On 10 Feb 2007 at 17:47, Steve Parrott wrote:
> I'm kind of in the market for a digital projector, but the prices keep
> stopping me short. WHY are these things so damn EXPENSIVE? I just don't
> see it. You can buy a freaking COMPUTER for a fraction of the cost of a
> half ass projector simply throwing a poor quality image on the wall. I
> found a decent used Kodak on Ebay, a discontinued model with no cables.
> I'm trying to get it for $150, but I don't like even paying that!
> Searching around, the BULB for the fool thing costs over FIVE HUNDRED
> DOLLARS. So I would only use it until the bulb went out, then throw it
> away. Sheeesh... can someone give a technical reason why these
> projectors cost so much... could it be just because people are PAYING
> that for them? !
You can get LED-beamers with much longer 'bulb' life, even battery-
driven I believe, but these are not stellar performers in resolution
nor in light intensity.
And while competition has probably gotten closer, a few years ago the
JVC D-ILA beamers were considered state of the art in the context of
'slide' projection, having no distinguishable dot-pattern, but a
really fluid image (but also at 10k euro/dollar at that time).
Perhaps TFT-screens become so dirt cheap in the near future that the
thin-frame models can be considered candidates for a multi-grid
configuration, creating one big screen....;))
--
Bye,
Willem-Jan Markerink
The desire to understand
is sometimes far less intelligent than
the inability to understand
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