InFocus X1A DLP Multimedia Video Projector

InFocus X1A DLP Multimedia Video Projector
by In Focus

List Price: ~~$1,000.00~~
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Category: CE
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Manufacturer: In Focus
Audio: English (Original Language)
Model: X1A
Product features:

0.55-inch DMD DDR projection technology
800 x 600 SVGA native resolution
High 2,000:1 contrast ratio, 1,100 lumens of brightness
4:3 aspect ratio, supports 16:9; 2.5-watt speaker
Supports NTSC, PAL, SECAM, EDTV, and HDTV signals

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Customer Review: Great deal
Summary: 5 Stars

I got mine on sale last year. What a bargain. Great pix, versitile, & super bright! We can watch it in the daytime it's so bright. I use it on the road for my show so it gets used & abused a lot. It's still running perfect on it's original bulb. When it's not on the road it's used as my primary widescreen TV at home.

This unit will not show full the resolution of true quality HDTV, but does an excellent job. Many HDTV signals have been downscaled, upscaled, dowscaled again, recompressed, & reprocessed so many times by the time it reaches your home, most of the channels aren't true HDTV quality anymore anyhow... esp. signals through cable & satellite. I guess the FCC hasn't passed any laws for HDTV quality yet.

The unit has more than enough resolution for ordinary DTV & DVDs.

For some reason, I don't get eye fatigue like I do watching other projectors a few hours. The factory presets aren't that good & seem to be for watching ordinary analog TV & VHS tapes. Fortunatly it comes with 3 user settable presets with a very wide array of settings & tweaks that make it a top quality performer.

I bought the component input adapter for it from Infocus. The quality of the adapter cable was poor & picked up plenty of RFI. Also after carefully unplugging it only a few times, one of the connectors fell right off the adapter. Poorly, cheaply designed adapter concidering most infocus products are specifically designed to be used on the road, set up & torn down easily & quickly all the time. The connecters for my other road equipment doesn't break after years of heavy use.

Fortunately for the road & at home the s-video connectors do an excellent job.

Do not EVER use the ordinary RCA-jack style composite signal jacks on a hi-end TV or projector. The signal won't be good enough. Any good TV will just make the poor signal quality more obvious.

The above reviewer must've got a bad unit or one that was banged around during shipping, or was dropped. These are durable units, but with too much banging around, you'll have problems the reviewer described. The grinding sound comes from the color wheel or blower fans being knocked out of alignment.

I also own their older lp-350 xga model & used a few of their other models. So far I'm very happy with all of them I've used.

Although my very old LP-350 still works like new, I have done some mods on it & the lens to increase the contrast ratio, brightness & bulb life. I'm surprised that if I can do it, that infocus doesn't offer a mod plan for them to do it for a price. They won't even sell specs & technical service data on their old machines. I guess they want you to pay an arm & leg for them to do repairs, or buy a new one.

I've had to fix a few infocus projectors out of warranty after they were banged around or just got well used & old... with no help or sevice data from infocus, even though it was requested.

Fortunately, DLP projectors have been around for a while now, so there are plenty of qualified techs familiar with them in just about every town who know how to fix, mod, & upgrade them at a fraction of the cost infocus will once they're out of warranty.

From what I read in the past, you're better off sending it to a local tech with experience with DLP machines for repairs rather than back to InFocus. They seem to do a better job cheaper, & know what they're doing. Infocus won't even to tell you where to get special tools needed to take them apart. I wonder if they know how to service them at all. It's one thing to build one, but another thing to troubleshoot & fix 'em.

I gave 5 stars for the product, not for the service, because I service all my own equipment so don't need them.

Don't take these things apart yourself people unless you know exactly what you're doing & experienced. You can ruin or destroy them if you're not very careful & knowledgable.

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