InFocus Screenplay Projector - SP4805

by InFocus

Product Details

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• Item Weight: 6.8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 7 pounds
• ASIN: B00065H3XQ
• Item model number: SP-4805
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #91,875 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 21, 2004

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

It's the size of the image that puts entertainment in home entertainment. With a screen size up to 9 feet, the InFocus ScreenPlay 4805 projector makes those so-called big-screens seem puny. Have a theater in your home, developed from award-winning InFocus engineering and paired with specialized ScreenPlay home theater technology, the InFocus ScreenPlay 4805 is easy to setup and use with your DVD player, cable or satellite receiver, VCR, digital camera, game player and more! You'll never just watch a movie again.

The ScreenPlay 4805 home entertainment projector gives you a diagonal screen size that's measured in feet, not inches. As in up to 9 feet wide (2.74 meters). So big, basketball players will be life-size, football players look 300 pounds and golf balls are so big you can count the dimples. And video game characters are so lifelike they look like they might actually take you on. The already huge image also has an optical zoom lens that lets you expand the image to fit virtually any size screen from any location, in perfect focus and clarity. Native 16:9 widescreen format gives you movie-theater format, so you -- and all of your friends -- won't miss a bit of the action.

Action heroes shouldn't look like action figures
Surprisingly, many home theaters lack a large image display. Only projection can deliver monumental images. Fifty-inch screens seem laughable after you experience the ScreenPlay 4805. This projector will open your eyes to a new image definition and clarity that's far superior to television optionsÑand nothing produces a thinner image than projection.

More than just big, it's breathtaking
Stunning images come from attention to detail. The ScreenPlay 4805 uses native 16:9 DarkChip2 DLP technology from Texas Instruments, the only display solution that creates an entirely digital connection between a source and the screen in front of you. You see maximum fidelity -- a picture clarity, brilliance and color that must be seen to be believed. Coupled with Academy-award-winning enhanced Faroudja DCDi video processing, the images are produced with ultimate fidelity: clear and artifact-free, without those jagged lines you see on some large format displays. With Faroudja DCDi there is no need to buy external boxes to enhance the deinterlacing. InFocus has integrated Faroudja into several generations of ScreenPlay projectors and has perfected the optimal deinterlacing process for perfect output from your projector, regardless of the source. In fact, Faroudja DCDi on-board makes your viewing experience so enjoyable, you forget you're not in a multi-million dollar movie theater. And 750 video-optimized lumens combined with 2000:1 calibrated contrast ratio, all in native DVD format and able to scale HDTV, the image is always crisp and lifelike. In fact, no other display solution comes close to producing images that are this huge and this amazing.

Incredible movies, games, TV, and more
The best news is that your ScreenPlay 4805 doesn't just play movies -- it projects everything in amazing color, size and clarity. Plug in any type of game box to project games so big an arcade would envy them. Or show off your vacation photos from your digital camera or your home movies from your camcorder. Virtually any digital source is compatible with the ScreenPlay 4805. It's also compatible and connects easily with your VCR, DVD player, or satellite receiver. And you can project with the ScreenPlay 4805 from your coffee table or mount it to your wall or ceiling.

Heavyweight features, lightweight package
Not that your friends and family will ever give it a moment's rest once they've experienced it, but should you ever want to take your ScreenPlay 4805 to a friend's house or on a trip, it's easy. Just 7.8 pounds and about the size of a toaster you won't need to rent a crew to help you carry it. Just be warnedÑwhen friends say they want to "borrow" it, you may never see it again.

