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


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