Product Review: Samsung Mobile Beam Projector, MBP200

When I saw MBP200 that Samsung recently developed, I was so surprised. MBP200 was too small to believe that it was a beam projector. I have never seen such a small but powerful and convenient projector. I think MBP200 would be the world smallest handheld beam projector.
Even there are more features that made me surprised. MBP200 has also the functionalities of MP3 players, DivX players, DMB players, and file viewer.

Let’s discover the mobile beam projector, MBP200.

Package



The carton box was made of hard board and looked valuable.

There are many necessary components in the pages.

They are the beam projector, two battery packs, charger, external memory card (microSD card), screen stand, DMB stand, stereo earphone, VGA multi adapter cable, USB data cable, A/V cable, portable pouch, and user’s guide.

Screen Display
To compare with my 52” LCD TV, I placed MBP200 to view the screen on the wall next to it.

As you can see, the screen is much larger than the 52” LCD TV. The manual says that the maximum screen side is 50”. However, making it larger did not hurt my eyes. The focus button helped me to adjust the screen view.

The distance between the wall and MBP200 is about 10 feet. The more distance apart the larger view area you can get.


Appearance
I took some pictures in various views.

MBP200 is on my hand. You can see how small the projector is.

I compared it with a normal ball point pen. MBP200 is much smaller than a pen.

The left side shows the slide button for the power on/off and hold keys.

On the front side, there are the microSD card slot, earphone jack and the slide button for adjusting focus.

The right side has the DLP lens that shoots the display.

The back side has the USB/Data slot, built-in speaker and the DMB antenna.

The top side is composed of the TFT LCD screen and touch pad and click buttons on the bottom.

The bottom side has only the battery cover to replace battery.

Screen Stand
Do you know what this is?

This is the portable screen that we can get anytime anywhere. The screen is just a letter size paper that we use for printing. Using the screen stand, I attached a letter size paper to the stand so that I can easily watch the projector views.

This is the view when the letter size paper has removed from the screen stand. The view displays on the wall behind the screen stand.

Presentation
MBP200 support various file formats. The supported documents are Adobe PDF (pdf: 1.2 ~ 1.7), MS Power Point (ppt, pptx: 95 ~ 2007), MS Word (doc, docs: 97 ~ 2007), MS Excel (xls, xlsx: 95 ~ 2007), Text (txt, asc), Web Pages (html, htm, mHtml), Windows Meta Format (emf, wmf), Handgul Word Perfect (hwp: 97 ~ 3.0, 2002 ~ 2007).

Video
Since MBP200 is a beam projector, not only presentation files but also video files can be played. MB200 works like a PMP (Portable Multimedia Player) device. The supported video formats are AVI, ASF, MPG, MP4, WMV, and SVI. The video CODECs are MPEG-1/2/4, DivX, Xvid (720x480), WMV9, and H.264 (640x480). Audio CODECs are MP3, WMA and AC3. The Caption format is SMI. The frame rate is 30 fps.

Pictures

The supported picture formats are BM, JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, WBMP, TIFF, and TIF.
Using the “File Viewer” menu, pictures and document files stored in the memory can be displayed through the LCD screen or beam projector.

Main Menu

The “Main Menu” is composed of Music, Video, DMB, File Viewer, Setting and Projector.

Using the “Projector” menu, the view screen can be changed from the LCD screen to the beam projector or vice versa. Also, MBP200 can be connected to a cell phone that supports TV-Out feature, or a laptop/PC to watch through a large screen.

Samsung made the user interface so simple and easy to navigate.


Music
Samsung has released so many MP3 players in the world market. MBP200 has also the MP3 player features. The supported music files are MP3, WMA, OGG, and AAC. The audio CODECs are MP3, WMA, EAAC+, OGG, AC3, WAV, and BASC. Channels are stereo when using earphones, and mono when using the built-in speaker.

DMB
DMB stands for Digital Multimedia Broadcasting. DMB is available in Korea and some countries. MBP200 supports terrestrial DMB so that TV channels and digital radio can be played when the service is available.

MBP200 can be a portable TV. Just stretch out the antenna and turn on the DMB feature.


Specifications

General Specification
- Model Name: Mobile Beam Projector (MBP 200)

- Memory: 200MB Built-in
microSD card: Up to 2GB, microSDHC: ~16GB
(Some memory cards may not be supported due to the characteristics of memory cards)

- LCD Size: 2.2"
- LCD Resolution: QVGA(320*240)
- LDT Type: TFT LCD
- Color: Black
- Battery Type: Li-Ion 1480mAh
- Mobile TV: Terrestrial DMB
- A/V Input: D-Sub(VGA), Composite(NTSC) with Stereo Audio
- Projection: 5~50" HVGA(480*320)
- Supported Files:

