Viewsonic PLED-W500

image quality, price, usability

size, noise

95% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

The ViewSonic PLED-W500 is a great little projector. Portable, good-looking and feature-rich it's an ideal accessory for the mobile executive who wants to make a good impression when making presentations. It'll also provide plenty of entertainment at...

A decent resolution, good choice of inputs and low weight make the PLED-W500 good for travelling, but it's not very bright, has laggy controls and is quite expensive

There are problems, however. In USB display mode, hovering over program icons in the Windows taskbar no longer displays information about the open program. Focus was an issue too; we noticed green fringing around areas in the top-left corner of the...

Portable, 500 lumens is fine for dimly lit rooms, can be used independently for presentations, carry case

Not bright enough for well-lit rooms, lack of acceptable audio output, £500 price tag, noisy

A reasonable effort from ViewSonic, the PLED-W500 is suitable for business users who are regularly going to carry out presentations on the move. The projector is also suitable for use in the home, but the £500 price tag is a bit steep.

If you don't mind the missing bells and whistles (lens shift, zoom) and can hook the PLED-W500 to a sound system to substitute for the good-enough-for-presentation built in 2W speaker, here's a cracking good entry-level home cinema projector. At a...

Portable, 500 lumens is OK for dimly lit rooms, good connectivity, carry case included

Fiddly remote control and poor menu, not bright enough for well lit rooms, noisy ; The Ugly ; Lack of audio output is unacceptable, £500 price tag

The PLED-W500 projector has a small frame that packs some impressive specifications including a 500 lumens LED lamp, 1280x800 native resolution and up to 100in picture size. However, the device is ultimately let down by poor performance

Smaller and lighter than lamp-based projectors. Brighter than picos and palmtops. Reads files from SD cards and internal memory.

Shows scaling artifacts (unwanted patterns added to some screens) at its claimed native resolution. Lacks crisp focus.

Small and lightweight ? 2.6 lbs

You can make presentations without a PC. There is 1GB of memory on board and SD & USB slots. You can present from any of these. I am using the memory option. Brightness is suprising for such a small thing. Image sharpness not the best I've seen but...

Couldn't find any way to order the slides in the memory. However, if you get them in the right order in the Windows PC directory then upload the folder to the projector it peserves the order. I don't think you could shuffle the slides into a different...