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CasetheCorvetteman · Joined: 09 Nov 2008 Posts: 6326 Location: Australia

Electrogeek · Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 10:28 pm Post subject:

I'd have to disagree,
-we only have SD tv broadcast here (though change is in the wind)
-they run really well, and having no fans in them, they run silent, to be fair i was disappointed when i hung the 1001 and it was not silent
- they may not be super high res, but they still outperform a cheep LCD in both running costs and picture
- and have you ever seen how much it costs to international travel 100kgs of crt projector?

Yeah, they, may not be the flashest, but they work well, have huge tube life, i dont have to worry about the flatmates using them, really, i think it is quite sensible Smile

(sure as hell there would be no way flat mates would be watching TV on an LCD)

CasetheCorvetteman · Joined: 09 Nov 2008 Posts: 6326 Location: Australia

Yeah mate, they are certainly better then a cheaper LCD, i have 2 Epsons here, an EMP S4 and also an EMP S5, and even with the bad wear on that blue tube and the lack of being able to horizontally align the convergence, the picture was better than either of those Epsons in everything bar the sharpness, which was mainly due to the convergence being out of whack in some areas.

The Sony VPH-1001QM does have at least 3 fans though, i have it all pulled apart on my bench here now. It is still quieter then my Epsons are and CERTAINLY quieter then my Mitsubishi was.

Since i have now got an NEC 9PG+ coming as well, this Sony will be only used for our gaming, and it really is perfectly suited to it. Its better in many ways than the Epsons cause the contrast ratio is substantially better, and the colour tones are better. We only play games with the lights off at night anyway, so the lumen level isnt even an issue, the contrast ratio more then makes up for the 1,300 lumens less when compared to the EMP S5, considering youre comparing 400:1 contrast against 15,000:1 for the Sony.

Ive never replaced a lamp in an LCD projector yet, and ive owned 3 of them, one i sold to a friend (Mitsubishi SE-1) and although its recently gone very dim, it is still on its original bulb at about 3,600 hrs, considering it started with a 2,000 hr life, its doing ok.

That said, id rather replace a tube in an obsolete CRT projector then replace a lamp in an LCD projector that may not live to see the end of the next lamp before the LCD panels are cooked from heat.

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 12:28 am Post subject:

CasetheCorvetteman · Joined: 09 Nov 2008 Posts: 6326 Location: Australia

No mate, but i have played them on emulators with the CRT monitor on 1920x1440 and tried every different graphic enhancement available, they just didint look right.

My Harman Kardon AVR has a Faroudja DCDi upscaler in it.