In Reply to: I already have a front projector posted by oscar on August 8, 2005 at 05:38:21:
but plasmas have fairly short life expectancies too? I can't remember what the specs are in terms hours until the brightness decreases by half, but you could easily be spending $.50-$1 an hour watching plasma :-( the new panels are a lot better, but i would dare say it's a lot simpler and cheaper to replace bulbs every few years than a whole new panel.projector bulbs last a lot longer if you minimise turning them on and off. so watching CNN all day will actually decrease the per hour cost. An installer told me projectors that are left running all day tends to to have bulb expectancy around 3x-4x (eg. you get about 6000-8000 hours out of them).
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- Re: I already have a front projector - Christine Tham 13:42:35 08/08/05 (2)
- Agreed, Plasmas may not be the way to go...LCD flat panels? DLP ? - oscar 15:48:45 08/08/05 (1)
- Re: Agreed, Plasmas may not be the way to go...LCD flat panels? DLP ? - Christine Tham 14:26:04 08/09/05 (0)