Review: 3M MP220 Pico Projector

Sorry for a "stutter-ish" presentation, there was so much I had to get done, but here's my review on the 3M MP220 Pico/Pocket Projector, which includes putting the image quality to it's paces, in a dimly-lit, and well-lit room.
For the most part, the image quality depends upon your luck on the quality of the optics engine. In my case, straight from the box, the optics don't align right, and rattle. I didn't have to shake it, like in the demo, to notice it. This causes the image to be blurry in spots, or if you shake them into place, can get a fairly consistent, clear image, although not throughout (a little soft, but good enough).
Color quality is very robust, albeit a tad too high (no biggie). The greenish hue is from the fact that there are 2 green LEDs, for every 1 red and blue in the array. These alternate through the colors 60 times per second, so you may see a "Rainbow Effect" on fast video, or motion. It also may give people headaches.
Audio is drowned out by the loud cooling fan, at either 50 or 65 lumens (much louder at 65). It's also a tiny speaker, so of course, you gets highs, and upper mid-range. Lower notes are inaudible.
Video plays fairly well, and unlike how the camera shows it, very fluid, and reacts to quick changes. You will see the LED color cycles on said fast motion (which the camera registers as "ghosty" after images). Almost every color will show up in most lighting situations, within reason.
The projector also does presentations with Excel, Power Point, and PDF files, but depending on the format of tables and images, may show up wrong, or not at all. A good workaround is to screen capture a working image on your computer, and save it as a JPG file. Better yet, save them ALL that way, as it makes for a far easier presentation to begin with.
Connecting the projector to your computer with the USB cable is simple. Plug it in, hit the button on the display to turn it on, you get both Internal (the 2GB on board storage), and if a Micro SD is used, an external drive recognized as well. Find the right folders, or make them yourself, transfer files. It's quite easy.
Connecting different video components, on the other hand, not so easy. Setup isn't difficult at all, but finding the CABLES is difficult, and you usually have to dea with seedy people, to get hard-to-find ones.
You can get a VGA cable, no problem. Very responsive. Attache to the computer, display changes to the projectors 1024x600 resolution, and the same image is casted. There is a pointless headphone-style plug on the cable, for which I have no clue what it's for, as there's no audio input on the projector. Perhaps to a set of speakers (recommended for sound), but they'd have to be ridiculously close, as the length of that cable is extremely short.
It's a crap shoot. Depending on what you want, and how picky you are, you may want, or pass on this product. I plan on sending mine out for optics repairs before the warranty expires.

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