Can £800 really buy you a quality hi-def home cinema projector?

InFocus goes back to basics with its first new home cinema projector for nearly two years

Conventional wisdom would have it that you have to spend an awful lot of money to get decent picture quality out of an HD projector - just you try telling the £1,099 InFocus X10 that. It won't believe you

The rapid shift to affordable Full HD projectors, typified by a battalion of affordable LCD models, has clearly put pressure on the traditional mid-range PJ market, which is the accepted stomping ground for upscaling DLP models.

After leaving the affordable full HD projection market to LCD for far too long, a new breed of affordable DLP projector is finally starting to appear. And HD DLP has now come of age with the arrival of InFocus' first 1920 x 1080 DLP model, the £2,500 IN81

The IN78 is strikingly attractive in a high gloss black-base finish wrapped around a curvaceous body. The design's highly practical too, as the main body is set atop a tilting, rotating foot mount that should prove helpful during set up

Infocus' IN76 projector is the manufacturer's replacement for its impressive Screenplay 5700, and the first bit of good news is that the IN76 costs a sizable £700 less than its predecessor...

HD-Ready or not? Well, not, it seems, with the InFocus IN72, so how come we like it so much? In a word: price. The company is consciously moving downmarket to make an impression at the budget end of the high street

Given how preposterously cheap other recent InFocus DLP projectors have been, we guess £2,000 might seem quite a hike for the brand's new IN78.That is until you check out its specification

We're getting used to InFocus rewriting the projector market rulebook. Its most recent range in particular, comprising the IN72, IN74 and IN76, has delivered universally outstanding performance levels at prices that shame some rival brands

Currently sitting pretty among our top three favourite projectors is the InFocus IN76 - a stunning DLP performer that rewrites the rule book for what you can expect from a projector costing around £1,500

Following the mighty IN76, InFocus now sets its sights on the budget market. But that means goodbye HD Ready badge at this low price.The IN72 looks identical to the stylish IN76, down to the innovative ball-jointed foot stand...

We're glad that there seems to be a move back to black for home entertainment equipment and it lightens our heart to see the latest InFocus 720p projector unit come with black styling

There have been three identical looking projectors based on the same chassis in the ScreenPlay 7200 range, which have been launched with different iterations of the Texas Instruments (TI) 1280 x 720 XGA chipset.

InFocus' recent decision to slice around a third off the price of its hugely acclaimed Screenplay 7205 is one of the most aggressive cuts we've seen in a long time.