I’m at the Epson North Luzon Business Conference up here at Fort Ilocandia Resort in Laoag, Ilocos Norte, and while this event is wall-to-wall business, one of the things that floored me is an entertainment device. From Epson? Damn straight!

It’s called the Epson EMP-TWD 3 Home Entertaiment Projector, and it’s meant for creating a home cinematic experience, not a stuffy old Powerpoint presentation. It’s more for watching 300 the movie rather than charting 300 sales targets for the year.

What makes it different? Senior Manager Mike Mondragon tells me that there’s a world of difference between a projector made for a business presentation than one made for watching movies or TV, or for playing video games, and the EMP-TWD 3 is right at home doing the latter.

At first glance looking like a medium-sized subwoofer, it is actually a projector with integrated speakers and a DVD player. If your hackles rise up at the thought that what is Epson doing making a DVD player - stop worrying; they’re the first to say that their core compentencies lie elsewhere; the DVD player part is a JVC product.

It connects by a single cable, and has a high luminance that you don’t even need to turn down the room lights to use it. Imagine Halo 3 on this thing.

The best part? It costs less than half you’d pay for a large LCD monitor that you can’t lug around and adjust sizes with. Cool stuff.