Projector News and Industry Commentary

Bulletins about upcoming product reviews and releases, tradeshows, new technology and advanced product features as well as our thoughts and observations on all things related to projectors.

We've made some improvements to our Get a Quote service. Previously you had to identify the projector you wanted and other projectors you would consider. With our new changes you can still identify the projector you want and if you would consider others, just check "I will consider equivalent projectors."

But most importantly, if you don't know what you want, just go to the next step and describe what you are trying to do and mention any concerns or questions you have.more

We just added 11 more search options to Feature Search. Just click More Options under the last column of check boxes to access them. Click Fewer Options to hide them. Hiding options does not disable them; however, clicking Start Over will. Use Comments below if you want to share your thoughts with others or use Send us Feedback if you want to offer suggestions.more

About a week ago we launched Education Projectors, a new section of our site that caters to the needs of educators. Elizabeth Dourley is hosting Education Projectors and will be responding to the needs of educators and offering insights in her blog the "Pondering Pixel". Click Send us Feedback at the top of the Education Projector page and she will respond to you.

Below are a few of the things that Education Projectors offers to educators:

1. Case Studies - real installations that highlight the problems and the solutions in using projection technology in an education setting.more

You may have noticed that we have been making changes to the site over the last 4 or 5 months in an effort to give you better coverage of emerging technologies and to simply make it easier to find things.

Recently we revamped the Projector Brands page and Feature Search and while we always expect a few complaints when we change things, we got more than expected with the last two. On behalf of ProjectorCentral, I apologize to those who took umbrage. We will try not to surprise you in the future, by posting a note here.more

The projector market is expanding with a couple of new projector breeds - Pico and Pocket. The Pico projectors are the real pocket projectors as they are no bigger than your cell phone and they'll soon be appearing in every hand-held electronic device and probably in a few computers.

For you geeks out there, here's an interesting emerging application for pico technology.more