Filed under: HDTV

Marantz has a new projector, but you'd better listen up, because even if they're not incredibly well known for their HD gear this side of the Pacific, this thing's a DLP powerhouse. Their freshly minted VP-1C1s1 features a full 1080p high definition picture, Konica Minolta lens, 6,500:1 contrast ratio, pumps out 700 ANSI lumens, and has dual HDMI, dual component, VGA, S-Video, and composite video inputs -- all for a mere 1,800,000. Ahem, that's about $15,300 US. In other words, you'll have a little time to scrap for spare change before they release this thing Stateside -- if they release this thing Stateside.

[Via Impress]

Filed under: Peripherals, Samsung

We're a little confused, since yesterday the word was that Samsung had teamed up with Iljin Display for packing a projector into their phones, but we guess they need to have their bases covered. Samsung has just been granted a patent they submitted in 2004 for a virtual input interface, a bit similar to that virtual keyboard from iTech. It involves a phone-based projector, an "electronic pen," a "position detector" and some handwriting recognition stuff. Yeah, we know, real technical stuff, but it sounds like yet another vain attempt to create a better way to input text and other info into a mobile phone. Can't fault them for trying, but let's hope the mind-reading efforts are well under way.

[Via Unwired View]

Filed under: Peripherals, LG, Samsung

Most of these projects to squeeze a projector into your phone seem to be all talk and no projection, but this new effort for Iljin Display seems to be, dare we say it, grounded in reality. So far they’ve only got a prototype of their coin-sized unit on display, which can throw a 7-inch color image onto a wall, but they’ve got deals with Samsung and LG to start including projectors in phones starting next April. Iljin apparently hasn’t been just playing around with the idea, with 156 million US invested in their Single LCD Panel tech so far, and they see projectors making their way to five percent of handsets by 2010, of which they hope to have a 30 percent market share. If everything pans out we might not have to wait quite as long as we thought to start projecting our own in-flight movies, but we’ll believe it when we see it.

[Via picturephoning.com]

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Filed under: Displays

Viewsonic is flaunting their new mini projector at CES, and while they haven't officially decided a release date, they did decide they wanted to show it to us.  We interviewed them at Digital Experience, and now you get a chance to check out a really tiny SVGA projector.


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Filed under: Peripherals

Sure, a good deal of these newfangled ideas to somehow cram an actual projector into a phone’s casing are a bit far fetched, but Project-a-Phone’s ICD-5000 utilizes an external mobile projector platform that essentially works with any smartphone, PDA, or mobile computer. Similar to contraptions used by math professors showing off the on-screen magic on their favorite flavor of TI calculator, this device sports an overhead camera that channels the text, documents, slideshows, or movie clips from your mobile’s screen onto a connected monitor or projection screen. Any device small enough to clamp into the machine’s frame (8- x 6-centimeters) can be utilized, and the integrated USB 2.0 camera boasts a five megapixel sensor capable of taking 3 megapixel screenshots and delivering “VGA-quality video at 30fps.” The ICD-5000 is currently available to ease your mobile projection woes for $395.

[Via TGDaily]

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