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:
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> On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 16:50 -0400, Samone E Jones wrote:
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> Thanks Missy,
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> 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
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> software prior to putting it on the USB and plugging the USB into the projector and playing it.
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> So in essence these projectors have to convert the PowerPoint first with the projector?s software on a PC
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> rather than PC-Less in a sense, which isn?t a terribly big deal ? I was just hoping to find one that was truly plug and play ? I was also
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> trying to not get less than the latest technology - but I see that is the current technology for that function.
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> Thanks to all that responded.
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> SJ
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> BestBuy sells a device named WD TV. It has 2 USB inputs and both analog and HDMI
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> WD TV costs $99 and supports DVD and HDTV resolution. It is made to connect to
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> I use this at home to display family digital movies, pictures and mp3 files on our HDTV.
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> It even played .FLV files I downloaded from YouTube !
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> Barry A. Tigner
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> Physics and Astronomy department
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