Projectors Reviews, price and comparision

The InFocus IN1124 ($ 975 direct) is a compact, lightweight, but bright data projector aimed at business travelers who often must represent to small groups. It is very portable, though you must run presentations on a computer because there is no port for a USB flash drive. Picture quality is mediocre, but it is the task of the typical business presentations.

The IN1124 brightness is rated at 3,000 lumens. The projector has a native resolution XGA (1,024 by 768), a 4: 3-aspect ratio, typical of projectors.  At 2.8 of 8.6 from 7 inches (HWD) and 3.4 pounds, it is very compact and lightweight. The editors' choice Epson PowerLite 93++ $549 direct (4 stars) is not quite as bright (at 2,600 lumens), during the NEC NP-V300X ($ 779 direct, 3.5 stars) the IN1124 games brightness. Although portable, they are InFocus larger and heavier than that. The 2,500 lumens Boxlight TraveLight3 $999-list (3.5 stars), a further XGA projector, is approximately the same dimensions as the IN1124.

This projector is black and boxy. The front can be tilted upwards with an expandable riser. There are wheels, zoom and focus; I had no problem in a reasonably hot the IN1124 bring.

The IN1124 packs a typical range of ports for an ultraportable projector: a HDMI port (which we in these days, even on XGA projectors often see); S-video; an RCA Jack for composite video; Audio input; VGA; and a USB-mini-B port that you support, can plug into your computer for wireless mouse, so you can use the projector remote control instead of the mouse, slides and the like ahead.

An interface that would have been, is a useful addition to a USB type A, free USB stick a presentation computer run. Without them, you don't always have lug on a laptop with you. The projector comes with a soft case for protection.

Test data and video

I tested the IN1124 from about 10 meters away, where it threw a 6-meter diagonal image on our test screen, that good on ambient light level. When testing with the display machines suite (www.displaymate.com), data was image quality typical for a DLP projector with data. There were some color, usually in the form of chromatic aberration, where the boundary between a light and dark area (such as the edges of the image would appear coloured - if on the top or right of when blue yellow at the bottom.) Areas of the actual saw yellow, but sometimes mushy and somewhat green.

All DLP projectors may be subject to a rainbow effect in the white field in its component colors break when moving the view one (or, in the case of video) when something on the screen moves. This effect was clear to me in pictures which tended to bring them. White on-black text was readable, although fuzzy on the smallest sizes, and subject to a mild tint. Image quality should be good for typical data presentations, unless you need sophisticated color.

Video quality is sufficient for short video clips within a presentation. The projector has also in the resolution of details in dark and light areas. Colors seemed somewhat true, except for two issues. The rainbow effect was more clearly than in typical DLP projectors, and people who would like to sensitive on it probably not this projector to see video for any length of time.

The other problem is color fringing. The crossroads where bright areas meets dark backgrounds (including the edges of the screen if the of the picture close to them was bright) often as colored lines showed, when yellow at the top (or right) from the light, and blue when at the bottom. The yellow edge was be most remarkable and the fringing visible often enough annoying - it was really in the type in the film credits.

Result video with the IN1124 is another drawback, that their sound system, which employs a 1-Watt speakers, weak. She should be very close to the projector to be audible.

The InFocus In1124 is a lightweight, portable projector appropriate for their target audience: businessmen who need to make frequent presentations to small groups during the trip. It is brighter - and easier - than the editors' choice XGA resolution Epson PowerLite 93++. However, the InFocus image quality was mediocre during the Epson data and video image quality both very good were. The 93++ has the sounds and clear audio that the IN1124 is missing. However, it is not so handy, like the InFocus for frequent moderators, a small and bright projector, to get the job done while on the road, the IN1124 prefer can be. The InFocus is brighter than the equally portable Boxlight TraveLight3, about the same image, quality and sound.

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