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martyn20 · Joined: 02 Apr 2008 Posts: 8

I hope I am in the right place to ask this question, I have just bought the above machine on Ebay as a present for my Dad, turned it on and the screen is almost completely green. Can't adjust the colours to get rid of the green and bring the other colours through.
Is there something in particular that this will be with this type of machine and is there a way of fixing it?
Thank you for your time and I apologise if I am in the wrong place, just really sad for my Dad and I would love to be able to fix it.

ecrabb · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 8:36 pm Post subject:

Marty,

This forum is for CRT projectors - the big 3-lens behemoths you may remember seeing in bars or pictures of home theaters from 10 years ago - just like the photo icon at the top-left of the web site.

If your digital is indeed broken, the chances of being able to repair it are slim to none. Though folks here have lots of technical expertise, those digital projectors are basically designed to be disposable. That's why they're worth so little used, and even less in non-working condition. If I were you, I'd take my lumps and look for a cheap projector locally - craigslist is a good place to watch - that you can pick up in known good working condition.

It's worth noting that you may be able to recoup some of your investment by selling a good, used working bulb on ebay and throwing the rest in the trash - especially if you can determine that it doesn't have too many hours on it. It will also help if you can do some research and find out if that particular bulb in your projector model was used in many other models and perhaps even other manufacturer's models. Google is a good place to start searching.

You might also try posting for help here in case somebody knows about some quirks or common problems with that model/series of projector:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/forumdisplay.php?f=68

Sorry I don't have better news for you.

SC

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 8:39 pm Post subject:

This forum has truly come into it's own today when a digital guy comes seeking help from us.. Wink

Marty, do try avsforum, but chances are the LCD panel is shot, thus the green screen. It's not worth repairing. About all you can do is try and find another cheap Epson on eBay with a different problem and mix and match parts to get one going, but sending it into Epson will get you some $100 flat rate to look at it, if they'll accept it at all, and they will also deem it not worth repairing.

Sorry!

**kal**

martyn20 · Joined: 02 Apr 2008 Posts: 8

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:24 pm Post subject:

eBay will refund your money. I sold an item as is (clearly marked on the auction), customer expected a perfect unit. He disputed through Paypal, and got his money back despite the clear 'as is' auction for a nonworking unit.

martyn20 · Joined: 02 Apr 2008 Posts: 8

ecrabb · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:52 pm Post subject:

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MikeEby · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Posts: 5237 Location: Osceola, Indiana

Interesting, looking at the specs the projector was misrepresented on Ebay. The Ebay listing says native resolution is 1280X1024 while other sites claim it's 1024X768.

http://www.aboutprojectors.com/Epson-EMP-7200-projector.html

Mike

**kal** · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:01 am Post subject:

A bit of a dodgy ebay posting. He uses stock photos which is always a warning sign as it don't represent at all likely how the items look/ He does mention that it's "Sold as seen" (which I assume means "sold as is" to the rest of us). He also does allude to the fact that it's probably not worth much when he says "the bulb is worth over £100.00 to buy so there for sold as seen".

He's not very honest in that he doesn't say the screen is damaged and discoloured. That should be obvious to even him.

Obvious that he posted it hoping someone would bite. Had he showed real pictures nobody would obviously buy the screen or projector. It's not a very nice tactic at all, selling broken stuff "as is" but then, I'm not really sure if it's against any rules especially since he said it's "as is".

You'd likely get your money back if you dispute it but is that really the right thing to do? He said you'd get it "as is" and didn't give any information as to how the stuff "is". I don't know what the right thing to do is. He was dishonest slimy enough to list it this way, and unfortunately you fell for it.

EDIT: I suppose you could argue his description of "this is working ...". As obviously with a damaged screen and broken (all green video) projector, it is NOT working. What's the definition of working? FWIW, I'd probably dispute it myself as I hate this sort of shady tactics, especially if you emailed him and he is unresponsive or tells you to open a dispute (which is odd as 9 times out of 10 the buyer wins a dispute).

Kal

ecrabb · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:10 am Post subject:

Yep, that's a misrepresented sale if I've ever seen one. Just because you say 'as-is' doesn't mean you can sell broken merchandise - especially when you say "this is working". I'd dispute it for sure.

One thing that does surprise me... 33 bids and winning price of over $200 US... Is it pretty hard to find an old XGA digital projector in the UK? Maybe it's because of the screen, but I'm surprised that A) there was that much bidding activity and that B) the price went that high without any photos at all of the actual auction items or without a decent description.

If that would have been my crappy auction, there probably would have been 5 bids and the final price would have been $37.

SC

MikeEby · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Posts: 5237 Location: Osceola, Indiana

Marty just curious what do you have connected to it that is giving you the green screen? I noticed it has component input, you may just not have it ether setup or connected correctly. Try connecting it to a VCR or computer and and see if the image is still green. The best thing for you would be to get it working.

Mike

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**kal** · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 2:14 pm Post subject:

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 2:21 pm Post subject:

David_Web · Joined: 02 May 2007 Posts: 418 Location: Sweden

The native res for that pj is 1027*768 and not 1280*1024 as the ad says.
Also as far as I can see the pj don't support component and feeding such a signal through RGB input will show a green picture. Or was it blue, don't remember as it was a while ago I tested. Say cyan to be covered.

martyn20 · Joined: 02 Apr 2008 Posts: 8