3M MPro 110 Pocket Projector

[LEDninja]

kris abel mentioned the unit on Canada AM this morning. Found a more detailed description on his blog.
http://krisabel.ctv.ca/blog/_archives/2008/11/11/3972266.html

.....The 3M Micro Professional Projector is about the size of a small cellphone, weighting a mere 5.6 oz. and capable of projecting DVD-quality movies and images.
.....Using an LED bulb as its light source and an LCOS image chip for video processing, the quality of the video playback is higher and sharper than you'd expect.
.....The downsides are few. It can project an image up to 39 inches measured diagonally, but is limited to doing so from five feet away. Its brightness is weak, just twelve lumens, meaning you will have to turn down all the lights to see the image with real clarity, but even low-lighting conditions are enough to watch a movie or video. The display is limited to pan-and-scan, 4:3 aspect ratio, but when connected to a laptop or personal computer, can support desktop sizes ranging from 640 x 480 to 1024 x 768.

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Watching on TV the picture seems awful blue but they say it is not that bad in real life. Somebody should introduce 3M to the neutral warm white LED.

 

[tebore]

So we just need to find out the LED in it then find it's up to date equivalent and replace it.

 

[coloradogps]

Let's send it to Milkyspit!

 

[Arcoholic]

just got one last week. i think it will be gifted off though lacks quality, image is not bad up to 50 in, but there is some lightspill around the actual pic. and the image is not square.
The unit i have also seems to have a greenie led since the edges of the pic are somewhat brown. Other than that the image quality is good and bright for what it is but it does not beat my only slightly larger samsung dlp led unit.
I will wait for the microvision pico which uses lasers instead and does not need to be focused.