OK, so I sat on the fence on buying one of these projectors for quite a while, because there seemed to be quite a bit of conflicting information on what would work, how it would work, and whether I would be relegated to using hacked .inf files/pin modded cables etc - there certainly seemed to be some problems getting these to work initially, but now that there are new drivers etc and the projector has been out for a while, would it work out of he box or not?
Anyway, after seeing them on sale for $6-700, and since I already had a 3D setup and knew roughly what to expect, I figured I would give it a shot. In a nutshell, they now appear to be fully supported, and work out of the box. I am running Windows7 (64bit) with a GTX470 (latest drivers as of December 2010), a $20 DVI->HDMI cable and the PJD6531W projector, and I didn't need to do anything beyond running the 3dvision setup to get it to work. 3D only seems to work at 720p and below (1280x800 refuses to go into 3d - not sure if that is by design or not), but other than that I have had no issues, and didn't need to rip out any pins/install any weird drivers etc.
One thing worthy of note is that this is a coffee table projector - it throws "up", not straight like my old Sanyo, so either do that, mount it upside-down (haven't tried this with 3d yet, but I assume it will work) or jack up the back and use a lot of keystone correction if mounting high. Purists will likely hate me, but I am doing the latter for the time being, and personally I don't see any artifacts/weirdness, although I do lose a little screen size in doing so.
I have the projector about 9 feet away from my screen (wall), and I get maybe an 8' diagonal. In going this big, I did have to turn up the brightness/contrast a bit to get a decent image, but in a very dark room the effect is very good - as good as I hoped for in a setup this cheap. Don't buy this and expect to go big if you don't have a *dark* room though - you lose a lot of brightness with the glasses on, and this isn't a setup I would even consider using during the day.
Anyway - yes it all works without much of a problem if your drivers are up to date (well it did for me), and assuming you have the dark room for it, it is easily worth the price of admission. Warcraft instances will never be the same again...
OK, so I sat on the fence on buying one of these projectors for quite a while, because there seemed to be quite a bit of conflicting information on what would work, how it would work, and whether I would be relegated to using hacked .inf files/pin modded cables etc - there certainly seemed to be some problems getting these to work initially, but now that there are new drivers etc and the projector has been out for a while, would it work out of he box or not?
Anyway, after seeing them on sale for $6-700, and since I already had a 3D setup and knew roughly what to expect, I figured I would give it a shot. In a nutshell, they now appear to be fully supported, and work out of the box. I am running Windows7 (64bit) with a GTX470 (latest drivers as of December 2010), a $20 DVI->HDMI cable and the PJD6531W projector, and I didn't need to do anything beyond running the 3dvision setup to get it to work. 3D only seems to work at 720p and below (1280x800 refuses to go into 3d - not sure if that is by design or not), but other than that I have had no issues, and didn't need to rip out any pins/install any weird drivers etc.
One thing worthy of note is that this is a coffee table projector - it throws "up", not straight like my old Sanyo, so either do that, mount it upside-down (haven't tried this with 3d yet, but I assume it will work) or jack up the back and use a lot of keystone correction if mounting high. Purists will likely hate me, but I am doing the latter for the time being, and personally I don't see any artifacts/weirdness, although I do lose a little screen size in doing so.
I have the projector about 9 feet away from my screen (wall), and I get maybe an 8' diagonal. In going this big, I did have to turn up the brightness/contrast a bit to get a decent image, but in a very dark room the effect is very good - as good as I hoped for in a setup this cheap. Don't buy this and expect to go big if you don't have a *dark* room though - you lose a lot of brightness with the glasses on, and this isn't a setup I would even consider using during the day.
Anyway - yes it all works without much of a problem if your drivers are up to date (well it did for me), and assuming you have the dark room for it, it is easily worth the price of admission. Warcraft instances will never be the same again...
Anyway, after seeing them on sale for $6-700, and since I already had a 3D setup and knew roughly what to expect, I figured I would give it a shot. In a nutshell, they now appear to be fully supported, and work out of the box. I am running Windows7 (64bit) with a GTX470 (latest drivers as of December 2010), a $20 DVI->HDMI cable and the PJD6531W projector, and I didn't need to do anything beyond running the 3dvision setup to get it to work. 3D only seems to work at 720p and below (1280x800 refuses to go into 3d - not sure if that is by design or not), but other than that I have had no issues, and didn't need to rip out any pins/install any weird drivers etc.
One thing worthy of note is that this is a coffee table projector - it throws "up", not straight like my old Sanyo, so either do that, mount it upside-down (haven't tried this with 3d yet, but I assume it will work) or jack up the back and use a lot of keystone correction if mounting high. Purists will likely hate me, but I am doing the latter for the time being, and personally I don't see any artifacts/weirdness, although I do lose a little screen size in doing so.
I have the projector about 9 feet away from my screen (wall), and I get maybe an 8' diagonal. In going this big, I did have to turn up the brightness/contrast a bit to get a decent image, but in a very dark room the effect is very good - as good as I hoped for in a setup this cheap. Don't buy this and expect to go big if you don't have a *dark* room though - you lose a lot of brightness with the glasses on, and this isn't a setup I would even consider using during the day.
Anyway - yes it all works without much of a problem if your drivers are up to date (well it did for me), and assuming you have the dark room for it, it is easily worth the price of admission. Warcraft instances will never be the same again...
Dave
Anyway, after seeing them on sale for $6-700, and since I already had a 3D setup and knew roughly what to expect, I figured I would give it a shot. In a nutshell, they now appear to be fully supported, and work out of the box. I am running Windows7 (64bit) with a GTX470 (latest drivers as of December 2010), a $20 DVI->HDMI cable and the PJD6531W projector, and I didn't need to do anything beyond running the 3dvision setup to get it to work. 3D only seems to work at 720p and below (1280x800 refuses to go into 3d - not sure if that is by design or not), but other than that I have had no issues, and didn't need to rip out any pins/install any weird drivers etc.
One thing worthy of note is that this is a coffee table projector - it throws "up", not straight like my old Sanyo, so either do that, mount it upside-down (haven't tried this with 3d yet, but I assume it will work) or jack up the back and use a lot of keystone correction if mounting high. Purists will likely hate me, but I am doing the latter for the time being, and personally I don't see any artifacts/weirdness, although I do lose a little screen size in doing so.
I have the projector about 9 feet away from my screen (wall), and I get maybe an 8' diagonal. In going this big, I did have to turn up the brightness/contrast a bit to get a decent image, but in a very dark room the effect is very good - as good as I hoped for in a setup this cheap. Don't buy this and expect to go big if you don't have a *dark* room though - you lose a lot of brightness with the glasses on, and this isn't a setup I would even consider using during the day.
Anyway - yes it all works without much of a problem if your drivers are up to date (well it did for me), and assuming you have the dark room for it, it is easily worth the price of admission. Warcraft instances will never be the same again...
Dave