Product Details
- Color: Gray
- Brand: InFocus
- Model: SP5000
- Dimensions: 5.00" h x
10.00" w x
12.00" l,
Features
- Home theater projector provides high-definition images up to 11 feet wide; can mount it on ceiling or set on table
- Projection at super-bright 1100 lumens and a stunning 1200:1 contrast ratio; Easy portability and set-up
- Concurrently hook up your DVD player, VCR, cable or satellite receiver, game console, camcorder, even your PC
- 1 DVI, 1 component, 1 composite, 1 9-pin D-Sub (PC), 1 S-Video inputs
- Remanufactured to like-new condition
Remanufactured InFocus SP5000 ScreenPlay Home Theater Projector
Product Description
With the InFocus ScreenPlay 5000, see what you've been missing on your TV. Featuring a gigantic image, this projector will do more than show you the action, it will take you inside the action. And you can trust award-winning InFocus engineering and proven ScreenPlay¿ technology to ensure a quick & simple setup resulting in a brilliant picture, so you can get right to your favorite events, shows, DVDs and video games. The InFocus ScreenPlay 5000 gives you the experience of home entertainment like you never imagined.
Customer Reviews
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18 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
By Larry
SUMMARY: This projector is a joke in terms of color accuracy and black levels/details. I played with it for a few days, finally gave up, and sent it back.If you like Infocus then you would be way better by looking at their entry level DLP model (4805). I personally can swear by Optoma though - I have owned two Optomas (H55 and H31) and I have loved them both since more than 3 years ago. Take a look at H31 or their higher resolution models (HD72 or higher if money is not a big issue and you watch HD programming and want every detail to stay there).
Product Details
- Color: Gray
- Brand: InFocus
- Model: SP5000
- Dimensions: 5.00" h x
10.00" w x
12.00" l,
Features
- Home theater projector provides high-definition images up to 11 feet wide; can mount it on ceiling or set on table
- Projection at super-bright 1100 lumens and a stunning 1200:1 contrast ratio; Easy portability and set-up
- Concurrently hook up your DVD player, VCR, cable or satellite receiver, game console, camcorder, even your PC
- 1 DVI, 1 component, 1 composite, 1 9-pin D-Sub (PC), 1 S-Video inputs
- Remanufactured to like-new condition
S.After owning Optoma H55 projector (1024x768, DLP) for three years I bought this SP5000 when Optoma's lamp went over its 2000 hours. My main reasoning was DVI/HDCP input (H55 is not HDCP compliant) and I was hoping that the LCD technology could be at least not too far behind. Man, how wrong I was.First I was trying to get Infocus's DVI connection work. No luck. Infocus's proprietary DVI-M1 connector requires Infocus-supplied $XXX adapter (yet another joke, $XXX?). I tried to get by and got a third party adapter for 1/3 of the price but it did not work (even though it was specified as completely M1 and HDCP compliant). I gave up, sent the adapter back, and used a component connection.Now, bad things come in a package. My second issue was that SP5000 had simply terrible colors out of the box (white balance was not there at all). I tried to calibrate it with AVIA calibration DVD for 4 (!) hours and then I gave up yet another time as whatever I did could improve white balance a bit but resulting image still looked bad.I tried to watch Star Wars Episode I. Dark underwater scenes looked horrible with weird colors (with even visible brightness modulation all over my then 84" DaLite gray (1.0) screen). Shadows... well, there was NO shadows actually, but whatever was supposed to be shadows had NO details in them and looked light gray instead of black. Highlights looked overblown, and the whole picture was a bit blurry (yes, the image was focused just fine, it was video itself that looked this way after 480p to 720p upconversion).And let me tell you the same DVD looked very, very good on Optoma H55 connected to Denon DVD-2910 player using component input (I used exactly the same setup but Optoma H55 was replaced with Infocus SP5000).I ended up sending SP5000 back and bought another Optoma (H31). Let me tell you this is what I call excellent colors... After 10 min of calibration and further refinements during watching many DVDs I got it not just simply right but every time I see skin tones from a good DVD I silently say wow to myself.Shadow details were simply outstanding on Optoma H31. If I watch a DVD on 16:9 screen and there are aspect ratio black bars (right and left of the image in 4:3 format or top/bottom for 2.35:1 movies) then when a scene goes dark I simply cannot tell where my image border is. And this all is in a completely dark room... There were so many fine gradations of black in H31 where SP5000 displayed a plain dull gray image...Not to mention DVI worked out of the box on H31.My the only dislike with H31 was initially its screen door effect (I could see pixel borders at 12 feet with 92" screen, which - to be honest - is overkill and is not recommended). It was easily solved by slight defocusing though (did not decrease image sharpness or lowered video quality, just removed visible pixel barriers).Of course, if this is your first projector and you simply did not have a chance to see anything else you might even like SP5000. It's bright at least.And yes, I paid for my H31 less than SP5000 costs (and would even pay much more for the quality it provides).Good luck in your projector hunting.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
By Richard White
I have owned my Infocus Sp5000 for 5 years or 6209 hours view time .The problem I find with the very few negative reviews on this incredible little native 720p LCD projector is they usually come from people that have little time, experience and patients setting up and end up selling the projector prematurely and wasting precious time lodging their complaints . While the 95% of the rest of us Infocus SP5000 owners get on with enjoying the projector,so after 5 years of movie big screen bliss I thought it time to sit down and write a review......The First step is that this projector needs to be turned down a long way from factory settings in brightness and contrast.Unlike new 1080p projectors of today with standard low lumins to increase black levels ,this baby is nick named the light canon by those that know it ,so when first turned on the black levels look grey (their bad)..Factory settings are all set at 50 out of 100,the real veiwing settings need to turn down to 32 for brightness and 35 for contrast,this will give fantastic real black levels,then set photogragh for gamma and medium for temperature in its menu to give vivid and natural true color.After these few changes the picture will look perfect and easily compare to todays 1080p home theatre projectors. I have found like the thousands of other happy SP5000 owners very little screen door effect much less than other 720p DLP projectors anyway .And the big plus for the SP5000 LCD is no bad rainbow effect like the DLP projectors produce.The LCD Infocus Screen play 5000 is a mighty little Home theatre projector, fantastic for new Blu-ray and the old DVD movies.I garantee with the proper settup you can't help but love it.. Rick
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