InFocus IN1144

Impressively compact and lightweight ; Better brightness ability than its price would suggest ; USB and SD card slots for source-less presentation of media ; Relatively short throw ratio ; Affordable

Poor black levels ; Poor on-board audio ; Unexplained HDMI connection quirks

We took the InFocus IN1144 way out of its comfort zone. An engineer at InFocus even told us point-blank that trying to get a 100-inch or greater image from this projector was ill-advised, but we were plenty pleased with how well the little guy did at...

Small and light. HDMI port. Reads files from an SD card or USB memory key. LED light source with a 30,000-hour lifetime.

Shows scaling artifacts (unwanted patterns added to some screens) at its claimed native resolution.

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