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Tuesday October 17, 2006
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 Portable DVD players, along with other small video devices, are great… as long as the show is just for one. But what if you want to share your video with a few friends? Huddling around a 10-inch screen isn't going to work.
Toshiba has you covered. The company just announced a mobile DLP projector: the TDP-FF1AU ($699 list, also shown at DigitalLife last week). It weighs just over 1 pound and is about the size of a paperback book. The projector works with a number of video sources, including DVD, digital cameras and laptops, so you'll never even have to waste your time in the noble pursuit of "reading" again. A built-in battery pack means that you can turn any white wall into a screen, as the device can project an 11- to 68-inch diagonal image, with native SVGA 800 x 600 resolution. It comes with a battery charger, a foldable 23-inch diagonal screen, and a carrying case. The TDP-FF1AU won't take the place of your plasma TV, but it will let you bring a movie theater with you almost anywhere you go. Try that with a 100-pound flat-panel set! Post by Peter Suciu
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October 17, 2006 12:26 PM
I have to admit, I'm surprised by projector technology-projectors used to be massively bulky and you needed two hands to lug them around and carry them on your shoulder, and even in the past 5 years or less have they gotten small enough to stash in your messenger bag next to your laptop! Smaller all the time-and this one has a built in battery pack?! Really impressive, and the price is pretty nice too for a projector-businesses might turn on to small, affordable projectors like this. One question though-this is a DLP projector, so does it have bulbs to replace? That could be a nuisance...
October 18, 2006 3:34 PM
This l'il baby uses superbright LEDs for its RGB guns, so not only is it long lived, you don't have the rainbow effect motion artifacting caused by the color wheel in bulb based DLP projectors. The downside is that you get 400 lumens 'stead of the 1000+ that a bulb would get you. Hope you have a dark room.
November 21, 2006 7:23 AM
Um mentalbob, you need a colour wheel in all single DLP projectors.
The only DLP projects where you don't have a colour wheel are in more expensive, triple DLP-chip designs where you have one chip for each colour channel RGB.
Check out the DLP flash movie at Texas Instruments website.