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Curt Palme CRT Tech
Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 24305 Location: Langley, BC
TV/Projector: All of them!
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Link Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 10:02 pm Post subject: What ~$1000 DLP to buy? |
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Yeah, never figured I'd post this but...
I have a customer in Chicago that works for a company that has four Marquee 8500s. Strange thing is, he can't SELL them to be due to company rules, but he can trade them.
I'm looking for a 'decent' DLP that will give decent bang for the buck around the $1K price point to ship to him so I can grab the Marquees.
I know there's no markup on the digitals, but I also don't want him going to Costco and finding the projector I'm trading him for $1K worth of stuff for $800.
Any suggestions, even on where to buy online?
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Spanky Ham
Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5643 Location: Comedy Central
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Link Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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Curt Palme going digital!!!! To bad you can't make an anagram with dlp from your name.
Is this a business pj or a HT pj?
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Person99
Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 4901 Location: Flower Mound, TX
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Link Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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This seems to be a business PJ you are looking for. Dell has a bunch at reasonable prices.
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SisterOfMercy
Joined: 31 Oct 2007 Posts: 155 Location: Zwart Nazareth, The Netherlands
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Link Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 1:42 am Post subject: |
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Dell even has a DLP projector called the 1209s ! Unfortunately, it's a piece of crap.
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taxman
Joined: 25 Feb 2008 Posts: 30 Location: Finland
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Link Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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I'd suggest Optoma HD65 (720p), it seems to be $999 at several places in the US.
It's the same spec than HD70, which I have, except smaller. The biggest problem of several
small problems, is the total lack of lens shift. And it's for HT use.
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Person99
Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 4901 Location: Flower Mound, TX
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Link Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:13 pm Post subject: |
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taxman wrote: | I'd suggest Optoma HD65 (720p), it seems to be $999 at several places in the US.
It's the same spec than HD70, which I have, except smaller. The biggest problem of several
small problems, is the total lack of lens shift. And it's for HT use. |
I would not use that as a business projector though.
Curt, this is for business use, right?
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jkruger
Joined: 24 Oct 2007 Posts: 2435 Location: Carlsbad, CA
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Link Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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Business/Home... what's the difference? When the bulb dies throw it away and buy the next gen unit.
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taxman
Joined: 25 Feb 2008 Posts: 30 Location: Finland
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Link Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:22 pm Post subject: |
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Exactly...
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Person99
Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 4901 Location: Flower Mound, TX
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Link Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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jkruger wrote: | Business/Home... what's the difference? When the bulb dies throw it away and buy the next gen unit. |
Despite the smart ass nature of the comment, I'll tread it seriously. The difference is simple: price. In home theater you care about picture quality (color accuracy, grayscale tracking, shadow detail, etc). In business projectors, you don't. HT projectors cost more for the same resolution as business projectors because they cost more to develop and manufacture. If you are going to use it in a business setting, it is just plain stupid to pay the extra cost for a home theater caliber projector.
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jkruger
Joined: 24 Oct 2007 Posts: 2435 Location: Carlsbad, CA
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Link Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry Dave... Had to give the digitals a jab...
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taxman
Joined: 25 Feb 2008 Posts: 30 Location: Finland
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Link Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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Well yeah. And then there's the brightness requirement. Dedicated HT room can usually be darkened. But a typical meeting room can not or will not be darkened. So the PJ has to be very bright. PQ itself is non-issue. Of course keeping that in mind Optoma HD65 may be a wrong choice...
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ecrabb Forum Moderator
Joined: 13 Mar 2006 Posts: 15909 Location: Utah
TV/Projector: JVC RS40, Epson 5010
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Link Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, there's price and brightness to consider. Those are both important considerations - especially brightness. Home theater projectors usually sacrifice brightness for better contrast - not good for a corporate projector. Then, there's resolution and aspect ratio to consider.
Almost without exception, people will be using business projectors in a corporate setting to display PowerPoint presentations - PowerPoint Presentations that are designed to be displayed with a 4:3 aspect ratio. Yes, you could buy a WXGA projector and use only the center portion to display an XGA resolution, but why pay the extra? Just get a <$999 Dell XGA DLP projector with ~3000 lumens and be done with it.
There are a slew of projectors that will work just famously for 3 years to do exactly what it was designed for: Display PowerPoints in a well-lit room and look acceptable doing it. A Dell would be a perfect choice because they have a good exchange program. Look at this 3000 lumen XGA DLP for a mere $712 with a 2-year advance exchange warranty:
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Projectors/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04&sku=222-1451
Pretty hard to beat for PowerPoint.
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Person99
Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 4901 Location: Flower Mound, TX
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Link Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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Yep, that is the one we use in the main conference room of my company.
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ecrabb Forum Moderator
Joined: 13 Mar 2006 Posts: 15909 Location: Utah
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Link Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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If you wanted to spend some more money, you could get one with DVI and get a little sharper pic, but it is just mainly PowerPoint we're talking about... Who really cares how sharp the PowerPoint slides are if you're sleeping, anyway?
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