Office projectors are a dime a dozen and can range from incredibly awesome image quality to painfully horrible. The IN3108 delivers great image quality with very little rainbow effect - the bane of DLP projectors. Its strengths lie in its design and connectivity options. From a design standpoint, office projectors are rarely inspiring and are usually basic black boxes. This unit is essentially a black box too, but it is a little more sophisticated thanks to the touch panel on the top.
When switched off, it looks like your basic gloss black unit but when turned on, the back lit controls appear. The touch controls are very responsive and intuitive to use. It comes with a remote control, but if you were to lose it, all the same options are available on the touch panel, which is nice.
When it comes to connection options, the IN3108 has you covered for almost anything. It has two DSub connectors for PC but also a DisplayLink PC port as well. It has composite and S-video video too, and even HDMI for connecting video sources. It also has its own internal speakers so you can include sound in your presentations by connecting to its 3.5mm jack. You can connect component video sources to the unit as well but it requires a converter plug which isn't included in the sales package.
We tested the image quality while connected to numerous sources. The most obvious was a notebook connected via one of its D-Sub ports. It uses a 0.65inch WXGTA DLP chip making the native resolution 1280x800 which translates to a native 16:10 aspect ratio. However, it is compatible with any resolution up to 1080p. We tested the PC connection using the native resolution and found the image quality to be quite impressive. The colour reproduction was excellent and desktop icons and text was easy to read. At the native resolution, spreadsheets, PDFs and powerpoint presentations were all reproduced well without any visual blemishes to speak of.
