New Samsung projector from Tarsus proves dynamite comes in small packages

30 November 2009

Tarsus Technologies has announced the local availability of the Samsung P410M - an extremely compact, lightweight and bright portable projector that is perfectly suited to both the boardroom and the home environment.

With many of the features one would expect of a much larger, more expensive unit, Levina de Matos, Samsung product manager at Tarsus says this unit is sure to be a hit with both business and home users in the coming months.

"The P410M has an impressive specifications list," de Matos says, "boasting an 170 ANSI Lumens brightness rating, maximum resolution of 1280 x 1024, 1000:1 contrast ratio and 30 000 hour lamp life, owing the last of these to Samsung's use of a LED lamp.

"Considering these are features one wouldn't normally find in a portable pocket-sized projector that weighs less than a kilogram, Samsung is truly breaking new ground with this device," de Matos continues.

"But the P410M has far more to offer than this impressive specifications list. Two features set it apart from the masses," she adds.

"The first of these is its greener design," de Matos says.

"LED projectors make use of 100% halogen-free bulbs, which run at much lower temperatures and produce less heat radiation; and are also mercury-free so they are less harmful to the environment," she explains.

"The second feature that sets the P410M apart from the masses is its USB media player, which allows users to plug a USB memory stick or hard disk directly into the projector and make use of the intuitive 'Wiselink' menu to navigate and enjoy photographs, video and digital music stored on the USB memory card or hard disk," she adds.

"What makes this feature so useful, however," de Matos continues, "is the vast codec support available with the projector.

"While support for viewing JPEG, HDP, BMP, GIF and TIFF formatted still images and listening to MP3, WMA, PCM, ADPCM, OGG, AAC-LC, AMR-NB, AMR-WB and WAVE formatted audio files is impressive in itself, the P410M gives users the ability to playback all levels of MPEG video, including XviD and DivX encoded media," she says.

"That means the 98% of the media formats in existence today are supported - and that there shouldn't be a single media format users are likely to encounter that the projector can't read," she explains.

de Matos says that the advanced media features of the P410M combined with its impressive brightness, size and resolution brings credence to the phrase 'dynamite comes in small packages'.

"We're convinced that the market will respond well to this unit in the coming months," she concludes.