The nerdy home cinema fan in me still revolts at the very idea of the DM3. A projector that’s designed to work best in ambient light, has precious few optical image adjustments, runs noisily and delivers fundamentally average pictures in the dark? Yikes.
Yet hostile though I personally might be to the principal of the thing, I can’t deny that the casual gaming/telly/occasional movie projector market the DM3 is aimed at not only exists, but might very well be larger than the serious home cinema market I belong to. And the DM3 unequivocally fulfils the needs of that market much, much more successfully than the DM2. In fact, in some ways - multimedia playback options, automatic light-based picture adjustment and sound - it caters for its market better than any rival model I can think of.
But stubborn old git that I am, I still maintain that it should be possible to marry the simplicity and flexibility demanded by the casual projector user to better picture quality than the DM3 delivers. Bah and, indeed, humbug.Read full review
Overall
6/10
By John Archer
Reviewed 20 January 2010
Updated 09 March 2012