Product Review: Optomo Ep719


Multipurpose presentation projector

The word, "wow," rarely leaves my lips in reference to electronics, mostly because I've seen some really good electronics.

That being said, let me give you my initial reaction to turning on the power to this piece of equipment:

Wow!

Crisp focus, awesome contrast, and a potentially huge screen (Twenty five foot diagonal. Yes. Twenty five foot!). Multiple inputs (RCA composite, VGA (in and out), S-video, DVI, and USB (not sure what it's for, yet.) The brightness on the projection is incredible! I am watching now, with lights on, sun coming through the windows at the end of the living room, and I am able to see it marvelously. I can't wait to see it in the dark.

Here's a link to the unit at Best Buy:

Optoma EP719

I would not recommend buying it from Best Buy in Macon; I have issues with some of their employees. The phrase, "Stupid people must die," comes to mind, but I abhor violence, so it'll have to be something other than death.

Otherwise, this is brilliant!

Update!

After watching broadcast television, I am not entirely certain this projector is for everyone. And I've not tried video tape with it, though I assume similar problems are waiting for me there. Apparently, the LCDs don't like the signal from my VCR (and I readily admit that the problem could very well lie in my cheap VCR). Broadcast television has some rather substantial lineyness to it that isn't present in DVD or computer projections. The image is not unwatchable, but it is not the crisp cleanness I found in the other two sources.

This comes as a surprise to me since the machine is rated as HDTV ready. But, again, HDTV is a completely different signal from current broadcast television- the fault may lie in my $58.00 VCR.

So, with that caveat, I still rate it as a wow. Lower case letters. wow.

Posted: Sat - August 27, 2005 at 04:51 PM      

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