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$500 for a DLP bulb?

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E-Stat

In Reply to: RE: Pop goes the (DLP) light bulb posted by oscar on May 04, 2010 at 12:36:59

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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Feel pity for. . . - Larry I 05:59:57 05/06/10 (0)
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.
Prices for lamps vary greatly from manufacturer to manufacturer. - Audiophilander 11:00:30 05/05/10 (1)
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...
- Front projector lamps: (Open in New Window)
- I was referring to an assembly, too - E-Stat 11:56:17 05/05/10 (0)
  Mine looks like this:
  
  As for life, I'm on my second bulb after slightly over five years.
  
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