Pocket Cinema Projector

Aiptek’s PocketCinema V10 pico projector [The World’s Smallest] so small you can hold it in your hand. With 1GB internal memory, the V10 also accepts SD, MMC and MS Pro memory cards, giving you instant access to movies and photos, without needing to wire up a secondary video source.

You transcode files to Motion JPEG AVI or MPEG-4 ASF—you can use whatever software you want, but if you don’t have an app, the thing comes with ArcSoft’s PC-only Media Converter—and they’re recognized with ease by the projector, along with JPEG stills and MP3 music files, which play fine by themselves, but not in the background of a photo slideshow where they belong.

The Aiptek does have a basic component video input, so you can run low-grade standard-def sources in there with no trouble.

Aiptek’s projector comes with a nice little tripod for quick-and-dirty setup, and a remote control if you’re going to give a presentation. (Speaking of that, the manual recommends converting PPT and PDF files to JPEG and loading them on SD card for best results. Like I said, “quick and dirty.”)

The beefs: You really can’t set the thing back more than five feet or so when by which time the picture—at that point about 50 inches diagonal—really starts to blur. Not even getting into contrast, color accuracy, motion blur and all of the things we examine in higher TV technologies. But in a sufficiently dim setting, the video for the projector is entirely watchable.

Are you going to be an early adopter? If so; The only hold back is that they’re just gonna get better and better.

At $300 [$649AUS I think]… I’m gonna wait until this technology is implemented as standard for iPods and Cellphones; when the technology is cheap, supports 60″ at Full 1080p and is 3D!!! Man, that will be the day!

Reminds me of this:

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