Optoma DV11 480p Home Theater Projector with Built-In Slot Load DVD Player
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Features
• Integrated Digital DVD player
• 1600 lumens
• Native 720P; supports resolutions of 480p. 720p, 1080i, SVGA, XGA, SXGA, VGA, PC and Mac compatible
• Two 5 watt stereo speakers
• Single DarkChip2 DLP Chip |
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Optoma DV11 480p Home Theater Projector with Built-In Slot Load DVD Player Customer Reviews
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ok for movies, not at all suitable for digital photographs
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I bought this digital projector for our local nature club - based on the reviews and the product literature it seemed like an ideal item. We had 2 objectives for the projector - running nature DVDs before our club meetings began while people arrived and got settled, and as a digital photographic projector that could either be attached to a laptop (for PowerPoint presentations), or used with the built in DVD/CD player to show jpeg nature images by our guest speakers. The unit performed ok as a DVD movie projector.
The performance as a digital photography and laptop connected PowerPoint projector was poor in comparison to similar or cheaper projectors out on the market today. After a 1 month trial (1 monthly club meeting), we returned the Optoma DV11 and upgraded to an Epson 77C (and saved $300 Canadian). In the future when we want to show a DVD, we'll have a laptop there or may buy a cheap portable DVD player to hook up to the Epson.
The main problems with digital photographs were:
1) showing digital photos from a laptop (connected by the VGA cable) produced marginally acceptable results. Showing exactly the same digital files burned to a CD and inserted in the projector's built-in DVD/CD player resulted in significantly lower resolution - the image colour was not true and the image had poorer resolution which showed up as a significantly 'blockier' image.
2) the CD player would usually (2 out of 3 times) lockup when moving to the next image. The only way to recover was to power off the projector, unplug it and wait a minute, then power it on again and eject the CD quickly. Though the manual (badly written in fractured English) indicated that large jpeg files were a problem, this problem happened consistently with small image file sizes (<1MB).
3. Overall resolution was SVGA at most (perhaps 800x600) which isn't suitable for high quality nature photography. Also, all of the preset projection settings seemed to have significant problems with wash-out in the light areas of the pictures (really noticable, and unacceptable).
Optoma technical support (in Canada) did make some attempts to work through the problems, but overall I was unsatisfied with this unit for the specific needs our nature club had. |
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Optoma DV11 480p Home Theater Projector with Built-In Slot Load DVD Player home electronics.