The Infocus X1 that I bought for home theater is simply amazing. Right now this is one of the hotest projectors on the market. The price - $1,000 - is a great deal for what you get. Native 800x600 resolution (4x3 for those paying attention) doesn't give you full fidelity with high HD resolutions, but the quality is great.

My friend Erick and I did a side by side comparison of his projector (forget the model, but around $10K) and the Infocus, and also of his Denon DVD player (~$500) and my Panasonic RP62 (~$120).

Erick's projector is native 1280x720, so naturally a true HD signal (1080i over the air, 720p XBOX) looked spectacular on his projector. On the Infocus the 720p signal was softened - since it was a video game it was particularly noticable, however it didn't detract at all. The softening made the image look a bit nicer, but you lost some of the detail. The 1080i signal (over-the-air news) looked amazing on both, but when you walked up closely to the screen you could clearly make out the difference in pixel size.

Basically my summation would be, that the X1 was competitive with the other projector - but it clearly won out in the value category. As a side note, the Panasonic DVD player beat out the denon, mostly because the Denon had some bugs in it's color display...

Granted, Erick just got a home theater PC hooked up - which lets him play HD DVDs that are encoded with WM9 - now that looks amazing on his projector...

Hmm... maybe I should upgrade :)