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The Amazing Kodak Project Portable Projector - REVIEWED
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May 29, 2025
A video projector small enough to slip into your pocket isn't going to pack massive lumens or work projecting a movie onto your barn, but for a tiny device, the Kodak Pocket Portable Projector does an amazingly good job! Plug in an HDMI source, play off a MicroSD card you've pre-loaded with a few movies, it can work surprisingly well if you accept its limitations. Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the Kodak Pocket Portable Projector and finds it's quite a remarkable device, well worth your attention. Learn more: http://amzn.to/2pi7oua #kodak #portable #projector
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can you device this small actually be a
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good video projector let's check this
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out
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Dave Taylor here and I'm looking at
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video projection systems I'm not talking
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about those big behemoths that you might
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be used to but this this little tiny 3
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inch by 3 inch video projector doesn't
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have a ton of brightness but boy does it
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make up for it with its functionality
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and its size this is the kodak pocket
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portable projector and it projects at
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1080p full-hd resolution it is pretty
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cool and you can use it with a micro SD
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card so you can preload movies on it it
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actually has a battery and can run for a
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couple hours you can feed it HDMI you
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can even charge this thing off of an 8
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off of USB you can plug in an external
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speaker it has built-in speakers how's
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that for amazing technology for
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something this small but you know what
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let's not just talk about it let me
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switch over and show you just a couple
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of quick examples of how this works so
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here you can see I'm just going ahead
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and just having a look at Netflix this
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is HDMI off my computer I'm obviously in
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a pretty well lit environment so it's a
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little hard to see but I could make this
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image a lot bigger than it is now let me
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unplug the HDMI and then it will show us
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what's actually on the device itself
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this also gets cool because remember I
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said micro sd so I put a couple of
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movies on my micro sd card and I can
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control it off the top so let's choose
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movies and how about a Star Wars
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Christmas special don't worry we won't
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watch much of this but let's just go
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ahead and see what it looks like coming
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straight off the micro SD card and we'll
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resume play so it even remembers where
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you were watching so whoops pause play
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and you can see here again with this
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with me recording and having the rest of
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the room illuminated it gets a little
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tricky to see what's going on but
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I'm watching a movie and this is a
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completely self-contained device it's
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not even plugged in in fact let me go
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ahead and turn it off and I can actually
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project it anywhere I could project it
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on my ceiling I get pointed at you
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there's so much you can do with this
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tiny little device and I'm so impressed
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and just to show that it was coming off
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the micro sd here's the micro SD card I
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was using and I put a bunch of movies on
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here so how easy is that to have
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something like this as your travel
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device for when you're in a hotel room
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for example turn off all the lights or
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even in our tent right so you can watch
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a movie or even your favorite TV show if
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you want has its own built-in speaker
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and it's not super loud it's not the
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same as a huge 5.1 sound bar but it's
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quite functional and what else can I
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tell you that I haven't told you about
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it so it's small it's ten ounces this is
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ridiculously light it actually has a
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tripod mount on the bottom but if you
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were paying attention
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I had it flat to a surface and instead
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of having the bottom of the screen cut
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off the whole thing was projecting like
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that so it's already designed to work
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that way and that's great because I've
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seen so many projectors where you have
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to do something like that or you have to
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have it up on something and that gets
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clumsy so can go up to an 80 inch
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display and it is let's see 1080p so it
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is a full HD projector and it's using an
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LED DLP lens our bulb projection system
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as well call it projection system and on
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the sides give you a quick tour is on
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this side you see the focus control and
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the power on/off on the back you have
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audio so you can hook up speakers if you
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want which probably is a good idea if
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you're gonna watch a movie and USB 3.0
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and HDMI and the micro USB input for
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charging it which is good and then on
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this other side you have the micro SD
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card slot and finally in the front you
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can see there's the
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action lens just what you'd expect the
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top also has some controls it's all very
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sleek and it feels like it's glass but
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as you saw you can actually use it
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interactively and if you plug it in you
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can use it as long as you want but off
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the battery it gives you roughly about a
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two hour playback time which is pretty
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much plenty enough for most movies not
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every movie but the neverending story
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well it's never ending so obviously it's
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going to last longer than that but
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generally speaking two hours is a pretty
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good runtime and it's what they call an
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offset projection design when I was
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talking about being able to have it flat
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against a surface and it beam up that's
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what I mean it's called an offset
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projection design and clearly this does
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that it also includes USB and HDMI
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cables so this HDMI cable came in the
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box how cool is that
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and then here you have the micro USB
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charging cable they didn't have to
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include that we all have so many of them
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but I appreciate that they did so this
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is really a straight out-of-the-box
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device ready to roll and even the whole
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box no one would believe that this is
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actually a projection system that of
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course you can also use for actual
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presentations if you're pitching your
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company and trying to get investors
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going and you keep showing off that same
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deck this could be a really cool way to
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plug into your computer and say alright
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let's get started now downside is it
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doesn't have a lot of lumens in fact
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this is not going to work in a brightly
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lit room even projected small as you saw
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here but if you have the ability to make
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the lights in the room go down you might
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be surprised just how well this works
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and we were watching some of the
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Princess Bride of all movies we were
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watching The Princess Bride right off of
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this and it was pretty darn nice it's
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very nice handy little device now before
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I tell you the price let me ask can you
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go ahead and click Subscribe really
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appreciate if you can subscribe to my
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channel now in terms of the price this
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is so cheap that I'm not even going to
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say the price I'm just going to show you
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the price how crazy is that and here it
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is this is the kodak pocket portable
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projector and it's available at amazon
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and this price man i swear i would have
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this would be twice the cost so this is
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Dave Taylor I might go back to the Star
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Wars Christmas special but I'm guessing
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I probably won't I will however see you
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in my next video
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