Infocus IN126

InFocus IN126

If you need a WXGA (1,280 by 800) projector that's both light enough to serve as a regular traveling companion and bright enough to stand up to ambient light in a small to mid-size conference room, take a look at the InFocus IN126 . Roughly the same price as the Acer K330 , or the Optoma ML500 , it weighs only a little more but delivers a lot brighter image, making it a highly attractive portable projector. The IN126 actually competes with both the K330, ML500, and a number of other nearly identical models on the one hand—call them micro projectors for lack of a better term—and more standard projectors, like the Editors' Choice Epson PowerLite 93+ on the other. Each of the micro projectors weighs between two and three pounds, and each offers a 500-lumen brightness rating. That makes them more portable than the IN126, which weighs 4.8 pounds. However the IN126 blows them away on brightness, with a 3,200 lumen rating. The PowerLite 93+, on the other hand, has the advantage in price, but it weighs 6.9 pounds, making the IN126 both the more portable of the two and brighter, with the 93+ rated at only 2,600 lumens. Another advantage for the PowerLite 93+ is that it's LCD-based, which means it can't show rainbow artifacts, with light areas on screen breaking up into little red-green-blue rainbows.