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On trying to playing “Avatar” (Blu-ray), first on the Plasma w/LG "early adopter" Blu-ray player, than in the HT room (sung to “Pop goes the Weasel”)
"The disc does not play in the LG
Must move to the theater
The picture looks too dark for my taste
Pop goes the light bulb "
Now do I buy yet another $500 light bulb (assuming they are still available....) or do I break down and get a new 1080p Front projector ?
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I found several places that sell DLP bulbs on line. I attached one. Can't locate the receipt for mine, but it is a Samsung. I replaced with an Osram
I'm partial to DLP but the lower priced ones don't seem to have the "throw" distance I want or have some other showstoppers to worry about. I'd also rather audition the FP (especially when eyeing LCD/SXRC/LCOS) for myself than go with a blind buy which also could rule out some models. Search goes on.
Try www.electrified.com. While I paid closer to $150 for the first replacement to a 61" Samsung (not a projector, I know), I got an identical one from them for under $100.
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the people who purchased Sony's original SXRD (LCOS) projector with the Xenon bulb. This bulb had a notoriously short lifespan and the replacement costs $6,000. A few years later Sony was selling projectors that looked better than that one for a tenth of the price.
While I'll agree that $500 is way too much, especially for an older lamp model, one should expect an msrp of between $300 and $450 for a decent front projector lamp. With careful shopping one can sometimes find great discounts, but for a high-end front projector lamp you are paying for more than just a "bulb" (usually a complicated assembly with the lamps themselves constructed of materials that are difficult to work with) and the quartz lamps are constructed to very high standards for upwards of 2000 hours of continuous use.
See link below...
Mine looks like this:
As for life, I'm on my second bulb after slightly over five years.
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If your existing PJ is not HD why spend $500 on a bulb? I have an old X1 with the original bulb. When it blows, HD PJ time. Not a thought about that at all.
Still 1080p should be a substantial improvement (everything else being equal).
I consider not only the price of the bulb compared to a new HD PJ, but also the age of your existing PJ and chance of repairs.
It's given me plenty of years of decent service but it's bound to breakdown at some point (or maybe it'll keep on going just like my CRT).
Keep'm until they die. Look a few posts down. My 35" Sony CRT just died last week. I still have a 26 year old 27" Hitachi and around the same vintage 27" RCA my wife brought in to the marriage. My PJ is an X1, so when the bulb dies, new PJ. When the CRT's die, LCD's or plasma TV's in their place. But in the meantime I have other things to spend money on.
Just wondering how many hours was on the bulb just before it went? because mine has 1400 hours on it presently, however, it still working fine.
If the bulb on mine goes, I'm thinking the same way as you do as I'm leaning towards the new 1080P projector as well.
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)
Normally I would have replaced it by now before it "blew up". Oops. A little indecision because of the desire for a 1080p FP I still can't afford (unless I go cheap). I may some limited life left in the bulb I replaced earlier so I'll probably at least try out the old bulb first to make sure I didn't wipe out more than just the bulb.
Now I'm gauging playing the waiting game for the 3D displays before I spend for a new display .....
I'm not missing it too much; most of my viewing time is spent in front of the Kuro Plasma in the other room.
You've watched movies on our older PT-AE2000U; what did you think?
Our projector is now approaching 2+ years of hard service (one lamp change). Panasonic's most recent model (the PT-AE4000U) is two generations improved and can be had for under $2000 if purchased from the right discounter ($2499.00 msrp). The replacement lamps are a bit less than your old DLP projector's lamps too ($400 as opposed to $500) and the new Panny's have a contrast ratio that can't be beat at this price point (lumens and contrast ratio are the real battleground areas on the front projector market). Add to that the ease of operation (color balance out of the box in Cinema 1 is very close to perfect) and increased lumens of the new lamp and it looks like a real winner!
We're actually seriously considering upgrading to one of these even though we still have plenty of hours left on our 2000U replacement lamp and one in reserve. See link below:
...as an interim solution while I scrape together the pennies for "high end" solution later. Might not be a bad idea to go "cheap" (?) until we see how 3D pans out.
"Cheapest" solution is still buy a new bulb...
Might as well go for the 8100, unless their selling for the same price ($1300). Essentially the 8100 and 9100 are the same projector.
You do get
Support for an anamorphic lens ISF Certification, with two additional lockable modes for pro calibrators to use (ISF Day, ISF Night).
A third year warranty, and third year of the replacement program.
The Pro Cinema 9100 comes packaged with a ceiling mount, and a spare lamp.
Now if you don't need all those extras. I would opt for the 8500, BenQ W6000 or one of the Mitsubishi models in that range.
Before I spend $500 on a lamp, I would buy another projector.
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