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Originally Posted by Captainclock
I currently am using a 1997 Vintage Hitachi LCD Projector that I had gotten from my old High school when they were upgrading their LCD Projectors to High Def ones and it's still working on the same replacement bulb that they placed in it just shortly before they decided to retire it, and I had bought a new spare bulb for the unit for like $200 at a lightbulb surplus store online and it has its original remote and everything, and interestingly enough to reset the bulb timer on mine all you have to do is go through the menu and select the bulb timer option and then you reset it from there. I doubt that my projector will be going out anytime soon! And Actually If I were you and could get a lot of seven replacement projector bulbs for $350 plus shipping for your projector I would just go ahead and go for it, that is a heck of a steal considering that usually one of those bulbs alone is usually that much brand new, and that projector you have there will more than likely outlast any of your LCD Flatpanel TVs so you kind of give it very little credit for durability (these LCD Projectors are built like tanks and have very little on them that can fail).
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I wish i could afford $360 for projector bulbs but in this economic climate that amount is 2 weeks pay "15 years ago i was making 60k/year" and i don't how long the whole projector will last to recoup that long term investment. PS my regular tv is a 1989 sony trinitron , no flat panels for me in the near future.