An HD-Ready projector for less than £500
At the moment, projectors are a pretty niche product. There’s a certain appeal to being able turn your living room into a drive in movie theatre, and to pull a dramatic image out of the bag without having a huge TV dominating the room. But to date only big screen junkies seem to be considering them as an option - probably due to an expected £1000 price tag.
I wonder if that’s about to change with In Focus’s latest model, the InFocus X9, an HD-Ready projector that will be available for less than £500:
The new In Focus joins the Optoma EP738 as HD-ready projectors to consider in the sub £600 price range.
There’s no doubt that having a projector that can compete on price with anything larger than a 32″ TV (average cost £465) will be pretty significant, but there’s still a way for these projectors to go before they are competing with standard flatscreens in terms of specs: both have only a single, 1.3, HDMI port - a way below the current minimum of 2 2.0 HDMIs.
And then there’s the fuzzier question of whether people actually like using projectors to watch normal TV, not just films.
Interesting times.
Blog posted on Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 at 6:17 pm under News, Products, Projectors, Televisions. Leave a comment, or trackback from your own site.
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