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**Curt Palme** · Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 10:02 pm Post subject: What ~$1000 DLP to buy?

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. Thumbs Up

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?

Spanky Ham · Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5643 Location: Comedy Central

Curt Palme going digital!!!! To bad you can't make an anagram with dlp from your name. Mr. Green

Is this a business pj or a HT pj?

Person99 · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 4901 Location: Flower Mound, TX

This seems to be a business PJ you are looking for. Dell has a bunch at reasonable prices.

SisterOfMercy · Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 1:42 am Post subject:

Dell even has a DLP projector called the 1209s ! Unfortunately, it's a piece of crap.

taxman · Joined: 25 Feb 2008 Posts: 30 Location: Finland

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.

Person99 · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 4901 Location: Flower Mound, TX

jkruger · Joined: 24 Oct 2007 Posts: 2435 Location: Carlsbad, CA

Business/Home... what's the difference? When the bulb dies throw it away and buy the next gen unit.

taxman · Joined: 25 Feb 2008 Posts: 30 Location: Finland

Exactly...

Person99 · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 4901 Location: Flower Mound, TX

jkruger · Joined: 24 Oct 2007 Posts: 2435 Location: Carlsbad, CA

Sorry Dave... Neutral

Had to give the digitals a jab... Rolling Eyes

taxman · Joined: 25 Feb 2008 Posts: 30 Location: Finland

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...

ecrabb · Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:24 pm Post subject:

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

ecrabb · Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:45 pm Post subject:

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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