Optoma HD720X

Advantages: Great picture, little rainbow effect, good looking projector.
Disadvantages: No internal speaker

...This is a really great projector, at a very impressive price (£529 on Play) - the cheapest WXGA I've seen! Many DLP projectors suffer from the "rainbow effect" but with this Optoma there is virtually no rainbow effect at all - this is due to the 4x speed colour wheel, which is faster than you would find in many other projectors. Out of the box, the picture is great. I found the yellows were maybe slightly muted but this can be adjusted by the on-screen menus. The actual projector looks very sleek - the black and silver case looks really classy - and it comes with all the inputs you could want, expect SCART, but don't worry - a SCART adapter comes in the box. Being HD ready, it's also got an HDMI port for your HD-DVD or Blu-ray. The remote is easy to use, and the buttons light up so you can see them in a darkened room. Thankfully...

jaymicksee 20.09.2007 · Read review
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Review of Optoma HD720X

Optoma EP706 Projector - I love dixons!

Advantages: The price, The picture quality and so forth
Disadvantages: Didnt work as well on old toshiba TV's

...Its time to bring the Cinema to your own home! (Not litteraly of course. That would be illegal lol) but in terms of watching DVD's on a huge screen and not having to fork out a fortune on a large TV. I was sitting back in my armchair the one day, watching old videos on my 14 inch TV, and suddenly thought 'Hey! I have a bit of extra cash floating around. Ill buy a projector!'. So off I trotted to Dixons in the high street where upon entering I spotted the mother of all Projectors (Ok it was more of a baby projector lol but you get my drift) with a price tag of only £281.05! $$ Ca ching! To be honest, Ive never seen a projector this cheap and even though it doesnt come with a special screen to project the image onto, I found that my wall was the perfect size and colour for this very occasion. (A tinted green and 8 foot by 7 foot...

Romeo123467 29.09.2007 · Read review
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Review of Optoma EP706

A slick print screen facility

Advantages: Options, it works well, it's free
Disadvantages: Can be slow to email as an attachment

...If you look at your computer keyboard on the top row of keys on the right hand side you?ll see the ?Prt Sc? key, the one that captures a print of the screen that you are currently looking at. It?s a very handy facility to have but notorious for not working properly & being a little restrictive. Gadwin Systems offer free software that eliminates the problems of the ?Print Screen? facility & turns into a very slick operation. You can capture a screen print & save it for printing, you can choose a number of ?hot keys? that you prefer to use for the simple function. You can capture a full screen or a certain section; in fact there are about six different image formats to suit each individual user. I find it very handy when your browsing through websites looking for something & come across similar offers, printing a copy of the various...

ScottishWestie 13.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of Gadwin PrintScreen Professional

Touch Screen Fun

Advantages: Original, nice looking, sturdy
Disadvantages: Limited range of games

...screen. It really is excellent, and makes the DS worth the money. It is accurate, generally easy to control and the screen doesn't scratch permanently (you do get temporary scratches, but these rub off easily). There is a handy holder for the stylus on the side so it'll be quite difficult to lose it. There is also a D-Pad and four buttons for non-touch screen games, which are clear and easy to use. Another control is the microphone - I have only used this for 'blowing' games, not 'talking' games, however my experience of it is negative. It doesn't work, and you'll give yourself a nasty headache trying to blow into it anyway. -Extras- The range of extras are things like an alarm, a Wi-Fi chatroom and a customisable profile. You can also change the colour of the start-up screen to suit your tastes. These extras are neat, but nothing to...

kaledrina 30.07.2007 · Read review
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Review of Nintendo DS Lite

Can you buy a full HD projector on the cheap?

Advantages: Cheap and bright full HD machine
Disadvantages: Poor colour reproduction

...control allowing proper integration with integrated control systems such as AMX or Crestron as well as a web interface for monitoring over a network. There is also a USB port so the projector remote can be used to control your computer for powerpoint presentations for example. Picture quality The first thing you notice is the resulution that the full HD DLP chip brings to the EP1080. Even system graphics like the Optoma logo and the input information are crisp and clear. Plug in a laptop into the machine and you can put the resolution right up to 1080p and see full HD goodness from the internet such as BBC iplayer or Youtube HD. To get the best out of this machine you really need to connect a full HD source such as a Blue Ray player into the HDMI port and here you really enjoy the benefits of full high definition projection...

