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We have collected 2 reviews of the Philips PicoPix PPX 1430. Experts rate Philips PicoPix PPX 1430 6.5/10. Reviewsor.com helps you find reviews, best prices, user reviews of the Philips PicoPix PPX 1430 and Philips Projector.
Philips bills its PicoPix 1430 as the perfect LED projector for ordinary consumers, stressing the importance of the built-in media player. The Dutch manufacturer wants its customers to store content on the 2 GB of built-in memory, or else from an SD, SDHC or SDXC memory card (although this last format isn't actually mentioned in the official documentation) and then take it with them when they visit friends and family. The PicoPix is relatively large for a product in its category, measuring 10 x 10 x 3.2 cm and weighing in at 290 g. The Optoma PK301, for example, weights just 250 g. The PicoPix 1430 has a pair of 2 x 0.3 W stereo speakers. That's not a typo, they really do just offer 0.3 W each and so it's no surprise that the quality is far from amazing. The sound is tinny and could do with being much louder. Things hardly get better when you spin it around to look at the back, where you'll find a VGA input and a mini USB port. If you want to use composite video cables, you'll find an adaptor is included, but for component video you'll need to buy an extra adaptor. We were disappointed not to find a HDMI port like on the Optoma PK301. What did impress us, though, was the media player. We were only expecting it to be able to decode a handful of formats, but nothing could be further from the truth.
Projectors are ideal tools for sharing presentations, displaying pictures and watching movies, and are a great choice for broadcasting on a large screen. However, while they're certainly more portable than most TVs, projectors can still be quite large and unwieldy. This can make it difficult to find a place to position them, and placement is an essential consideration when using a projector. It also means they're not very portable. The Philips PicoPix PPX 1430 is a high quality mini projector that's incredibly well built and doesn't suffer from the corner-cutting and compromises that tend to plague hand-held devices of this sort. The projector comes with composite leads for connecting to DVD players. If you want to connect the projector to your PC then you'll need to buy a separate VGA connector cable, which is a bit of a pain, as that's what you're most likely to be using it for. You can attach a USB flash drive to the projector and play compatible files from it directly, or use an SD card from a camera and camcorder. This goes some way towards making up for the lack of VGA cables. You use the buttons on the top of the projector to find compatible movie and photo files – access the menu and you'll find them in the 'Videos' and 'Photos' folders.