Music
- Audio : MP3, WMA, OGG, AAC
- Audio Codec : MP3, WMA, EAAC+, OGG, AC3, WAV, BASC
- Channel : Stereo
- Equalizer : 5Bands (Rock, Live, Dance, Pop, Club)
- Built-in Speaker : 1W Mono

Movies
- Video Files : AVI, ASF, MPG, MP4, WNV, SVI
- Video Codec : MPEG-1/2/4, DivX, Xvid(720x480), WMV9, H.264(640x480)
- Audio Codec : MP3, WMA, AC3
- Caption File : SMI
- Frame Rate : 30fps

Pictures
- BMP, JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, WBMP, TIFF, TIF

Documents
- MS Word(doc, docx) / 97 ~ 2007
- Hangul Word Perfect(hwp) / 97~3.0, 2002~2007
- Adobe PDF(pdf) / 1.2 ~ 1.7)
- MS PowerPoint(ppt. pptx) / 97~2007
- MS Excel(xls, xlsx) / 95 ~ 2007
- Web Pages(html, htm, mHtml)
- Text (txt. Asc)
- Windows Meta Format(emf, wmf)

- Speaker Output: 1W Mono Speaker
- Earphone Output: 70mW 3.5Φ Stereo Earphone Jack
- Output Frequency Range: 20 Hz ~ 20 KHz
- Playback Time:

Music: 11 hours
Movie: 6 hours
DMB: 6 hours
Projector: 1 hour and 20 minutes with one battery pack (2 hours and 40 minutes with the provided two battery packs)

- Temperature: -10 ~ 40 ‘C
- Weight: 160 gram
- Dimension: 107.3 x 48.8 x 19 mm


The Projector Distance (cm) and the Screen Size (W x H in cm)

Distance between projector and screen : Estimated display dimension

- 20 cm : 10.6 cm x 7 cm
- 40 cm: 21.1 cm x 14.1 cm
- 80 cm: 42.3 cm x 28.2 cm
- 150 cm: 79.3 cm x 52.8 cm
- 200 cm: 105.7 cm x 70.4 cm
** As the distance between the projector and the screen gets farther, the brightness becomes darker.

Major Features
- 3D Sound: DNSe
- Image Viewer (Zoom, Slide Show)
- Slide Show
- Photo Viewer
- Phote Zoom In/Out
- Auto Caption Display

Additional Features
- Removable Hard Disk Drive:
Without any USB thum drive, you can use MBP200 as a removable USB disk to upload and download files.

- Firmare
www.yepp.co.kr provides the latest fimware to upgrade the functionality.

- EmoDio
EmoDio is a content management software for the YEPP devices. The latest music, video, moview, language and education contents can be downloaded through EmoDio. (Contents may not be supported depending on the device types)

- EmoDio Auto Lyric Support
Lyric can be displayed while listening music.

- Multi-codec support
Various types of CODECs can be supported. The supported files are specified above.

- File Navigation
Similar to the Windows Explorer, you can navigate the music files easily.

- Library Feature
Using the ID3 Tag in the MP3 files, the file information can be arranged and sorted conveniently in terms of Genre, Singer, Album, Title, etc.

- Multi-Language Support
Various languages can be displayed such as lyrics, titles, etc.

- Playlist
avorite music fiels can be stored in a playlist.

- EmoDio Playlist
Using EmoDio, music files can be stored in a playlist to play in my favor.

- USB2.0
sing USB2.0, data can be tranferred in a fast way.

System Requirements
- Pentium 300 MHz or more
- USB 2.0 Port
- Windows 2000/XP/Vista/WMP10
- DirectX 9.0 or more
- 100MB or more hard disk space
- CD-ROM drive (2x or more)
- Display resolution1024X768 or more

Pros and Cons

Pros:
- Compact size and sleek design (high glossy material in black)
- Portable (small and light weight)
- Powerful beam projector (best for 50” display but can make it larger)
- Useful for sales persons to present sales information
- Useful for watching movies with fiancé privately
- Useful for studying lectures in video clips
- Can watch TV channels through DMB
- Can enjoy music
- Can read contents of various file formats including MS Word, PPT, Excel, and PDF


Cons:
- Projector playback time is only 1 hour and 20 minutes with one battery pack. This can be OK since there is a charger, and two battery packs are given that make 2 hours and 40 minutes of total playback time.
- If the LCD is a touch screen, it would be much better to navigate menu.

Conclusions
While reviewing MBP200, I was thinking that I would not need to purchase individual PMP to play video clips, MP3 players to play MP3 files, DMB players to watch DMB TV channels and even a big beam projector to show presentation files.

MBP200 is the perfect device with all-in-one in terms of the functionalities and the portability. I believe that Samsung’s MBP200 would be a sensational device for sales people and outdoor use because it is extremely portable and powerful beam projector to enjoy multimedia functions including video, music, picture, and documents. MBP200 would be useful for entertainment anywhere anytime.