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It sounds like a cool device at a great price point. I can sure seeing myself using it for the home pics, video and music application. For slide presentations, I've seen too many situations where things don't translate well, even on a compatible computer -- fonts don't match and things don't line up, transitions are lost or broken, etc. I think a Netbook with real PowerPoint would provide a lot more confidence at a reasonably compact size. Besides, I often make minor changes minutes before a presentation. Nice to be able to fix a typo on the fly. Heck, the projectors themselves are so small now that a projector / Netbook combo is tiny compared to the "portable" monsters we used to lug around. My 2 cents' worth... /rich On Jun 25, 2009 6:13pm, tigner <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 16:50 -0400, Samone E Jones wrote: > Thanks Missy, > I?m learning as people respond to my post, that it?s the nature of the > technology to have to convert the PowerPoint with the projector?s > software prior to putting it on the USB and plugging the USB into the > projector and playing it. > So in essence these projectors have to convert the PowerPoint first with > the projector?s software on a PC > rather than PC-Less in a sense, which isn?ta terribly big deal ? I was > just hoping to find one that was truly plug and play ? I was also > trying to not get less than the latest technology - but I see that is the > current technology for that function. > Thanks to all that responded. > SJ > BestBuy sells a device named WD TV. It has 2 USB inputs and both analog > and HDMI > video outputs. IF you have a projector that can handle these inputs , you > could > save the powerpoint slides as individual pix on a USB flash drive. When > you plug > the USB flash drive into the WD TV, it scans for all types of media files > and displays > them on a on screen menu. In the case of pictures or images you can > select the > directory they are in and opt to click through them one at a time or do > a "slideshow". > WD TV costs $99 and supports DVD and HDTV resolution. It is made to > connect to > your HDTV but works fine with an TV or monitor or projector with either > analog RGB > or HDMI inputs. The remote control is a little small. > I use this at home to display family digital movies, pictures and mp3 > files on our HDTV. > It even played .FLV files I downloaded from YouTube ! > Barry A. Tigner > Electronics Shop manager > Physics and Astronomy department > Michigan State University > [log in to unmask] > 517-884-5538