Considering an Infocus X3. What others should I be looking at?

Does it have to be a native 4:3 projector? If so, why? What do you watch with it? You mean less than $1,000?

sharp XR-10X is a great 4:3 1024x720 projector like the X3.


I don't know how it performs as a business projector, but I've found it great as a home theater projector.

The big problem with most of these 4:3 projectors is: No HDMI or HDCP.

HDMI is the digital video connection. HDCP is a copy protection scheme that can run over HDMI or DVI (the other digital video connector). Some HD sources may require this connection in the future. Some HD sources require it now (for example, upscaled DVD from most legit players). It's fairly important future-proofing at this point.

You might consider some of the new WXGA projectors. These have 768 rows so they do XGA (768X1024) very well but also have 16X9 aspect ratio for hidef. They do computer data well (in a 4X3 frame) as well as video.


See http://www.projectorcentral.com for a list of projectors with this format. Some are very inexpensive.


The Infocus X3 is a fine machine esp. for the price but I think the lack of HDMI/HDCP (as pointed out) would rule it out for me.


At another price point, there are some 4X3 machines that have HDMI but they are expensive. Again, see projectorcentral.com

Bump.

Doesn't the X3 come with a M1 plug, of which you could purchase a M1 to HDMI or M1 to DVI and connect to your digital component of choice. I know the Sharp or the Infocus X3 replacement does not have this capability.


Victor