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| Personal Experience |
I use mine for both computer, DVD, and cable picture. The remote for it makes switching the inputs push-button simple. I have an HD cable box, the picture on the XR-10X is completely beautiful, vivid, and razor sharp, even though my screen is a flat white square I painted on my wall (and I rent! haha) Computer graphics are also just as color rich and sharp as a CRT monitor. One reviewer wrote "STAY FAR AWAY FROM THIS PROJECTOR FOR USE IN DISPLAYING TEXT BASED (I.E> POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS!!!" I'd have to say they probably just don't know what they're doing as I've used it for computer gaming, power point presentations, MS publisher, ect. and have had NO trouble whatsoever with text or graphics, everythings sharp. The menus are user friendly and helpful. I don't spend $800 on a whim, I researched the $#@t out of many projectors and I think this is the best one for under a grand. I keep it dusted and vented, and it's been a champ for me so far.
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| Problems |
| After reading these posts, it would appear that many people are experiencing short bulb lives, however one reviewer made an excellent point that I hope reaches many people; that the original bulbs experience shock and vibration inside the machine in transit, but a replacement would be packaged much better. So many users experience short lifespans on their ORIGINAL bulbs. I've not read any reviews from users of replacement bulbs. I have the XR-10X with the factory bulb and have almost 900 hours on it, with the OSD showing 77% life remaining. I just put a quarter in a jar everytime I turn it on, for the next bulb. Unless my bulb blows up tomorrow, the ONLY and slight gripes I'd have about this projector is that it takes a while to start up as it "pre-fires" the bulb, sometimes several minutes (but that's when I'm picking out and putting in the DVD anyway) I'm sure it's a necessary evil since you can't just take a piece of glass and heat it from 74 degrees to the whatever-hundred degrees operating temperature and have it maintain it's structural integrity, and the color wheel makes an intermittant faint buzzing sound from a cold start which (and I am totally speculating) could be the very early warning sign of eminant failure of the bearings in the color wheel. I could be wrong and it's normal breaking in sounds though, who knows other than Sharp's engineers. |
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