We’ve just finished watching Chelsea’s rather unfortunate home defeat against Barcelona using Samsung’s new SP-P300ME projector.

Although Samsung, who happens to sponsor Chelsea, won’t have been pleased by the result, it must be proud of its new projector.

As we said earlier today, it’s incredibly small and uses LEDs instead of a lamp.

We expected the picture to be on the dull side but, in a near pitch black room, we were actually very impressed.

It can’t match the likes of bulkier projectors in terms of brightness, but the display is definitely watchable. Occasionally it was a little difficult to follow the ball, but on the whole it performed extremely well.

As you can see in the photo above (we had to modify this photo in order to replicate the actual brightness and couldn’t use the flash, hence the noise), we managed to get a decent size display.

In fact, we exceeded Samsung's maximum quoted display of 63in and managed to stretch it to just over 80in.

For reference, the TV you can just about make out in the bottom left corner has a 28in screen.

You’ll find a full review soon on www.pcw.co.uk.