Product Details
- Color: Silver
- Brand: Acer
- Model: K330
- Published on: 2011-11-11
- Original language:
English - Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.80" h x
6.60" w x
8.60" l,
2.73 pounds
Features
- The Acer K330 is the first LED projector with a bright 500 lumen lamp. It delivers HD ready high quality images with enhanced color saturation.
- Multimedia features allow you to project media from the 2GB internal memory, an SD card or a USB drive connected to the projector. Just leave your laptop at home!
- The K330 projector is equipped with at least two connectors for multiple-PC source input, including D-Sub and HDMI®, offering more flexible connectivity and instant switching.
Acer K330 Portable Home Theater Projector
Product Description
The Acer K330 Projector delivers HD 720p video entertainment with a native 16:10 aspect ratio via an HDMI™ connection, turning your living room into a home theater with immersive cinema-style visuals and brilliant color reproduction. With 500 ANSI lumens brightness and 4000:1 contrast ratio, this travel-sized powerhouse delivers excellent image quality that's perfect for digital entertainment. Advanced Acer technologies such as ColorSafe and SmartFormat make using the K330 a breeze no matter where your travels may take you.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
By Kelly
Since this projector is new and there are no reviews yet... Just received this projector two days ago, so I don't know how it works long term, but it is working great right out of the box. The set up is not the most user friendly, but if you read the manual it can be figured out without too much effort. It comes with a composite, audio and VGA cables, but does not come with plenty of other cables and adapters that you may need to hook up the devices you need. I have a macbook and had to order a special cable just for that. Simply using a USB cord will not cut it. One kind of confusing thing is that the manual refers to an optional Ipod adapter and seems to imply that it is included with the projector. This adapter is not included.As for how the projector looks, it looks just awesome. We are in the process of making a big screen for it, but last night my husband pulled out an old white sheet to try out. Hanging the sheet flat on the wall, the picture from the projector was pretty darn good. The size of the projection was about 5-6 feet high and we were watching a TV show where singers get up on stage to sing. We felt like we were in the front row of the theater of a live performance. In a fairly dark room the picture looks exceptional. Not perfect, a very little bit fuzzy, but it is definitely 720p quality, and some of that fuzziness may have been because of the sheet. Turning the light on we could still easily see the projection. The colors don't pop and the whites don't shine when its light, but it is easily watchable. Just for kicks we pointed the projector around the room and happened to shine it on a cabinet that is painted black. You could still see the picture, even with lights on. According to my brother-in-law who works in the home theater business, the light from the LED projectors are not filtered through a color wheel like other projectors, maybe that has something to do with how nice and crisp the brightness and colors look.I did a lot of research on projectors and ultimately decided I could live with the lower lumens of the LED projector so I don't have to keep buying bulbs every other year. I had selected several possibilities, but when this one dipped to $499 I took the plunge with this. It was my first choice anyway. I liked this one best because it seemed to have a large selection of acceptable video formats, had plenty of choices for video cord that could be used, and had the largest luminage (is that a word?) of all the LED projectors I saw other than an Optoma with specs almost identical to the Acer (but slightly more expensive), and a Casio that was quite a bit more expensive and was getting some bad reviews.Right now the bulb is super bright and the clarity and available features are much better than I expected with a $500 projector. Whether this bulb dims over time, however, is something yet to be determined. I took my chances, and for now am very very happy. I can't wait to finish building the screen to see what this baby can really do, and my husband can't wait to watch a football game.**2 Month Update! 2/3/12**We've finished building the projector room and also built the screen using some big smooth wooden sheet my husband found at Home Depot, and a $30 quart of white paint from Sherwin Williams. I found an article on the web that said this paint was the best cheap paint to use for making your own screen. The colors are now incredible! Stunning really. To get really picky here, there is a slight kind of jerkiness to the flow of movement in a movie when things are moving fast, but I hardly notice it. We have hooked this thing up to our TV tuner (one of those cheap digital converters and an antenna is all you need), a DVD player, a Roku, my computer (with iTunes movies), a thumb drive with photos, and an SD card with videos. Everything works! We built a room for it in our unfinished basement (now partially finished), and we use this projector almost every day. So far, no signs of dimming or changes in the quality. In the light, it is easily watchable, and in the dark the colors and whites have a nice rich and shining quality.Just to clarify what others have written in their reviews and comments about the text not being clear. This does not seem to apply to subtitles in movies or for reading any of the menu items for adjusting the projector. Maybe this is a problem for computer text? For watching movies it is awesome. Reading subtitles is not a problem, and the lettering looks just as clear as everything else. However, if you are buying this projector for presentations, you may want to read and ask questions of some of the other reviews and comments for clarification on this issue.When I first suggested to my husband that we look into getting a projector, he was pretty skeptical, and thought we would do better to spend our money on a big screen TV (we still use our old analog TVs and digital converters). I talked him into this instead, and just yesterday he actually told me that he is so much more pleased with the projector than he would have been with a TV. He's looking forward to watching the Superbowl this weekend on the big screen.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
