Hands on with Epson HD iPad projector
Mar 11, 2025
Epson's HD iPad projector is pretty impressive here at Macworld/iWorld.
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okay the pressure this is uh Leander
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with Cult of Mac here at Ma and I'm
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talking with Jason from Epson and he's
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going to show us uh epson's iPad powered
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projector hey Jason how you doing how
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you doing so uh Jason sorry what was the
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uh the name of the product again so it's
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called the Epson Megaplex uh mg
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850 uh and it's again it's a a portable
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projector with a iPod iPad Dock it
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charges the iPod or iPad it also has
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2800 Lumen so it's very very bright
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we're in a very bright room with a huge
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set of Windows off to the side and I'll
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show you real quickly how bright it can
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be what's really cool about this product
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is it's an all-in-one product again it
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has your dock for your iPod or your iPad
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and it has 20 wat speakers uh as well as
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obviously a very bright 2800 limit
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projector so um what it allows you to do
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is very quickly and easily set up in a
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backyard or in a uh in a at a wedding or
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in your basement or wherever you
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basically want to project an image that
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is in this case 100 in that's four times
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the size of a 50in flat pel right and
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it's actually a really good image uh you
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know you can't really see it here the
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camera doesn't do it much justice but
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the picture is really really good it's
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really sharp um and of course you know
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it's it's HD too right right this is a
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720p projector um and so what we're
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projecting right now is just streaming
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off of YouTube a 720p feed of a you
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can't really see it uh on the iPad on
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the iPhone here but it's a a dude that
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is uh skiing a very tall mountain looks
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terrifying it is pretty frightening it's
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not me it is it is really Bri it's a
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really really good picture um absolutely
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and again the sound can get quite loud
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as well I I use this in my backyard with
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my four-year-old Twins and we we watch
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you know we Disney movie night with a
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bunch of screaming kids and even in a
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backyard like that if you crank the the
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sound up on this thing it'll get quite
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loud cool huh you also don't live in San
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Francisco I don't I actually live in
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Austin but all right perfect okay well
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thanks very much uh for the showing us
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the uh the projector and uh okay
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