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(More customer reviews)I have had my projector for a couple of weeks now and I have been satisfied. I bought this to replace a Dell 2200MP because I needed something brighter and sharper for watching movies in a living room with lots of windows, and this was much better priced than other projectors with similar resolution and brightness. The Dell was terrible for dark scenes unless we were watching at night, even with heavy black curtains over all the windows. This projector blows the Dell away. The picture is high def, so much sharper (especially with a 1080i upconverting DVD player). And the regular brightness setting on this projector is way brighter than the brightest setting on the Dell. I don't even have to cover all the windows anymore to watch the dark scenes.
The projector runs quietly and cools down very quickly by revving up the fan. After running the thing for about 2 hours, it shut down in less than a minute.
A Circuit City reviewer said that it was incompatible with universal ceiling mounts. Mine is hanging very nicely from my ceiling with a nice $[...] universal mount I bought from Amazon. The manual (on PDF) that came with the projector tells you what kind of bolts/screws to use if you don't use the Optoma ceiling mount (which costs almost $[...]--ridiculous). I had to go to the hardware store to buy the right size screws to use with the universal mount, but it worked very well.
As for connections, if you want to connect to an HDMI port on your DVD player, you just need a cable with HDMI at one end, and DVI at the other. You can get them all over the web, but www.eforcity.com has them for very cheap. If you want to connect with component cables (like I did for my PS2 and Wii), you need a cable with component plugs on one end and a VGA (15-pin) monitor connector at the other (most projectors use this type of connection). Again, these are widely available on the web, but very cheap at www.eforcity.com, and they even have fast & cheap shipping and 30-day return policy. The good thing about this type of cable is that it is generally better shielded for running across a living room than are regular component video cables. Also, if you want to display your video on both the projector and a TV, boxes that split the VGA signal with amplification are widely available on the web (I got a $[...] one at Amazon), whereas splitters for straight component connections are much harder to come by. Anyway, I am very pleased with my purchase.
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The Optoma EP1690 is a native 16:9 digital projector that delivers performance for todays widescreen laptops, the latest DVDs and high-definition content. Featuring a native resolution of 1280 x 768, the EP1690 offers amazingly bright picture quality with 2500 lumens and a 2500:1 contrast ratio. Stylish, lightweight and amazingly versatile, the EP1690 goes from laptop to big screen home entertainment easily.
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