Joined on 03/29/07
Great beginner projector
Pros: This thing is BRIGHT! You can use it in shadowed daylight so long as you're watching a cartoon or brightly lit movie (avoid noir). With adjustable colors, you can even project onto blue or purple walls and tweak the RGB values to get it close to projecting on white. The price was right, its small and portable, and we're very happy with it.
Cons: There is no Left/Right keystone... gotta have the projector centered and perpendicular to the wall, making seating a bit awkward. Also, the focus seems to change as the projector remains on. Its only noticeable if you're looking at text (like in Windows). If you focus it and watch a movie, it will be mildly unfocused by the end. Finally, in terms of video redraw, there's a bit of the rainbow effect when your eyes dart around the screen. And it might be our Toshiba laptop's video card, but there is noticeable jerkiness during huge cinematic pans and tilts.
Overall Review: Hey, despite my critiques, this is a fine projector. We've watched a ton of movies and will watch a ton more. It was a step down from my BenQ W500, but it was cheap and we love it. By the time it burns out projector technology will be crazy cheap, and then I'll be happy to upgrade.
Tough 'n ugly
Pros: This thing is tough. I can toss my phone around haphazardly onto the floor or onto my desk and I don't have to worry about it at all. Definitely instills great confidence in the safety of your phone.
Cons: Main complaint is that its a dust magnet. A month in I took it apart to wipe down all the bits of dust and debris that sneaks in the open spots. The little lenses over the camera gets pretty caked, and I even had a seed or something get caught under the clear screenguard. Even after cleaning its not like it was out of the box. Some of that dust has found a permanent home. Sometimes upon pulling the somewhat bulky object out of my pocket, I find tons of lint and dust trapped between the bumpy texture on the backside. If I was concerned with lookin' slick, I probably wouldn't want to dust my phone off everytime I pull it out. Basically your slick phone gets somewhat ugly.
Overall Review: You're trading the aesthetics of the iphone for super toughness. Comes with a holster, which looks ridiculous, but the phone is bulky enough to warrant consideration of its use.
Good sound, wireless indeed, but crummy buttons and 2 year life
Pros: -Sound worked great, at least good enough for gaming and tuneage. I'm no audiophile, but it has bass and treble's not tinny! -My first wireless headset... i'm usually plugged in at my computer, but its nice when I have to dash away to help a kiddo or pop into the next room. Range was about a room away. -Comfy, didn't get any flaking -Mic worked fine for gaming with my buddies once every other week or so. I like the feature to flip it up for silence, that way there's no mistake
Cons: -Seems like after a few months, the power button would be SUPER finicky. I wasn't sure whether I was supposed to hold it down, or press it quickly, or push it from different angles but for 2 years I cursed at the little power button, taking me 2-4 tries to get it on -Just now, while playing Witcher 3 on Win7, a screech started to creep up behind the dialogue, then it overwhelmed it, then the sound of the game vanished with just screeching... then the little bluetooth dongle started blinking and the sound cut in and out. Exited the game, still same issue with other sound. Pop sound over to my main speakers, everything's fine. Headphones seem to be dying after 2 years! Most other reviews suggest a 4-5 year lifespan so I'm miffed
Overall Review: -Wouldn't recommend, in the end. My buddy had a pair and he accidentally broke the headband... it does feel flimsy but I took caution and had no problems with it. -the button has been driving me nuts for years... not a big enough problem to scrap the headphones by itself... -but now its dead and acting up and imma get me a new headset with a BETTER BUTTON -will look for another wireless headset with a physically-muting mic... loved those features
Protects and de-sharpens!
Pros: -the Droid Turbo 2 by itself is a massive phone, (which is a con of the phone), but it has a sharp edge on the screen. the phone's corners wore holes in two of my pairs of jeans. Putting on this case gave me rubbery corners to prevent it from happening again. -i'm less terrified to drop my phone despite claims of an "unshatterable screen"
Cons: -made a large phone even bulkier at the cost of protection -I feel half my age with such a raging red radical color scheme! -$25 seemed a bit expensive for a wee chunk o' plastic and rubber
Overall Review: not 100% i would recommend a DROID Turbo 2 yet, so can't say if I'd recommend this on top of that
Wait, don't die yet!
Pros: Man I enjoyed this projector while it lasted. Its super bright, I've been able to adjust the colors to get white on even colored walls, its tiny, and the throw is huge. Currently have it calibrated to a 91' projection screen, but had it about a foot larger when throwing to the wall from the same installation position.
Cons: NO HORIZONTAL KEYSTONE: Upon purchase I found I was upset it only had vertical keystoning. I previously owned a projector that had horizontal keystoning so you could set the projector off to the side instead of finding a place directly centered across from the screen. I have adapted but it was a feature I will certainly look for specifically next time. DEAD PIXELS: And now, about a year and a half later after purchase, with 2-6 hours of use a week, I saw my first dead pixel like a bright little star in the corner. In the past two weeks it has multiplied to about seven bright pixels and 3 black pixels all in the top right hand quadrant. I imagine its only going to continue to get worse. Newegg reviews and other websites confirm this happens to DLP projectors on occasion, and there's nothing to be done. Definitely is happening to mine, am kicking myself for not getting Newegg's 2 year warranty.
Overall Review: It had the rainbow effect common to DLP, but I rarely notice unless I'm watching movies with subtitles where my eyes flicker a lot more. The dying pixels are deeply depressing. I myself can adapt but it sure will be obnoxious to any friends we've invited over for movies. Had we not JUST been gifted an indoor/outdoor projection screen, I'd seriously consider going to a high res flatscreen. Now we'll try to get the most out of it before the whole viewing screen becomes covered in constellations... I really loved the projector up until now. I gave my parents my old previous LCD projector... though they use it less its been running strong for 4 years on the original bulb. Will probably go back to that technology when this one bites it.
lasted 3 years
Pros: Scooped this card up as part of a massive upgrade back in grad school. Used it to play the tar out of Left 4 Dead, both Mass Effects, Fallout 3, and Arkham Asylum, and it was gorgeous, though could never play at the highest resolutions. Was working nicely on Dead Island up until it finally burnt out watching a DVD.
Cons: Couldn't really overclock it, the temp was at upper limits as it was. Also the fan was crazy noisy, and would do strange start-ups and stops a year back. Some of the newest games (Dead Island) had mediocre frame rates
Overall Review: My gawrsh, 3 years of use out of what was a mid-level card in 2008/2009, I couldn't be happier. It's death was bittersweet, now I can upgrade!