half the size of this one and twice the quality. obviously thats the nature of the tech we love, but still...ITS FREAKIN WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol
and now my off topic comment - can someone PLEASE tell me what video that is running in the demo? is it something LG cooked up, or is it some awesome animated action flick im unaware of?
lol ur a gunther.
I can't wait for LED projectors to become more prevalent. The thing that has always turned me off from conventional projecters were power usage, fan noise, size, and bulb replacement, and the image slowly dims over time. Although I think people think bulb replacement is a lot more expensive than it actually is [replacements on my old projecter were around 150-180 when I shopped around] it still sucks spending that money, and I usually did it before 2000 hours because the image was getting pretty dim at that point.
I think he meant Palm Projector rather than Pocket Projector. Looks similar to the Benq GP1 - would be good if it had USB onboard like the Benq or some of the newer pocket pocket projectors. Two new models have just come out on the pico projectors which are brighter with clearer pictures and are catching up with these palm projectors. Check out the new Aiptek Pocket Cinema T20 or the new 3M pocket projector which has 4 hour battery life and enhanced brightness. The Benq is worth checking out along with the T20, Mpr0 120 the latter are now in stock at the Personal Projector online store. http://www.personalprojector.co.uk
^ Above comment, the Aiptek or the 3M is in a totally different ball park, 10-12 lumens versus 200 lumens is not really comparable. Also both those are only 640x480. If you're going to go pico (and not pocket as the LG HS200 is a pocket projector) I would look at the AAXA P2 projector - it's 33 lumens, 800x600, and costs less than half of what the HS200 costs. http://www.aaxatech.com/products/p2_pico_projector.htm. Also AAXA has the P1 - the battery life is kind of short (1 hour) but it's 640x480 but it's $150 less than the 3M. I owned the 3M one - it sucked.
i found this product on sale for 540 euros. I think i'm going to buy it, before i've see this i checked the samsung p410 and it looked pretty good to me! Colors and contrast in a dark room were great so i think this on is gonna be even better, plus it has HDMI so all my dvds are gonna look great for sure and so the wii games. I think it's useless to wait too much time before spending some money. The real upgrade must be done when the 3d ready are gonna come out. now we're still in the 2d generation so be happy not to spend a lot of money on lamps and enjoying movies in a dark room!