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Does anyone here currently use a FP for regular TV viewing? I have an RPTV at the moment which has served long and well, but is nearing the end of its use and I would like to move to an Infocus X1 with an electric screen.Is this a viable setup for my TV viewing? I usually watch about tree hours a night when I get home from work....at a TV station...yeah...I know...but what can I say...I love TV.
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Our Barco 808s/VSE40 combo has had over 5000 hours work in the last 3.5 years and is on for 4 to 5 hours nearly every night. We mostly look at s-VHS time shifted documentaries & movies taken off satellite & (to a much lesser extent) free to air TV.I understand the normal life to be expected from these CRT projectors is about 10,000 hours so we are about half way there. It will be interesting to see what has evolved in 3 years time and whether the choice will be tube replacement or a new projector.
John
Interesting times
Hello I just bought the Infocus X1 and it provides an outstanding picture! There has been some confusion though on the COMPONET video adapter with it's price some people try to sell it for for as low as $40.00 and up to $400.00 If you go to Infocus.com you can get the adapter for $10.00 and anything else you need for it at an honest price. I would stay away from (((PLASMA TV's))) because at my CEDIA training class we talked about them and there is a (((PDP))) unit which is the brain and has a minimum of 5,000 and a maximum of 10,000 viewing hours depends on the manufacture how long you get. Once your viewing hours are up it will cost you double what you paid for the TV set brand new to re-place the (((PDP))) unit. The option is yours though! I know they look cool after we cut your wall up and mount them in nice and flush but after it runs out of it's viewing hours you will have to fix your wall and get another TV display since they will not make the same size ones again for which we cut for the first one. Also instead of a motorized screen you can consider these options as well , Manual pull down Screen or Mounted wall Screens. The reason I bring this up for you is because after a while the motor will need to be re-placed this will save you $$$ and time so you can always enjoy your projector! Da-Lite makes really nice screens check them out!Hope this was helpful...
Brooks
CEDIA Member and Home Theater installer
I have plasma laptop (Toshiba 3200). Made in 1988. It is on for 24/7 no screen saver, and it has no burn in or any anomalities.
You calculate the hours.
Plasma is developed way before LCD. Plasma was to be a future of screens, but that's not the way to go. You give me one reason why would ANY factory make screen that lasts "forever"?
Plasma screens are installed in US submarines since 1965, and they still work without ANY problems, 24/7.
Rember you are in the "game", and you HAVE, HAVE, HAVE, MUST , MUST , MUST buy new product at least every 5 years ot manufacturer goes out of bussines. You are not customer, you are CONSUMER.
If you do not consume you ar eseless.
The Compaq Portable III/386 or the Toshiba 3200 used a neon discharge display. That one had no phosphors and thus is not susceptible to burn-out. It also gave it the beautiful orange colour. I'm not sure of it, but it's possible that the new plasma RGB displays use phosphors and will burn out after some time.
I'm not a plasma expert but it seems to me that those old plasma displays on early laptops were replaced by LCD's on modern laptops. I see a trend here. Will it go this way with TV monitors, too?As for life expectancy, you are comparing old monochrome plasma screens that are normally run at low brightness levels compared to modern TV plasma displays that are run very bright over the entire visible color spectrum - not the same parameters at all.
I'm in the same boat as my vintage RPTV is showing serious convergence issues (e.g. blue shadowy effect). While tolerable for routine CNN watching, it's no longer viable for serious movie watching. I'm looking real hard at an DLP HD2 projector with electric screen. Ambient light issues (e.g. lots of windows' I've heavy curtains but....) probably inhibit much daytime viewing in my case but this will depend on how bright the projector is.Eventually, I plan on adding "reasonably-priced" 65"+ plasma display for daytime viewing but such may not exist for a couple of years. In the meantime, I plan to use the RPTV (blue wavy lines and all) for most daytime viewing.
Waiting for Joe Murphy Jr to provide a link to the AVS forum :)
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