Rating  - Great Picture, WORST Quality
I purchased this unit, and it ran well for 500 hours. After that the ballast began to fail, just a few months out of 90-day warranty. Now it's at $600 doorstop. Many other people have had trouble with this projector dying on them; just google around a bit. Avoid this model, and cheap Infocus projectors for that matter!
Rating  - Meh... its ok
There seems to be an awful lot of hype surrounding this projector. After the initial "WOW!" factor its all down hill. Sure its a bargain, but unreliable and, in my experiance, cant take a beating. After just 1 month the fan started making this awful, high pitched, buzzing sound and the tech support, like all tech support, give you and ansewer that is 100% correct, yet absolutly usless. For the money, your better off with 32inch LCD TV or something.
Rating  - Great deal
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.
Rating - It was reviewed highly yet
it fell apart under use. I researched buying a projector for a long time and the x1 looked like the ticket. It had the right price and all of the right options and after unpacking it and setting up the projector it was WOW. Then the problems. A huge grinding noise started and I sent it back to Infocus to be repaired under warranty. Infocus promises a detailed repair report and they replaced a screw. The same thing happened and I sent it back to Infocus and spoke with a nice guy. I said this was a lemon and should be replaced. Not happening. I even offered to upgrade and pay the difference. Not happening. When I got it back at least this time the repair report didn't just say replaced a screw. The unit is doing the same thing out of warranty and I put in for a repair request and thought ..... hmmmmm..... if Infocus couldn't fix it under warranty then why could they fix it out of warranty and I would be out at least 300.00 with no guarantee it wouldn't do it again. So I have a useless unit hanging like a bat on my ceiling.
Did this unit perform? Yes it did. Was extremely happy with it. But then if you can't get it fixed and fixed right then the unit is useless and the lowest rating. I continue to read all of these wonderful reviews and no one has ever mentioned my experience. This leads me to believe that my unit was a lemon and Infocus should have done the right thing. I did write Infocus and told them I would be writing reviews and gave them a week with no response.
P.S. 06/23/2006
The marketing manager of Infocus read my reviews and my experience and have since replaced the unit with a NEW Infocus x-2 at no charge. Works like a charm yet it sometimes still has that metallic grinding noise.
K.Pitman
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