By Arielo "Hi-Jacked" Stanzoni
Apart for feeling screwed for getting this a few days ago for $600, I am otherwise happy with the unit.Small and lightweight, it takes little room in my standard size rolling computer case and comes with a convenient carrier.I had a chance to use both RGB (D-SUB) and HDMI and both work fine, however there is a short blackout before an HDMI source starts, nothing serious though.Pros:Light weight, good looksGood 9ft. diagonal image (dark room), 6ft. diagonal in a semi lit environment.No light leakage around the screen.Hardly discernible CA (color aberration) at 6ft. diagonal.Great color and brightness.Fan noise is noticeable but totally unnoticed when watching a movie.Connection options.Focus does not change when the unit heats up.Cons:Price I paid on Amazon.No instruction manual (provided on a DVD), but easy to use.I think there was a fingerprint on the lens when I turned it on the first time but when I got hold of special German lens wipes I couldn't see it with the unit off. Wiped it anyway.I realize there are some forums out there discussing this unit. My two cents: I always thought it would be nice to have a projector but the unit price and lens cost always put me off. I believe this (and similar) LED projectors are the first to present a valid alternative to large TVs. Go get one.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
By Daniel Luu
I bought this projector after I returned the Optoma ML500.The reason I returned the Optoma ML500 was because I had serious HDMI signal drop issues.I exchanged the Optoma 2 times, and all three had HDMI signal drop issues and one had a dead remote.You can find my review of the Optoma on its product page.Image QualityAcer K330 has diamond shaped pixels. Imagine regular pixels, turned 45 degrees. I am not too big a fan of this as it seems to create more of a window screen effect in my opinion. It also makes text harder to read.The Optoma ML500 has regular square pixels. so it looks better in my opinion.BrightnessI run the projectors on ECO mode, though I would probably be dead by the time they go out.The Optoma does look brighter from what I remember, but I do not have them side by side to actually compare.Sound QualityHonestly I can't really tell a different between the two projectors. They both have small speakers and do not sound that great anyways.FocusFocusing the Acer is a lot harder than the Optoma since the ring is so much smaller, and can have a lot of resistance when turning. Sometimes I feel like I am going to break it since I have to squeeze hard to even get a grip on it.Both projectors require minor re-focus after turning it on. If you are planning to mount this projector, then it would be a pain for you, but I use this as a portable projector so it is no big deal.Size and PortabilityThe Acer is slightly larger and heavier, but since they are already really small, it doesn't really matter.The bag that the Optoma comes with is smaller and more high quality though.Both do not require you to lug around a power brick. Just one of cables like the computer power cable will power them.Buttons/InputsThe Acer does have an audio out port (3.5mm) unlike the Optoma.This allows you to input audio through HDMI and output to other speakersThe Optoma has S-Video, but this should be extinct by now.Other than that, both projectors have the same inputs (VGA, USB-A,USB-B, SD, HDMI, Yellow RCA)The Acer remote seems to have slow response to the projector, like a full second. It also seems like the Acer remote is missing the volume up and down, since the up and down buttons don't do anything for me.The first Optoma I had actually felt like it had the same response time as the Acer. The second one I had was completely dead. The third one I had was excellent and was very responsive.The up and down buttons on the Acer projector itself is really hard to press as they are very small.There didn't seem to be any way to exit the menus on the Optoma projector other than waiting 5 seconds or using the remote, but maybe I missed something.Projecting wireless works pretty good on both devices. I could use the Optoma dongle with the Acer also, so I didn't have to spend any extra money. I got it for around $20-30 Amazon.The Acer uses their own PC software for you to connect to the projector.The Optoma uses MirrorOp, which is also used on computer to computer and mobile phones.Note that wireless projection requires your PC wireless connection, so if you connect to the internet on wireless, you will lose internet unless you have another wireless card or connected by ethernet.Noise LevelThe Acer sounds more quiet in my opinion.Note that noise level will change depending on ECO and color profile for both projectors.Menu OptionsMaybe I am blind or something, but I cannot find the lamp hours on the Acer.You can set a duration for the Optoma to automatically shut down, and this option is not available on the Acer.The downside to this option is that it does not prompt you before it turns off.Both projectors have an option to turn off the projector after some duration where there is no input.On the Acer, it does not automatically switch to other inputs to check for connections, whereas the Optoma does. This is more of a preference thing. The Optoma however has a workaround. In the Optoma menu, you can select what input are enabled. There is no such option on the Acer.Throw RatioBoth projectors have 1.4:1 throw ratios.PriceUnfortunately the Acer K330 just keeps dropping in price since I bought it.It is $449.99 on another website and $489.00 on amazon. I paid $507.The Optoma ML500 is currently $523.99ConclusionI would much prefer the Optoma ML500 projector over the Acer K330, but after three exchanges for HDMI signal drop issues, I am getting tired, and I'm sure it is also costing Amazon. I have been using K330 the whole day without a single HDMI signal drop(knock on wood). I don't know if it was just my luck, or all ML500 have this flaw. If you do not use HDMI, I would say go for the ML500. If you use HDMI and you don't want stress, get the K330. When HDMI signal drops, your screen goes blank, and it takes 5-10 seconds to reconnect, which is not acceptable especially for gaming.
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