What's in the Box
Projector, power cord, home entertainment remote, S-video cable, AV cable, computer cable, printed user's guide (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian), quick start card

Product Description

With a screen size that can fill a wall, the InFocus ScreenPlay 4805 makes so called big-screen TV's seem tiny.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

40 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just purchased the SP4805 and Love It!, December 20, 2004

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Kari B. "Home Theater Novice" (Falls Church, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: InFocus Screenplay Projector - SP4805 (Personal Computers)

After a labor intensive literature search of tech-related website reviews of projectors, we settled on the SP 4805. After reading all the product reviews and comparisons, we narrowed our search down to only InFocus products -- the X1, SP 4800, and 4805. The X1a and X2 do not have the Faroudji processing, therefore eliminating them from our search (the X1a and X2 currently have manufacturers rebates, and without the special processing algorithms, I can see why they're on sale). The SP 4805 is a newer version of the X1 and SP4800; the SPs are "optimized" for home theater use versus business use.

If you're looking to buy near term, Costco has a deal right now where you can get the SP 4805 and a free screen (if I remember, it is a 72" screen) for $1224. This is the best price I've come across thus far. [...]

We paired the projector with a Yamaha receiver and Klipsch speaker system. We get an approx. 100" dia. image on our wall (you can set the projector to letterbox, 16:9, or 4:3) from about 15-20 ft away. I liked how easy the setup was and the companion instructions on use are straightforward. We hooked up our DVD player via component cables and the resolution is fantastic! (Of course, we had to test it with Lord of the Rings). If you're doing research on purchasing an overall home theater system without paying alot we were able to do it in under $2300 (projector, screen, speakers, receiver, and all cabling -- the cables are an additional cost that adds up).

I read alot about ghosting and other issues involving these type of projectors. I am not an expert in the subtle differences, though we do own an HDTV so I have become accustomed to the hi-res images. Given this caveat, I can say that the resolution and overall image quality is amazing. It is a true movie theater experience!

35 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent machine, December 13, 2004

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Ken Stuart (Ithaca, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: InFocus Screenplay Projector - SP4805 (Personal Computers)

We've had this projector for about a month now, having bought it unseen and untried based on high user ratings from another web site. Our viewing location is flooded with ambient light but this machine still throws a very discernable image even on the low-power setting.

With a distance of about 13 feet we get a 90-inch (diagonal) image (7 feet x 4 feet). We project on a panel of sheet rock painted white and have the projector sitting upside down on a board hinged to a wall just below the ceiling, supported by two pieces of chain to the front of the board. We're happy with the results using the supplied S-video cable.

If the remote is used to control the lamp, the fan always remains on, which is a bit annoying and my reason for only 4 stars. The low-power fan noise itself isn't bothersome during viewing. We have tried the high-power setting only briefly since we don't need it and it results in a noisier fan and decreases the life of the bulb.

The machine does produce some rainbow effect for people susceptible to it. We don't have experience judging the blackness of blacks or the whiteness of whites, nor some of the other technical aspects that videophiles might want to know about. We had an easy time hooking up an iBook to it though.

For the price of the machine and quality of the image we see, we feel this projector is a much better deal than a fixed-size TV of any sort.

21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic!, January 12, 2005

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jonicat "jonicat" - See all my reviews

This review is from: InFocus Screenplay Projector - SP4805 (Personal Computers)

The picture quality rivals systems that I've seen costing thousands more. I carry the 4805 in a briefcase from my southern cal home to the home in northern cal.

I project onto the screen it came with, however in my norcal home I project right onto a wall the is approx. 12' wide.

The wall is painted off white and has texture, however you can't see it. The picture is still crystal clear.

I am so hooked on the quality and ease of operation of this projector that I am buying a second one, so I can do a perminent installation.

Again!

A very happy consumer of the Infocus 4805

March 9th. 2006

One year later, still as happy and impressed as I was when I first purchased this product.

My video equipment snob friends still are eating their words, after seeing this projector in action..

May 3rd 2006 Updated review.

I still give this projector 5 out of 5 stars. Everytime we view a movie we marvel at the picture quality.

It is so easy to hook up. Again when viewing DVD's component cable is the best! I purchased via Provantage. They had a great cable at a great price.

Also important before purchasing a projector, research the cost of replacement bulbs. We are still on the original bulb.