I-Theater Head Mounted Display (HMD) ITheater

by I-O Display

Product Details

• Item Weight: 3.5 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds
• ASIN: B000J3AWQA
• Item model number: iTheaterN
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 15, 2006

Product Description

Introducing... the World's Most Lightweight Mobile Video Eyewear! i-O Display Systems is pleased to introduce the i-Theater, a completely new concept in head-worn personal displays. Featuring 230,000 pixel resolution in a truly lightweight design, this personal video display offers big pictures on-the-go in a compact AV unit. Weighing just 3.5 ounces, the i-Theater features a sleek, ergonomically comfortable and lightweight design. But don't let the small package fool you. All the necessary electronics and optics have been integrated into this compact, stylish, video-eyewear product. The i-Theater is a completely mobile video system that delivers a crisp, vivid-color, QVGA resolution (320 x 240) video image which is equivalent to a 50 inch video screen viewed from a distance of 8.5 feet. The full-screen image is compressed into two of the industry's smallest light-transmitting LCDs (liquid crystal displays), by means of award-winning technology, protected by more than 200 global patents. Why settle for a tiny 2 inch iPod Video screen? When you interface your iPod Video with the portable and lightweight i-Theater glasses, you'll experience an incredible 50 inch virtual video image from the i-Theater's internal LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) screens.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as advertised, March 31, 2008

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ArcKal "arckal" (Oak Brook IL, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: I-Theater Head Mounted Display (HMD) ITheater (Electronics)

This product look nice and a good start for head mounted device, but not worth to pay the selling cost. should be 60-70USD. the quality is not good and not impressive to use it as Head mounting device. My unit has a problem since very first day that left side ear plug does not work. and ear plugs are really filmy they do not play good voice at all. Also unit suppose to play big and clear screen but it makes screen only bigger not brighter (display with lots of dots/line grid).

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars HMD's are still not what you think..., February 3, 2009

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Jonathan M. Dogey "dogeymon" (San Mateo, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I-Theater Head Mounted Display (HMD) ITheater (Electronics)

Rest assured, I bought exactly what is pictured on this particular sale. The I-theater by BMG. I don't know who BMG even is. I attempted to go their website, and it looks horrible. Like someone made it in 5 minutes, and like it's run by scammers. But that aside, the product is not terrible. I really like the size and generally like the weight. But it doesn't matter, it still will make your nose have a mark after a half hour of using, and you'll never quite find the comfort zone you're looking for. The nose-plug adapter is even more uncomfortable.

As for the picture quality, it's not great. It's not sharp. Reading small text on these is almost completely out of the question. I would never watch a foreign film with subtitles on these. I'd go blind! What's worse, the i-theater has a prism-like projection inside which is so glare-inducing, it makes the product almost completely unusable for video games like DOOM or QUAKE. Way too dark. And there's virtually nothing you can do about it. I wouldn't suggest you get these for gaming.

A product came out way before these called the I-glasses by I-O displays. I still gleefully go back to those to play all my video games. GREAT PRODUCT. But the i-theater is sadly a step backwards for HMD technology. Avoid these. There are way better out there.

12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Don't buy if you're looking to connect to an IPOD, December 25, 2007

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Jeff Deptola (Tacoma, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I-Theater Head Mounted Display (HMD) ITheater (Electronics)

What they don't tell you on here is that the iPod adapter is the stereo headset type that only works with two iPod models, the iPod 5th generation and the iPod Photo. The rest use the proprietary iPod connector at the base of the ipod. I'm sure you can buy an adapter for it, but it should be stated in the product description. After buying the product it's not stated anywhere in the directions either, only to connect the "iPod type AV cable" into the iPod for video out. I had to search around to find out that the iPOD classic, the iPod touch and the iPhone do not support this type of cable. You'll need an iPod connector type (at the bottom of the iPod) to the stereo headphone type. Check it out at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300233