Toshiba unveiled today what it’s calling a compact projector with “extreme short projection” and wireless functionality. The Toshiba TDP-EX20U is priced at around $1,600.

The Toshiba TDP-EX20U is a mobile projector with DLP technology, 3,200 ANSI Lumens and a contrast ratio of 2000:1. The “extreme short projection” feature means the projector can put up a 60-inch image from just three feet away. It also comes with Windows Vista networking capabilities and built-in 802.11g wireless if you want to connect it to a network or notebooks from anywhere in the room and deliver sequential presentations without the need for cables.

Epson unveiled its newest high end projector targeted towards HD lovers. The Epson PowerLite Pro Cinema 1080 UB will be available in December for an as yet unspecified price.

The Pro Cinema 1080 UB delivers 1080p resolution and contrast ratios measuring up to 50,000:1. It’s one of a handful of projectors carrying the latest 3LCD optical engine that uses 12-bit video processing and a new polarizing light filter to deliver better blacks and contrast ratios. Brightness levels can reach 1,600 ANSI lumens and two HDMI 1.3 inputs provide connectivity for high definition video formats.

Panasonic today unveiled at the CEDIA event a new LCD home theater projector with has dedicated cinema and gaming modes. The PT-AX200U, which updates the popular PT-AX100U, should be available in October.

The Panasonic PT-AX200U’s gaming mode, said Panasonic, reportedly improves signal processing for 1/3 response time and also tunes picture quality so more image details appear in very dark or over-saturated areas that are prevalent in many games. The projector’s cinema mode offers features like an advanced sharpness control, high end color filter and better color correction.

InFocus today announce the IN38, the latest addition to its line of Work Big meeting room projectors. The new projector is designed to give a powerful and effective projection while still maintaining a small, quiet footprint.

The projector measures 13×16.5×9.5 inches and weighs about 12 pounds, but for its size it puts out and impressive 3,500 lumens (2,800 in Whisper mode) with an equally impressive 2000:1 contrast ratio. It’s data compatible up to 1280 x 1024 and will take video as high as 1080i, automatically scaling when you take it home to watch your high-def movies at 16:9. The IN38 also has a 1.2X optical zoom letting it throw images with a range of 2.5 feet to as large as 25 feet. It also has a slew of inputs including M1-DA, Component, VGA and S-Video.

Toshiba announced today what it is calling an “affordable” widescreen 3LCD mobile projector. The Toshiba TLP-WX2200U is priced at around $1,000 and is available for your home theatre or board room needs now.

The Toshiba TLP-WX2200U uses 3LCD technology to provide what is described as better quality color reproduction. It sports 2,200 ANSI lumens, widescreen WXGA 1200×800 native resolution, a 600:1 contrast ratio and a removable palm-sized control panel with a password for theft protection.

InFocus has long been known as a high end name in the projection market. While focused mainly on business, it has also unveiled over time some consumer products. The newest announced today looks to be the most interesting yet.

The InFocus Play Big IN82 is what InFocus is billing as the its first 1080p DLP home theater projector. It’s the highest performing, single-chip projector of its type in the company’s history, according to InFocus. There’s plenty of great home theatre technology here to keep video projection movie hounds happy, including Texas Instruments DarkChip 3 technology and a contrast ratio which can be adjusted as desired from 4000:1 to 12000:1. Nice!

With all the 1080p talk going on with the HD DVD and Blu-ray disc format war it’s nice to see more companies acknowledging through their products that no matter what there is going to be a bigger need for some Hi-Def output. The DreamVision DreamBee projector uses a less costly D-ILA technology as apposed to the popular DLP to produce a full 1080p projected picture that will take full advantage of those Hi-Def discs and players regardless of which format you go with.

The DreamBee doesn’t really come all that cheap, however. DreamVision produces two models, the DreamBee and the DreamBee Pro which retail for £6,999 ($13,961) and £9,500 ($18,950), respectively. The projector models are chocked full of technology and features as you might expect for that kind of cash, including a 3-chip D-ILA light engine, 20,000 to 1 contrast ration, TrueMotionHD, RS-232C home automation integration …

Inside this Giorgio Revoldini-designed cabinet is a project that’s able to throw out light to create a high-definition, 1080p projection with over one billion colors on a surface as large as 30 feet across. The SIM2 Grand Cinema HT3000E Projector uses 10 bits per channel processing to produce 1024 shades of each single color to come to this level of quality with a native, uncompressed, high-def 1920 X 1080 resolution.

