Characterisation of convergence in product metric space

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Let $((X_n, d_n))_{n = 1}^{\infty}$ be a sequence of metric spaces and let $X := \Pi_{n = 1}^{\infty} X_n$. Equipping the product space $X$ with the metric $$ d : X \times X \to [0,\infty), \quad (x,y) \mapsto \sum_{n = 1}^{\infty} \frac{1}{2^n} \frac{d_n (x_n, y_n)}{1 + d_n (x_n, y_n)} $$ makes the pair $(X, d)$ into a metric space. The following characterisation of convergence in $(X, d)$ is well-known.

A sequence $(x_k)_{k = 1}^{\infty} \subset X$ converges to an element $x \in X$ if, and only if, the sequence $(x_n^{(k)})_{k = 1}^{\infty} \subset X_n$ converges to $x_n \in X_n$ for each $n \in \mathbb{N}$.

It is quite surprisingly, but I am not able to find a direct proof of this fact in the literature. The forward implication is readily verified and the converse implication follows from Lebesgue's dominated convergence theorem. However, I am curious whether there is a more direct or standard proof of the converse direction. I do namely not think that the dominated convergence theorem is really needed for this.

Any comment or reference is highly appreciated.

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The topology induced by your metric is the same as the usual product topology on the space $\prod_{i = 1}^\infty X_i$ where the topologies on $X_i$ are the ones induced by $d_i$. This fact can be found (with proof of course) on p. 259 in the book General Topology by Ryszard Engelking found here. Then you may use simply that a sequence converges in the product space if and only if every projected sequence converges. This is suggested as exercise 6 in Munkres Topology, p. 118 found here.