Improvised Big Screen
Imagine setting up your own entertainment theater at home. Watching movies at a big screen. Surround it with a high definition speakers. This is not a dream. This is not impossible. All you need is a computer, cool speakers, and an LCD projector.
Enjoy watching with your family with the latest movies in town. No special setups required. No need to hire an electrician to setup your system. Just clear a wall, connect your LCD projector to a computer, then play the movie from the computer with its display set to the LCD projector. Enhance watchin with high definition speakers surrounding your room. Be comfortable as you are as you’re at your own home, but enjoy the experience at it was in a real movie theater.
Portable TDP-FF1 Digital LED Projector from Toshiba
The purpose of projectors is for you share your screen with a group of people, say at conferences, meetings, or maybe even just for watching movies with your family (as an alternative to big-screen LCD or Plasma displays.
What’s not so great, however, is that no matter how small and portable projectors can be, you would always have to be tethered to the mains in order to power them up–they use just so much power to light up the lamp that real portability is virtually non-existent. Add to that the fact that lamps may break when the projector is mishandled, and you have yourself worrisome times travelling. Further, try sitting beside a projector, and pretty soon the heat (and exhaust fumes) will get to your head. Quite an uncomfortable situation! (I’ve been there, having presented in weekly meetings in my day back as a government economist, and I absolutely hate sitting next to the projector!)
Toshiba tries to change all this with its TDP-FF1 digital LED-based projector. For one, it’s powered mainly by batteries, so you can enjoy unwired freedom. As long as your laptop battery has juice, this little baby will let you project your screen even when power mains is unavailable.
The LEDs consume a very low amount of energy and emits very low heat levels. Hence it’s ideal in that even if you’re sitting right next to the projector, you won’t have to endure the heat (not to mention the bad smell emitted by the exhaust fans).
Power on the go
The FF1 weighs just below one-and-a-half pounds, and can run on batteries for up to two hours. That’s just enough for even a long presentation, and can last you a short feature-length movie (okay, movies nowadays usually exceed 2 hours, but some still come below the two-hour mark).
Longevity and Quality
The FF1’s LEDs have an operating life of about 10,000 hours–this means it’s not likely that you’ll have to replace it during the projector’s expected lifetime. After all, gadgets these days are rarely expected to last a year without the next better, smaller, lighter, more powerful (and usually cheaper) model appears. But still, you can expect LED replacements to be cheaper than lamp replacements, in the case yours gets extinguished early on (from watching too many videos every day perhaps).
The FF1 projects images using a digital mirror device chip, and can deliver a high contrast ratio of 1500:1 for crisp, razor-sharp images.
A Multimedia Affair
Not only can you show your presentations with wireless, untethered freedom, you can also watch movies on the FF1. It comes with built-in speakers, and retails with a portable screen. Not really the high-end multimedia setup, but nonetheless complete enough for your viewing and listening pleasure.
The TDP-FF1 retails for about £640 (including VAT).
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