Optoma EZPro 737

With a compact footprint and weighing 1.6kg the Optoma EZPro 737 is aimed at the mobile business presenter, but with lighter models now available this weight category is beginning to look more portly than portable.

This is a handsome projector, with clean lines and is finished in matt silver. The remote is small, stylish and functional with a mouse pad, laser pointer and flip-up panel housing buttons for digital keystone correction, volume and digital zoom.

There are infrared receivers mounted on the projector's front and rear so reception is always good and repeat pressing of the remote buttons is never necessary.

The computer input is an M1-DA connecter and an M1-DA to VGA cable is supplied. There are S-Video, sound and composite video inputs, a VGA pass-through port and a RS232 port for remote mouse operation.

Set-up was simple and the projector locked onto the XGA signal with no problems. But the picture quality, assessed with a variety of material from the desktop - Powerpoint presentations, photographic images and DVD video - was poor. This was mainly due to poor colour reproduction at the warm end of the spectrum.

Displaymate tests revealed further problems, most notably poor focus. It's not uncommon for projectors to produce an image that's slightly out of focus at the edges when sharp in the middle, but the EZPro 737 was severely out of focus in the bottom left quadrant of the image when the rest was sharp.

Although it's competitively priced, given the Optoma's poor display quality we'd suggest you look at alternatives from Infocus, Philips or indeed the excellent IBM ILM300.

Specs

• DLP technology
• 1,500 lumens
• 150w lamp power
• XGA native resolution
• 4:3 aspect ratio
• M1-DA, S-Video, composite video, audio, RS-232, VGA pass-through
• Remote
• 1.6kg
• 24 x 22 x 8cm (w x d x h)

Optoma 01923 691 880