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OPTOMA DV11 DVD Home Cinema DLP Projector | 
| Category: CE
Buy New: £399.99
New (9) Used (2) from £389.98
Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 5807
Media: Electronics
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 7.7
Dimensions (in): 19.7 x 19.7 x 19.7
Model: DV11
EAN: 5060059041688
ASIN: B000SQHYS2
Release Date: June 28, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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 So easy, Granny could use it....... September 19, 2008
looked at loads of projectors, but the simplicity here was the winner. Point at wall, plug in, insert DVD, press play...........magic. At 6ft distance, got a decent sized picture, bigger than a LCD at double the price, quality was excellent and the room was in normal daylight hours. First film, Star Wars, like being back in the pictures all those years ago, and not a crisp packet in sight............heaven. Sound is great for such a small unit, fills the room with ease. Easy to store and with the included case, it walks round to my mates for the footie off his Sky. Cant find anything bad to say about it.
Fantastic home cinema effect on a budget July 8, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
We bought the DV11 projector after reading the other reviews on Amazon and discussing it with Optoma. It is great value for money - half the price of all other projectors we considered. From approximately 6ft away we can project onto calico coloured wallpaper and the picture quality is great with a widescreen size of approximately 6ft by 3ft. A surround sound system is not required in a 12ft by 12ft room but a subwoofer enhances the home cinema experience. For watching a DVD this really is an easy plug 'n' play projector that is ready to go.
SOUND: The VGA cable provided only transmits video so if you use it to connect the projector to another source, i.e. laptop, set top box, or video machine, you need an additional cable to transmit sound:
LAP TOP: In addition to connnecting a laptop to the DV11 using the VGA cable, use a Jack (black) to 2xRCA (red, white, male,) phono audio cable for sound.
SET TOP BOX: To transmit picture AND sound from a Virgin Media box that has a SCART socket use a different cable, e.g. "Philips SWV2255/10 A/V Connections Scart Cable - 1.5m" or "Hama 3 Phono to SCART Switchable cable, 1.5m". This type of cable will have a SCART plug for the set top box and 3 audio male plugs (red, white and yellow) for the DV11.
VIDEO: If the video machine has a SCART socket I guess it should be connected to the DV11 the same way as a set top box but I haven't tried it myself.
 Excellent projector, but not quite perfect May 6, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Beautifully sharp picture, lots of useful inputs and functions, though it lacks an HDMI input unfortunately. Allows the picture to be easily flipped upside down so you can mount the unit on a ceiling or wall mount and has vertical keystone adjustment - all from the remote control and it usefully remembers the settings after being powered down for weeks!
Marked down a star because the built-in DVD player is a consumer unfriendly region 2 only and it's far too fussy about the DVD's that it plays. It refuses to play DVD's that other region 2 or multi region players are happy with but fails to tell you what the problem is. Just projects 'STOP' on the screen (or wall) after a brief scan, then any keypress except eject results in "INVALID KEY" being displayed.
The lack of on-screen information regarding DVD problems combined with the region 2 nonsense lets down what is otherwise an excellent device.
Good but not great April 25, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The Optoma DV11 does everything that Optoma says it does. It does however have a few shortcomings, which are :
1.Some older DVD's tend to skip.
2.The tiny onboard speakers aren't really up to the job.
3.The zoom control is pretty useless, and very cheap.
4.No HDMI input.
Other than that the image you get (especially in total darkness)is pretty good. The fan is quiet,and the speakers can easily be heard above it.
They even provide a smart carry case to pack it all into.
All in all a good purchase.
Superb all-in-one home cinema solution February 20, 2008
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
Just bought this projector a couple of days ago, and I have to say I'm extremely chuffed with it. In terms of picture and sound quality, I'm sure it doesn't compete with a 2000-plus home cinema system featuring a big HD TV, BluRay player and 5.1 speaker system all carefully positioned in an ideal viewing environment, but so what? For less than a quarter of that price - and probably less than a quarter of the hassle involved in planning your living room around that sort of set-up - you get something really pretty impressive.
Within 10 minutes of getting this projector delivered, I'd set it up on a coffee table, pointed it at a blank wall, and was watching Star Wars on a screen around four times the size of a 42" TV. OK, so it wasn't HD and I couldn't hear laser beams zapping around behind my head, but still, the sound was more than adequate even without the subwoofer - better than typical TV speakers I think, loud and clear and with decent bass - and the picture was bright, vivid and pretty much pin-sharp. DVDs haven't started looking rubbish just because something better has come along, and the resolution of this projector is perfectly suited to them. (Of course, as with any modern TV, you start to see the pixels if you get too close to the screen - but at the right distance the picture genuinely looked superb.)
A few things were worrying me before I bought this projector, so just in case the same things are worrying you I'll talk about them here. 1 - I was worried the fan noise would be a problem. It really isn't. It's just about audible in those rare ultra-quiet bits of a movie where there's no music or dialogue, but even then it's just a quiet hum - nothing like the loud whirr my computer fan gives off! 2 - I was worried the picture wouldn't be bright enough. Actually it's fine - better in a dark room, obviously, but certainly watchable in daylight with the curtains drawn. In fact, thinking about how much the reflections on a normal TV screen in daylight can spoil the picture, this really doen't count against the projector at all for me. 3 - I was worried it would be weird having the sound coming out of speakers in the projector just in front of me while the picture was on the other side of the room. Actually you soon forget about this - the sound fills the room quite nicely, and when you watch the screen, I think your brain quite naturally tricks you into thinking that's where the matching sound is coming from.
All in all I would recommend this to pretty much anyone for whom HD isn't the prime concern. It displays a great DVD-quality picture bigger than any TV could, and offers surprisingly beefy sound too - not to mention the convenience of being able to pack it away easily (it comes complete with a carry case) and take it to another room, a friend's house, on holiday etc. And for anyone who really IS bothered about HD, surround sound and all the rest of it - I would still strongly suggest that you think about the projector option in general rather than the TV option. Frankly I just don't see how even the largest TV could begin to compete with the sort of picture a projector can give you.
All in all a great purchase - I'm definitely going to enjoy rediscovering my DVD collection on the big screen!
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