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Hehe! Posting from a 90" Screen!

GTaudiophile

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I'm over at a friend's apartment. He just got a InFocus LP350 projector through eBay. It runs at a native 1024x768 resolution, and the picture measures approximately 90 inches in diagonal. He's going to use it for games and movies obviously. Pretty sweet!
 
i seen this sometimes ago when they had a game show at the rivercenter it was sweet,but it is something that i can never afford
 
Infocus makes pretty good projectors for their price, and are quite popular among HT enthusiasts too. The LP350 is a great projector. I have a HTPC connected to a Panny 711U XGA projector and an approximately 100" diagonal 4:3 screen, and while most of the time I use it to watch DVDs, I do play the occasional game there too, and its pretty cool, except my video card is only a Radeon VE(plan to upgrade to Radeon 9000 Pro though) and my wireless RF keyboard/mouse setup can't really keep up with the action either.
 
Originally posted by: Vinny_N
Yep, projectors are pretty nice.

I wonder what the bulb life on most of them is though...
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My only experience with projectors was through school. We would do our homework in a computer lab and project our work on the screen during group projects (much easier than huddleing around a monitor). Unfortunately after the first year of doing that the bulb burned out and cost $500 to replace. We lost the privilege to use it 24/7. With more intense use (like games and movies instead of weekly homework) it probably would have cost $1000 per year. Maybe our projector just had a short lived, expensive bulb - but since then I've stayed away from projectors.
 
Digital projectors usually claim a bulb life of between 1000-3000hrs, but as you approach the end of its lifetime the image will be noticably dimmer and the contrast ratio won't be as high either. I'm not sure about CRT projectors. Some, if not most projectors also have an "economy mode" that uses less power and projects a dimmer image to make the bulbs last longer. Mine has 200+hrs clocked and it still looks pretty great 🙂
 
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