Aggressive pricing is InFocus's watchword, but the recent reduction to £4500 for its potent 7210 projector represents something of a massacre for its competition. Its strategy is pretty simple: don't waste resources re-inventing the internal chassis or casework but simply shoe-horn in the best quality DLP chip, light engine and colour wheel that's currently available. As a result, the 7210 looks just like the 7205 reviewed in AVTech Feb 2005 which, in turn, looked just like the 5700 before it. Sure enough, the distinctive 'handbag motif is an acquired taste and betrays more than a suggestion of InFocus's major slice of the corporate presentations market. But on the plus side the compact enclosure will slide into almost any location, including table-top, wall and ceiling mounts thanks to the flexibility of its zoom, focus and digital keystone correction. InFocus even includes a thread to its focus ring to take some standard 72mm SLR-type filters, should you feel the urge. Under the bonnet, the main difference between the 7205 and this new 7210 is the evolution from TI's 1280x720 HD2+ DMD chip to the DC3 (DarkChip 3) variant, which offers an improved contrast and smoother grayscale. As before, the 7210 must scale the 576p video output offered by many DVD players to the panel's 720p, for which it uses the Faroudja DVDi 2310 solution that also includes a deinterlacer. Otherwise, the 7210 utilises the same Zeiss lens, UHP lamp and 7-segment colour wheel as the 7205.
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