Presenting without a laptop
Anyone presenting today usually brings a laptop. It's much easier to take your presentation along on a USB stick. The new Samsung SP-M205W and SP-M255W projectors feature an Office & Multimedia Viewer that displays a wide range of formats – directly from USB storage.
The XGA projectors (1024 x 768 pixels) of the M series stand out for performance, mobility and precision. They are compact and, with brightness of 2,000 ANSI lumens (SP-M200W/ SP-M205W) and 2500 ANSI lumens (SP-M250W/ SP-M255W), offer enough light output for professional presentations in bright rooms. The glossy white, design-led housing ensures a professional appearance – even at meetings away from the office.
If you frequently use the projector around the building or on the road, you'll appreciate its low weight of just 2.5 kilograms and many useful extra features. These include keystone correction, which automatically sets a rectangular image when the projector has to be tilted at a steep angle. In addition, M-series projectors cool down within seconds, so they can be packed away after a meeting without a long wait.
Presenting without a PC – how does it work? What do I need?
A projector is ideal for presentations to large and small groups in sales or field service. Even so, a laptop is usually still needed. Today, however, there are many projectors that make life considerably easier for these users. They can be divided into 2 groups: projectors that transmit the image to the projector via wireless LAN, and projectors that can show content without a PC. In most cases these two functions are more or less linked, as projectors need "processors" for both technologies to make the display possible at all.
Almost every manufacturer has a device or model series that offers this. Worth highlighting are Epson with its EasyMP function and Samsung with its Office Viewer function. Both technologies make it possible to present without a PC/laptop via a USB port. Epson, like almost all other manufacturers, supplies software that makes the content readable for the projector. The projector can then read this file from the USB stick.
Samsung goes one step further: a wide range of Office files can simply be read directly from the USB stick without prior conversion.
Lower total cost of ownership
The M-series models also score in terms of running costs: the lamp only needs replacing after 5,000 hours – and that's particularly easy thanks to the convenient access from the top. In addition, the models with Office & Multimedia Viewer also have a network connection so they can be centrally controlled and monitored with management software – reducing maintenance effort for larger projector fleets.
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Further guides:
- Projectors for business and professional use – brightness and image in the meeting room
- Projector USB – what the USB port can do
- Projector buying guide using the BEAM method – overview of all guides
