ViewSonic PJ260D

ViewSonic PJ260D Portable DLP Projector

The ViewSonic PJ260D projector displays luminous images with legible text, but obtaining colorful graphics from it takes some fiddling. ViewSonic clearly had business presentations in mind when it designed the 2.9-pound PJ260D lamp-based projector ($936, as of 8/7/09). This 1024-by-768-resolution (XGA) ultraportable projector provides most of the basic functions you need for making a presentation in a large conference room. Those features include substantial illumination--2000 lumens of brightness--plus strong contrast, keystone correction (to adjust image distortion caused by tilting the projector), a remote control, and a standard selection of VGA, composite video, and S-Video connection inputs, as well as audio for the built-in, 2.0-watt mono speaker (which is marginally better sounding than the anemic 1.0-watt mono speakers on competing models). To sweeten the deal, ViewSonic throws in a three-year warranty (one year for the lamp), longer than the one- and two-year warranties included with the other projectors we tested for our recent ultraportable projectors review.