InFocus Screenplay 4805

usability, image quality, price

100% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

usability, price, image quality, noise, size

reliability

97% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Great contrast ratio, no real flyscreen effect

Quite pricey, playback usually has to be re-sampled, noisy

The ScreenPlay 4805 is capable of producing perfectly acceptable images, but is let down seriously by intrusive image conversion artefacts. There are better projectors available, and for less money.

Packs good specifications at a true entry-level price point ; Fairly good output in daylight conditions

No lens shift makes set-up more challenging than it ought to be ; Picture underwhelming with analog input

The resolution at 854 x 480 is slightly better than its ScreenPlay 4800 predecessor, but it's on the low-end of HD standards. The resolution does look a bit rough when you hook up via an analog connection to a standard free-to-air TV broadcast. There...

The InFocus Screenplay 4805 home theater projector, is, as mentioned, a WVGA projector with 854x480 resolution, which is typical of all the entry level DLP projectors. As such, its pixels are larger than higher resolution projectors. We found that to...

Very good color out of the box, and better with minor tweaking ; Overall image very dynamic with good "depth ; Fast (4x) six segment color wheel prevents most from seeing rainbow effect ; Extended hours tech support from InFocus ; Multiple gamma...

Very noisy compared to most competing projectors ; Contrast levels lower than newer DLP projectors (still better than the LCD home theater models), resulting in loss of detail in dark areas ; Menus are somewhat dark. It's easy to read the selected...

In fact, the InFocus Screenplay 4805 projector is still one of the better low cost projectors out there, with advantages over several competing current model projectors, it just isn't quite up to the best and newest

Twelve months later we have another offering from Infocus, the Screenplay 4805. Coincidentally, Infocus have also recently released the X2, the replacement for the X1. This time round, there can be no mistaking the significant differences between the...

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