InFocus IN83 Projector Wants You To See The Big Picture March 13, 2008

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InFocus has more projector awards that you can shake a stick at and it’s hoping to continue its good run in the home cinema market with its latest Full HD 1080p offering.

The IN83 looks exactly like its IN82 predecessor but boasts an overhaul under the hood, most noticeably by using the latest DLP DarkChip4 technology with BrilliantColor from Texas Instruments.

Part of the InFocus Play Big line-up, the IN83 has an improved native 5,000:1 contrast ratio (scalable to 15,000:1). The brightness ranges from 1400-1600 ANSI Lumens, which the company claims is enough to watch a movie even in ambient daylight. As a home cinema enthusiast, I’d recommend keeping all light out, just to get the best from it, or any other, projector.

The IN83 comes with InFocus Color Gamut Calibrator with ISF Day and Night presets, integrated Pixelworks DNX 10-bit video processing technology and a HDMI 1.3 input which supports with Deep Color technology. In real terms, that’s a dazzling 1.07 billion colours.

It ships first in the US this month with a £3,000 price tag. Unsurprisingly, it will cost more here because the existing IN82 costs almost £3,000 here still. I sense a price cut coming though.-Martin Lynch

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