rdkidd200 wrote:I checked about the life expectancy of a DLP bulb and found out that it was about 1/2 of what Texas Instrument projected
Gee, sorry I didn't catch that way back...
Be careful of the internet... the thousands of people who do not have problems do not go on to exclaim how wonderful things are and those who do have problems are more than motivated to state their gripes.
I have nearly 10,000 hours on my Samsung DLP RP lamp and it is still going strong. Some things to know...
rdkidd200 wrote:The LED TV has 4 times the life expectancy with only a slight extra cost.
Something is wacked... You say
the LEDs are rated at over 100,000 hours
The math is not adding up...
Either way, the key is you did not want to deal with lamp replacement and are satisfied with your LED based RP regardless of the loss of black. I think we all agree that those LEDs will last significantly longer than a lamp. My concern was that other readers might get the impression that lamps don't last long at all and that simply is not real world experience for ALL consumer lamp based RP in the field that you will never read about since they are not having a problem.
I'm curious - do not happen to have any such set - but it's my memory that
extended warranties specifically exclude the replacement labor/parts costs for projection HDTV lamps. Am I 'out-of-date?'
eli whitney
