philips wireless picopix pico projector review

In use it's quite loud, running at an average of 50 decibels, though it fluctuates randomly, and peaks at 60 decibels. Great though it is, we can't recommend the PicoPix PPX2055 with a MacBook Air since it crashed ours during tests.

A contrasty, sharp enough 50-inch image is assured – and that's probably plenty for most small-scale presentations. Picture quality isn't akin to a home cinema of any kind – it's neither bright nor nuanced enough – but it's certainly good enough to get anyone wondering what an extra few hundred lumens could do. Engaging the PicoPix PPX2055 is no more complicated than choosing a shortcut on the desktop of a laptop, and hitting OK on the first and only set-up screen.

It's rudimentary in terms of design, but keeps things ever so simple. Since there are no controls on the PicoPix PPX2055 itself, the Picviewer 2 software is all-important – and highly impressive. So does this pocket-sized projector offer enough to light up the market? We liked We also noticed that the USB cable used is very stiff, and can easily jog the (exceptionally lightweight) projector itself. The spinning DLP colour wheel is always audible, so it's worth considering drowning out the sound with a simple wireless Bluetooth speaker to connect up to the laptop you're using. You actually need darkness for good results

Detail depends on placement, but on a 50-inch image it's enough for most presentations. Put a good deal closer, at about 90cm from a screen, and we managed a perfectly sharp, bright 50-inch image, so it's here that we'd set its usable limit.įocussing it via the PicoPix PPX2055's only physical control (a small wheel above the LED lens that's rated to last 30,000 hours) its RGB LED lamp produced colourful images with plenty of contrast, though it's much better with the bold colours of presentations and graphics than with the skin tones of movies and TV. From about 2.5m from a screen we achieved an 80-inch image, though there are issues that render this a bit pointless the image is just too soft, and it's not bright enough. The same process on a netbook running Windows Vista worked fine the Picopix Viewer 2 software loaded up quickly and gave us a choice of mirroring our netbook's screen on the PicoPix PPX2055 or extending it to become a second screen, as well as choosing between three brightness levels.

Philips wireless picopix pico projector review