John Coppens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > SVGA is sufficient, normally. Taking into account that you don't want to > overwhelm your audience for very fine details on a transparency anyway.
Not at all. > If I'm not mistaken dlp has generally a bit more luminance than lcd, > which is always welcome. At the university we have several brands, of > which I like 3M and Epson most. The last one is much smaller... Epson (S3) is one of the candidates. > Do calculate into your budget the cost of exchanging of the bulbs. That's another advantage of Epson over e.g. InFocus, i.e. in Europe I see that lamp for Epson is 225€ and for InFocus 340€. > I've heard exorbitant prices, availability problems, etc. I think the > projector biz is trying to copy the printer world: sell the peripheral at > cost, then compensate with the parts (ink/toner cartridges or,in this > case, replacement bulbs). Unfortunately, it's true. The bulb is the main thing which needs repair, and therefore they charge for it accordingly. > Average lifetime is 1500-2000 hours, taking very good care of the > projector (no vibrations, correct switch-on/off etc). Say 200 days at > 8hrs/day. Well, I'm not going to be using projector neither 8hrs/day, nor every day, so it will be possible to go (hopefully) much longer :-) Thank you for your input. Sincerely, Gour
