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| Personal Experience |
Used it for about 600 hours over 11 months. I remember how nervous I was when I first received it, because I had to convince my wife that it would be better than a big rear-projection box... How small and light it was, and I projected the image onto the palm of my hand and wondered -- would it really do what I hoped it'd do? That worry has gone for a long while, my wife is bragging to our family and friends about our HT set up: how it saves room, how it is like going to the movies, and how hi-tech I was to do something so cool and off-stream. Music to my ears :) The projector is ceiling mounted, 13 feet from the screen, which is about 113" diagonal. The seating area is 12-13 feet from the screen, so the projector is above heads. It's quiet by the way, so the fan noise is hardly noticeable. The room has black blinds and thick curtains, so it can be made dark even during the day. Having too much ambient light is no good with front-projection anyway.
I am hearing the stories about dim/exploding lamps, so I am readying myself to replace the bulb when it reaches 1000 hours or so. To get a band-new bright image for $250 still sounds like a good deal to me. |
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| Problems |
| Perhaps, the only feature I'm missing is lens shift (I am religiosly against keystone, don't even mention it!! It's like putting bicycle wheels on a Porsche). Placing the projector would be SO MUCH easier off-center. Even 500U doesn't have lens shift. Maybe 700U will?!? Then I'll upgrade. |
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