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Optoma PK201 Pico Pocket Projector review: delivers superior colorful image and media playback functionality
Optoma PK201 Pico Pocket Projector, an entry-level pico projector, announced at CES 2010 in Las Vegas, weights only 5.6 ounces including battery, but it offers multiple media playback functionalities and even boasts a bright LED light source with a projected 20,000-hour lifetime.
The Optoma PK201, with a resolution of 854 x 480 in 16:9 widescreen format, and a dimension of 2.4” x 0.7” x 4.6”, is a truly palm-sized portable Pico Pocket Projector. You can bring it anywhere in any type of bag you own, such as your fanny pack, backpack, briefcase and even a purse if you like. Amazingly, with up to 20 ANSI lumens Bright mode, Optoma PK201 delivers superior crisp and colorful widescreen images up to 66” diagonally.
Optoma PK201 Pico Pocket Projector features 28MB internal memory, which is expansion available via microSD slot up to 16 GB SDHC. Also, it contains full assortment of I/O ports, including 2.5mm Composite video/audio-in, VGA and Component-in, audio-out and mini HDMI input, and allows for easy connection to most analog or digital devices. For instance, you can use it as an external iPod or iPhone display, or you can plug the microSD card of your Motorola Droid into PK201 to watch pictures and video files. More than that, you can also use its internal media player to watch movies or display photos directly.
With powerful media playback functionalities and multiple devices and file types compatibility, the PK201 supports a wide variety of source inputs and file formats. See the details in the following chart:
All that and more make Optoma PK201 Pico Pocket Projector an ideal gadget to do media playback and mobile business presentations. PK201 sets you free to share photos, slide shows, and movies with friends or family members at home or on-the-go.
To get video files to play correctly, users can’t avoid doing a lot of format conversions unless the source files are already in the format of AVI, MOV, MP4 or 3GP. Actually, the included Optoma Pico Video Encoder is always ready to help users do format conversion from one to another. What happens is that the software is not powerful enough to transfer all videos and commercial Blu-ray movies and DVDs to PK201 compatible file formats, and additionally it is not Mac compatible at all. The following are our recommendations to help you out of this problem.
1. If you are using a Mac computer, and wanna rip Blu-ray and DVDs for playback on PK201, you can use Blu-Ray DVD to PK 201 Projector Converter for Mac;
2. If you need a Mac video converter to handle all of your video files, like TiVo, MTS, M2TS, MXF, etc, you can try out Video/Movie to PK 201 Projector Converter for Mac;
3. Blu-Ray DVD to PK 201 Projector Converter offers you ability to rip home made and commercial Blu-rays and DVDs to Optoma PK201 Pico Pocket Projector supported file formats on your Windows PC.
4. Video/Movie to PK 201 Projector Converter is suitable for Windows PC users to convert common video files to PK201 playable videos.
The only obvious downside of Optoma PK201 Pico Pocket Projector we can see now is the poor battery life, which is only around one hour. That means you’d better not go far away from a power source during the course of using it. But considering its portability, remarkable clean and colorful image quality, and media playback functionality, as well as its very acceptable price of no more than $300, all are deserved. You’ve got a great Pico Projector.
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