How do I display the screen of my Pocket PC on a projector?

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Q: How do I display the screen of my Pocket PC on a projector? A: There're several ways of doing this. a. if you don't have a notebook to connect to (only a Pocket PC and the projector itself), you need to have hardware VGA output support. If your PDA doesn't have it by default (that is, it's not a Dell Axim x50v/x51v or a Toshiba e7xx/e80x with the additional Presentation Pack), you'll need to buy either 1. an external CF/SD VGA output card or 2. the Mobility Electronics Pitch Duo Presentation Device. This is pretty good, can be used (as opposed to CF- and particularly SD-based solutions) with almost all PDA's and even smartphones but is rather slow (it uses either Bluetooth or USB, which are slower than the maximal speed of the CF/SD bus) and expensive (about 2 times more expensive than CF/SD cards). As far as the CF VGA output cards are concerned, there're quite a few of them: the Margi Presenter-to-Go (you're not guaranteed to find one though – the manufacturer has stopped producing them, it seems), the Colorgraphics Voyager CF and the Pretec VGA CF card, just to name a few. These work with most Pocket PC PDA's that have a CF slot. There is (was) a SD card too, the Presenter-to-Go SD for Select. Please note that it's only compatible with few PDA's; make sure you check out this compatibility chart before purchasing one. Please note that all these solutions are excellent for simple, static, slow, say, PowerPoint presentations but definitely not for high-quality, high-resolution, say, movie/game viewing. For real miroring of what happens on the PDA screen, your only choice today is getting a Dell Axim x50v/ x51v (even the Toshibas are slow at this) because they're the only Pocket PC's to have the Intel 2700g video processor. b. if you also have a notebook/desktop PC, you may prefer using a desktop-based program to show the PDA screen on the desktop (and on the projector connected to the desktop). You can use quite a few aplications for this purpose: SOTI Pocket Controller Professional or Enterprise (the fastest solution, particularly with VGA devices) ActiveSync Remote Display, part of Microsoft's PowerToys (free, but comparatively slow) dotPocket (comparatively slow) Pocket PC Creations "Periscope" (the only solution to have native "full screen for projecting" capability; however, you can very easily achieve the same with the Soti application if you switch off the background (Ctrl-B or View/Background) and zoom into the screen (View/Zoom)). You may also want to read this (Accessing the Pocket PC on a PC - comparing Pocket Controller, dotPocket and ActiveSync Remote Display) article, which even made to the Pocket PC Thoughts as frontpage news (alternatives: iPAQ HQ, AximSite, PPC Magazine, FirstLoox, BrightHand) if you want to go for the through-a-notebook/desktop-computer, software-only solution. I also recommend Dan Hanttula's excellent blog entry on the same question. EDIT (01/12/2006): have a look at Bob's new blog post 'Video Output SDIO Card From Spectec' (can't link it because the link would contain the word 'video') UPDATE (02/26/2008): 1. it seems the Mobility Electronics Pitch Duo Presentation Device, which, in the meantime, has been renamed to iGo Pitch Duo -Presentation Device, is no longer supported by iGo - it's neither listed on their homepage nor does their search engine find anything when entering the word "Pitch" in there. (BTW, HERE is the manual.) Too bad iGo seems to abandon a lot of their top-notch products: not only the (former) ThinkOutside, now iGo StowAway keyboard and mouse has been dropped, but also this device. What the hell is going on?! 2. Spectec, in the meantime, has released a microSD-based VGA output card, the SDV-842, which will also be elaborated on in Dale Daniels' article Can a Smartphone Replace a Laptop? in the forthcoming (April 2008) Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine article. Being microSD-based means it's compatible with ALL devices out there. Note that the company also offers miniSD- and traditional SD-based VGA output cards (main VGA output product catalog HERE), which are cheaper, but aren't as future-proof as the vast majority of current (and future) devices will come with a microSD slot only.)