InFocus X1 Projector User Reviews October 19th, 2003 | by Chris Swanberg
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Average user rating from 16 users |
PROBLEM! White Vertical Bar in Projection
by James on May 28th, 2008 at 1:08 PM:
I've had my Infocus-X1 since the summer of '94.
I have enjoyed it having had no issues (Motor's a little noisy) until just recently when this "White Vertical Bar" suddenly appeared on my screen just off centre to the left. It shows up right away when I start the unit and is there with or without any source connected to it. I'm quite upset as I am trying to find out what the problem is and no one is able to tell me anything. I emailed tech support from the back of the manual and they had no answers for me. They gave me a number to call but they say they do not service X1's anymore (after reading a few of these reviews, I think I can see why) So now I'm stuck with a project of which I have no idea what is wrong with it or what the damage may be or how to fix it. Am I S.O.L. or what?!
Contrary to what people say, I am very dissapointed with the X1
by Eric de leon on Dec 5th, 2007 at 8:24 PM:
Being an owner of a Sanyo LCD projector with similar specs, 1000 lumens, SVGA. I can say that the X1 fails in comparison.
X1 is great-
by Kenny on Nov 27th, 2007 at 10:45 AM:
I got this little refurbished baby back in 2004 for $600 and it hasn't skipped a beat for me. I've read all the other bad reviews about the chainsaw noise but I guess I'm one of the lucky ones who never had that problem. Either that or everyone else who enjoys their X1Â's is too busy watching movies / playing games and doesn't write in to tell about it. I'm currently on my second bulb. The first one lasted approx 3500 hours. I hardly ever clean it and leave it running for about 5 hours continuously every day give or take a few.
4000 hours bulb life / 5 hours a day = 800 days = 2.2 years
3500 hours bulb life / 5 hours a day = 700 days = 1.9 years
I will never go back to watching TV on a small screen ever again. Even the HD isn't bad at 800x600 native (it's able to scale up to 1080i).
I'll eventually get a newer higher resolution projector but until the prices come down again and my bulbs all expire that just isn't going to happen!
Infucus X1 Started Out Good Then Grinding Noise Started
by Tony on Oct 7th, 2007 at 5:59 PM:
At first this was the golden god of projectors for the money back in late 2003. Then this thing started that grinding noise and infocus refused to repair it at all or did so improperly to tens of thousands of customers. It was a design flaw and infocus could not fix it and did not honor their warranty. Infocus is a company everyone should stay very far away from. As far as I am concerned they are a bunch of scumbags that cost me $800 at least in loses considering the the time I got out of the unit before it seized up completely. Half the time I owned it the unit made a horrible grinding noise which only got louder and louder making it impossible to enjoy watching anything with it without headphones and even then you could still hear that damn noise. I wish their had been a class action lawsuit against infocus because they need to pay for what they did to so many people.
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by ralph on Sep 16th, 2008 at 9:35 AM:
Recently, white lines appear in front of the picture.
The repair costs $2150!!!!
That is not a misprint. It is $2150.00
Apparently, they break down after 3 or 4 years and require repair:))
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