Combine this projector with your high defintion HD DVD or Blu-ray disc player and you have a theater-like picture in your own home. Unfortunately it may be cheaper to actually take all your friends to the movie theater than to have the HT3000E projector at home with a $19,710 price tag.

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If someone asks you to think of three words that best describe a DLP chances are you may come up with the following: heavy, bulky and pricey. Well, Casio is trying hard to make you forget about the first two with its newest DLP unit, the XJ-S46.

This sleek and stylish device projects 2,500 lumens of light but its marvel is in its size (it’s the thinnest projector currently on the market) and weight (3.7 pounds or 1.7 kilos, whichever way you like your weight calculated.) With those specs you can slip this into your satchel, slap it on your back and pedal back from that morning office presentation and then watch “Casino Royale” that night in your home.

Casio also has another model, the XJ-S36, which outputs 2,000 lumens and of course costs less. Both models offer 1800:1 contrast, XGA resolution and are easy …

The debate between plasma and LCD still continues on but for those who have debated over whether avoiding the box solution entirely and dropping $2K on a front projector, the scales have just tilted more in your favor. Sony is bringing out two Bravia projectors which feature progressive resolution and high illumination in 1280 x 720, and best of all, they start at prices that are affordable.

The two models are the Bravia 2LCD VPL-AW15 ($1,300) and the VPL-AW10 ($1,000.) Both have a 165-watt ultra high pressure lamp that cranks out 1,100 lumens, a short focal-length lens with 1.6 times zoom and a low noise fan (producing 20dB in low lamp mode), and also have HDMI input supporting 1080/24p. The beefier of the two is the AW15 which has a contrast ratio of up to 12,000:1 giving deeper blacks and crisper resolution (by comparison the AW10 …

So you’re a Japanese gadget guru, what do you have in your house? A 200-inch theater screen of course. Even wonder what a PlayStation 3 would look like on a giant screen TV? Well here are the amazing pictures.

From the English version it appears that the only down side was that the text in the game was hard to read. This is probably because even the game designers didn’t have a 200-inch monster TV. The PlayStation 3 was connected to the projector via a $1200 US HDMI cable. Oh and by the way, who says everything in Japan is smaller? Apparently the Japanese are sizable where it matters, in the Audio/Video realm of course. What do you think I meant?…

The iProjector video projector for the Apple iPod is a video projector from Ion Audio with a native 800×600 resolution and has a built-in dock for the iPod, among additional input ports.

The key feature of the iProjector is the docking station which supports the iPod Video, iPod Photo and the iPod Nano to interface video, still pictures and music to the projector as well as charging the iPod battery. The iPod projector also has video inputs for Composite, S-Video, Component and VGA. There is also an audio out jack for the sounds from the iPod.

The 800×600 native resolution display supports 24-bit color and has a brightness of 800 ANSI Lumens projecting to sizes from 30″ up to 90″.

A majority of accessories designed for use with the iPod are not really meeting any needs, but this accessory appears to be an exception. …

This is the recently introduced PowerLite Pro Cinema 1080p Home Theater Projector from Epson America. The Pro Cinema 1080p is engineered to fully utilize the benefits of the 1080p high definition video signal by taking advantage of some exclusive technologies developed by Epson.

Epson develops and manufactures most of the major technologies that go into its line of projectors and who better than Epson to integrate all of those technologies into one cohesive system. These technologies include:

Epson’s C2 Fine 3LCD Technology – A three-chip high definition system that produces full-time color with dramatically higher contrast ratios.
Epson’s 1080Perfect Video Processing – Reproduces images without noise and artifacts, while maintaining the full integrity of the signal.
Epson Absolute Black Technology – Helps to deliver dramatically high contrast ratios (up to 12,000:1) adding depth to images for the most captivating scenes possible.
Epson is unique among projector manufacturers …