Projector with or without HDMI?

[mats]

Question for casio projector owners (just in case we manage to find the £s) - some of the Epson projectors have a great keystone adjustment where you just pull the corners of the image to the corners of the projection surface. Do the fancy Casio projectors have anything similar? Due to crummy cages which are offset relative to the screen, wonky images are the bane of my life here.

 

Thanks

 

Mat

[sonofsanta]

The Casios have keystoning--I wouldn't buy a projector that didn't--but it's just vertical keystoning to offset height difference (e.g. ceiling mount). I don't think they can keystone horizontally if your mount isn't centred on the screen; I think that's what you meant?

[sparkeh]

The Casios have keystoning--I wouldn't buy a projector that didn't--but it's just vertical keystoning to offset height difference (e.g. ceiling mount). I don't think they can keystone horizontally if your mount isn't centred on the screen; I think that's what you meant?

With the Epsoms you can grab one corner of the image at a time and pull it into the corner of your IWB. Its awesome at getting the image to fill the board properly.

Casios do not have this but have the normal keystone function.

[mats]

As I suspected. Thanks both.

[GuyJD]

That quick corner utility on the Epson projectors is so handy, I don't know why more manufacturers don't do the same.

[sonofsanta]

Also, just to clarify for future visitors to the thread:

 

*smaller M3 mounting screws which are not included in some universal mounting kits (RA)

 

M3 screws only used on XJ-A series, all subsequent series are M4 (it is true that M3 screw are not always available in universal bracket bundles but these screws are available at minimal cost. Screws should be less than 10mm otherwise there is danger of damage within the unit.

 

The Casio M series also use M3 mounting holes. The Casio Core (XJ-V1) is the first LED projector to use the standard M4 bolts. I fitted both an XJ-M241 and an XJ-V1 over the half term last week, and the M projector was definitely still M3

 

You can usually cludge it with M3 bolts and combinations of washers, but some mounting systems are more of a faff. We had some that used a hollow threaded tube for the height adjustment, with a long bolt dropped through it to actually secure the projector. We couldn't find M3 bolts long enough so we had to hacksaw down the threaded outer tubes, which limited the adjustments we could make to positioning. It's doable, it's just an added complication.

 

To be fair, though, the XJ-V1 not only uses M4 bolts, it has 4 mounting points, so you have flexibility with how you mount it. The only problem I have now is the zoom range of 1.1:1; for a 1.2m high image, the projector should be mounted 2.5-2.7m away, and the existing projectors I want to replace now are mounted 3-3.2m away

[Alis_Klar]

Glad to see that Casio seem to be phasing out M3 screws etc. It wasn't meant to be a critism have also e-mailed these "feedback" points to a casio reseller who had Casio in for the day. Hence this prompted the post yesterday.

[novastorm]

Fair enough. Dont have any IPADs right now but see your point. I guess if VGA gets phased out over the next couple of years then HDMI will be in. I already have some Ultrabooks which only have HDMI and you have to buy a HDMI to VGA adaptor.

 

VGA got phased out a long time ago

[philclark]

Hi There,

 

Ref the 1.1:1 zoom on the XJ-V1 entry model, to offer addtional zoom where required there is a bracket created by RA technology

 

RA Casio XJ-V1-Core Dedicated Projector Mount Casio XJ V1 Core Projector Mount [RA-XJ-V1-DPM-SL] : RA Technology, Projector mounts and cages

 

This should help in any installations where a little extra zoom is required.

 

Hope that helps

 

Regards

 

Phil