MSHunt 14.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Optoma EP1080

Big Screen - Small Price

Advantages: Lamp brightness, looks, performance
Disadvantages: Sound

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phatbrass123 29.12.2008 · Read review
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Review of Optoma EP721

Nice clean screen

Advantages: Works well, lasts ages
Disadvantages: quite exspensive

...I started using Vivanco TFT Screen Cleaner when I purchased and LCD screen TV in December. It was recommended to me by my local Euronics centre when I went in to find something to clean my TV as normal polish can't be used on an LCD screen TV. It cost me ₤7.99 for a 200ml bottle, and comes in a green bottle which is made from recycled plastic and you get a lint free cloth to use with it which is kept in the lid. It uses a pump action spray mechanism to dispense the cleaner. This product is environmentally friendly and alcohol free. Most importantly with this product is it is Butylglycol and Methanol free so it will not damage your TV screen. It also has anti-static properties so it helps keep the TV looking cleaner for longer. It can be used on Glass, TFT, LCD and PDA screen and mirrors. This is a great product...

lozloz 16.02.2007 · Read review
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Review of Vivanco TFT Screen Cleaner

A Thrilling Review on TFT Screen Cleaner

Advantages: They do the job
Disadvantages: Too Small

...Are you ready for a thrilling review on a TFT screen cleaner? And not just any old TFT screen cleaner, what we have here is a pot of no less than one hundred TFT and LCD Screen cleaning tissues. Excited? I hope you are, because believe it or not this is exciting stuff. Having parted with well over three hundred pounds for a brand new Philips TFT monitor a couple of months ago I proceeded to make the screen smeary with the use of a common can of furniture polish, well it works on the TV why wouldn?t it work on the monitor? Well, it didn?t work, no matter how hard I polished and rubbed the smears would not disperse, Argh, it was like looking through a curtain! Luckily, in the recesses of my mind I remember seeing a little display of TFT monitor accessories in PC World when I was buying the monitor, and I distinctly remember some sort...

stuleg 02.04.2004 · Read review
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Review of Storex TFT, LCD and PDA Screen Cleaning Tissues

Fantastic screen

Advantages: -
Disadvantages: --

...**** Viewsonic VA2216w**** When i got my new computer it didn't come with a screen so instead of using the one that came with my old one (i say old but was about a year old)i decided to treat myself. The first place i looked was Tescos direct-as i figured with ecoupons ,staff discount and a few other offers being on that i would get a good deal and i think i did. This was very easy to set up ,just had to connect to the back of my computer and i was ready to go!!! It came with a quick start guide but i didn't need this as it was so easy. **First impressions** My first thought of this were good-this is an impressive 22 inch wide screen monitor ,which for a computer is perfect!!!It is also a flat screen so you can put it on the wall,or if its on a desk it wont take up much room. After using it for a while i can say that...

katie22008m 12.09.2008 · Read review
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Review of ViewSonic VA2216w

Does screen violence create violence in society?

Advantages: some evidence of a link between screen violence and real violence...
Disadvantages: ...but not a lot. Also it's rather mixed and lots of different factors involved.

...The debate over whether violence on screen (movies, TV, videogames etc.) auses violence in society has raged for years and involved some dodgy "proof" that it does. While I don't agree with some violent scenes in various forms of media, I'm still not convinced that it causes real violence in society. I had to do a presentation on this topic in my psychology class at school and found some interesting arguments and "proofs" for both sides of the debate. One study often quoted as proof that violence on TV makes kids violent is "the Bobo doll studies" by Bandura, a psychologist who is famous for his Social Learning Theory (basically this is the theory that behaviour is learned from watching the behaviour of others - vicarious learning. If the person being watched is seen to be rewarded for their behaviour in some way, it is "vicarious...

helen666 09.06.2005 · Read review
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