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Rick Rizner, Chris Manners
Typically, portable projectors that weigh less than 5 pounds deliver only enough brightness for small-group presentations, but the potent NEC LT35 ($2195, as of January 18, 2006) is an exception. This 4.4-pound DLP model is rated at a whopping 3000 lumens, and it's powerful enough to use in larger conference rooms, even in the presence of a fair amount of ambient light.
Like most DLP business models, the LT35 uses a four-segment color wheel in tandem with default display settings optimized to produce bright, high-contrast presentations. NEC further tweaks the LT35's display with its proprietary image processing firmware (called Vortex Technology Plus), designed to improve an image's color accuracy and dynamic range.
In our tests of the LT35 at its standard (presentation mode) settings, the projector earned the...