Coming soon: camcorders with built-in pico projectors
According to Digitimes, the DigiLife DDV-JF1 being shown at Computex has pretty much got it all:
Life Technologies, under its DigiLife brand, is showcasing a DV pico projector, the DDV-JF1. The DV features a 5-megapixel CMOS sensor, H.264 video compression, 30fps frame rate at a resolution of 1280×720 and a 2.5-inch LCD display. However, users can also project the image using the integrated pico projector. Projected images can be projected up to four meters away at a maximum size of 50-inches. The projector support Q720P(640×360) resolution and has a whiled LED backlight at an 8 lux brightness.
640×360 is a better resolution than the pico projectors we’ve got, and it’s also exactly half the 720p resolution, so it’ll be a clean downrez. The more I think of it, the more I’m convinced that it may actually be a good thing to have. With a good amount of storage, the thing could be a great all-purpose media device. No, no, what am I thinking of?! This is nauseatingly excessive! Isn’t it? I can’t decide.
[via Reg Hardware]