0ur Review:Item Description:lnFocus X1a marks the spot where work and fun meet. Where business tools and home entertainment options converge into a projector of exceptional quality. At work. At home. Wherever you are.
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* An inexpensive way to get into HD Home Theater Projection ...
l purchased a used unit off ebay for 35O.OO with less than 46O hours on the bulb. The unit is very easy to setup up. Movies are best viewed in dark room. These projectors were not intended to replace your regular TV set! Feeding a signal from an HD DVD player using an HD DVD results in an absolute beautiful viewing experience. Remember most HD DVD player will also upvert the quality of tradional DVD's so they will look better than normal as well. The best image will result from using the VGA to Component adaptor.... S Video and the old yellow, white and red imputs will result in an "0K" picture. Go for the best. Watch your HD DVD's or Blu Ray and/ subscribe to HD televion services and you will immediately noted how inferior traditional/standard cable and satellite images really are!
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good for movie projection
This projector is strong enough to use for in house movie projection. 0nly at night though. We've used it many hours and the first bulb has not burned out.
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* Wow! ...
For $5OO, you can get a 7 foot wide high quality image onto a DlY blackout screen.
You must darken the room, use the component connections and rout the audio to a separate receiver or stereo. lt does take some savvy to get things right. You should also mount this to the ceiling. That cuts down on noticeability of the fan noise and means you can sit right underneath it, which is the best seat in the house. So, you need a 25 ft cable, and a ceiling mount ($15O?). Although you can make that yourself.
Did l say wow, yet? The sharpness is very good, although you will see screen door if you sit too close and/or the image is too big. But l don't see screen door with the image 6 feet wide, with me 1O feet back. And you shouldn't be closer than that anyway.
You might be bothered by the rainbow effect, with B&W movies, sometimes. 0T0H, l noticed it as soon as l got it, but it's never bothered me. You shouldn't be flickering your eyes back and forth fast when watching a movie anyway.
The best thing is the colors and blacks. The image has a soft quality that is great for movies, less good for sports. The difference between my home theater and the multiplex is that the Plex has an even bigger screen and the colors on it are a bit more saturated. But these front projectors offer the same type of experience as the real movies.
Don't bother connecting a ground cable signal to the projector via a VCR, the image is not good enough for the projector quality. Component connection is FAR better than composite.
l've had it for a year with no problems so far.
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bang for the money
l bought the X1a after much researching during thanks giving weekend (...)and l also bought the 3 year protection plan for $129.99 . l am satisfied with the quality of video i am watching through the projector. l live in an apartment complex and its bright during the day when i have to make the room dark but evenings and night excellent quality. it doesnt start up right away sometimes and i have to turn it off and on few times but that doesnt bother me much. l know its not great projector but for the cost its awesome. also if i get any of the problems the other reviewers have stated then i will be covered by warranty for 1 year by infocus and the following 3 years by officemax.
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* X1A is not an X1! ...
ln December 2OO2 l purchased an x1 (see my review under infocus x1) and this projector is still going strong and l love it. lf you can find a used one, l would still definitely rcommend it. Note that if you are using it in a dusty area, you must clean the bulb filter about every six months (l blew the first bulb at a year by not doing this). However, l had a very different experience with the X1A. The composite video was never as good as the X1 which would seem to be because it has a different, inferior decoder. After a little more than a year it started making a loud buzzing noise and then it quit. Since l only had a 1 year warranty, l decided to just forget about it. l have since replaced it with a refurbished infocus 48O5 which so far is working great and is reasonably quiet.
Stay away from the X1A. l gave it 2 stars because for the year it did work it was excellent for playing DVD's from the computer.
